Exploring Workforce Participation Patterns and Chronic Diseases Among Middle-Aged Australian Men and Women Over the Life Course.

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: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：OBJECTIVES:This study analyzes trajectories of disability from onset until death in an 80+ population. METHODS:The study population (N = 434) consists of all persons born before 1902 living in the town of Larvik, Norway, in January 1981 (N = 434). By registering illnesses and activities of daily living (ADL) limitatio...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Romoren TI,Blekeseaune M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hearing and vision impairment were examined across several health-related outcomes and across a set of quality indicators (QIs) in home care clients with both vision and hearing loss (or dual sensory impairment [DSI]). METHOD:Data collected using the Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care (RAI-HC) wer...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Davidson JGS,Guthrie DM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether an index of overall cardiovascular health (CVH) is associated with disability in older individuals. Method: Data on 925 participants of the InCHIANTI study (Invecchiare in Chianti, aging in the Chianti area, ≥65 years, 55% women) with median follow-up of 9 ye...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Jin Y,Tanaka T,Ma Y,Bandinelli S,Ferrucci L,Talegawkar SA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Health behaviors are seen as one possible pathway linking race to health outcomes. Social integration has also been consistently linked to important health outcomes but has not been examined as a mechanism accounting for racial differences in health behaviors among older U.S. adults. Method: We use data fro...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Hauschildt K,Burgard SA

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Many studies have examined quality effects of nursing facility (NF) staffing, but few have examined effects of unionization. Concerned with possible effects of unionization on quality, we analyzed unionization and local market climate of unionization, predicting both complaints (reflecting either quality prob...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Swan JH,Harrington C

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:This study evaluated weight change and caregiver stress in 200 informal caregivers to elderly patients discharged from a rehabilitation hospital. Previous laboratory and epidemiologic studies have shown that stress predisposes to weight change. Nineteen percent of the caregivers had gained or lost at least 10 pounds...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Fredman L,Daly MP

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examined perceptions and correlates of both positive and negative social support among U.S. Chinese older adults. METHOD:Data were drawn from the Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago study, a population-based study of U.S. community-dwelling Chinese older adults aged 60 years and above i...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Chen R,Simon MA,Chang ES,Zhen Y,Dong X

更新日期：2014-10-01 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: We investigated changes in the prevalence of disabilities among individuals with type 2 diabetes and analyzed the contribution of comorbidities on this change. Methods: Data were drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We estimated predicted probabilities of impaired (ins...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Sperlich S,Beller J,Epping J,Safieddine B,Tetzlaff J,Geyer S

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Timing and accumulation of work-related exposures may influence later life health. This study evaluates the association between women's work patterns and physical functioning. Method: Work history and physical functioning information was collected at baseline for U.S. women ages 50 to 79 years in the Women'...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Palumbo AJ,Cannuscio C,De Roos AJ,Robinson L,Mossey J,Wallace R,Garcia L,Shadyab AH,Sealy-Jefferson S,Michael Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：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：:A national sample of persons who died in 1986 was analyzed to obtain a valid estimate of the relationship between functional status and the provision of formal home care during the last year of life. Community-based care has become increasingly important as the size of the elderly population increases and the cost fo...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Grabbe L,Demi AS,Whittington F,Jones JM,Branch LG,Lambert R

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：: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：: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：:Since the development of the Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living, ADL tools have been used to describe older persons' status and to predict outcomes. It is suggested that this approach is grounded in an ADL research tradition. An alternative that is based upon Husserl's phenomenology is proposed. A ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Porter EJ

更新日期：1995-02-01 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: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:The aim of this study is to increase our understanding of declining network size with aging by differentiating between processes of loss and gain and studying the associations with various health problems. METHODS:Six observations of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) across a time period of 16 ye...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Broese van Groenou M,Hoogendijk EO,van Tilburg TG

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationship between falls history, especially those with frequent recent falls, and future injurious falls. METHOD:Resident Assessment Instrument for Home Care records of 167,162 home care recipients in Ontario, Canada, were linked to emergency department records recording an injurious fall....

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Poss JW,Hirdes JP

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health, which has proven to be quite robust, is rarely tested in societies where levels of economic development and systems of stratification differ from those in Western developed countries. This article examines associations in rural and urban China. M...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Zimmer Z,Kwong J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to describe the impact of a capitated community-care demonstration in Illinois that attempted to increase the range of services provided while constraining overall costs. The authors examined the implementation and outcomes, using pretest and posttest measures of client satisfaction, ran...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Hughes SL,Finkel S,Harter K,Fulton B,Edelman P,Waters T

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study examined the trajectories of depressive symptoms and associated factors in older adults using an enhanced group-based trajectory modeling. Method: The study sample consisted of 7,573 adults aged ≥65 years from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (Rounds 1-7). Depressive trajectories were e...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Xiang X

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between perceived environmental barriers to and facilitators for outdoor mobility with life-space among older people. METHODS:Community-dwelling, 75- to 90-year-old people (n = 848) were interviewed face-to-face using standard questionnaires. The Life-Space Assessment (LSA), indica...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

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

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence and incidence of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia (CIND) in the Mexican population. METHOD:The MHAS study is a prospective panel study of health and aging in Mexico with 7,000 elders that represent eight million participants nationally. Using measurements of cogni...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Mejia-Arango S,Gutierrez LM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00