Smoking and drinking as risk indicators for tooth loss in middle-aged Danes.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives were to examine the validity and reliability of a five-item neighborhood measurement scale. METHODS:Respondents were enrolled from two catchment areas: a poor inner city and a heterogeneous suburban area. Items combine for a total score of 5 (best) to 20 (worst). The authors compared scales a...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Andresen EM,Malmstrom TK,Miller DK,Wolinsky FD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: This study examines how the patterns of life partner concordance on preventive health service uptake vary by a partner's previous behavioral history and between genders. Method: This study uses 2008 and 2012 waves of Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative sample of U.S. aging popula...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Cao YJ,Noyes K,Homish GG

更新日期：2020-06-01 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: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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of case management in community aged care (CMCAC) interventions on service use and costs. METHOD:Five databases were searched from inception to 2011 July to include randomized control trials and comparative observational English studies. Results were summarized by using the best-evide...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： You EC,Dunt DR,Doyle C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the contributions of personal, structural, and neighborhood characteristics to differential access to health care for older persons in the United States. METHODS:This study used the 1994 National Health Interview Survey, ages 65 and older (n = 12,341), 1990 census block group data, and data on h...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Auchincloss AH,Van Nostrand JF,Ronsaville D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to analyze whether the associations between perceived environmental and individual characteristics and perceived walking limitations in older people differ between those with intact and those with poorer lower extremity performance. METHOD:Persons aged 75 to 90 ( N = 834) participat...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Sakari R,Rantakokko M,Portegijs E,Iwarsson S,Sipilä S,Viljanen A,Rantanen T

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the effect of a fall prevention program offered under real-world conditions on balance maintenance several months after the program. To explore the program's impact on falls. METHOD:A quasi-experimental study was conducted among community-dwelling seniors, with pre- and postintervention measures ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Robitaille Y,Fournier M,Laforest S,Gauvin L,Filiatrault J,Corriveau H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This prospective study examines the relationship between caregiver psychological adjustment and institutionalization of persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHOD:A 3-year longitudinal study was conducted with a clinic-based cohort of 396 persons with AD and their respective family caregivers. Caregiver ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Gilley DW,McCann JJ,Bienias JL,Evans DA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present the bother subscales of the Nursing Home Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (NHVQoL) and to examine their relationship to the original NHVQoL subscales and objective measures of visual function. METHOD:395 nursing home residents completed the bother subscales. Association...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Elliott AF,Dreer LE,McGwin G Jr,Scilley K,Owsley C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test current marital status as a moderator on the influence of depressive symptoms and chronic conditions on subsequent functional limitations. METHOD:Data come from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 1998-2010). Hierarchal linear modeling models tested differences in functional limitations among a sam...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Kail BL

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship between two central concepts in aging research-self-perceptions of aging (SPA) and perceived control of life (COL). Method: The data came from three measurement points over a 9-year period in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). A random intercept...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Luo MS,Li LW,Chui EWT

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Older female smokers are highly vulnerable, yet little is known about their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding smoking cessation. METHODS:Southeast region Women's Health Initiative participants identified as smokers on at least one prior assessment were surveyed in 2012 regarding current tobacco us...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Weaver KE,Snively BM,Hogan P,Josephs K,Johnson KC,Coday M,Progovac AM,Cirillo DJ,Ockene JK,Tindle HA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Geriatricians are skilled in the recognition of asymptomatic and atypical presentations that occur in the elderly and provide comprehensive medication management including recognizing adverse drug events, reducing polypharmacy, and de-prescribing. However, despite the increasing average age of the U.S. popu...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Lester PE,Dharmarajan TS,Weinstein E

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：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: The objective of this study was to explore the association between social engagement and cognitive impairment with psychological well-being (PWB) as a mediator in older Chinese adults and to further test the gender differences in this association. Method: Data were drawn from the Chinese Longitudinal Health...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Zhou Z,Mao F,Han Y,Fu J,Fang Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 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: There is limited knowledge about whether childhood disadvantage, defined as economic and health disadvantage, influences recovery from functional impairment. Method: Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (2008-2010), this research explores whether childhood disadvantage shapes recovery from mobili...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Latham-Mintus K,Aman KM

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study has attempted to validate the Geriatric Depression Scale translated version (Chinese) with a psychiatric outpatient sample (N = 461) of males and females aged 60 or above, from 10 government-maintained psychiatric outpatient clinics between January 1992 and February 1993. Reliabilities and validities were ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Chan AC

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated outcomes of geriatric rehabilitation and predictors of success among 81 consecutive admissions to a 40-bed rehabilitation unit in a long-term care facility. Predictors measured at admission included sociodemographic variables, functional status (both current and prior to illness), social contac...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： McCusker J,Mundt DJ,Stoddard AM,Cole E,Whitbourne SK,Simmons JE

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This study examines how age patterns in health control, self-efficacy, and self-esteem are influenced by age-correlated social status, health, personality, and social integration variables. METHODS:Ordinary least squares regression documents age patterns in data from a 1985 community sample of 1,549 physica...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Schieman S,Campbell JE

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the associations between social networks and vision-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among Chinese older adults. METHOD:Urban older adults with visual problems (N = 167) were interviewed using a structured questionnaire to assess self-reported visual functioning, general he...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Wang CW,Chan CL,Ho AH,Xiong Z

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for the prevention of depression in older people. METHOD:Systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective controlled trials. RESULTS:Thirty studies were included. Overall, psychosocial interventions had a small but statistically significant effect ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Forsman AK,Schierenbeck I,Wahlbeck K

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examine how statutory workweeks affect workers' provision of long-term care for their non-coresident elderly parents. METHOD:The Korean government reduced its statutory workweek from 44 to 40 hr, gradually from larger to smaller establishments, between 2004 and 2011. Using multiple regressions, we assess...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Kim EH,Lee C,Do YK

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study investigates whether the health effects of informal caregiving for aging parents vary by employment status in the United States. Two opposing hypotheses are tested: dual role strain and role enhancement. Method: Using national longitudinal data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, multivari...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Kohl NM,Mossakowski KN,Sanidad II,Bird OT,Nitz LH

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the general persistence and even increase of strong socioeconomic status (SES) differentials in health in the United States, research suggests that SES differentials in health may diminish or become nonexistent at older ages. However, most research has used only limited measures of SES (e.g. education, income...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Robert S,House JS

更新日期：1996-08-01 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