Steven H Zarit
Biographic Data
| ID | 100205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven H Zarit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zarit |
| SIGNATURE | ZARIT S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0351-2090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 715 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 77 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Effects of a closed-loop mindfulness-based program for reducing stress in family caregivers of people with dementia: A study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT06880822. Registered on March 2025
Predictive Factors of Negative Spillover From Caregiving to Employment Among Japanese Family Caregivers With Older Relatives in a Care Facility
This cross-sectional study included 211 employed family caregivers with older relatives living in care facilities in Japan. Using multiple linear regression analysis, we examined the caregiving context after institutionalization of an older family member. Specifically, we examined predictors of negative spillover from caregiving to employment among family caregivers. The outcome was the extent of negative spillover. Primary predictors included ca…
Effect of a single-session mindfulness-based intervention for reducing stress in family caregivers of people with dementia: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT06346223. Registered on April 3, 2024
Dyadic Ambivalence in Couples Managing Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease: Linking Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia to Life Satisfaction
This study utilizes a dyadic approach to assess ambivalence in dementia care. Findings reveal the conflicting emotions that couples experience as they cope with early-stage AD, identify sources of such ambivalence, and shed light on the development of dyadic interventions that can promote positive outcomes in both partners
Developing a Framework for the Support of Informal Caregivers: Experiences from Sweden, Ireland, and the United States
Policies and services to support informal caregivers vary considerably across countries. This paper examines the role of caregivers and how perspectives on that role may influence the availability of benefits and services in three countries that differ considerably in their care systems - Sweden, Ireland and the United States. We developed a nine-dimensional framework for examining differences, including policies and how the role of caregiver is …
Functional Limitations, Social Integration, and Daily Activities in Late Life
This study provided a modest indication that functional limitations in community-dwelling older adults are associated with patterns of activity that may lead to further limitations, disability, or loss of autonomy. Findings warrant longitudinal follow-up to establish subsequent patterns of decline or stability
Midlife Children's and Older Mothers' Depressive Symptoms: Empathic Mother–Child Relationships as a Key Moderator
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the link between midlife children's and older mothers' depressive symptoms, whether this link is exacerbated in highly empathic mother-child relationships (i.e., shared strong feelings of being loved, cared for, and understood in the mother-child tie), and whether these associations vary by children's gender. BACKGROUND: Empathic mother-child relationships in later life may intensify the link between midlif…
Revisiting Intergenerational Contact and Relationship Quality in Later Life: Parental Characteristics Matter
Contact and relationship quality between adult children and aging parents are two widely used indicators of intergenerational solidarity and are often assumed to be positively correlated. However, the association between the two may depend on characteristics of the parent involved. Using Family Exchanges Study Wave 1, this study assessed whether parental difficulties—measured as functional limitations and life problems—and gender moderated the as…
I’m Here, You’re There: In-Absentia Caregiver Stress & Transnational Support of Elderly Mothers by Adult Children
Providing support between generations in a transnational family context is understudied in the aging literature. Specifically, this study investigated the stress experiences and stressors experienced by adult children in the United States when providing transnational support to their elderly mothers in India. Information gathered from two focus groups was supplemented by an online survey of 131 adult children. Participants expressed sentiments of…
Midlife Adults’ Daily Support to Children and Parents: Implications for Diurnal Cortisol
Objectives: We examined whether providing daily support to generations above and below has a differential impact on midlife adults' diurnal cortisol. Method: Midlife adults ( N = 151) from the Family Exchanges Study Wave 2 reported daily practical support, emotional support, and advice to adult children and aging parents and collected saliva samples four times a day for 4 days. Results: Midlife adults experienced steeper cortisol awakening respon…
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 …
Relationship tensions and mood: Adult children's daily experience of aging parents' stubbornness
