Kathleen A Cagney
Biographic Data
| ID | 164134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen A Cagney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cagney |
| SIGNATURE | CAGNEY K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 960 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The built environment and momentary loneliness among older adults: Evidence from the Chicago Health and Activity in Real-Time (CHART) study
Examining Longitudinal Relationships between Social Support and Strain in Relationships with Children and Older Adults' Cognitive Functioning
Relationships with children are often highly salient to older adults and can be characterized by both social support and strain. Although research suggests that social support and strain are linked to older adults' cognitive functioning, few studies have considered reciprocal effects or examined potential explanatory mechanisms. This study uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 7,639) to examine longitudinal, bidirectional relationsh…
Keeping us young? Grandchild caregiving and older adults' cognitive functioning
Objective: This study investigates longitudinal associations between providing care to grandchildren and cognitive functioning. It also examines heterogeneity in these relationships. Background: Grandchild caregiving may support older adults' cognitive functioning by providing social engagement and emotional meaning. However, studies caution that time- intensive or custodial grandchild caregiving can take a toll on grandparents. The cognitive hea…
Exposure of Neighborhood Racial and Socio-Economic Composition in Activity Space: A New Approach Adjusting for Residential Conditions
A longstanding urban sociological literature emphasizes the geographic isolation of city dwellers in residence and everyday routines, expecting exposures to neighborhood racial and socio-economic structure driven principally by city-wide segregation and the role of proximity and homophily in mobility. The compelled mobility approach emphasizes the uneven distribution of organizational and institutional resources across urban space, expecting resi…
Under Different Roofs? Coresidence With Adult Children and Parents' Mental Health Across Race and Ethnicity Over Two Decades
Many U.S. parents share a household with an adult child in later life. However, the reasons parents and adult children coreside may vary over time and across family race/ethnicity, shaping relationships with parents' mental health. Using the Health and Retirement Study, this study investigates the determinants and mental health correlates of coresidence with adult children from 1998 to 2018 among White, Black, and Hispanic parents under age 65 an…
Resilience and Social Support-Giving Scales: Conceptual and Empirical Validation
The resilience and social support-giving measures have acceptable psychometric characteristics (with the exception of spousal support-giving), convergent validity, and predictive utility net of related variables. NSHAP data users are offered several suggestions (key points) in the use of these measures in future research
Novel Insights From Interviewer Assessments of Personal Attributes, Home Environment, and Residential Context in NSHAP
Interviewer assessments collected in NSHAP are useful as proxy measures and can be used in combination with respondent's reports and ecological measures to generate insights into healthy aging
Momentary loneliness among older adults: Contextual differences and their moderation by gender and race/ethnicity
The Foreclosure Crisis, Community Change, and the Cognitive Health of Older Adults
This study shows that the adverse consequences of home foreclosures spill over to the local community, with implications for the cognitive health of older adults
Making Sense of Sensor Data: How Local Environmental Conditions Add Value to Social Science Research
Recent advances in computing technologies have enabled the development of low-cost, compact weather and air quality monitors. The U.S. federally funded Array of Things (AoT) project has deployed more than 140 such sensor nodes throughout the City of Chicago. This paper combines a year's worth of AoT sensor data with household data collected from 450 elderly Chicagoans in order to explore the feasibility of using previously unavailable data on loc…
Urban Mobility and Activity Space
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place in urban social life. This review defines the concept of activity space, describes its origins in urban sociology, and examines the extent to which activity space approaches advance sociological research in four substantive domains-spatial inequality and segregation, s…
Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Access to High-Quality Dialysis Treatment in Chicago: Does Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition Matter
Crime, Perceived Danger, and Adiposity: The Role of Gender
Objectives: We examine whether police-reported crime is associated with adiposity and examine to what extent the association between crime and adiposity is explained by perceived neighborhood danger with a particular focus on gender differences. Method: Data are drawn from the wave of 2010-2011 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project merged with information on neighborhood social environment and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime…
The Role of Primary Care for the Oral Health of Rural and Urban Older Adults
