Aging, death, and dying: Perspectives of older persons in the eastern region of Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The meanings older persons ascribe to aging, death, and dying vary across cultures; hence, the need to engage them to share their perspectives on these concepts. Drawing on the life course theoretical perspective, this study explored the beliefs of older persons about aging, death, and dying at Akropong and Adukrom in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Utilizing the qualitative research design, data were gathered from 34 older persons through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. The data were transcribed and analyzed thematically, and the findings showed that aging is a life process that entails changes in a person's physical and mental capacities, as well as social roles. Additionally, participants shared their notions about aging well and the benefits of aging. Regarding death and dying, the participants indicated that these were inevitable phases of life and further made distinctions between good death and bad death. Moreover, they described uncertainties surrounding the dying process and the preparations they had made towards dying. The findings provide insights that could inform government policy, social work, and social welfare systems to support and enhance the well-being and self-worth of older persons in Ghana and beyond. This can be achieved through the provision of culturally grounded and contextually relevant care and interventions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".