Disability and psychosocial outcomes in old age.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article explores the relationship between age and social support. Previous research on the relationship has reached inconsistent conclusions. METHODS:Three theories are tested using the Americans' Changing Lives survey. RESULTS:The likelihood of reporting no close friends or confidants increases with a...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Schnittker J

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article examines the relationship of social network and self-rated health among different cultural groups. METHODS:This study examined associations between network structure, interaction, support and social engagement and self-rated health, controlling for sociodemographic background and psychobiologica...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Litwin H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the association between aspects of social capital and loneliness among the very old living at home and in institutional settings. METHOD:Half of those aged 85 years, and all 90- and 95-year-olds and older in urban and rural municipalities in northern Sweden and wester...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Nyqvist F,Cattan M,Andersson L,Forsman AK,Gustafson Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article examines the association of disability and sociodemographic background with the type of social network in which elders are embedded and considers the implications of such associations for network continuity. METHODS. Secondary analysis of data from a national probability sample of Jewish adults aged 60 and...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Litwin H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective. This research was guided by a stress and support model to examine the effects of frontline workers' background characteristics, personal stressors, job-related stressors, and workplace support on satisfaction with supervision. Method. Survey data were collected from 644 workers in 49 long-term-care settings...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Noelker LS,Ejaz FK,Menne HL,Bagaka's JG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to describe behavioral change trajectories for healthful eating and exercise in a group of community-dwelling older adults. A secondary aim was to determine predictors of maintenance and resilience. METHOD:Subjects were participants in the Study of Exercise and Nutrition in Older Rhode Isla...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Clark PG,Greene GW,Blissmer BJ,Lees FD,Riebe DA,Stamm KE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: Drawing on UK Household Longitudinal Study data, this study assessed a pathway from early-life disadvantage to suboptimal later-life health via health behavior. Methods: Latent class analysis was used to identify distinct smoking, nutrition, alcohol, and physical activity health behavior profiles. Mediatio...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： van den Broek T

更新日期：2020-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the association between depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning in older Hispanics/Latinos enrolled in an exercise intervention. METHOD:We analyzed baseline, 1-year, and 2-year in-person interview data collected from Hispanics/Latinos aged ≥60 years participating in an exercise intervention...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Hernandez R,Cheung E,Liao M,Boughton SW,Tito LG,Sarkisian C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the impact of indebtedness on depressive symptomatology, anxiety, and anger. METHOD:We use data from a two-wave panel study of adults in Miami-Dade County. The analytic sample consists of 1,463 mostly older respondents with valid data on all study measures, including education, income, oc...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Drentea P,Reynolds JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study identified associations between chronic diseases (diabetes, asthma, depression, and arthritis) and workforce participation patterns with a gendered perspective. METHOD:We used data from 1,261 middle-aged participants of the Australian Life Histories and Health (LHH) Survey, aged 60 to 64 years in ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Majeed T,Forder PM,Mishra G,Kendig H,Byles JE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article reports the characteristics associated with fecal incontinence (FI) in a nursing home population that are also associated with urinary incontinence (UI). METHOD:A cross-sectional survey composed of data from the Wisconsin Center for Health Statistics' Annual Nursing Home Survey in 1992 and 1993...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Nelson R,Furner S,Jesudason V

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors surveyed a community-based population of 628 persons who were 65 and over and who lived either in a rural Maryland county or in Baltimore. For each subject, the number of different medical problems, the subject's capacity to perform physical tasks, and the ability to function were assessed. The number and ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Kashner TM,Krompholz B,McDonnell C,Magaziner J,Schumann B

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A cohort of older people living in a low-resource setting in Nairobi is followed to understand the transitions in caregiving status and trajectories in health over a 3-year period. METHODS:Three categories of older people comprising 65 AIDS caregivers, 102 Other caregivers and 1,322 noncaregivers identified ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Chepngeno-Langat G,Evandrou M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression is particularly prevalent in low-income and disabled older adults, and minority populations face a greater risk of poverty and earlier disability onset. Yet, little is known about the mental health of older subsidized housing residents, a population which is disproportionately composed of persons o...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Gonyea JG,Curley A,Melekis K,Levine N,Lee Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE. To evaluate the effect of individually tailored programs on perceived autonomy in institutionalized physically disabled older people and to describe participants' activity wishes and content of the programs. METHOD. This blinded randomized trial with follow up included a total of nine nursing homes and 50 n...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Andresen M,Runge U,Hoff M,Puggaard L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the association between alcohol use, at-risk drinking, and binge drinking, and loneliness in a sample of middle-aged and older adults. METHOD:We studied participants aged 50+ years from the 2008 wave of the Health and Retirement Study who reported alcohol use. We ran separate multinomial logisti...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Canham SL,Mauro PM,Kaufmann CN,Sixsmith A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a survey of anglophone Canadian snowbirds wintering in Florida and one of U.S. snowbirds in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley are used to compare the two groups in terms of sociodemographics, chronic health conditions, and use of health services. The Canadians were younger and reported fewer chronic problems...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Martin HW,Hoppe SK,Marshall VW,Daciuk JF

