Eva Kahana
Biographic Data
| ID | 116248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Kahana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahana |
| SIGNATURE | KAHANA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7606-6140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evolving caregiving landscape in rural China: Older adults' experiences of emerging community‐based eldercare in rural Zhejiang Province
Rural China has recently witnessed a disproportionate increase in its aging population. Emerging community‐based eldercare is driving transformation in the caregiving landscape in rural China. This study explores older adults' experiences of community‐based eldercare in rural Zhejiang Province. We employed a descriptive phenomenological approach and conducted face‐to‐face, in‐depth interviews with older adults ( N = 29) and village officials ( N …
Self-reliance first, children's care-giving second: Older adults' experience and conceptualisation of ageing-in-place in rural China
Ageing-in-place has become an internationally favoured policy and practice response to population ageing. However, limited literature has sought to understand this concept from Chinese older adults' perspectives, especially in rural China. The purpose of this study is to explore how older adults in rural China conceptualise ageing-in-place. This study took a qualitative approach by carrying out in-depth interviews with snowball-sampled older adul…
Depressive Symptoms in Later Life in China: Situating “Long Arm” of Child Physical Maltreatment Within a Family Context
Objective: This article intends to reveal the long-term effects of physical maltreatment in childhood on depressive symptoms in later life in China. Methods: Data were drawn from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). 8676 respondents aged 45 and older were included in the study. In this study, we use ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models to estimate the long-term impact on children of physical punishment from their…
Community-dwelling older adults' experiences and perceptions of needs for home modification in Shanghai
Home environment is essential to older adults. While existing studies have investigated the positive implications of home modification strategies for older adults and proposed relevant policies and programmes, literature has remained relatively silent on how older adults perceive their needs for their home environment and its modification, especially during and after they go through home modification projects. This study investigated community-dw…
The Effects of Osteoarthritis on Depressive Symptomatology Among Older U.S. Military Veterans
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of disability among older adults. By 2050, approximately 60 million will suffer from arthritis adding up to a total societal cost of $65 billion. Chronic illnesses resulting in pain, and functional decline have been associated with depression in previous studies. A causal model was developed and tested using structural equation modeling that examined depression scores of 503 older (age 50-85), male Veterans …
The intersection of race and financial strain: The pain of social disconnection among women in the United States
Objectives: Considerable attention has been directed at increased social isolation and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on later-life psychological well-being. There is a dearth of research on the effect of financial strain and associated psychosocial mechanisms on loneliness among women across racial groups. It is unclear how racial status and financial strain intersect to impact later-life loneliness amid immense uncerta…
Modeling the impact of financial hardship and age on self-rated health and depressive symptoms pre/post the great recession
Stressful life events such as a recession, could be devastating on a macro and micro level. Although there have been a number of articles written examining the health effects of the recession, little is known about age differences in the relationship between financial stressors and health pre and post the 2008 recession. Using the Health and Retirement study, we investigated the relationship between two forms of financial hardships, mental and ph…
Depressive symptoms among elderly men and women who transition to widowhood: Comparisons with long term married and long term widowed over a 10-year period
This study explores gender differences in mental health sequelae of transition to widowhood among old-old retirement community dwellers. Data are based on a prospective panel survey of 748 older adults (mean age = 78) with follow-ups over a 10-year period. Mixed-effects models suggest that elderly widows and widowers experienced sharp increases of depressive symptoms subsequent to spousal loss. Men showed stable increases of depressive symptoms a…
Mortgage delinquency, foreclosure, and cognition in later life
The rapid growth in housing insecurity among older adults is a major public health concern. While there is evidence that stress contributes to poor health, the relationship between housing-related financial stressors and cognitive functioning is relatively unknown. We investigated the association between the personal experiences of mortgage delinquency and foreclosure and cognition and its sub-components of episodic memory and mental status among…
Driving Cessation in Old Age: Gender Influences on Mortality
