Does the Health of Adult Child Caregivers Vary by Employment Status in the United States?

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：:Family caregivers, often called "informal" caregivers, are the unpaid relatives, partners, or close friends who provide directly or manage the health care for individuals who are seriously ill or disabled. As a result of changes in the American health care system, family caregivers confront increasing responsibilitie...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Levine C

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：: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：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: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：: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:We examined the longitudinal association between the severity of fatigue and falls in community-dwelling older adults. METHOD:Subjective fatigue was assessed using the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) Vitality subscale and classified into four categories by quartile (mildest, mild, moderate, severe). The ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Kamitani T,Yamamoto Y,Kurita N,Yamazaki S,Fukuma S,Otani K,Sekiguchi M,Onishi Y,Takegami M,Ono R,Konno S,Kikuchi S,Fukuhara S

更新日期：2019-01-01 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:This article examines the relationship between cognitive functioning and emotional distress in a sample of 2,684 married couples from the 2006 and 2008 Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging. METHOD:Using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CESD) scale and the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), we analy...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Lee J,Paddock SM,Feeney K

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Studies have reported that rural elders in China have higher levels of depression than their urban peers. We aimed to examine the extent to which four sets of factors (socioeconomic status [SES], health care access, health status, and social support and participation) account for such rural-urban differences....

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Li LW,Liu J,Xu H,Zhang Z

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To use anchoring vignettes to evaluate reporting heterogeneity (RH) in self-rated mobility and cognition in older adults. METHOD:We analyzed vignettes and self-rated mobility and cognition in 2,558 individuals aged 50 years and above. We tested for assumptions of vignette equivalence (VE) and response consis...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Hirve S,Verdes E,Lele P,Juvekar S,Blomstedt Y,Tollman S,Wall S,Chatterji S,Ng N

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To develop an assessment method of active aging for research on older people. Method: A multiphase process that included drafting by an expert panel, a pilot study for item analysis and scale validity, a feedback study with focus groups and questionnaire respondents, and a test-retest study. Altogether 235 ...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Rantanen T,Portegijs E,Kokko K,Rantakokko M,Törmäkangas T,Saajanaho M

更新日期：2019-07-01 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：:One hundred and thirty-five initially healthy men and women older than 65 years of age were studied prospectively to identify factors associated with health outcomes. At study onset, measures of personality, social interaction, and health locus of control were obtained while participants were still healthy. A reliabl...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Willis L,Goodwin J,Lee KO,Mosqueda L,Garry P,Liu P,Linn R,Wayne S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the relationship between frailty and falls. METHOD:A total of 847 Mexican Americans from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly were evaluated. The outcome variable was fall occurrence. Some predictor variables included were frailty, sociodemographic variable...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Samper-Ternent R,Karmarkar A,Graham J,Reistetter T,Ottenbacher K

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactions toward older adults have been widely researched, but the question of whether such reactions are due to age per se or due to the presence of other stigmas (e.g., physical disabilities) has received little attention. This study was designed to investigate emotional reactions and willingness to help older vers...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Menec VH,Perry RP

更新日期：1995-08-01 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:This study sought to evaluate the relationship between baseline depression and prospective engagement in walking and exercise behavior after enrollment in an exercise intervention. METHODS:The study used baseline, 1-month, 12-month, and 24-month in-person interview and pedometer data collected from Latinos a...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Hernandez R,Prohaska TR,Wang PC,Sarkisian CA

更新日期：2013-03-01 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 investigated nativity disparities in life satisfaction among ethnoracial groups of older adults in the United States and the factors associated with such disparities. METHOD:Cross-sectional data from 7,348 respondents aged 60 and older from the 2012/2014 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (H...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Calvo R,Carr DC,Matz-Costa C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This was a cross-sectional study of the ability of independently living healthy elders to follow a medication regimen. Participants were divided into a group with High Cognitive Function (HCF) or Low Cognitive Function (LCF) based on their scores on the ADAS-Cog. METHOD:Thirty-eight participants aged 65 or o...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Hayes TL,Larimer N,Adami A,Kaye JA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Emotional competence (EC) has been found to be an important predictor of individuals' health. While it is well known that EC predicts important outcomes in young adults, its importance is less clear in the elderly. We aimed to address this gap: Is the structure of EC the same in older as in younger adults? Ho...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Fantini-Hauwel C,Mikolajczak M

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:We examine the association between poverty, economic inequality, and health among elderly in Myanmar. METHOD:We analyze 2012 data from Myanmar's first representative survey of older adults to investigate how health indicators vary across wealth quintiles as measured by household possessions and housing quali...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Teerawichitchainan B,Knodel J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study assessed whether three commonly used self-rated health (SRH) items (global, age-comparative, and self-comparative) are equivalent measures of health perception for older adults. METHOD:Regression analyses were used to simultaneously contrast the associations between physical, psychological, and so...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Sargent-Cox KA,Anstey KJ,Luszcz MA

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The study examined whether ethnicity or socioeconomic status influenced a group's ability to meet eligibility criteria and willingness to enroll. METHOD:The eligibility and enrollment status of 904 women aged 65 years and older who responded to recruitment efforts of an estrogen and osteoporosis clinical tr...

journal_title：Journal of aging and health

authors： Unson CG,Ohannessian C,Kenyon L,Case A,Reisine S,Prestwood K

更新日期：2004-06-01 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