Kathrin Boerner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 178709 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kathrin Boerner |
| NOMBRES | Kathrin |
| APELLIDO | Boerner |
| FIRMA | BOERNER K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6591-9371 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 188 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Old age in urban discourse
Population ageing and urbanisation have intensified efforts to design cities that support later life. The World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC) framework promotes autonomy, participation, and health, yet it remains unclear how advanced old age and vulnerability are positioned within this agenda. This qualitative document analysis draws on situational analysis to examine how later life is constructed across interna…
Neighbourhood-level age-friendliness in urban environments
Background: Population ageing and urbanisation are reshaping living environments and raising new challenges for promoting health and independence in later life. Age-friendly city initiatives aim to support active ageing, yet the relationship between environmental conditions, housing factors, and functional outcomes remains insufficiently understood. Methods: This cross-sectional study analysed data from participants of the SeFallED study in Olden…
Older adults have valuable memories to share. Why don't we listen
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses
The vital role social relationships play in mental health and well-being has been well-documented. Disruption of an intimate bond through bereavement can be enduringly stressful, with loneliness featuring prominently, possibly compromising mental and physical health. We systematically reviewed studies examining loneliness across marital status groups, focusing on the widowed. The aim was to establish what is known about the prevalence of loneline…
Dyadic analysis of very old parents' and their children's interdependence and self-perceptions of aging
The number of families with very old members is growing, and their intergenerational experiences may have significant ramifications for how the family members view their own aging. Using 114 dyads of very old parents ( Mage = 93.31) and their "old" children ( Mage = 67.78), we investigated whether one's own (i.e., parents or children) and each other's (i.e., children or parents) reports of relationship quality, care experiences, and health were a…
Psychological and Physical Health in Widowhood
We investigate how preloss marital quality is associated with changes in psychological distress and physical health among older widow(er)s. Using prospective data with a 2-year follow-up from the Health and Retirement Study, we selected 546 respondents who transitioned into widowhood. Respondents were classified as supportive, ambivalent, aversive, or neutral groups. The supportive and ambivalent group experienced greater increase in depressive s…
Awareness, Acceptance, Avoidance
Death and dying are woven throughout the work of home care aides, and yet the care they provide at the end of life (EOL) remains poorly understood. This is due in part to the multiple circumstances under which aides provide EOL care. In this paper, we elucidate the EOL care experiences of aides working in home care agencies in New York City. We conducted in-depth interviews with 29 home care aides, and we analyzed these data using inductive, team…
Bereavement in the Time of Coronavirus
COVID-19 fatalities exemplify "bad deaths" and are distinguished by physical discomfort, difficulty breathing, social isolation, psychological distress, and care that may be discordant with the patient's preferences. Each of these death attributes is a well-documented correlate of bereaved survivors' symptoms of depression, anxiety, and anger. Yet the grief experienced by survivors of COVID-related deaths is compounded by the erosion of coping re…
Insufficient Advance Care Planning? Correlates of Planning Without Personal Conversations
Socially isolated persons are especially likely to do formal planning only, which is considered less effective than two-pronged ACP. Health care professionals should recognize that older adults with few kin may require additional support and guidance when doing ACP
Recent Parental Death and Relationship Qualities Between Midlife Adults and Their Grown Children
ObjectiveThe death of a parent is considered a normative event in midlife, but little is known about how this loss could affect the relationship between bereaved middle-aged adults and their grown children.BackgroundFamily systems theory postulates that the death of a family member can have a significant impact on the individual and other family members. The death of a parent is one of the most common types of loss in adulthood, which may signal …
Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes
Personality similarity and marital quality among couples in later life
Using a modified actor-partner interdependence model, associations of individuals' personality traits (i.e., actor and partner effects) and personality similarity (i.e., trait-level and profile-level similarity between spouses) with marital quality were examined among 2,228 older couples from the Health and Retirement Study (2010/2012). Actor and partner effects of personality traits were stronger than similarities in explaining older couples' ma…
Cautioning Health-Care Professionals
Science and practice seem deeply stuck in the so-called stage theory of grief. Health-care professionals continue to “prescribe” stages. Basically, this perspective endorses the idea that bereaved people go through a set pattern of specific reactions over time following the death of a loved one. It has frequently been interpreted prescriptively, as a progression that bereaved persons must follow in order to adapt to loss. It is of paramount impor…
How Social Network Size and Quality Affect End-of-Life Surrogate Preferences
We discuss what is distinctive about the social networks of each group, and the implications for end-of-life support
Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss
The present study addresses older adults' developmental regulation when faced with progressive and irreversible vision loss. We used the motivational theory of life span development as a conceptual framework and examined changes in older adults' striving for control over everyday goal achievement, and their association with affective well-being, in a sample of 364 older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. Using longitudinal da…