Objective: This study examined health and social support as mediators of the association between driving cessation and 10-year mortality among older men and older women. Method: Data were drawn from a prospective panel survey of 1000 community-dwelling older adults with follow-ups over a 10-year period. Extended Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to estimate the relative risk of driving cessation on mortality. Results: Mortality …
Productive Activity Patterns and Functional Health: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Chinese Older Adults
This study examines the association between productive activity patterns and functional health trajectories of Chinese older adults and whether this association varies by urban/rural residence. Using three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study from a sample of 7,503 older adults, we first performed latent class analysis (LCA) to identify productive activity patterns based on four activities (work, caregiving, informal help, …
Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later-Life Psychological Well-being
Our findings underscore the powerful influence of both receiving and giving loving emotions for the maintenance of later-life psychological well-being
Racial differences in future care planning in late life
Objectives: Although many older adults fear frailty and loss of independence in late life, relatively few make plans for their future care. Such planning is particularly limited among racial minorities. Given the benefits of future care planning (FCP), it is important to understand factors that facilitate or hamper FCP in late life. Our study explored racial, demographic, and dispositional influences on thinking about and engagement in FCP among …
Gendered “Long Arm” of Parental Education? Life Course Influences on Later Life Functional Limitations in India
Objective: We adopt a novel approach to mediation analysis to account for interrelated life course social processes that constitute later life health disparities. We examine gender-specific direct effect of parental education on functional limitations in later life. Method: Based on the first wave (2007-2010; n = 7,150) of the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), we estimate both (natural) direct and indirect effects of parental educat…
Early Origins of Later Life Psychological Well-Being? A Novel Application of Causal Mediation Analysis to Life Course Research
Contrary to prior literature, we found no positive direct influence of parental education on later life psychological well-being, but established its influence through socioeconomic positioning over the life course
Mealtime Interactions and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in Shanghai
Findings support the activity-theory-based hypothesis that mealtime interactions are related to older adults' life satisfaction independent of the number of tablemates. This study illuminates the value of social interactions in the context of community dining programs for the rapidly increasing older population in urban China
Defining Successful Aging: A Tangible or Elusive Concept?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Everyone wants to age successfully; however, the definition and criteria of successful aging remain vague for laypersons, researchers, and policymakers in spite of decades of research on the topic. This paper highlights work of scholars who made significant theoretical contributions to the topic. DESIGN AND METHODS: A thorough review and evaluation of the literature on successful aging was undertaken. RESULTS: Our review inc…
Childhood Autism and Proactive Family Coping: Intergenerational Perspectives
This article considers the value of intergenerational and specifically, grandparental support, in the management of adaptive tasks posed by raising a young child with autism. The tasks addressed range from accessing early intervention to enhancing family social functioning. We note unique social, financial, and health-related stressors faced by families of children with autism. We outline an innovative, stress theory-based framework, the Autism P…
Baby Boomers' Expectations of Health and Medicine
In the early 2010s, the first cadre of baby boomers, born after World War II, turned 65, making them officially senior citizens, and many more are joining their ranks every day. It is generally acknowledged that the entry of the baby boomers into the ranks of elderly consumers of health care is likely to create major challenges. As large numbers of baby boomers cross into old age, there will be greater demands for chronic health care and for meet…
Self-Regulatory Driving Behaviors: Gender and Transportation Support Effects
This study examined the relationship between transportation support and self-regulatory driving behaviors of 566 community-dwelling older adults living in retirement communities, with a focus on gender differences. The results of logistic regression analysis showed that older women were more likely to avoid driving at night or on the highway than their male counterparts. Transportation support from peer friends was found to increase the likelihoo…
Altruism, Helping, and Volunteering: Pathways to Well-Being in Late Life
Our findings underscore the value of altruistic attitudes as important additional predictors, along with prosocial behaviors in fostering life satisfaction and positive affect in old age
Residential Relocation of Amenity Migrants to Florida: “Unpacking” Post-amenity Moves
Findings of this study not only support Litwak and Longino's migration typology but also elaborate and extend it. Only some older adults (20.4%) make counterstream assistance moves. Additional move types reflect new options for late-life migration to enhance person- environment fit