This study examined middle‐aged individuals' reports of parents' behaviors commonly attributed to stubbornness. Middle‐aged adults ( N = 192) completed a 7‐day diary reporting their mood and how often they felt their parents ( N = 254) engaged in behaviors often described as “stubbornness” (insistent or risky). Thirty‐one percent of middle‐aged children reported insistent behaviors, and 17% reported risky behaviors by their parent(s). Daily repor…
Life Problems and Perceptions of Giving Support: Implications for Aging Mothers and Middle-Aged Children
Giving support may be a stressful or rewarding experience, and little is known about how family members perceive giving support amid problems or crises. Using a sample of 226 mother-child dyads (mother mean age = 75.04 years; child mean age = 49.57 years), we examine how mothers and their middle-aged children perceive giving support in the context of life problems. Actor-partner interdependence models tested whether associations between problems …
Early Parental Abuse and Daily Assistance to Aging Parents With Disability: Associations With the Middle-Aged Adults’ Daily Well-being
Daily assistance to parents with disability needs to be examined in the context of the relationship history with parents. The impact of childhood abuse can linger long after the actual incident. Frequent early emotional abuse from parents was associated with greater distress when the middle-aged provided daily assistance to their aging parents
Routine Support to Parents and Stressors in Everyday Domains: Associations With Negative Affect and Cortisol
Findings lend support to the caregiving career framework for understanding even casual routine assistance provided to a parent
Multiple Chronic Conditions in Spousal Caregivers of Older Adults With Functional Disability: Associations With Caregiving Difficulties and Gains
Spousal caregivers with MCCs involving discordant management strategies appear to be at risk for adverse care-related outcomes and may benefit from support in maintaining their own health as well as their caregiving responsibilities
Conflict Strategies in the Parent–Adult Child Tie: Generation Differences and Implications for Well-Being
Findings are consistent with the intraindividual stake hypothesis and imply that conflict strategies used with adult children may be more consequential for psychological well-being than those used with aging parents
Intergenerational Support and Marital Satisfaction: Implications of Beliefs About Helping Aging Parents
Everyday support given to aging parents is a salient aspect of married life that may have implications for marital quality. Among 132 middle-aged couples drawn from Wave 1 of the Family Exchanges Study, the authors examined the moderating effects of each spouse's normative and motivational beliefs about helping parents on associations between the frequency of everyday support that wives and husbands gave to their own parents and marital satisfact…
Associations Between Fine Motor Performance in Activities of Daily Living and Cognitive Ability in a Nondemented Sample of Older Adults: Implications for Geriatric Physical Rehabilitation
In nondemented older adults, cognitive speed predicts ADL-related FMA after controlling for age and physical ability. Physical rehabilitation of FMA in ADL tasks should consider the importance of cognitive ability, even in nondemented older adults
How can family policies reconcile fertility and women’s employment? Comparisons between South Korea and Sweden
South Korea has extremely low rates of fertility and labor force participation by women during their childbearing years, whereas Sweden has high rates for both. Variations in family policy models may explain differences in fertility and women's employment between the two countries. Drawing upon literature that examines the effects of family policies on fertility and women's employment, this paper compares childcare support for very young children…
Modeling Cortisol Daily Rhythms of Family Caregivers of Individuals With Dementia: Daily Stressors and Adult Day Services Use
The findings suggested potential biophysiological benefits of daily ADS use for a sample that was under chronic stress and high levels of daily stress
Intrinsic Emotional Fluctuation in Daily Negative Affect across Adulthood
IEF represents a new conceptualization of midlife individuals' daily emotional ups and downs, specifically, the intrinsic within-person volatility of emotions. The magnitude of IEF and its longitudinal dynamics may have implications for health and well-being of middle-aged adults
Relationship Quality Between Older Fathers and Middle-Aged Children: Associations With Both Parties’ Subjective Well-Being
Findings suggest that father-child relationship quality has significant implications for the well-being of both aging fathers and middle-aged daughters or sons
Support Grandparents Give to Their Adult Grandchildren
Consistent with solidarity theory, grandparents experiencing greater affective ties with their grandchildren are invested in these ties regardless of family needs. Findings also offer limited evidence for the family watchdog model in that grandparents provide more support to grandchildren when parents incur problems, even though those parents may still provide support
The Ties That Bind: Midlife Parents' Daily Experiences With Grown Children
