Adam Davey
Biographic Data
| ID | 216267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Davey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Davey |
| SIGNATURE | DAVEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5118-6912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Frailty Markers and Falls Among US Clergy
Associations between Sleep Quality, Frailty, and Quality of Life among Older Adults in Community and Nursing Home Settings
Poor sleep quality is prevalent among older adults, but limited data document associations between frailty and quality of life comparing individuals living in the community with those in nursing homes. This cross-sectional study (conducted between August and November 2019) included 831 older adults (mean age 76.5 years) from Slovenia's community and nursing home settings. The results showed comorbidity in 38% of community-dwelling older adults an…
Snack frequency, size, and energy density are associated with diet quality among US adolescents
Objective: To evaluate snacking and diet quality among US adolescents. Design: Cross-sectional analysis examined snack frequency (snacks/day), size (kcal/snack) and energy density (kcal/g/snack) as predictors of diet quality using the mean of two 24-h dietary recalls. Diet quality was assessed using the Healthy Eating Index (HEI-2015, 0–100), a mean adequacy ratio (MAR, 0–100) for under-consumed nutrients (potassium, fibre, Ca, vitamin D) and mea…
National Hospitalization Trends and the Role of Preventable Hospitalizations among Centenarians in the United States (2000–2009)
Increases in life expectancy mean that an unprecedented number of individuals are reaching centenarian status, often with complex health concerns. We analyzed nationally representative hospital admissions data (200-2009) from the National Inpatient Study (NIS) for 52,618 centenarians (aged 100-115 years, mean age 101.4). We predicted length of stay (LOS) via negative binomial models and total inflation adjusted costs via fixed effects regression …
What drives differences in preferences for health states between patients and the public? A qualitative investigation of respondents' thought processes
Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative and Students’ Breakfast Consumption Behaviors
Objectives. To identify the effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) initiative on the foods and drinks students consume in the morning. Methods. Sixteen public schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that provide universal breakfast participated in a group randomized trial to examine the effects of BIC with complementary nutrition promotion between 2013 and 2016. Control schools (n = 8) offered breakfast in the cafeteria before school. Baseli…
Patients’ use and views of real‐time feedback technology in general practice
BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in real-time feedback (RTF), which involves collecting and summarizing information about patient experience at the point of care with the aim of informing service improvement. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and acceptability of RTF in UK general practice. DESIGN: Exploratory randomized trial. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Ten general practices in south-west England and Cambridgeshire. All patients attendin…
Variability and Limits of US State Laws Regulating Workplace Wellness Programs
We examined variability in state laws related to workplace wellness programs for public and private employers. We conducted legal research using LexisNexis and Westlaw to create a master list of US state laws that existed in 2014 dedicated to workplace wellness programs. The master list was then divided into laws focusing on public employers and private employers. We created 2 codebooks to describe the variables used to examine the laws. Coders u…
The role of patient experience surveys in quality assurance and improvement
BACKGROUND: Despite widespread adoption of patient feedback surveys in international health-care systems, including the English NHS, evidence of a demonstrable impact of surveys on service improvement is sparse. OBJECTIVE: To explore the views of primary care practice staff regarding the utility of patient experience surveys. DESIGN: Qualitative focus groups. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Staff from 14 English general practices. RESULTS: Whilst parti…
Black Church Leaders’ Attitudes About Mental Health Services
Foreign-Born Therapists
The authors examined the associations between acculturation, supervisors' multicultural competence, and clinicians' self-efficacy in a sample of 153 immigrant therapists currently practicing in the United States. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire and 3 additional questionnaires that examined their levels of acculturation, perceived supervisors' multicultural competence, and clinical self-efficacy. Results suggested that perceived…
Cardiovascular health
Cardiovascular health, as indexed by seven health metrics, was higher in the European study site than in the US study site. The largest differences were for the four lifestyle/behavior metrics, namely body mass index, smoking, physical activity, and diet. Preventative and intervention strategies will continue to be important for both countries in order to improve cardiovascular health
Kids Safe and Smokefree (KiSS)
NCT01745393 (clinicaltrials.gov)
Changes in adult children's participation in parent care
Care-giving research has focused on primary care-givers and relied on cross-sectional data. This approach neglects the dynamic and systemic character of care-giver networks. Our analyses address changes in care-givers and care networks over a two-year period using pooled data from the US Health and Retirement Study, 1992–2000. Based on a matrix of specific adult-child care-givers across two consecutive time-points, we assess changes in any adult-…
A National Profile of Caregivers for the Oldest-Old
Limited research has examined caregivers for the oldest old (85+), a distinct group among older adults who are most likely to experience functional and cognitive limitations that require care. To profile socio-demographic characteristics of the oldest-old and their informal caregivers and assess their caregiving situations, we used data from 3163 care recipients with at least one functional limitation from the 2004 National Long-Term Care Survey …