With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in a Sample of Community-Dwelling Elderly People
OBJECTIVE: To use a joint modeling approach to examine the association between longitudinal changes in depressive symptoms and mortality. Research on the relationship of depression to mortality has yielded mixed results. Limitations of previous studies include mostly one-time assessment of depression, short follow-ups, and failure to model appropriately changes in depression. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Florida Retirement Study, a prospe…
Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults
The goal of this study was to examine stress-ameliorating effects of religiosity, spirituality, and healthy lifestyle behaviors on the stressful relationship of chronic illness and the subjective physical well-being of 221 older adults. We also investigated whether the intervening variables functioned as coping behaviors and orientations or as adaptations in late life. Guided by the stress paradigm, path analysis was used to assess these relation…
Altruism, Helping, and Volunteering: Pathways to Well-Being in Late Life
Our findings underscore the value of altruistic attitudes as important additional predictors, along with prosocial behaviors in fostering life satisfaction and positive affect in old age
Grandparenthood from the perspective of the developing grandchild
Early Origins of Later Life Psychological Well-Being? A Novel Application of Causal Mediation Analysis to Life Course Research
Contrary to prior literature, we found no positive direct influence of parental education on later life psychological well-being, but established its influence through socioeconomic positioning over the life course
When Do Older Adults Become 'Disabled'? Social and Health Antecedents of Perceived Disability in a Panel Study of the Oldest Old
Disability carries negative social meaning, and little is known about when (or if), in the process of health decline, persons identify themselves as 'disabled.' We examine the social and health criteria that older adults use to subjectively rate their own disability status. Using a panel study of older adults (ages 72+), we estimate ordered probit and growth curve models of perceived disability over time. Total prevalent morbidity, functional lim…
Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later-Life Psychological Well-being
Our findings underscore the powerful influence of both receiving and giving loving emotions for the maintenance of later-life psychological well-being
Unending Work and Care: Managing Chronic Illness at Home
Unlicensed board and care homes: An extra-familial living arrangement for the elderly
Residential Relocation of Amenity Migrants to Florida: “Unpacking” Post-amenity Moves
Findings of this study not only support Litwak and Longino's migration typology but also elaborate and extend it. Only some older adults (20.4%) make counterstream assistance moves. Additional move types reflect new options for late-life migration to enhance person- environment fit
Age, Medical Advice about Cardiac Risk Reduction, and Patient Compliance
This study investigated the physician's role in proffering appropriate medical advice to aged patients and the patient's role in complying with that advice. Heart disease, which takes a major health toll among the aged but is amenable to risk reduction practices, exemplifies a condition that offers physicians the opportunity to play an important health promotion role. The advice given by physicians to 246 heart patients and their compliance with …
Clinical Issues of Middle Age and Later Life
Mental health problems of middle and late life are the focus of this article. Among topics discussed are adjustment reactions to mid-life, late-life transitions, and stressful life events. Emerging mental health problems during this period are considered as a function of increased stress that is not mediated by social supports or effective strategies in coping. Sex differences in adjustive tasks during mid-life and the later years are presented. …
Social Context and Personal Need: A Study of Polish and Jewish Aged
The material history of a study of ethnic aged in their neighborhood context is described. As part of a larger study on service needs of older persons in a predominantly Polish and in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, interviews were conducted with 402 older persons. Special problems and pitfalls to be dealt with in studying ethnic aged are discussed in terms of gaining access to respondents, instrumentation, and in terms of interpretation of …
Self-reliance first, children's care-giving second: Older adults' experience and conceptualisation of ageing-in-place in rural China
Ageing-in-place has become an internationally favoured policy and practice response to population ageing. However, limited literature has sought to understand this concept from Chinese older adults' perspectives, especially in rural China. The purpose of this study is to explore how older adults in rural China conceptualise ageing-in-place. This study took a qualitative approach by carrying out in-depth interviews with snowball-sampled older adul…
Racial differences in future care planning in late life
Objectives: Although many older adults fear frailty and loss of independence in late life, relatively few make plans for their future care. Such planning is particularly limited among racial minorities. Given the benefits of future care planning (FCP), it is important to understand factors that facilitate or hamper FCP in late life. Our study explored racial, demographic, and dispositional influences on thinking about and engagement in FCP among …