Daily pleasant or stressful experiences with grown children may contribute to parental well-being. This diary study focused on midlife parents' (N = 247) reports regarding grown children for 7 days. Nearly all parents (96%) had contact with a child that week via phone, text, or in person. Nearly all parents shared laughter or enjoyable interactions with grown children during the study week. More than half of parents experienced stressful encounte…
Giving to the Good and the Needy: Parental Support of Grown Children
Parents may provide many types of support to their grown children. Parents age 40 to 60 (N = 633) reported the support they exchange with each child over age 18 (N = 1,384). Mothers and fathers differentiated among children within families, but provided emotional, financial, and practical help on average every few weeks to each child. Offspring received most assistance when they (a) had greater needs (because of problems or younger age) or (b) we…
Who Gets What and Why? Help Middle-Aged Adults Provide to Parents and Grown Children
Discussion integrates solidarity theory, developmental stake, and contingency theory. Most middle-aged adults provide more to grown offspring than to parents, consistent with their greater stake in their progeny. Middle-aged adults also respond to crises (i.e., parental disability) and everyday needs (i.e., offspring student status) in providing intergenerational support, in accordance with contingency theory
Adult Children's Problems and Successes: Implications for Intergenerational Ambivalence
Ambivalence theory suggests that parents experience ambivalence due to conflicting desires to help children in need and to launch children into adulthood. This study examined parents' reports of their adult children's problems and successes and implications for ambivalence. Participants aged 40-60 years (302 men and 331 women from different families) reported on up to 3 of their adult children (N = 1,251). Men and women differentiated among child…
Helicopter Parents and Landing Pad Kids: Intense Parental Support of Grown Children
Popular media describe adverse effects of helicopter parents who provide intense support to grown children, but few studies have examined implications of such intense support. Grown children (N = 592, M age = 23.82 years, 53% female, 35% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) and their parents (N = 399, M age = 50.67 years, 52% female; 34% members of racial/ethnic minority groups) reported on the support they exchanged with one another. Intens…
Only as Happy as the Least Happy Child: Multiple Grown Children's Problems and Successes and Middle-aged Parents’ Well-being
Discussion focuses on benefits and detriments parents derive from how grown progeny turn out and particularly the implications of grown children's problems
I'll Give You the World: Socioeconomic Differences in Parental Support of Adult Children
Research has shown that parents with higher socioeconomic status provide more resources to their children during childhood and adolescence. The authors asked whether similar effects associated with parental socioeconomic position are extended to adult children. Middle-aged parents (N = 633) from the Family Exchanges Study reported support they provided to their grown children and coresidence with grown children (N = 1,384). Parents with higher in…
Caregiving as a Dyadic Process: Perspectives From Caregiver and Receiver
Most family caregiving research has relied on the perspective of the caregiver but has not systematically examined the views and opinions of the elder who is receiving care. The present study examined 63 caregiving dyads to determine how the responses of each member had an impact on the well-being of the other member of the dyad. Caregiver relationship strain predicted his or her own depression and negative health, but no significant association …
Stress Reduction for Family Caregivers: Effects of Adult Day Care Use
These results demonstrate that use of adult day care by caregivers of dementia patients results in lower levels of caregiving-related stress and better psychological well-being when compared to that of controls
Intergenerational Exchanges of Middle-Aged Adults With Their Parents and Parents-In-Law in Korea
The authors investigated patterns of support exchanges between Korean adult children and their parents and parents-in-law, gender differences in these patterns, and implications of children's marital quality for exchange patterns. Data were from a nationally representative sample of married adults (N = 920, age 30-59 years) with at least 1 living parent and 1 living parent-in-law. Latent class analysis was applied to 12 indicators of exchanges (f…
Intergenerational Relationship Quality Across Three Generations
Findings are consistent with the intergenerational stake hypothesis and only partially consistent with the theory of intergenerational transmission. Overall, this study suggests that there is greater within-family variability than similarities in how family members feel about one another
Intergenerational preschool experiences and the young child: Potential benefits to development
The Disablement Process in Very Late Life: A Study of the Oldest-Old in Sweden
