Indicators and Index of Elderly Well-Being to Support an Age–Friendly City

Gender Sensitivity of Well-Being Indicators

In this paper, we assess the gender sensitivity of some conventional indicators of wellbeing in developing countries as also the relationship between poverty and the gender differential. The assessment is restricted to the indicators of the basic ‘functionings’ of ‘being healthy’, ‘being educated’, ‘being nourished’ and some composite indices which combine the indicators of individual functioni...

The relation between resilience, spiritual well-being, and social support with adjustment to heart disease

Background: Adjustment to heart disease, as a stressful experience, is a complicated process and causes serious problems for a heart patient. The present study aimed to find the relation between adjustment to heart disease and resilience, spiritual well-being, and social support.     Methods: In this cross-sectional study a total of 327 patients with coronary artery disease (138 women and 189...

Strength-based well-being indicators for Indigenous children and families: A literature review of Indigenous communities' identified well-being indicators.

Mainstream child and family well-being indicators frequently are based on measuring health, economic, and social deficits, and do not reflect Indigenous holistic and strength-based definitions of health and well-being. The present article is a review of literature that features Indigenous communities' self-identified strength-based indicators of child and family well-being. The literature searc...

Psychometrics Properties of Social Well-Being Scale in Iranian Elderly

Introduction: Today, following the aging population, the elderly have been faced with various social issues. The social well-being and health of the elderly are important but it has been neglected that is closely related to the quality of life. The Social Comfort Scale has not been validated in the Iranian elderly. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Psychometrics properties of Soc...

Developing an index of children’s subjective well-being in England