Research on Geriatrics and Gerontology Reported by a Researcher at University of Nebraska at Omaha (Poetry And Uncovering The Mystery of Social Problems: An Arts-based Inquiry To Aging Care): Aging Research – Geriatrics and Gerontology

2023 JAN 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators publish new report on geriatrics and gerontology. According to news reporting out of Omaha, Nebraska, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “This research focuses on a current social welfare problem: unemployment and the loss of employer-based health insurance among non-elderly adults aged 18 to 64.”

The news editors obtained a quote from the research from University of Nebraska at Omaha: “The literature covers this social problem in terms of health status, access to medical care, employed versus unemployed working-age adults, mitigating the risks of unemployment, and loss of health insurance via the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As good as the findings are, they are methodologically limited by looking at only half the story. This research asks a different question: how might the humanities and arts-based perspective address the social problem? It aims at answering why the employment status is related to health and health insurance. Chinese poetry has a long rich tradition of expressing insights about the inner life since antiquity to the present. These reflections include practice wisdom and keen observations on aging. This poster presents case findings on the use of Chinese poetics to inform aging care in the West.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Each case provides discussions on why social welfare system comes up short to solve the problem and how the social welfare system can be effectively changed. Researchers use survey data to compliment Chinese poetic insights about employment status and insurance status to illustrate the correlation between respondents’ health status with versus without employment. Findings are hoped to interpret the role of family as a social unit where it consists in social welfare along with the speculative inquiry of poetry.”

For more information on this research see: Poetry And Uncovering The Mystery of Social Problems: An Arts-based Inquiry To Aging Care. Innovation in Aging, 2022,6(Supplement_1). (Innovation in Aging - https://academic.oup.com/innovateage). The publisher for Innovation in Aging is Oxford University Press (OUP).

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2139.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Heng Wu, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Additional authors for this research include Peter Szto.

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