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Time use, role participation and life satisfaction of older people: Impact of driving status

Overview of attention for article published in Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, October 2011
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Title
Time use, role participation and life satisfaction of older people: Impact of driving status
Published in
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, October 2011
DOI 10.1111/j.1440-1630.2011.00956.x
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Authors

Jacki Liddle, Louise Gustafsson, Helen Bartlett, Kryss McKenna

Abstract

Driving cessation has been recognised as affecting the health and wellbeing of older people. Further exploration of the impact of driving status on time use, role participation and life satisfaction was required. A cross-sectional survey of 234 older people (current drivers, retired drivers and people who have never driven) was employed. Time use in the previous week, role participation and life satisfaction were measured and compared between the groups, while controlling for sociodemographic variables (health status, activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living status, gender, age and living situation). When compared to current drivers, retired drivers had significantly lower life satisfaction (P = 0.01), fewer present roles (P < 0.0001) and were less likely to participate in volunteer (P = 0.005) and family member roles (P = 0.009). Retired drivers spent less time on social leisure (P = 0.002) and away from home (P = 0.0001), and more time in solitary leisure (P= 0.0001). Comparing the participation of retired drivers with those who had never driven indicated that retired drivers spent significantly less time in volunteer work (P = 0.009). The findings indicate that older non-drivers may require support for participation and wellbeing.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 87 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 21%
Student > Bachelor 17 19%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Student > Postgraduate 6 7%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 18 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 19 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 17%
Psychology 10 11%
Social Sciences 8 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 19 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 October 2015.
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#8,306,579
of 24,851,605 outputs
Outputs from Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
#306
of 716 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,559
of 140,936 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
#2
of 8 outputs
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