Community-based Men's Sheds: promoting male health, wellbeing and social inclusion in an international context.

Older men's perceptions of the need for and access to male-focused community programmes such as Men's Sheds

Although participating in community social programming is associated with positive physical and mental health outcomes for older adults, older men participate less often than women. Men's Sheds is a community programme used primarily by older men that originated in Australia and is well established there. The goal of the current study was to explore men's perceptions of the need for Men's Sheds...

Counter and Complicit Masculine Discourse Among Men’s Shed Members

Men's Sheds is a growing international movement aimed at providing men with places and activities that facilitate social connectedness. Despite Men's Sheds' focus on males, little attention has been paid to masculinities within the specific context of these settings. The current study used a gender relations framework to explore the ways in which attendees discussed Men's Sheds, with particular...

Power, Process and Context in Theory Based Evaluation of Policy Implementation: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Immigration, Participation in Health Services and Social Occupations: A Literature Review

Introduction: According to the World Health Organisation ‘participation’, meaning involvement in everyday occupations, has a positive influence on health and wellbeing and lack thereof can lead to negative health consequences. Occupational therapy scholars believe this phenomenon needs exploring with attention to context. Variability is apparent in the way participation has bee...

Assessing the Subjective Well-Being of the Elderly During the Epidemic of Covid 19 Disease in Mashhad

Objectives: The coronavirus disease (COVID -19) pandemic could be considered as an uncontrollable stressful public health crisis. The ease of transmission of COVID-19 and its potential to kill older adults have the potential to affect older adultchr('39')s subjective wellbeing. In this study, we aimed to assess SWB, and investigate risk factors that lead to a decline in SWB of the older adults ...