(In)Formal Support and Unmet Needs in The National Long-Term Care Survey
We linked individual-level data from the 2004 wave of the National Long-Term Care Survey with state-level data from the National Aging Program Information Systems (NAPIS) State Program Reports to predict care mix and unmet need for assistance. Our sample consisted of 2422 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older (69% women, 8% nonwhite) who reported at least one limitation in an instrumental or basic activity of daily living. We used the …
Determinants of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain in Urban, Low-Income Women
Therapists in a Foreign Land
Loneliness among older Europeans
Within-Family Variability in Representations of Past Relationships With Parents
Results link adults' memories of experiences with their parents in childhood to their current well-being and highlight the importance of considering within-family models for family theory
Being Examples to the Flock
The Impact of Marital Conflict on Health and Health Care Utilization in Older Couples
This study tested the hypothesis that marital distress has a significant effect on health care utilization for older couples. Results from 536 intact couples in long term marriages showed men in dissatisfying marriages are more likely to utilize health care services; women in satisfying marriages are more likely to use health care services. There were no significant partner effects of marital quality on health problems or health care utilization.…
Routine Assistance to Parents
Even after we controlled for within-person (daily situational variables) and between-person factors (background characteristics), the act of providing assistance itself had immediate associations with daily mood for helpers, particularly for those with fewer resources and greater demands on time. Feasibility and success of programs that provide respite and relief services to older adults and their children should be assessed in light of daily liv…
The division of parent care between spouses
Research on the division of family work has focused on household work and child-care to the exclusion of other domains, whereas studies on care-giving for older people typically ignore spouses' support to care-givers. In this paper we apply an approach that is typical of research on spouses' division of family work in caring for parents, in that the theoretical model focuses on the ‘cultural mandates’ that guide spouses' division of care, namely …
Caregiving Contexts
Do Safety Nets Work? The Role of Anticipated Help in Times of Need
DAVID J. EGGEBEEN Pennsylvania State University ADAM DAVEY University of Georgia* A sample of parents (aged 50+) drawn from the 1988 and 1992 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households was used to examine two questions: How responsive is support from adult children in times of need? Is support from children greater for those who expected their children to provide help? Parents who experience one or more transitions in the time betwee…
Influences of Family Obligations and Relationships on Retirement
Our data suggest the importance of family obligations and relationships in retirement decisions and demonstrate considerable diversity in these processes. Models of retirement should pay greater attention to the interdependence of work and family spheres and to the diversity of retirement processes among various population groups
Patterns of Intergenerational Exchange and Mental Health
Past research on intergenerational exchanges suggests that parents and adult children remain vitally involved in supportive exchanges in later life. What has not been examined is the long-term importance of patterns of intergenerational exchange for individual mental health and well-being. Using data drawn from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households on adults aged 50 and older (N = 2237, MAge = 62.3), we tested hypotheses…
Modeling Change in Older Adults' Leisure Activities
Changes in three domains of leisure (i.e., informal, formal, and physical) were examined using data from individuals ages 50 and over from all three waves of the Americans' Changing Lives study (N = 1,911), and different patterns of change were found. Individual growth curve modeling suggested that while no change occurred over time on average within domains, significant individual differences were found in these patterns across all domains. Limi…
Within-Family Variability in Representations of Past Relationships With Parents
Results link adults' memories of experiences with their parents in childhood to their current well-being and highlight the importance of considering within-family models for family theory
The division of parent care between spouses
Research on the division of family work has focused on household work and child-care to the exclusion of other domains, whereas studies on care-giving for older people typically ignore spouses' support to care-givers. In this paper we apply an approach that is typical of research on spouses' division of family work in caring for parents, in that the theoretical model focuses on the ‘cultural mandates’ that guide spouses' division of care, namely …
Honeymoons and Joint Lunches
With hypotheses derived from a life course perspective in conjunction with life event stress and role theories, we examine whether a spouse's employment and length of retirement affect a person's postretirement depressive symptoms and whether such effects differ by gender. Analyses use pooled data from Waves 1-4 of the Health and Retirement Survey, using a subsample of married individuals who either remained continuously employed over time or com…
Being Examples to the Flock
Retirement Transitions and Spouse Disability
These results highlight the importance of retirement context on postretirement well-being. They suggest that both type of retirement transition and marital contexts such as spouse's disability influence postretirement well-being, and these effects differ by gender
The Impact of Marital Conflict on Health and Health Care Utilization in Older Couples
