Browsing Scholarly Works, Center for Gerontology by Issue Date
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What About Elders Who Have No Informal or Formal Support?
(Virginia Tech, 2001-06-30)Telephone interview data from a representative sample of 2,034 rural elders showed that 26.3% had limitations in abilities to perform daily activities (cooking, walking, cleaning, driving, etc.). Of these, many received ... -
Well-being and Coping Strategies of Elders Without Informal Support
(Virginia Tech, 2001-08-25)Telephone interview data from a representative sample of 2,034 rural elders showed that 26.3% had limitations in abilities to perform daily activities (cooking, walking, cleaning, driving, etc.). Of these, many received ... -
Geriatric Chronic Pain: Issues and Challenges from the Research Literature
(Virginia Tech, 2001-11)Researchers interested in chronic pain in older adults come from multiple disciplines; thus existing information about geriatric pain is widely scattered. To establish a foundation from which to construct future research ... -
Spending Behaviors of Older Women Living in an Assisted Living Facility
(Virginia Tech, 2002-03-02)A major demographic trend in the United States is the increasing older adult population. According to the US Census, the number of persons, ages sixty-five and older has increased approximately 4 million in 2000 and will ... -
Elderly & Disabled Waiver Services: What Do We Know About Providers?
(Virginia Tech, 2003)Little is known about home and community based services (HCBS) and even less about the quality of those services. As part of a “Real Choice Systems Change” grant received by the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance ... -
Community Connections and Sense of Community among Older Adults
(Virginia Tech, 2003)The goal of this exploratory study is to identify what factors predict sense of community in older adult community members. -
Leavers And Stayers: An Ecological Analysis Of Determinants Of Employee Retention In Long-Term Care
(Virginia Tech, 2003-11)The understanding of issues related to staff retention in long-term care requires a systematic and holistic examination of the care environment. Guided by the joining of two theoretical perspectives, human ecology and ... -
Predicting Community Connections in the Workplace
(Virginia Tech, 2003-11)This study explores the relationships between interpersonal connections in the workplace and four dimensions of employee retention. -
Rural Older Adults’ Previous Help and Support Experiences: Influences on Attitudes about Current and Future Assistance
(Virginia Tech, 2003-11)We investigated the extent to which earlier life experiences with informal and formal services might influence older adults’ views of getting assistance in the future. In a short-term longitudinal follow up of telephone ... -
Rural Older Women’s Experiences with Chronic Health Problems: Daily Challenges and Care Practices
(Virginia Tech, 2004)Living with chronic diseases and their manifestations affects daily functioning and influences the quality of life of older women. This study, guided by the integration of life-course theory and a trajectory model of chronic ... -
Assuring Quality Care: Exploring Strategies of Medicaid E&D Waiver Providers
(Virginia Tech, 2004)Implementing quality assurance (QA) programs in unregulated noninstitutional settings remains a challenge for home and community-based service providers. A sample of 65 Elderly & Disabled (E&D) Waiver providers in Virginia ... -
Influences on Psychological Well-being for Elders Receiving Family Assistance
(Virginia Tech, 2004-07-24)We investigated the effects of personal and social resources on the psychological well being of 359 rural older adults living in their own homes with some functional limitations and receiving assistance from relatives or ... -
Personal and Social Resources and Well Being among Informal Care Recipients
(Virginia Tech, 2004-07-31)Moving beyond a focus on primary caregivers only, we examined the effects on older adults’ psychological well-being of having multiple family or friend helpers and of other elements of social support when receiving informal ... -
Caregivers of Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Information and Support Needs
(Virginia Tech, 2004-11)One of the newer concepts of age-related memory deficit is mild cognitive impairment (MCI). MCI reflects self-reported changes in cognitive function that do not necessarily interfere with work or social relations; it is ... -
The Influence of Mild Cognitive Impairment on Marital Relationships
(Virginia Tech, 2005)Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) signifies age-related memory decline that is less severe than with dementia. Most scholarship focuses on the clinical diagnosis and prevalence of MCI; the psychosocial aspects ... -
Grandfamilies: Parenting Satisfaction and Family Functioning
(Department of Human Developmen, Department of Psychology and Center for Gerontology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, 2006-10)Previous research has demonstrated that grandparent caregivers experience high levels of physical, psychological, and relationship stress. However, few studies have examined how psychosocial and relationships. perspective, ... -
Surviving Hurricane Katrina: Resilience and Resources of Aging Families
(Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universi, 2006-11) -
“It Was Like An Elephant Sitting on My Chest”: Older Women’s Experiences With Coronary Heart Disease
(Center for Gerontology and Dept. of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006-11) -
Research on Persistent Pain in Late Life: Current Topics and Challenges
(Developmental and Biological Psychology, Virginia Tech, 2006-11) -
Patient Views of Mild Cognitive Impairment
(Center for Gerontology, Virginia Tech, 2007-11)
