Abstract Objectives We explored the portrayal of older adults and public response to topics concerning during COVID-19 pandemic in Chinese social media (Weibo topics, equivalent hashtags on Twitter). also temporal trends dominant themes identify changes over time. Methods Topics related were searched Weibo topic search engine between January 20 April 28, 2020. Overall, 241 their view frequency comment collected. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted classify into themes. The popularity...

Social withdrawal in patients with depression can aggravate depressive symptoms. However, few studies focus on the behavioral changes of social isolation after CUMS. NRF2 had been reported to be down-regulated But whether participates induced by CUMS remains unclear. This study aims develop a new model combined CUMS, and investigate such are related signaling.This included two stages. In Stage 1, rats were subjected 4-week CUMS-susceptible selected. 2, received or support. Behavioral tests...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress participates in the occurrence and development of depression, but underlying mechanism is not fully understood. This study aimed to investigate behavioral performance intracerebral molecular changes an ER model male rats. Intrahippocampal injection tunicamycin (TM) was performed on rats as a stress. The body weight determined, tests, including sucrose preference test (SPT), open field (OFT), forced swimming (FST), were evaluate depressive anxiety-like...

Abstract Social media facilitates the sharing of ideas, thoughts and information about older people later life through online networks communities in contemporary society. content has become important for understanding representations people, but it not been sufficiently studied. Recent studies suggest that are predominantly represented as a disempowered, vulnerable homogeneous group on social sites, such Facebook Twitter. Because local authorities many countries have begun using to reach...

The current study seeks to investigate digital inequality among older adults in China, specifically examining two socially defined age groups: young-old (aged 60–74) and old-old 75+). Descriptive statistics multiple regression were used examine the prevalence of identify factors associated with Internet access, usage (frequency breadth containing 11 activities), skills, social support. data from 2018 China Longitudinal Ageing Social Survey (CLASS) which consisted 11,419 respondents aged 60...

The ongoing digitalisation of societies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to increased efforts ensure digital inclusion older adults. Digital strategies throughout pandemic predominantly focused on increasing access and basic literacy Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for all members society. Older adults, who are more likely experience exclusion, amongst target groups strategies. We propose that beyond inclusion, there is a need focus participation optimise...

It has been argued that older people living with dementia often experience stigma. Several media interventions have designed to raise public awareness about dementia, as well de-stigmatise the condition and it; however, few studies investigated how may serve reduce The present study focused on a Chinese reality show, Forget Me Not Café, which brought together five (aged 65 older) run pop-up restaurant intended stigma of dementia. aimed explore show cast talk (or write) in people. This...

The ASEAN Economic Community is envisaged to promote economic integration initiatives create a single market across Southeast Asian member countries. It acknowledged that the intergovernmental need be accommodative national and regional contexts. Thailand, as pivotal active partnership, endeavours facilitate transformation within cope with population ageing in Thai society. Since Thailand has been third most rapidly country world, demographic changes pose new challenges for how achieve...

Media portrayal of older adults is an expression social realities and expectations, the image ageing has significant implications for intergenerational relations. A life course perspective suggested viewing old age as final stage successive lifespan development investigating meaning through comparisons stages. This article focuses on visual citizens at a particular (infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood age) in Swedish municipal new media. It aims to examine ways that municipality...

In recent years, customized buses (CBs), a new form of public travel mode between bus and car, has sprung up in China. Its characteristics include flexible routes, each person having seat point-to-point have attracted travelers who seek high-quality travel, especially car travelers, alleviating traffic congestion at peak periods leading to change urban modes. addition providing modes, an exclusive lane (EBL) is also effective means alleviate congestion. Therefore, this paper establishes link...

Palau is facing a rapidly aging population and developing comprehensive national policy to address the growing needs of older adults, but more research needed understand their circumstances in relation healthy aging. This study aims investigate these factors contribute National Policy on Care for Aging.

European local authorities increasingly use social media to present services and activities organized for citizens living in the particular area. Previous studies found that authority-managed visually depicted older adults as being active, sociable, happy, physically capable, reflecting normative "third age" representation. Yet few date have examined how produce photos of posting. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with communication officers a Swedish municipality, purpose this study is...

This study investigates the ways in which age and gender play out on LinkedIn pages of global staffing agencies through an intersectionality lens. A discourse analysis 437 posts (including visual images, captions, comments) was conducted. found that corporate diversity shaped were represented. The portrayals to create gendered specializations labor reproduce stereotypes; additionally, some workers represented as disembodied clusters attributes. results this show complex systems unfold,...

The Western Pacific Region continues to experience a sustained change in the age structure of population. It has one largest and fastest-growing older populations world. In 2020, there were more than 240 million people over 65 years old living this region, number is predicted almost double by 2040.1World Health Organization Regional Office for action plan on healthy ageing Pacific. Manila. WHO Pacific, 2020https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/339869Google Scholar Good health well-being are...

With the continuous expansion of Internet business, enterprise technology architecture has been transformed into a large and medium-sized platform model. The emergence middle stage avoids contradiction between fast pace innovation change in front slow stable development back stage, maximizes efficiency cooperation stage. core mid-platform is Kubernetes, which can be used to automatically deploy, expand manage open source system container applications. It combines containers that make up...

Our study investigates the relationship between social participation and loneliness among Chinese older adults, explores how their views of change moderate strength this relationship. We utilised cross-sectional nationwide data from China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey (CLASS). Results show that increased online community correlated with decreased loneliness, while greater workforce associated loneliness. Moreover, adults' could association findings indicate promoting addressing would help...

Abstract This study investigates age-related biases in AI-generated art through a mixed method investigation of images older and younger individuals. Employing 19 text prompts associated with social exclusion for adults, we collected 465 from an AI-art generator, MidJourney, conducted quantitative qualitative analyses to understand differences between age group depictions. We used Amazon Rekognition software detect the numerical image properties. Results that were compared statistically...

The network audio-visual entrepreneurship in China has achieved great progress and engendered conspicuous negative externalities the early development stage. Few studies have investigated how media coordinates with government regulation influence of on entrepreneurship. This study aims at investigating flourishing performs semi-structured interviews 14 respondents who are experienced sector. It is found that license management content censorship principal approaches to regulating companies...