CONTEXT: Rural populations often have restricted access to dental care and poor oral health. These problems may disproportionately affect older blacks in rural areas. Little is known about how access to primary health care may improve the oral health of rural seniors. PURPOSE: This study examines whether the relationship between having a usual source of health care and oral health varies for white and black older adults in rural and urban areas i…
Spatial Context and Health Inequity: Reconfiguring Race, Place, and Poverty
Disablement in Context: Neighborhood Characteristics and Their Association With Frailty Onset Among Older Adults
For older adults, both neighborhood structural and social process characteristics appear to be independently associated with frailty
Aging in Activity Space: Results From Smartphone-Based GPS-Tracking of Urban Seniors
Measuring activity space, rather than relying on residential tracts, allows examination of the social environments that are relevant for older adults' everyday lives. Variation in characteristics of activity spaces may be an underexplored source of differences in health and well-being during later life
Health: Neighborhood Disadvantage
Although health is often seen as a product of individual or microlevel determinants, researchers are increasingly recognizing the role of neighborhood context in influencing a broad range of health outcomes. The concept of “neighborhood” typically refers to a geographically contained residential space the boundaries of which may be defined ecologically (e.g., major streets or railroad tracks), administratively (e.g., census tracts), socially (e.g…
Neighborhood age structure and cognitive function in a nationally-representative sample of older adults in the U.S
Racial Differences in the Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Residential Mobility in Later Life
Neighborhood disadvantage may promote local mobility by undermining person-environment fit. Racial differences in access to better neighborhoods persist in later life. Future research should explore how older adults optimize person-environment fit in the face of neighborhood disadvantage when the possibility of relocation to a better neighborhood may be restricted
Religious Influence on Older Americans’ Sexual Lives: A Nationally-Representative Profile
Constructing a Time-Invariant Measure of the Socio-economic Status of U.S. Census Tracts
Do Local Social Hierarchies Matter for Mental Health? A Study of Neighborhood Social Status and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
These findings suggest that an older adult's relative position in a local social hierarchy is associated with his/her mental health, net of absolute position
Missing Data in Wave 2 of NSHAP: Prevalence, Predictors, and Recommended Treatment
Multiple imputation is recommended to handle unit- and item-level missingness and can be readily and flexibly conducted with multiple imputation by chained equations, inverse probability weighting, and in some instances, full-information maximum-likelihood methods
Assessment of Neighborhood Context in a Nationally Representative Study
The inclusion of neighborhood context measures in the second wave of NSHAP provides a unique opportunity to explore associations among neighborhood context, social connectedness, and indicators of health and function among older adults. We discuss limitations of the measures and provide recommendations for their use
Poverty, affluence, and income inequality: Neighborhood Economic Structure and Its Implications for Health
Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Self-Rated Physical Health in an Urban Setting
Our analyses examine the role neighborhood structural characteristics--including concentrated disadvantage, residential instability, and immigrant concentration--as well as collective efficacy in promoting physical health among neighborhood residents. Using data from the 1990 census, the 1994 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Community Survey, and the 1991-2000 Metropolitan Chicago Information Center-Metro Survey, we model the…
Urban Mobility and Activity Space
Recent theoretical and methodological advances in urban sociology, including spatially located data, provide new opportunities to consider the joint influence of mobility and place in urban social life. This review defines the concept of activity space, describes its origins in urban sociology, and examines the extent to which activity space approaches advance sociological research in four substantive domains-spatial inequality and segregation, s…
Moving beyond Poverty: Neighborhood Structure, Social Processes, and Health
We investigate the impact of neighborhood structural characteristics, social organization, and culture on self-rated health in a large, cross-sectional sample of urban adults. Findings indicate that neighborhood affluence is a more powerful predictor of health status than poverty, above and beyond individual demographic background, socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and insurance coverage. Moreover, neighborhood affluence and residential sta…
Neighborhood Social Processes, Physical Conditions, and Disaster-Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