Bereavement
The Role of Relationship Biography in Advance Care Planning
Couples who foresee a long and stable future together are those most likely to engage in end-of-life planning, a preventative health behavior with long-term consequences for well-being
His" and "Her" Marriage? The Role of Positive and Negative Marital Characteristics in Global Marital Satisfaction Among Older Adults
Prior studies show small differences in men's and women's global marital satisfaction. Our work provides evidence that the presence and magnitude of such gender differences may vary based on the specific marital component considered. We discuss ways that gender shapes marital interactions, expectations, and perceptions, and the implications of our results for the well-being of married older adults
Family Relationships and Advance Care Planning
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered when patients and their families discuss end-of-life care and make DPAHC designations
End-of-Life Planning in a Family Context
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered in patient-provider discussions of end-of-life care
Dating after late-life spousal loss
Change in Psychological Control in Visually Impaired Older Adults Over 2 Years
IADL plays an important role triggering a shift in adaptational strategies from selective control to CPC in visually impaired older adults and possibly other disabled populations
Continuing bonds in adaptation to bereavement
Sense Making and Benefit Finding among Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Their Primary Caregivers
The associations of sense making and benefit finding with depressive symptoms were examined among patient and caregiver pairs coping with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Benefit finding, but not sense making, was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for both patients and caregivers. Patient and caregiver pairs where neither found benefit had more depressive symptoms compared to pairs where at least one member found benefit. Patients cited ben…
Caregiving, bereavement and complicated grief
Most deaths are preceded by chronic illness and disability and the provision of support by family caregivers. The purpose of this article is to describe how the caregiving experience affects bereavement, with an emphasis on the relationship between challenging caregiving situations and difficult grieving processes - often referred to as `complicated grief'. The article starts with a brief summary of the general literature on caregiving and bereav…
Good to have but not to use
Research documents a positive association between perceived support availability and well-being in later life. Other work shows that actually receiving support can have negative effects. Instrumental support receipt may be negative for persons with chronic impairment as it may emphasize their inability to accomplish daily tasks. This study contrasted the impact of perceived and received affective and instrumental support on adaptation to chronic …
His" and "Her" Marriage? The Role of Positive and Negative Marital Characteristics in Global Marital Satisfaction Among Older Adults
Prior studies show small differences in men's and women's global marital satisfaction. Our work provides evidence that the presence and magnitude of such gender differences may vary based on the specific marital component considered. We discuss ways that gender shapes marital interactions, expectations, and perceptions, and the implications of our results for the well-being of married older adults
Adaptation to Disability Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
The purpose of this study was to investigate the links among coping, disability, and mental health among adults who are confronted with age-related vision loss. Drawing on the model of assimilative and accommodative coping (e.g., Brandtstädter, 1999), hierarchical regressions were designed to examine the effects of coping and disability on mental health. Participants were 55 middle-aged and 52 older adults who had been recruited from a community-…
Giving While in Need
Findings indicated that there may be feasible ways of providing support, even by older adults who are in need of support themselves
Family Relationships and Advance Care Planning
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered when patients and their families discuss end-of-life care and make DPAHC designations
Resilient or at Risk? A 4-Year Study of Older Adults Who Initially Showed High or Low Distress Following Conjugal Loss
Following conjugal loss, some people show relatively little distress for the first several months, whereas others show considerable distress. In this article we examine these patterns over a 4-year period. Drawing on prior research defining grief trajectories, we conducted repeated measures analyses of variance on data from 92 bereaved elders with one preloss and three postloss assessments. Findings demonstrated that those with low initial distre…
To Have and Have Not
Over the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in the field of bereavement: From the traditional view that insists on the necessity of disengagement, toward a position that postulates the need for a continuing connection. The authors propose to move beyond the dichotomy that was created by the two paradigms and conceive of it as a process of transformation that involves both disengagement and connection. Drawing on theoretical frameworks o…
Insufficient Advance Care Planning? Correlates of Planning Without Personal Conversations
Socially isolated persons are especially likely to do formal planning only, which is considered less effective than two-pronged ACP. Health care professionals should recognize that older adults with few kin may require additional support and guidance when doing ACP
Personality similarity and marital quality among couples in later life
Using a modified actor-partner interdependence model, associations of individuals' personality traits (i.e., actor and partner effects) and personality similarity (i.e., trait-level and profile-level similarity between spouses) with marital quality were examined among 2,228 older couples from the Health and Retirement Study (2010/2012). Actor and partner effects of personality traits were stronger than similarities in explaining older couples' ma…
End-of-Life Planning in a Family Context
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered in patient-provider discussions of end-of-life care
Stability and Change in Social Negativity in Later Life
