Browsing by Subject "older adults"
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Accounting for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity With Pre- and Posttrauma Measures: A Longitudinal Study of Older Adults.
(Clin Psychol Sci, 2016-03)Using data from a longitudinal study of community-dwelling older adults, we analyzed the most extensive set of known correlates of PTSD symptoms obtained from a single sample to examine the measures' independent and combined ... -
Challenges in the Management of Geriatric Obesity in High Risk Populations.
(Nutrients, 2016-05-04)The global prevalence of obesity in the older adult population is growing, an increasing concern in both the developed and developing countries of the world. The study of geriatric obesity and its management is a relatively ... -
Family Ties, Economic Resources, and the Well-Being of Older Adults Across Communities in China
(2013)Many older adults in the developing world rely on their adult children for financial, instrumental, and emotional support. The People's Republic of China (PRC), which will experience rapid population aging in the current ... -
Preoperative Cognitive Impairment As a Predictor of Postoperative Outcomes in a Collaborative Care Model.
(J Am Geriatr Soc, 2018-01-13)OBJECTIVES: To compare postoperative outcomes of individuals with and without cognitive impairment enrolled in the Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) program at Duke University, a comanagement model involving ... -
Self-Regulation before and after a Developmental Transition: a Study of Adaptive Goal Change in Retirement
(2008-08-08)Retirement is the quintessential transition from mid-life to late-life for many working Americans. However, questions about the positive and negative effects of retirement have sparked widely divergent empirical findings. ... -
Sexual risk behaviors and HIV risk among Americans aged 50 years or older: a review.
(Subst Abuse Rehabil, 2015)Although HIV-related sexual risk behaviors have been studied extensively in adolescents and young adults, there is limited information about these behaviors among older Americans, which make up a growing segment of the US ... -
Training and Retraining Older Workers, an Annotated Bibliography.
(1965)A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. The need for economy-wide measures designed to retrain workers of all ages resulted in development of this annotated bibliography which is primarily ...