This study tested the hypothesis that marital distress has a significant effect on health care utilization for older couples. Results from 536 intact couples in long term marriages showed men in dissatisfying marriages are more likely to utilize health care services; women in satisfying marriages are more likely to use health care services. There were no significant partner effects of marital quality on health problems or health care utilization.…
Routine Assistance to Parents
Even after we controlled for within-person (daily situational variables) and between-person factors (background characteristics), the act of providing assistance itself had immediate associations with daily mood for helpers, particularly for those with fewer resources and greater demands on time. Feasibility and success of programs that provide respite and relief services to older adults and their children should be assessed in light of daily liv…
Changes in adult children's participation in parent care
Care-giving research has focused on primary care-givers and relied on cross-sectional data. This approach neglects the dynamic and systemic character of care-giver networks. Our analyses address changes in care-givers and care networks over a two-year period using pooled data from the US Health and Retirement Study, 1992–2000. Based on a matrix of specific adult-child care-givers across two consecutive time-points, we assess changes in any adult-…
Retirement and marital decision making
This study explores how partner's employment and preretirement decision-making structures affect retirement satisfaction, using pooled data from Waves 1 to 4 of the Health and Retirement Surveys. Based on resource theory, the analyses indicate that retired husbands are least satisfied if their wives remain employed and had more say in decisions prior to the husband's retirement. Retired wives are least satisfied if their husbands remain employed …
Dimensions of Marital Quality and Retirement
This study examines whether the meaning of marital conflict and marital solidarity are affected by the transition to retirement, whether the retirement transition alters stability and variability of, and cross-spouse influences on, marital quality, and whether retirement influences latent means of marital quality. Data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) addressed these questions ( N= 407 couples for wives' re…
Black Church Leaders’ Attitudes About Mental Health Services
Change in Depressive Symptoms in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Depressive symptoms have been represented in the research and clinical literature in terms of both an episodic phenomenon and as enduring individual differences. We investigated depressive symptoms longitudinally in a sample of older adults. Participants were 737 individuals (M(Age) = 73 years initially, 39% women) in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging who provided biennial Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression data on up to five o…
Life on the Edge
Differences suggest formal services supplement informal support in the United States and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden
Therapists in a Foreign Land
Foreign-Born Therapists
The authors examined the associations between acculturation, supervisors' multicultural competence, and clinicians' self-efficacy in a sample of 153 immigrant therapists currently practicing in the United States. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire and 3 additional questionnaires that examined their levels of acculturation, perceived supervisors' multicultural competence, and clinical self-efficacy. Results suggested that perceived…
How Many Elders Receive Assistance
Cultural differences predating current policies in both countries appear to influence informal support over and above what can be accounted for by demographic differences alone
(In)Formal Support and Unmet Needs in The National Long-Term Care Survey
We linked individual-level data from the 2004 wave of the National Long-Term Care Survey with state-level data from the National Aging Program Information Systems (NAPIS) State Program Reports to predict care mix and unmet need for assistance. Our sample consisted of 2422 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older (69% women, 8% nonwhite) who reported at least one limitation in an instrumental or basic activity of daily living. We used the …
National and Regional Differences in Preparation for Future Care Needs
Patterns of Intergenerational Exchange and Mental Health
Past research on intergenerational exchanges suggests that parents and adult children remain vitally involved in supportive exchanges in later life. What has not been examined is the long-term importance of patterns of intergenerational exchange for individual mental health and well-being. Using data drawn from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households on adults aged 50 and older (N = 2237, MAge = 62.3), we tested hypotheses…
Do Safety Nets Work? The Role of Anticipated Help in Times of Need
DAVID J. EGGEBEEN Pennsylvania State University ADAM DAVEY University of Georgia* A sample of parents (aged 50+) drawn from the 1988 and 1992 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households was used to examine two questions: How responsive is support from adult children in times of need? Is support from children greater for those who expected their children to provide help? Parents who experience one or more transitions in the time betwee…
How Many Elders Receive Assistance
Cultural differences predating current policies in both countries appear to influence informal support over and above what can be accounted for by demographic differences alone
Influences of Family Obligations and Relationships on Retirement
Our data suggest the importance of family obligations and relationships in retirement decisions and demonstrate considerable diversity in these processes. Models of retirement should pay greater attention to the interdependence of work and family spheres and to the diversity of retirement processes among various population groups
National and Regional Differences in Preparation for Future Care Needs
Retirement Transitions and Spouse Disability
These results highlight the importance of retirement context on postretirement well-being. They suggest that both type of retirement transition and marital contexts such as spouse's disability influence postretirement well-being, and these effects differ by gender