The authors draw on Klinenberg's (2002) ethnography and recent neighborhood theory to explain community-level variation in mortality during the July 1995 Chicago heat wave. They examine the impact of neighborhood structural disadvantage on heat wave mortality and consider three possible intervening mechanisms: social network interaction, collective efficacy, and commercial conditions. Combining Census and mortality data with the 1995 Project on H…
Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health at Older Ages: What Difference Does the Neighborhood Make
Analyses incorporating individual and neighborhood-level contextual indicators may further our understanding of the complex association between sociodemographic factors and health
Neighborhood-Level Cohesion and Disorder: Measurement and Validation in Two Older Adult Urban Populations
Findings provide initial evidence of the reliability and construct validity of these neighborhood-level social process measures
Education, Wealth, and Cognitive Function in Later Life
Population-based studies of health often use education as the sole indicator of socioeconomic status (SES); the independent contributions of education and other SES covariates are rarely delineated. Using Wave 1 of the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old study, the authors examined the extent to which educational attainment influences performance on three separate domains of cognitive status by race and Latino ethnicity and introduced …
Effect of specific aspects of community social environment on the mortality of Individuals diagnosed with serious illness
The Latino Paradox in Neighborhood Context: The Case of Asthma and Other Respiratory Conditions
Objectives. Evidence indicates that foreign-born Latinos have a health advantage compared with US-born persons of the same socioeconomic status. An explanation for this paradox has remained elusive. We examined the extent to which this paradox exists for the prevalence of asthma and other respiratory conditions. We then explored the role of neighborhood social context in understanding any observed advantage. We invoked theories of social organiza…
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Disorder in Relation to Walking in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Multilevel Analysis
Objectives. To examine the role of neighborhood social conditions and walking in community-dwelling older adults. Methods. A multi-level analysis of data from 4,317 older adults (mean age = 74.5; 73% black) from a geographically-defined urban community. Participants completed structured interviews including 14 questions on neighborhood conditions and self-reported walking. The neighborhood questions were summarized into individual-level measures …
Explaining variation in health status across space and time: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Self-Rated Health
Aging in Activity Space: Results From Smartphone-Based GPS-Tracking of Urban Seniors
Measuring activity space, rather than relying on residential tracts, allows examination of the social environments that are relevant for older adults' everyday lives. Variation in characteristics of activity spaces may be an underexplored source of differences in health and well-being during later life
Neighborhood stressors and cardiovascular health: Crime and C-reactive protein in Dallas, USA
Assessment of Neighborhood Context in a Nationally Representative Study
The inclusion of neighborhood context measures in the second wave of NSHAP provides a unique opportunity to explore associations among neighborhood context, social connectedness, and indicators of health and function among older adults. We discuss limitations of the measures and provide recommendations for their use
Neighborhood Age Structure and its Implications for Health
Momentary loneliness among older adults: Contextual differences and their moderation by gender and race/ethnicity
Missing Data in Wave 2 of NSHAP: Prevalence, Predictors, and Recommended Treatment
Multiple imputation is recommended to handle unit- and item-level missingness and can be readily and flexibly conducted with multiple imputation by chained equations, inverse probability weighting, and in some instances, full-information maximum-likelihood methods
The Onset of Depression During the Great Recession: Foreclosure and Older Adult Mental Health
Objectives. We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. Methods. We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005–2006 and 2010–2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code–level foreclosure rates, and predicted the onset of depressive symptoms using logit-linked regression. Results. Multiple stages of t…
Proximity Does Not Equal Access: Racial Disparities in Access to High Quality Dialysis Facilities
A Vision for Progress in Community Health Partnerships
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an increasingly used approach for conducting research to improve community health. Using Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory as a framework, it follows that future adoption of CBPR will occur if academic and community partners perceive CBPR to have greater relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, and observability, and less complexity than other research approaches. We propose that arti…
Racial Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: The Mediating Effects of Family Structure and Social Class