Childhood Autism and Proactive Family Coping: Intergenerational Perspectives
This article considers the value of intergenerational and specifically, grandparental support, in the management of adaptive tasks posed by raising a young child with autism. The tasks addressed range from accessing early intervention to enhancing family social functioning. We note unique social, financial, and health-related stressors faced by families of children with autism. We outline an innovative, stress theory-based framework, the Autism P…
With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland
Forced Disruption in Continuity of Primary Care: The Patients' Perspective
This investigation examines patients' experiences when policy changes of a managed care system require them to change health care providers. Continuity of care has been recognized as a major cornerstone of the ideal physician I patient relationship, particularly as it applies to primary care (Ware and Snyder 1975; Gonnella and Herman 1980; Weiss, Ramsey and McWhinney 1982; Weiss and Ramsey 1989; Hjortdahl and Laerum 1992; Emanuel and Dubler 1995)…
Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family
This volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators. the authors provide a fresh, historically balanced, empirical and theoretical framework for the view that elder abuse and neglect is an extr…
Beyond dependency, autonomy, and exchange: Prosocial behavior in late-life adaptation
Grandparenthood from the perspective of the developing grandchild
Attitudes of Young Men and Women toward Awareness of Death
It has often been argued that American society denies death (Feifel, 1963; Gorer, 1965) as a strategy of dealing with a universal fear of death. The present investigation attempted to determine to what extent young men and women employ this technique in confronting the problems of imminent and distant death, and what attitudinal variables differentiate those confronting and those denying the potential existence of death. Parsons' (1963) notion th…
Social Context and Personal Need: A Study of Polish and Jewish Aged
The material history of a study of ethnic aged in their neighborhood context is described. As part of a larger study on service needs of older persons in a predominantly Polish and in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, interviews were conducted with 402 older persons. Special problems and pitfalls to be dealt with in studying ethnic aged are discussed in terms of gaining access to respondents, instrumentation, and in terms of interpretation of …
Clinical Issues of Middle Age and Later Life
Mental health problems of middle and late life are the focus of this article. Among topics discussed are adjustment reactions to mid-life, late-life transitions, and stressful life events. Emerging mental health problems during this period are considered as a function of increased stress that is not mediated by social supports or effective strategies in coping. Sex differences in adjustive tasks during mid-life and the later years are presented. …
The Effects of the Holocaust: Psychiatric, Behavioral, and Survivor Perspectives
In this paper the authors review perspectives related to Holocaust victims, limitations of Holocaust studies are discussed, and suggestions for viewing the long-range post-traumatic effects of the Holocaust upon its victims from social and behavioral science perspectives are advanced. The views of survivors toward post-war adjustment, drawn from interviews with Holocaust victims, are also presented
The Mind and Mood of Aging: Mental Health Problems of the Community Elderly in New York and London
In-depth reports of an international study devoted to the comparative needs and care of community elderly in two English-speaking countries
Motivators, resources and barriers in voluntary international migration of the elderly: The case of Israel-bound aged
Unlicensed board and care homes: An extra-familial living arrangement for the elderly
Beyond dependency, autonomy, and exchange: Prosocial behavior in late-life adaptation
Age, Medical Advice about Cardiac Risk Reduction, and Patient Compliance
This study investigated the physician's role in proffering appropriate medical advice to aged patients and the patient's role in complying with that advice. Heart disease, which takes a major health toll among the aged but is amenable to risk reduction practices, exemplifies a condition that offers physicians the opportunity to play an important health promotion role. The advice given by physicians to 246 heart patients and their compliance with …
Unending Work and Care: Managing Chronic Illness at Home
Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family
This volume presents important findings on conflict and abuse in families of the aged. A valuable resource for those in sociology, psychology, gerontology, and social work as well as psychotherapists who work with the aged, the staff of elder abuse programs, adult protective service workers, and legislators. the authors provide a fresh, historically balanced, empirical and theoretical framework for the view that elder abuse and neglect is an extr…
Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan
Predictors of Attitudes toward Three Target Groups of Elderly Persons: The Well, the Physically Ill, and Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