The study examines physical and functional health problems and their relationship to the activity of daily living (ADL) disability experience of a cross-section of Swedish men and women aged over 80 years (N = 203). Using a model of disablement, the relationships among disability variables were simultaneously explored. Results confirmed relatively high rates of disability in this age group, with 36% of respondents having some basic ADL difficulty…
Extending the Intergenerational Stake Hypothesis: Evidence of an Intra-individual Stake and Implications for Well-being
The intergenerational stake hypothesis suggests that parents are more invested in their children and experience better quality parent-child ties than do their children. In this study the authors examined variation in reports of relationship quality regarding parents and children intra-individually (do people report better quality ties with their children than with their parents?) and whether within-person variations have implications for well-bei…
Examining dynamic links between perceived control and health: Longitudinal evidence for differential effects in midlife and old age
Perceived control and health are often closely linked in adulthood and old age. Little is known, however, about their time-ordered interplay at various phases of adult life. By applying dynamic models to four waves of data over 15.5 years from the Americans' Changing Lives Study, we examined time-ordered relations between perceived control and health in midlife and old age. Results revealed that levels of perceived control predict subsequent chan…
Support Grandparents Give to Their Adult Grandchildren
Consistent with solidarity theory, grandparents experiencing greater affective ties with their grandchildren are invested in these ties regardless of family needs. Findings also offer limited evidence for the family watchdog model in that grandparents provide more support to grandchildren when parents incur problems, even though those parents may still provide support
Combining Formal and Informal Caregiving Roles: The Psychosocial Implications of Double- and Triple-Duty Care
Relative to their counterparts without family caregiving roles, women with combined caregiving roles reported poorer psychosocial well-being. Additional research on women with combined caregiving roles, especially triple-duty caregivers, should be a priority amidst an aging population, older workforce, and growing number of working caregivers
Discrepancies in Reports of Support Exchanges Between Aging Parents and Their Middle-Aged Children
These results suggest the importance of considering multiple perspectives and the direction of exchanges between generations. Discrepancies in reports of support reflect both self-enhancement and family context and may be an important source of misunderstanding and conflict between generations
The Caregiver Stress Process and Health Outcomes
These findings demonstrate caregivers' vulnerability to the effects of stressors across three dimensions of health and also underscore the importance of subjective appraisals of stress
Effects of a Caregiver Intervention on Negative Caregiver Appraisals of Behavior Problems in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease: Results of a Randomized Trial
Behavioral problems are among the most challenging aspects of caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease. A sample of 406 spouses-caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease was randomized to an active multicomponent counseling and support intervention condition or to a usual care condition. Caregivers reported on the frequency of troublesome patient behaviors and their reactions to them at baseline and at regular follow-up interviews. Rand…
Predictors of Institutionalization of Cognitively Impaired Elders: Family Help and the Timing of Placement
Although predictors of nursing home placement have attracted a good deal of attention in gerontological research, the type and amount of family assistance offered to caregivers prior to institutionalization has not been extensively examined. This study analyzed the impact of family help on the timing of placement among cognitively impaired care recipients. Using longitudinal data from the Adult Day Care Collaborative Study, an event-history analy…
Capturing Between- and Within-Family Differences in Parental Support to Adult Children: A Typology Approach
Our findings emphasize the need to capture dynamics of support exchanges among multiple offspring at the level of family
Young Adults’ Provision of Support to Middle-Aged Parents
Findings are consistent with solidarity theory, which suggests that high-quality relationships may explain support. The concept of self-enhancement and generativity in middle-aged parents may explain the intergenerational differences in the association between parental disability and support
Effects of Adult Day Care on Daily Stress of Caregivers: A Within-Person Approach
Total exposure to stressors and stress appraisals decreased significantly over time on ADS days compared with non-ADS days. Most of this difference was accounted by the time the person with dementia was away from the caregiver, but there were also significant reductions in behavioral problems during the evening and improved sleep immediately following ADS use. DISCUSSION. ADS use lowered caregivers' exposure to stressors and may improve behavior …
