ReviewThe Gerontologist2020
Fifty-Five Years of Research Into Older People's Civic Participation: Recent Trends, Future Directions.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Are Older Adults More Prosocial Than Younger Adults? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The Gerontologist · 2024Pooled it
- The Persian Version of the Social Participation Questionnaire: Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Evaluation Using Categorical Principal Component Analysis (CATPCA): A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Social Health Among Individuals Living with Mental Illness During the Transition To Permanent Supportive Housing: A Scoping Review.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Participation and the Well-Being of Older Adults with ADL Disabilities: A Longitudinal Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Health, and Disability.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Does anomie help to explain social participation in very old age? A mediation analysis.European journal of ageing · 2026Article
- Sedentary Behavior Interventions in COPD: A Scoping Review of Strategies, Behavior Change Techniques, and Device-Measured Outcomes.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026Article
- Psychometric evaluation and clustering of the Chinese Community Integration Questionnaire-Revised (CIQ-R) among older adults: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Facilitating clinical reasoning for medical students in clinical settings: a scoping review.Korean journal of medical education · 2025Article
- Institution-Based Quality and Safety Improvement Initiatives in Spine Surgery: A Scoping Review.JBJS reviews · 2025Article
- Social and Activity Participation and Subjective Well-Being Among Older Adults in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Healthy and Care-Needing Groups.Journal of aging research · 2025Article
- Does social capital enhance political participation in older adults? Multi-level evidence from the European Quality of Life Survey.European journal of ageing · 2024Article
- Age, Political Participation, and Political Context in Africa.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- "We are a Generation of Slaves. We Support the Protests But do not Take to the Streets": Why Older Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union are not Part of the Protests Against the Judicial Overhaul in Israel.Journal of cross-cultural gerontology · 2024Article
- Human values, civic participation, and wellbeing: analysis on their relationship among older Europeans.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Civic engagement among foreign-born and native-born older adults living in Europe: a SHARE-based analysis.European journal of ageing · 2023Article
- Social participation and risk of developing dementia.Nature aging · 2023Review
- Optimising conditions and environments for digital participation in later life: A macro-meso-micro framework of partnership-building.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Examining subjective well-being among older adults using pain medications.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Social participation among Iranian community-dwelling older adults: A grounded theory study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Review
- Community Participation and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults: The Roles of Sense of Community and Neuroticism.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesThis study analyzes critically existing knowledge concerning older people's civic participation, pinpoints gaps in the literature, and proposes new directions for research. RESEARCH DESIGN AND
methodsWe conducted a scoping review of literature on older people's civic participation. To conduct this review, we followed the 5-step framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley (Arksey H, O'Malley L. Scoping studies: Towards a methodological framework. Int J Soc Res Method. 2005; 8: 19-32), and expanded by Levac and colleagues (Levac D, Colquhoun H, O'Brien KK. Scoping studies: Advancing the methodology. Implement Sci. 2010; 5: 69).
resultsResearch into older people's civic participation has grown steadily over the past 55 years. However, the increasing number of publications mainly concerns collective forms of social participation, particularly volunteering, with other types of participation being more stable over time. Contextual as well as dynamic aspects of civic participation remain underdeveloped. Diversity of older people is scarcely represented in current research. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS: This scoping review identifies 4 critical gaps in the literature that should be at the forefront of future research. These are classified as conceptual, contextual, processual, and diverse aspects of research into older people's civic participation.
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