Contrary to expectations, Black elders are not counterbalancing their lower rate of SNF use with a higher rate of home health use. This suggests that there are differences in need, preference, or access that are yet to be identified. Future research should consider the relationship between family structure and informal caregiving, variation in physician referral patterns by race, and the availability of long-term care in traditionally African Ame…
Under Different Roofs? Coresidence With Adult Children and Parents' Mental Health Across Race and Ethnicity Over Two Decades
Many U.S. parents share a household with an adult child in later life. However, the reasons parents and adult children coreside may vary over time and across family race/ethnicity, shaping relationships with parents' mental health. Using the Health and Retirement Study, this study investigates the determinants and mental health correlates of coresidence with adult children from 1998 to 2018 among White, Black, and Hispanic parents under age 65 an…
Spatial Context and Health Inequity: Reconfiguring Race, Place, and Poverty
Neighbourhood Deprivation, Social Capital and Regular Exercise during Adulthood: A Multilevel Study in Chicago
This multilevel research examines the contextual effects of neighbourhood SES and social capital indicators on physical activity over and above individual socio-demographic background. Using 1990 census data and two social surveys, the hypotheses are tested among 907 Chicagoans in 242 neighbourhoods in 1996. Significant interaction effects are found with gender and both neighbourhood SES and social capital; women's physical activity level is more…
Barriers to follow‐up of abnormal screening mammograms among low‐income minority women
These preliminary results suggest that follow-up of low income, minority women with abnormal screening mammograms could be enhanced by improved communication of results. Future studies should extend these findings with larger samples and in other settings and populations
The costs and effects of cervical and breast cancer screening in a public hospital emergency room. The Cancer Control Center of Harlem
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of cervix and breast cancer screening in a public hospital emergency room. METHODS: Age-eligible women with nonurgent conditions and without recent screening were offered screening by a nurse. A decision analysis compared the costs and outcomes of emergency room screening and standard hospital screening efforts. RESULTS: The undiscounted cost-effectiveness results for establishing new program…
Racial Differences in Skilled Nursing Care and Home Health Use: The Mediating Effects of Family Structure and Social Class
Contrary to expectations, Black elders are not counterbalancing their lower rate of SNF use with a higher rate of home health use. This suggests that there are differences in need, preference, or access that are yet to be identified. Future research should consider the relationship between family structure and informal caregiving, variation in physician referral patterns by race, and the availability of long-term care in traditionally African Ame…
Education, Wealth, and Cognitive Function in Later Life
Population-based studies of health often use education as the sole indicator of socioeconomic status (SES); the independent contributions of education and other SES covariates are rarely delineated. Using Wave 1 of the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old study, the authors examined the extent to which educational attainment influences performance on three separate domains of cognitive status by race and Latino ethnicity and introduced …
Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Self-Rated Physical Health in an Urban Setting
Our analyses examine the role neighborhood structural characteristics--including concentrated disadvantage, residential instability, and immigrant concentration--as well as collective efficacy in promoting physical health among neighborhood residents. Using data from the 1990 census, the 1994 Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Community Survey, and the 1991-2000 Metropolitan Chicago Information Center-Metro Survey, we model the…
Explaining variation in health status across space and time: Implications for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Self-Rated Health
Poverty, affluence, and income inequality: Neighborhood Economic Structure and Its Implications for Health
Moving beyond Poverty: Neighborhood Structure, Social Processes, and Health
We investigate the impact of neighborhood structural characteristics, social organization, and culture on self-rated health in a large, cross-sectional sample of urban adults. Findings indicate that neighborhood affluence is a more powerful predictor of health status than poverty, above and beyond individual demographic background, socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and insurance coverage. Moreover, neighborhood affluence and residential sta…
Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health at Older Ages: What Difference Does the Neighborhood Make
Analyses incorporating individual and neighborhood-level contextual indicators may further our understanding of the complex association between sociodemographic factors and health
Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health at Older Ages and the Dangers of Obfuscating Neighborhood Effects Research
WE THANK Prof. Golant for his comments concerning our work. Our aims in this brief response are to (a) discuss the role of omitted individual-level measures, particularly related to psychological indices; (b) address concerns about the sophistication of neighborhood-level measures; and (c) review the relevance of these comments for racial disparities in health. To reorient the reader, our article is about racial differences in self-rated health a…