Routine Assistance to Parents: Effects on Daily Mood and Other Stressors
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 Role of Health Congruence in Functional Status and Depression
Few studies have attempted to examine the meaning of health congruence, particularly in the oldest old. Participants were drawn from a longitudinal study of the oldest old (N = 151; M = 90 years). Dichotomized objective health was cross classified with dichotomized subjective health, producing four health congruence groups: good health realists, poor health realists, optimists, and pessimists. Both good health realists and pessimists had good obj…
Family, Bureaucracy, and the Elderly
Late-life paranoid states: Assessment and treatment
Paranoid states are a frequent and often disturbing disorder in the elderly, but treatment potentials are often overlooked. Etiological factors are reviewed, with attention to differential diagnosis. Treatment issues, including the role of a therapeutic relationship, the impact on the person's social network and prognosis, are discussed
Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden
Factors contributing to feelings of burden of caregivers of elderly persons with senile dementia were studied. The amount of burden of caregivers was found to be less when more visits were paid to the dementia patient by other relatives. Severity of behavioral problems was not associated with higher levels of burden. The results suggest the importance of providing support to caregivers as a critical step in the community care of elderly persons w…
Subjective Burden of Husbands and Wives as Caregivers: A Longitudinal Study
Investigated were changes over time for caregivers of dementia patients, with a focus on factors associated with nursing home placement. Caregivers were all spouses, and at the time of the initial interview were caring for the patient at home. Subsequent nursing home placement was more strongly associated with subjective factors, particularly caregivers' perceived burden, than with objective indicators of the severity of dementia. Although wives …
Assessment of behavioral problems in dementia: The Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist.
Functional Impairment and Co-Disability in the Oldest Old: A Multidimensional Approach
Using a multidimensional approach, we explore rates of co-disability in a representative sample of the oldest old living in Sweden. Drawing from census data, 324 subjects ranging in age from 84 to 90 were identified and evaluated for five domains of functioning: sensory, mobility, physical activities of daily living (PADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), and cognitive. Three patterns of functioning were found: (1) a minority of h…
Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career
More and more people are being pressed into service as caregivers for their siblings, parents, or spouses with Alzheimer's Disease or other dementia. With this caregiving role comes added stress and a difficult adjustment period for what begins as a part-time role and can become an unexpected career. Profiles in Caregiving: The Unexpected Career is a practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving, acts as a caregiver, or studie…
Changes in Functional Competency in the Oldest Old: A Longitudinal Study
Changes in everyday functioning and cognitive abilities are studied longitudinally in a representative sample of the oldest old. Respondents were selected by using census records from all people aged 84, 86, 88, and 90 years old living in an area of South Central Sweden, and then were assessed at 2-year intervals. The findings show high base rates for disabilities and high incidence of cognitive and functional deficits among survivors. Mortality …
A Measurement Model of Cortisol Reactivity of Healthy Older Adults
Research on the physiological adaptation process has found that stress is associated with the rate of cortisol secretion, the main hormone that reflects stress. However, considerable variation among subjects has been reported. Using a sample of older adults (N=46), we tested the hypothesis that cortisol reactivity is composed of (1) a situation-related component representing hypothalamic influence on cortisol secretion observed on three different…
Selection Bias in Samples of Older Twins: A Comparison between Octogenarian Twins and Singletons in Sweden
Twin studies are a powerful approach for estimating genetic and environmental influences in later life, but the usual requirement that both twins are alive may introduce a selection bias in gerontological studies relative to representative samples of nontwins. In the present study, samples of older twins and nontwins in Sweden were compared across the domains of vitality, well-being, physical and cognitive functioning, and health utilization to e…
Self-Reports on Memory Functioning in a Longitudinal Study of the Oldest Old: Relation to Current, Prospective, and Retrospective Performance
Self-evaluation of memory performance, one aspect of metamemory, may be an important indicator of concurrent, retrospective, or future decline in memory functioning. The relationships among self-evaluations, cognition, and outcome were investigated in the OCTO study, a longitudinal, population-based panel of the oldest old. Using concurrent data, results indicated that overall cognitive ability, depression, gender, and education were associated w…