The differential pattern of stability and change over time in received versus initiated social negativity and their links to instrumental support suggest different origins for the initiation versus receipt of social negativity
Recent Parental Death and Relationship Qualities Between Midlife Adults and Their Grown Children
ObjectiveThe death of a parent is considered a normative event in midlife, but little is known about how this loss could affect the relationship between bereaved middle-aged adults and their grown children.BackgroundFamily systems theory postulates that the death of a family member can have a significant impact on the individual and other family members. The death of a parent is one of the most common types of loss in adulthood, which may signal …
Dating after late-life spousal loss
Do Spousal Discrepancies in Marital Quality Assessments Affect Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood
We use prospective couple-level data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples to assess the extent to which spouses concur in their assessments of marital quality (N = 844) and whether discrepancies in spouses' marital assessments affect the bereaved spouse's psychological adjustment 6 months after loss (n = 105). Spouses' assessments of marital quality are correlated modestly (r = .45), with women offering less positive assessments. Bereaved per…
Sense Making and Benefit Finding among Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Their Primary Caregivers
The associations of sense making and benefit finding with depressive symptoms were examined among patient and caregiver pairs coping with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Benefit finding, but not sense making, was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for both patients and caregivers. Patient and caregiver pairs where neither found benefit had more depressive symptoms compared to pairs where at least one member found benefit. Patients cited ben…
Dyadic analysis of very old parents' and their children's interdependence and self-perceptions of aging
The number of families with very old members is growing, and their intergenerational experiences may have significant ramifications for how the family members view their own aging. Using 114 dyads of very old parents ( Mage = 93.31) and their "old" children ( Mage = 67.78), we investigated whether one's own (i.e., parents or children) and each other's (i.e., children or parents) reports of relationship quality, care experiences, and health were a…
Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss
The present study addresses older adults' developmental regulation when faced with progressive and irreversible vision loss. We used the motivational theory of life span development as a conceptual framework and examined changes in older adults' striving for control over everyday goal achievement, and their association with affective well-being, in a sample of 364 older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. Using longitudinal da…
The Role of Relationship Biography in Advance Care Planning
Couples who foresee a long and stable future together are those most likely to engage in end-of-life planning, a preventative health behavior with long-term consequences for well-being
Tackling Vision-Related Disability in Old Age
This study used the life-span theory of control (Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R.) to examine adaptation to disability in old age. A narrative approach to data collection was used to assess the strategies employed by 364 older adults with macular degeneration to deal with daily challenges. Findings revealed a rich array of strategies. Compensatory Primary Control was reported by nearly all respondents, Compensatory Secondary Control by a majority, an…
Gender Specific Coping Patterns in Widowed Parents with Dependent Children
This article looks at how the gender of the surviving parent affects the coping styles of bereaved family's with dependent children. Interview data from five father- and five mother-headed bereaved families from the MGH/Harvard Child Bereavement Study were subjected to an in-depth analysis. The findings suggest differences in parental coping patterns that seemed to be gender specific. Mothers in this sub-sample tended to adjust their own prioriti…
The Effects of Negative Legacies on the Adjustment of Parentally Bereaved Children and Adolescents
This is a report of a qualitative analysis of a sample of bereaved families in which one parent died and in which children scored in the clinical range on the Child Behavior Check List. The purpose of this analysis was to learn more about the lives of these children. They were considered to be at risk of developing emotional and behavioral problems associated with the death. We discovered that many of these “high risk” children had a continuing b…
Giving While in Need
Findings indicated that there may be feasible ways of providing support, even by older adults who are in need of support themselves
To Have and Have Not
Over the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in the field of bereavement: From the traditional view that insists on the necessity of disengagement, toward a position that postulates the need for a continuing connection. The authors propose to move beyond the dichotomy that was created by the two paradigms and conceive of it as a process of transformation that involves both disengagement and connection. Drawing on theoretical frameworks o…
Adaptation to Disability Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
The purpose of this study was to investigate the links among coping, disability, and mental health among adults who are confronted with age-related vision loss. Drawing on the model of assimilative and accommodative coping (e.g., Brandtstädter, 1999), hierarchical regressions were designed to examine the effects of coping and disability on mental health. Participants were 55 middle-aged and 52 older adults who had been recruited from a community-…
Stability and Change in Social Negativity in Later Life
The differential pattern of stability and change over time in received versus initiated social negativity and their links to instrumental support suggest different origins for the initiation versus receipt of social negativity
Resilient or at Risk? A 4-Year Study of Older Adults Who Initially Showed High or Low Distress Following Conjugal Loss
