Elderly Women Empowerment in the Aging Process: A Cognitive Perspective
Özsungur, Fahri
This study was carried out to draw a road map for the cognitive empowerment of women in the aging process. The fact that women are under negative effects in physical, biological, and cultural contexts reveals the fact that they may have some psychological and perceptual problems. Perceptually, struggle against the difficulties experienced in the aging process requires a cognitive approach. Improving women's perceptual self-management skills will lead to success in the aging process. The theoretical framework of the study is explained with the topics of successful aging theory, successful aging in the workplace, cognitive theory of aging. Cognitive empowerment is explained with the topics of perception in aging, psychological effects, socio-emotional selectivity theory, emotional regulation...
A Research on Relationship Between Latent Aging and Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis
Özsungur, Fahri
Objectives: It was aimed to determine the relationship between CLT and latent aging, in this study. Methods: This study was conducted in November 2019 with 63 CLT patients (57 female, 6 males; living in the province of Adana in Turkey; ages ranging between 31 to 58; who responded “yes” to questions Q1 and Q2.). Results: In this study, it was found that the physical (sallow skin, under-eye swelling, puffiness) and psychological (depression, anxiety, dysmnesia, focus problem) changes and effects taking place in the individual’s body were effective in the sense of latent aging. Conclusion: In this study, Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis (CLT) was found to be associated with latent aging in the context of psychological and physical effects, and the imitation ability of latent aging via CLT was ...
eSports and eSocial Work
Özsungur, Fahri
Bringing together international players, eSports benefits beyond digitalization according to its intended use. It is possible to socialize individuals who cannot come together due to pandemics, extraordinary events, and economic difficulties and increase their commitment to life with these video games. Social work should take advantage of this developing field. eSports can provide benefits in geriatrics, home care services, physical therapy, elderly people in nursing homes, women, children, people with an autistic spectrum disorder, and social adaptation. Social work's functions in many areas such as environmental and social adaptation, well-being, welfare, public health, social policy, and the rehabilitation of children prone to crime can be made more functional through eSports. This chap...
Gerontrepreneurship
Özsungur, Fahri
In today's world, where technological developments and age-related consumption tendencies differ, entrepreneurship is a subject that needs to be investigated in the context of gerontology. Consumption behaviors are influenced by the effects of decreases due to aging on technology and the environment. In this chapter, where the effects of differentiation of consumption behaviors on entrepreneurship and its process are discussed, a new concept, gerontrepreneurship, is introduced. With this concept, the authors a new idea to gerontology in the context of entrepreneurship, elderly-technology interaction, and digital service innovations. In this chapter, the consumption processes of the elderly and their relations with the gerontrepreneurship process are explained, and recommendations are made.