Predicting Change in Activities of Daily Living: A Longitudinal Study of the Oldest Old in Sweden
We examined predictors of stability and decline in activities of daily living (ADLs) and mobility in a population-based sample of the oldest old. Respondents were people aged 84 to 90 living in South Central Sweden. Predictors were drawn from three domains: sociodemographic variables, vitality, and physical and psychological health. Using a logistic regression model, we sought to identify variables that were associated with changes in functioning…
Stress Reduction for Family Caregivers: Effects of Adult Day Care Use
These results demonstrate that use of adult day care by caregivers of dementia patients results in lower levels of caregiving-related stress and better psychological well-being when compared to that of controls
Adult day care for dementia: A comparison of programs in Sweden and the United States
How Many Elders Receive Assistance: A Cross-National Comparison
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
Predictors of Institutionalization of Cognitively Impaired Elders: Family Help and the Timing of Placement
Although predictors of nursing home placement have attracted a good deal of attention in gerontological research, the type and amount of family assistance offered to caregivers prior to institutionalization has not been extensively examined. This study analyzed the impact of family help on the timing of placement among cognitively impaired care recipients. Using longitudinal data from the Adult Day Care Collaborative Study, an event-history analy…
Symptoms of Depression in the Oldest Old: A Longitudinal Study
This study examined depressive symptoms in a population-based, longitudinal sample of people aged 80 and older to determine initial prevalence of depressive symptoms and changes over time. Depressive symptomatology was assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale (CES-D). The sample was drawn from the OCTO-Twin study, which examined 702 Swedish twins over age 80 in which both members of the pair were still surviving. For th…
The Disablement Process in Very Late Life: A Study of the Oldest-Old in Sweden
The study examines physical and functional health problems and their relationship to the activity of daily living (ADL) disability experience of a cross-section of Swedish men and women aged over 80 years (N = 203). Using a model of disablement, the relationships among disability variables were simultaneously explored. Results confirmed relatively high rates of disability in this age group, with 36% of respondents having some basic ADL difficulty…
Caregiving as a Dyadic Process: Perspectives From Caregiver and Receiver
Most family caregiving research has relied on the perspective of the caregiver but has not systematically examined the views and opinions of the elder who is receiving care. The present study examined 63 caregiving dyads to determine how the responses of each member had an impact on the well-being of the other member of the dyad. Caregiver relationship strain predicted his or her own depression and negative health, but no significant association …
Give Day Care a Chance To Be Effective: A Commentary
Effects of a Caregiver Intervention on Negative Caregiver Appraisals of Behavior Problems in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease: Results of a Randomized Trial
Behavioral problems are among the most challenging aspects of caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease. A sample of 406 spouses-caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease was randomized to an active multicomponent counseling and support intervention condition or to a usual care condition. Caregivers reported on the frequency of troublesome patient behaviors and their reactions to them at baseline and at regular follow-up interviews. Rand…
The Role of Health Congruence in Functional Status and Depression
Few studies have attempted to examine the meaning of health congruence, particularly in the oldest old. Participants were drawn from a longitudinal study of the oldest old (N = 151; M = 90 years). Dichotomized objective health was cross classified with dichotomized subjective health, producing four health congruence groups: good health realists, poor health realists, optimists, and pessimists. Both good health realists and pessimists had good obj…
Special Issue on Health Inequalities Across the Life Course
T HE articles making up this special issue were originally presented at a conference, ‘‘Health Inequalities Across the Life Course,’’ held at Penn State University in June 2004. The conference was organized by Steve Zarit and Len Pearlin and supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (R13 AG22994). Each of the articles is guided by both a concern with the persistent and systemic inequalities in rates of morbidity and mortality in s…
Life on the Edge: Patterns of Formal and Informal Help to Older Adults in the United States and Sweden
Differences suggest formal services supplement informal support in the United States and that formal and informal services are complementary in Sweden
Mental Disorders in Older Adults, Second Edition: Fundamentals of Assessment and Treatment
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