Racial Differences in Formal Long-Term Care: Does the Timing of Parenthood Play a Role
Differential effects of teen childbearing across race groups indicate differential vulnerability to LTC needs among early parents
Effect of specific aspects of community social environment on the mortality of Individuals diagnosed with serious illness
Neighborhood Age Structure and its Implications for Health
Neighborhood Social Processes, Physical Conditions, and Disaster-Related Mortality: The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
The authors draw on Klinenberg's (2002) ethnography and recent neighborhood theory to explain community-level variation in mortality during the July 1995 Chicago heat wave. They examine the impact of neighborhood structural disadvantage on heat wave mortality and consider three possible intervening mechanisms: social network interaction, collective efficacy, and commercial conditions. Combining Census and mortality data with the 1995 Project on H…
A Vision for Progress in Community Health Partnerships
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an increasingly used approach for conducting research to improve community health. Using Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory as a framework, it follows that future adoption of CBPR will occur if academic and community partners perceive CBPR to have greater relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, and observability, and less complexity than other research approaches. We propose that arti…
The Latino Paradox in Neighborhood Context: The Case of Asthma and Other Respiratory Conditions
Objectives. Evidence indicates that foreign-born Latinos have a health advantage compared with US-born persons of the same socioeconomic status. An explanation for this paradox has remained elusive. We examined the extent to which this paradox exists for the prevalence of asthma and other respiratory conditions. We then explored the role of neighborhood social context in understanding any observed advantage. We invoked theories of social organiza…
Neighbourhood Deprivation, Social Capital and Regular Exercise during Adulthood: A Multilevel Study in Chicago
This multilevel research examines the contextual effects of neighbourhood SES and social capital indicators on physical activity over and above individual socio-demographic background. Using 1990 census data and two social surveys, the hypotheses are tested among 907 Chicagoans in 242 neighbourhoods in 1996. Significant interaction effects are found with gender and both neighbourhood SES and social capital; women's physical activity level is more…
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Disorder in Relation to Walking in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Multilevel Analysis
Objectives. To examine the role of neighborhood social conditions and walking in community-dwelling older adults. Methods. A multi-level analysis of data from 4,317 older adults (mean age = 74.5; 73% black) from a geographically-defined urban community. Participants completed structured interviews including 14 questions on neighborhood conditions and self-reported walking. The neighborhood questions were summarized into individual-level measures …
Neighborhood-Level Cohesion and Disorder: Measurement and Validation in Two Older Adult Urban Populations
Findings provide initial evidence of the reliability and construct validity of these neighborhood-level social process measures
Neighborhood stressors and cardiovascular health: Crime and C-reactive protein in Dallas, USA
Missing Data in Wave 2 of NSHAP: Prevalence, Predictors, and Recommended Treatment
Multiple imputation is recommended to handle unit- and item-level missingness and can be readily and flexibly conducted with multiple imputation by chained equations, inverse probability weighting, and in some instances, full-information maximum-likelihood methods
Assessment of Neighborhood Context in a Nationally Representative Study
The inclusion of neighborhood context measures in the second wave of NSHAP provides a unique opportunity to explore associations among neighborhood context, social connectedness, and indicators of health and function among older adults. We discuss limitations of the measures and provide recommendations for their use
The Onset of Depression During the Great Recession: Foreclosure and Older Adult Mental Health
Objectives. We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. Methods. We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005–2006 and 2010–2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code–level foreclosure rates, and predicted the onset of depressive symptoms using logit-linked regression. Results. Multiple stages of t…
Proximity Does Not Equal Access: Racial Disparities in Access to High Quality Dialysis Facilities
Constructing a Time-Invariant Measure of the Socio-economic Status of U.S. Census Tracts
Medicine (38 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (35 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Sociology (31 works) · Gerontology (29 works) · Demography (21 works) · Demography (18 works) · Geography (17 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (17 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (16 works)