Following conjugal loss, some people show relatively little distress for the first several months, whereas others show considerable distress. In this article we examine these patterns over a 4-year period. Drawing on prior research defining grief trajectories, we conducted repeated measures analyses of variance on data from 92 bereaved elders with one preloss and three postloss assessments. Findings demonstrated that those with low initial distre…
Good to have but not to use
Research documents a positive association between perceived support availability and well-being in later life. Other work shows that actually receiving support can have negative effects. Instrumental support receipt may be negative for persons with chronic impairment as it may emphasize their inability to accomplish daily tasks. This study contrasted the impact of perceived and received affective and instrumental support on adaptation to chronic …
Improvement/Maintenance and Reorientation as Central Features of Coping with Major Life Change and Loss
This article focuses on the common and unique contributions of three major life-span theories in addressing improvement/maintenance and reorientation, which represent central processes of coping with major life change and loss. For this purpose, we review and compare the dual-process model of assimilative and accommodative coping, the model of selection, optimization, and compensation, and the life-span theory of control. Although these theories …
Caregiving, bereavement and complicated grief
Most deaths are preceded by chronic illness and disability and the provision of support by family caregivers. The purpose of this article is to describe how the caregiving experience affects bereavement, with an emphasis on the relationship between challenging caregiving situations and difficult grieving processes - often referred to as `complicated grief'. The article starts with a brief summary of the general literature on caregiving and bereav…
Tackling Vision-Related Disability in Old Age
This study used the life-span theory of control (Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R.) to examine adaptation to disability in old age. A narrative approach to data collection was used to assess the strategies employed by 364 older adults with macular degeneration to deal with daily challenges. Findings revealed a rich array of strategies. Compensatory Primary Control was reported by nearly all respondents, Compensatory Secondary Control by a majority, an…
Do Spousal Discrepancies in Marital Quality Assessments Affect Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood
We use prospective couple-level data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples to assess the extent to which spouses concur in their assessments of marital quality (N = 844) and whether discrepancies in spouses' marital assessments affect the bereaved spouse's psychological adjustment 6 months after loss (n = 105). Spouses' assessments of marital quality are correlated modestly (r = .45), with women offering less positive assessments. Bereaved per…
Continuing bonds in adaptation to bereavement
Sense Making and Benefit Finding among Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Their Primary Caregivers
The associations of sense making and benefit finding with depressive symptoms were examined among patient and caregiver pairs coping with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Benefit finding, but not sense making, was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for both patients and caregivers. Patient and caregiver pairs where neither found benefit had more depressive symptoms compared to pairs where at least one member found benefit. Patients cited ben…
Change in Psychological Control in Visually Impaired Older Adults Over 2 Years
IADL plays an important role triggering a shift in adaptational strategies from selective control to CPC in visually impaired older adults and possibly other disabled populations
Family Relationships and Advance Care Planning
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered when patients and their families discuss end-of-life care and make DPAHC designations
End-of-Life Planning in a Family Context
Family dynamics affect ACP in complex ways and should be considered in patient-provider discussions of end-of-life care
Dating after late-life spousal loss
The Role of Relationship Biography in Advance Care Planning
Couples who foresee a long and stable future together are those most likely to engage in end-of-life planning, a preventative health behavior with long-term consequences for well-being
His" and "Her" Marriage? The Role of Positive and Negative Marital Characteristics in Global Marital Satisfaction Among Older Adults
Prior studies show small differences in men's and women's global marital satisfaction. Our work provides evidence that the presence and magnitude of such gender differences may vary based on the specific marital component considered. We discuss ways that gender shapes marital interactions, expectations, and perceptions, and the implications of our results for the well-being of married older adults
Bereavement
Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss
The present study addresses older adults' developmental regulation when faced with progressive and irreversible vision loss. We used the motivational theory of life span development as a conceptual framework and examined changes in older adults' striving for control over everyday goal achievement, and their association with affective well-being, in a sample of 364 older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. Using longitudinal da…
Cautioning Health-Care Professionals
Science and practice seem deeply stuck in the so-called stage theory of grief. Health-care professionals continue to “prescribe” stages. Basically, this perspective endorses the idea that bereaved people go through a set pattern of specific reactions over time following the death of a loved one. It has frequently been interpreted prescriptively, as a progression that bereaved persons must follow in order to adapt to loss. It is of paramount impor…
How Social Network Size and Quality Affect End-of-Life Surrogate Preferences
We discuss what is distinctive about the social networks of each group, and the implications for end-of-life support
Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes
Psychology (31 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (18 obras) · Medicine (18 obras) · Developmental psychology (16 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (13 obras) · Clinical Psychology (11 obras) · Aging and Gerontology Research (10 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (10 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Gerontology (9 obras)