Resilience and Helpseeking in Health and llness by and for the Elderly
This project is carried out by the researchers, Dr. Patria López de Victoria from the English department from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey and Dr. Robert Schrauf from the Applied Linguistics department at The Pennsylvania State University.
The main purpose of this study is to explore how older adults, caregivers, and health or social care professionals residing in Cayey developed strategies to find or provide the necessary medical help after the passing of Hurricanes Irma and María and the pandemic of COVID-19.
Currently, this project is in the analysis phase of the data found in the interviews carried out
Presentations
In descending order:
Schrauf, R. & López de Victoria, P. (2021, Nov 19). Disaster Reconstruction as an Ethical Project: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Annual Hybrid Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Lopez de Victoria, P. (2021, March 20-23). Talking about troubles as a strategy for mobilizing self and others: older women seeking medical attention in times of disaster. American Association for Applied Linguistics.
Schrauf, R. & López de Victoria, P. (2021, March 20-23). Registers, repertoires, and ordinary ethics in response to Hurricane Maria. American Association for Applied Linguistics.
Vélez, K. & López de Victoria, P. (2020, March 20-23). Shifting representations of self and others in caregiving elderly parents with Alzheimer's after hurricane María. American Association for Applied Linguistics.
López de Victoria, P., González, E. & Colón, K. (2020, Sept). Changes to helpseeking strategies three years after Hurricane Maria. Presented online for the UPR Cayey Student Association of Sociology.
Cruz, G. & López de Victoria, P., (PI) (2019, Nov 20-24). Bridging resources after a catastrophe: A case study on paramedics and their roles after hurricane María. Presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CAS) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA.
González-Márquez, E., López de Victoria, P., (PI) (2019, Aug 29). Strategies for the self-management of health conditions by the older adult in Cayey (Strategies used by older adults post-Maria for the management of health conditions). Presented at the Gerontology and Geriatrics Conference hosted by the Puerto Rico Health Department.
Cruz, G., Lugo, G, & López de Victoria P., (PI) (2019, May 2-4). What Maria brought: Changes in the 911 System in Cayey. Presented at the SANA/SUNTA Conference.
Alvarez, A., Cardona, M., Colon, K., Cruz, G., De Jesús, V., Lugo, G., & López de Victoria, P., (PI). (2019). Resilience and medical help seeking for and by the elderly. Presented at the Caribe Plurilingue Annual Conference in UPR Río Piedras.
Lopez de Victoria, P. (2019; April 3-5). Defining resilience from a woman's health perspective: A look at health and life after hurricane María in Cayey, Puerto Rico. Presented at XII National Colloquium on Women.
Publications
In descending order:
López de Victoria, P., González, E., & Colón, K. (2022). Responding to crisis, responding to needs: older adults seeking medical care in the aftermath of storms. In BA Diaz & RW Schrauf (Eds). Applying linguistics in health research, education, and policy: Bench to bedside and back again. DeGruyter Mouton .
Lopez de Victoria, P. (2021). Data analysis in the study of resilience and help seeking by or for the elderly. PR Science Webinar.
Lopez de Victoria, P. (2020). Strategies and tools for the critical reading of scientific articles on resilience and seeking help by or for the elderly. PR Science Webinar.
Lopez de Victoria, P. (2020). Methodologies for the study of resilience and seeking help by and for the elderly. PR Science Webinar.