International migration flows have increased at a rapid pace over the past decade and are often accompanied by emergent and evolving global realities, fluid and permeable borders, (re)negotiation of identities and familial bonds, anticipated challenges, as well as unforeseen exigencies. Concomitantly, advances in public health and chronic disease management have resulted in longer lives with an increasing proportion of the global population now 65 years and older. While these demographic shifts have received considerable research attention over the past few decades, little attention has been paid to aging Muslim families and the ways in which they adjust and adapt to shifting global realities and social circumstances. Of the roughly 3.45 million Muslims in the US, nearly six-in-ten US Muslim adults are first-generation Americans. And among US Muslim adults who were born abroad, more immigrate from South Asia (35%) than any other region. This demographic trend, along with the aging of the US population, implies that South Asian Muslims will comprise a large segment of the US population aged 65 years and older in the coming years and greater attention needs to be paid to the lived experiences of mid- to late-life South Asian Muslim families in the US in order to better support their health and social care needs. This qualitative study addresses these issues, specifically focusing on the intersections of faith, culture, gender, age, and immigrant status, as well as intergenerational care and support exchanges within the family, and the ways in which everyday lived experiences and seminal life course events shape processes of meaning-making and sense of self in immigrant South Asian Muslim families. Building on findings from 30 in-depth narrative interviews with three generations of South Asian Muslim women living in the US, and using an intersectional lifecourse perspective, I explore the re-negotiation of familial bonds and the enactment of religious beliefs and practices such as those around filial expectations in a transnational Islamic context. In so doing, I highlight how, for the women in my study, their Islamic faith was a part of both the public sphere and a collective ideology as well as a deeply personal and intimate attachment that provided structure and continuity in their everyday lives. I suggest how attitudes, behaviors, and meaning-making processes related to kin-work and exchanges of support between generations may be shaped by categories of gender, age, time of and since immigration, and degree of religiosity. Finally, I situate these attitudes and behaviors within the broader framework of Islamophobia and salient structural barriers to accessing available health and social support services for immigrant South Asian Muslim women and their families. / Graduate / 2021-12-07

Poverty it is said to have harsh outcomes on one's antisocial or even delinquent behavior. Other factors as well lead an individual to antisocial behavior those are the environment that they are living, and their genes that have passed from one generation to the other one. Parents, poverty, environment, genes and social determinants affect one's involvement in a crime and also affect the health in distinct ways. The focus of this essay is on the African American population within the American society and the health disparities that exist in this situation. We try to understand and answer if these health disparities were created after their birth, or pre-existed and were carried through the generations. One of the main issues is the examination of how much is the prison or incarceration in charge for these health disparities, or how much did these disparities previously exist, out of other reasons. These issues are put on a life-course perspective, and there is shown how much these morbidities affect one's life from the beginning till incarceration. A certain policy implication is made to eliminate those disparities by improving maternal, child and family health status.

Objectives To describe the creation of a multigenerational linked dataset with social mobility measures for South Carolina (SC), as an example for states in the South and other areas of the country. Methods Using unique identifiers, we linked birth certificates along the maternal line using SC birth certificate data from 1989 to 2014, and compared the subset of records for which linking was possible with two comparison groups on sociodemographic and birth outcome measures. We created four multi-generational social mobility measures using maternal education, paternal education, presence of paternal information, and a summary score incorporating the prior three measures plus payment source for births after 2004. We compared social mobility measures by race/ethnicity. Results Of the 1,366,288 singleton birth certificates in SC from 1989 to 2014, we linked 103,194, resulting in 61,229 unique three-generation units. Mothers and fathers were younger and had lower education, and low birth weight was more common, in the multigenerational linked dataset than in the two comparison groups. Based on the social mobility summary score, only 6.3% of White families were always disadvantaged, compared to 30.4% of Black families and 13.2% of Hispanic families. Moreover, 32.8% of White families were upwardly mobile and 39.1% of Black families were upwardly mobile, but only 29.9% of Hispanic families were upwardly mobile. Conclusions for Practice When states are able to link individuals, birth certificate data may be an excellent source for examining population-level relationships between social mobility and adverse birth outcomes. Due to its location in the Deep South, the multigenerational SC dataset may be particularly useful for understanding racial/ethnic difference in social mobility and birth outcomes.