Change in Depressive Symptoms in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Depressive symptoms have been represented in the research and clinical literature in terms of both an episodic phenomenon and as enduring individual differences. We investigated depressive symptoms longitudinally in a sample of older adults. Participants were 737 individuals (M(Age) = 73 years initially, 39% women) in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging who provided biennial Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression data on up to five o…
Honeymoons and Joint Lunches
With hypotheses derived from a life course perspective in conjunction with life event stress and role theories, we examine whether a spouse's employment and length of retirement affect a person's postretirement depressive symptoms and whether such effects differ by gender. Analyses use pooled data from Waves 1-4 of the Health and Retirement Survey, using a subsample of married individuals who either remained continuously employed over time or com…
Dimensions of Marital Quality and Retirement
This study examines whether the meaning of marital conflict and marital solidarity are affected by the transition to retirement, whether the retirement transition alters stability and variability of, and cross-spouse influences on, marital quality, and whether retirement influences latent means of marital quality. Data from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) addressed these questions ( N= 407 couples for wives' re…
Life on the Edge
Differences suggest formal services supplement informal support in the United States and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden
Retirement and marital decision making
This study explores how partner's employment and preretirement decision-making structures affect retirement satisfaction, using pooled data from Waves 1 to 4 of the Health and Retirement Surveys. Based on resource theory, the analyses indicate that retired husbands are least satisfied if their wives remain employed and had more say in decisions prior to the husband's retirement. Retired wives are least satisfied if their husbands remain employed …
Modeling Change in Older Adults' Leisure Activities
Changes in three domains of leisure (i.e., informal, formal, and physical) were examined using data from individuals ages 50 and over from all three waves of the Americans' Changing Lives study (N = 1,911), and different patterns of change were found. Individual growth curve modeling suggested that while no change occurred over time on average within domains, significant individual differences were found in these patterns across all domains. Limi…
Caregiving Contexts
How equitable is Sweden's changing care-mix? Linking individual and regional characteristics over time
Given its relative ethnic and socio-economic homogeneity, Sweden is an ideal nation for the study of variations in formal and informal care as a function of gender, disability and advanced age. This paper reports an analysis of the relationships between gender, disability and age and the formal care delivered to more than 1,200 people aged 75 or more years in Sweden in 1994 and 2000. In municipalities that provided above-average home-help hours p…
Routine Assistance to Parents
Even after we controlled for within-person (daily situational variables) and between-person factors (background characteristics), the act of providing assistance itself had immediate associations with daily mood for helpers, particularly for those with fewer resources and greater demands on time. Feasibility and success of programs that provide respite and relief services to older adults and their children should be assessed in light of daily liv…
The division of parent care between spouses
Research on the division of family work has focused on household work and child-care to the exclusion of other domains, whereas studies on care-giving for older people typically ignore spouses' support to care-givers. In this paper we apply an approach that is typical of research on spouses' division of family work in caring for parents, in that the theoretical model focuses on the ‘cultural mandates’ that guide spouses' division of care, namely …
Loneliness among older Europeans
Within-Family Variability in Representations of Past Relationships With Parents
Results link adults' memories of experiences with their parents in childhood to their current well-being and highlight the importance of considering within-family models for family theory
Being Examples to the Flock
The Impact of Marital Conflict on Health and Health Care Utilization in Older Couples
This study tested the hypothesis that marital distress has a significant effect on health care utilization for older couples. Results from 536 intact couples in long term marriages showed men in dissatisfying marriages are more likely to utilize health care services; women in satisfying marriages are more likely to use health care services. There were no significant partner effects of marital quality on health problems or health care utilization.…
Determinants of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain in Urban, Low-Income Women
Therapists in a Foreign Land
Kids Safe and Smokefree (KiSS)
NCT01745393 (clinicaltrials.gov)
Changes in adult children's participation in parent care
Care-giving research has focused on primary care-givers and relied on cross-sectional data. This approach neglects the dynamic and systemic character of care-giver networks. Our analyses address changes in care-givers and care networks over a two-year period using pooled data from the US Health and Retirement Study, 1992–2000. Based on a matrix of specific adult-child care-givers across two consecutive time-points, we assess changes in any adult-…
A National Profile of Caregivers for the Oldest-Old
Limited research has examined caregivers for the oldest old (85+), a distinct group among older adults who are most likely to experience functional and cognitive limitations that require care. To profile socio-demographic characteristics of the oldest-old and their informal caregivers and assess their caregiving situations, we used data from 3163 care recipients with at least one functional limitation from the 2004 National Long-Term Care Survey …
Medicine (28 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Gerontology (15 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Population (9 works)