This research compared attitudes of 143 nursing home employees toward three hypothetical target groups of older adults: well elderly persons, physically ill elderly persons, and elderly persons with Alzheimer's disease. Staff provided successively less positive evaluations of physically ill elderly persons and elderly persons with Alzheimer's disease compared to well elderly persons. Age, education, and contact with grandparents differentially pr…
Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan
Introduction - Eva Kahana, David E Biegel, and May L Wykle PART ONE: PARADIGMS FOR CAREGIVING Developmental Challenges and Family Caregiving - Eva Kahana et al Bridging Concepts and Research Someone to Watch Over Me - Joan Aldous Family Responsibilities and Their Realization Across Family Lives Altruism Through the Life Course - Elizabeth Midlarsky Optimal Use of Formal and Informal Systems Over the Life Course - Eugene Litwak, Dorothy Jones Jess…
Forced Disruption in Continuity of Primary Care: The Patients' Perspective
This investigation examines patients' experiences when policy changes of a managed care system require them to change health care providers. Continuity of care has been recognized as a major cornerstone of the ideal physician I patient relationship, particularly as it applies to primary care (Ware and Snyder 1975; Gonnella and Herman 1980; Weiss, Ramsey and McWhinney 1982; Weiss and Ramsey 1989; Hjortdahl and Laerum 1992; Emanuel and Dubler 1995)…
Long-Term Impact of Preventive Proactivity on Quality of Life of the Old-Old
OBJECTIVE: This research explored the long-term benefits of engaging in proactive health promotion efforts among old-old residents of Sunbelt retirement communities to empirically test components of the Preventive and Corrective Proactivity (PCP) Model of Successful Aging. Specifically, we examined the contributions of exercise, tobacco use, moderate alcohol use, and annual medical checkups to multidimensional quality of life indicators of physic…
Person, Environment, and Person-Environment Fit as Influences on Residential Satisfaction of Elders
This article extends previous conceptualizations of person-environment fit from institutional to community settings, focusing on neighborhoods. The authors consider applicability of the congruence construct for understanding the impact of neighborhoods, including dwelling units, on older persons' residential satisfaction. They argue that characteristics of person, environment, and person-environment fit are important for determining residential s…
Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults
The goal of this study was to examine stress-ameliorating effects of religiosity, spirituality, and healthy lifestyle behaviors on the stressful relationship of chronic illness and the subjective physical well-being of 221 older adults. We also investigated whether the intervening variables functioned as coping behaviors and orientations or as adaptations in late life. Guided by the stress paradigm, path analysis was used to assess these relation…
When Do Older Adults Become 'Disabled'? Social and Health Antecedents of Perceived Disability in a Panel Study of the Oldest Old
Disability carries negative social meaning, and little is known about when (or if), in the process of health decline, persons identify themselves as 'disabled.' We examine the social and health criteria that older adults use to subjectively rate their own disability status. Using a panel study of older adults (ages 72+), we estimate ordered probit and growth curve models of perceived disability over time. Total prevalent morbidity, functional lim…
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in a Sample of Community-Dwelling Elderly People
OBJECTIVE: To use a joint modeling approach to examine the association between longitudinal changes in depressive symptoms and mortality. Research on the relationship of depression to mortality has yielded mixed results. Limitations of previous studies include mostly one-time assessment of depression, short follow-ups, and failure to model appropriately changes in depression. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Florida Retirement Study, a prospe…
Residential Relocation of Amenity Migrants to Florida: “Unpacking” Post-amenity Moves
Findings of this study not only support Litwak and Longino's migration typology but also elaborate and extend it. Only some older adults (20.4%) make counterstream assistance moves. Additional move types reflect new options for late-life migration to enhance person- environment fit
With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson's Disease in America's Heartland
Self-Regulatory Driving Behaviors: Gender and Transportation Support Effects
This study examined the relationship between transportation support and self-regulatory driving behaviors of 566 community-dwelling older adults living in retirement communities, with a focus on gender differences. The results of logistic regression analysis showed that older women were more likely to avoid driving at night or on the highway than their male counterparts. Transportation support from peer friends was found to increase the likelihoo…
Altruism, Helping, and Volunteering: Pathways to Well-Being in Late Life
Our findings underscore the value of altruistic attitudes as important additional predictors, along with prosocial behaviors in fostering life satisfaction and positive affect in old age
Psychology (41 works) · Medicine (30 works) · Gerontology (22 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (17 works) · Psychiatry (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gerontology (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works)