This dissertation focuses on the health, health care utilization rates, and unmet health care needs of individuals aging with work-related impairments. A life course perspective is used to understand the health experiences of these individuals, and a mixed method approach was used to study their health and health care use. Three components make up the dissertation, two quantitative projects and one qualitative project. The first article provides a broad overview of chronic health conditions reported by respondents from the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury (RAACWI) Health and Health Care Utilization Survey who experienced a work-related impairment. Health outcomes and access to health care for this group is compared to a similar aged sample of Ontarian respondents from the Canadian Community Health Survey. The second article uses the National Population Health Survey to examine whether rates of unmet health care needs over eight cycles varied based on disability status. Respondents are categorized as either without disability, having a work-related disability, having a disability as a result of a disease or illness, or having disability for other reasons. The reasons for unmet health care needs is examined for seven cycles to determine whether unmet health care need could be characterized as personal or structural. The third article provides a deeper understanding of how 11 individuals age with a work injury. A convenience sample of 11 participants from the RAACWI Health Survey participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews where they discussed their work injury and how they are coping with its ongoing consequences, including subsequent health problems as they age. This article provides a richer understanding of health changes and unmet health care needs that could not be examined in the other projects due to the nature of quantitative analysis. Together these three articles enable me to showcase the lived experiences of individuals with work-related impairments and how they age with the work injury and subsequent, additional chronic health conditions. / Dissertation / Candidate in Philosophy

The purpose of this study has been to examine how elderly people in today’s society look upon themselves and experience their own aging. We have inquired answers to the following main questions: What main events during the life course are emphasized in the elderly’s stories about their lives, and in what way has it affected their experience of growing old? In what way have social relationships, interests and the experience of health changed during the life course? How do the elderly experience their own aging, and what emotions are expressed in the speech surrounding their life course?The results of the study have been analyzed and interpreted with the help of the life course theory, Erikson’s psychosocial development theory and the continuity theory. The results show that elderly people of today don’t feel their age. They consider themselves to be young in mind though experiencing their aging through reduced mobility.

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<p>Western democratic societies are currently experiencing an interesting convergence of trends: population aging and rapidly advancing technology. In our increasingly digital economy, it is important to be reflective on the effects of technological evolution in our institutions. Older adults have observed many changes as we have entered the information age. Their experience with this evolution has been documented in the literature in understanding the acceptance and use of information and communication technologies (ICT), most frequently the personal computer. This thesis contributes to and extends the existing interdisciplinary scholarship on older adults and technology, broadening the scope from that of the individual to the societal level. I examine how institutional changes in the public sphere, specifically technological advances in the financial system accompanying the digital economy, are perceived by older adults.</p> <p>A mixed methods study was conducted composed of a forty item mailed out questionnaire and twelve in person interviews recruited through the McMaster SHARE group. The analysis of this work was conducted with an interpretivist ontology, understanding the co-creation of technology and society. Theoretically, the life course perspective was important in framing this work. Analysis revealed three major themes that have been described in the thesis in individual chapters: ideas of subjective age, risk and trust, and gender and intersectionality.</p> <p>Consistently in this project, discussions of financial technologies blended with older adults’ perceptions of technology in a broader sense. This both evidenced the life course perspective and comments on the pervasive influence of technology in our society.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

Due to urbanization, Sweden’s municipalities have adapted their cities for population growth as peoples’ desire to live closer to service, jobs, and city activities have increased. This has left the rural areas with population decline as the focus have swifted towards the city areas and place attractiveness and service in the rural have decreased. Municipalities need to aim focus on rural areas again to enhance an attractive living environment for its residents, but also to increase population growth again. However, there is a problem on how profitable it is to invest new buildings and infrastructure in those areas.  This study focuses on Sundsvall municipality and its largest rural area, Indals- liden. It investigates opinions of current and recent residents on how the area can increase in attractiveness. The study points out what actions that three types of migrants (immigrants, emigrants, and home returners) want the municipality to prioritize in order to increase attractiveness and attract new residents, but also sustain a pleasant surrounding for existing residents. A rural coordinator explains the prioritized points, that have been analyzed in relative to the lifestyle migrant’s perspective. The results presents both similarities and differences between different groups of migrants on how to increase place attractiveness, but also differences and similarities between push- and pull factors that have driven them to move. Further, there are differences and similarities between the rural coordinator’s opinions and prioritized agenda, and the migrants. This study therefore concludes the importance of using the narrative of residents to ensure that the area stays attractive and have necessary service and infrastructure in order to attract new residents and provide a good living environment for current residents.