IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/tbitxx/v37y2018i3p232-246.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Coming of old age: understanding older adults’ engagement and needs in coproduction activities for healthy ageing

Author

Listed:
  • Chien Wen Yuan
  • Benjamin V. Hanrahan
  • Mary Beth Rosson
  • John M. Carroll

Abstract

We report an investigation of how older adults engage in social activities and community events in support of their mental, physical, and emotional health. We focus on personal and collaborative agency in a community context, and construe health as an outcome that is coproduced by a person and other engaged community members. Using qualitative methods, we investigated the coproduction of health among members of retirement communities and people who are ageing in place. We found that our participants, irrespective of living arrangements, engaged in a diverse range of coproduction activities, including physical, socialising, service, discussion, and interest-based activities. We also identified desired but less-supported coproduction opportunities, such as opportunistic activities and the need to better appropriate social resources to enable coproductions. We draw from these findings to consider design implications of technological support for facilitating older adults to coproduce.

Suggested Citation

  • Chien Wen Yuan & Benjamin V. Hanrahan & Mary Beth Rosson & John M. Carroll, 2018. "Coming of old age: understanding older adults’ engagement and needs in coproduction activities for healthy ageing," Behaviour and Information Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(3), pages 232-246, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:37:y:2018:i:3:p:232-246
    DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2018.1432686
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/0144929X.2018.1432686
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/0144929X.2018.1432686?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:tbitxx:v:37:y:2018:i:3:p:232-246. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/tbit .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.