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: This study examined whether older patients' greater daily pain perceived by their spouses was associated with spouses' higher daily negative affect. We further investigated whether spouses' lower confidence in patients' ability to manage pain exacerbated the daily association between perceived patient pain...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Nah S,Martire LM,Zhaoyang R

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to explore correlates and predictors of bereavement severity and persistence (triggered by "loss of a loved one"; referent group partner loss) in the Rotterdam cohort. METHOD:We used linear regression to examine factors associated with grief severity using a cross-sectional analysis and logistic reg...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Milic J,Muka T,Ikram MA,Franco OH,Tiemeier H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the use of postacute services alone or in combination following a hospitalization for a hip fracture or stroke by Medicare beneficiaries who were relatively well and living in the community prior to the index event. METHODS:Health-service use histories were constructed using Medicare claims. Pat...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Berg K,Intrator O

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to examine the cognitive and emotional reactions of Chinese elderly people toward death, to extend the use of a Western scale on death anxiety to a Chinese sample, and to explore the correlates of death anxiety. METHODS:A community sample of 237 Chinese elderly people (62 men and 175 women) ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Wu AM,Tang CS,Kwok TC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To estimate the prevalence of frailty using five different instruments in a cohort of older adults and explore the association between frailty and various risk factors. Method: 1,867 participants aged 65 years and above were included in the current retrospective cross-sectional study. Frailty was operationa...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Ntanasi E,Yannakoulia M,Mourtzi N,Vlachos GS,Kosmidis MH,Anastasiou CA,Dardiotis E,Hadjigeorgiou G,Megalou M,Sakka P,Scarmeas N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate tobacco and alcohol consumption as risk indicators for missing teeth in late middle-aged Danes. METHOD:In all, 1,517 Copenhagen Aging and Midlife Biobank (CAMB) participants received a clinical oral examination that included number of teeth. Information on smoking, drinking, and various covar...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Morse DE,Avlund K,Christensen LB,Fiehn NE,Molbo D,Holmstrup P,Kongstad J,Mortensen EL,Holm-Pedersen P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To investigate the influence of single and dual sensory impairments prospectively on cognition in adults aged ⩾50 years. Method: Community-dwelling English adults (n = 4,621) were followed up from 2008 to 2014. Self-reported hearing and vision were collected in 2008. Change in cognitive performance on worki...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Liljas AEM,Walters K,de Oliveira C,Wannamethee SG,Ramsay SE,Carvalho LA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a retrospective case-control study of patients from a Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and an urban public hospital. Patients (53) older than 55 at the time of their HIV diagnosis were age- and gender-matched to 106 HIV-negative controls. Potential predictors of HIV-infection were abstracted from the m...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Szerlip MA,DeSalvo KB,Szerlip HM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The objective of study is to examine the relationships between health status and changes in cognition over time among middle to older aged Blacks. Method: Data come from the Baltimore Study of Black Aging-Patterns of Cognitive Aging. At baseline, 602 Black participants, ranging from ages 48 to 95 years, wer...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Byrd DR,Thorpe RJ Jr,Whitfield KE

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate the benefits of a short-term intervention for older adults that targeted cognitive functioning and quality of life issues important for independent living. METHOD:One hundred twenty-four community-dwelling participants (aged 60 to 86) took part in one of three study con...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Noice H,Noice T,Staines G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluate an advance notice letter for enhancing patient satisfaction survey response rates in African Americans and Whites. METHODS:Randomized trial of an advance notice letter (versus no letter) mailed two weeks prior to a mail satisfaction survey in a random sample of 600 African American and White patient...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Nápoles-Springer AM,Fongwa MN,Stewart AL,Gildengorin G,Pérez-Stable EJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the growth of the Hispanic population in the Midwest states of the United States, to present disability levels in older Mexican and non-Mexican-origin Midwest Hispanics by place of birth and poverty status, and compare disability levels among older Midwest Hispanics with those among Southwest His...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： de Leon CF,Eschbach K,Markides KS

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the health and functional characteristics of Mexican and Mexican American adults aged ≥80. METHOD:Data came from Wave I (2001) and Wave III (2012) of the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and Wave IV (2000-2001) and Wave VII (2010-2011) of the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologi...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Downer B,Chen NW,Wong R,Markides KS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00