Nancy Morrow-Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 168167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Morrow-Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrow-Howell |
| SIGNATURE | MORROW-HOWELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8146-9323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Health Outcomes of an Intergenerational Tutoring Program
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted older adult volunteering. It is important to understand if prior relationships between volunteering and health remain consistent in a post-pandemic context. We surveyed Oasis tutors aged 51 and older before and after two years of volunteering and matched them with a comparison group of non-volunteers in the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. G-computation was then used on the m…
Assessing Social Capital Among Chinese Older Adults: Dimensions and Associative Factors
Introduction: Recent research has identified social capital as an essential element of social context that influences the healthy aging experience. Since social capital is a resource that is context and culture relative, this study builds on and extends the existing literature on social capital among older adults by investigating different dimensions of social capital in later life and related individual and environmental characteristics in the C…
Perceived Life Expectancy Predicts Time Investment in Productive Aging Activities: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
OBJECTIVES: Despite known benefits of productive aging, it is unclear what explains time allocation in productive activities. We investigated whether productive engagement in older people can be explained by their age, health, socioeconomic status, and perceived life expectancy in Hong Kong. METHODS: We interviewed 390 community-dwelling older persons for their health and perceived life expectancy, followed by a 7-day ecological momentary assessm…
Neighborhood resources associated with frailty trajectories over time among community-dwelling older adults in China
Recovering from the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Focus on Older Adults
As we look toward recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we overview challenges to be minimized, including economic setbacks, health and well-being effects, and highlighted ageism, racism, and classism. We articulate opportunities to be seized, including increased comfort with technology and online platforms; stronger family and intergenerational connections, renewed energy to combat social isolation; more respect for self-care and time management;…
Re-emergence of social work in modern China: A perspective by Chinese and U.S. partners
In this article, we offer a perspective on the re-emergence of social work in China from the viewpoint of a longstanding and very productive partnership between Chinese and U.S. social work educators and researchers. We begin with a brief historical context, followed by a description of partnership development among Peking University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Washington University in St. Louis. To illustrate academic collaborations a…
Patterns of Social Engagement Among Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Our findings suggest that social engagement is heterogeneous among people with CIND and that some groups of people with CIND have possibilities of engaging in more social activities, especially in formal social activities. Results also indicate that providing informal social resources may be essential for social programs designed specifically for people with CIND to promote their formal social engagement. Future study is needed to examine possibl…
A Community-Based Collaborative Care Model to Improve Functional Health in Underserved Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Program findings may serve as a basis for the development of a randomized, controlled study to provide empirical evidence of intervention efficacy. Such findings may help inform the development of community-based programs to identify vulnerable older adults and provide vital preventative care to decrease frailty and excess disability
A Conceptual Framework on Self-Employment in Later Life: Toward a Research Agenda
Older adults consistently have a higher rate of self-employment than their younger counterparts, and the rates of self-employment among workers continue to rise as age increases from the “young old” to the “old old.” However, we know relatively little about why older adults decide to pursue self-employment in later life, the self-employment experience itself, and the individual and societal outcomes of this growing type of work. Additionally, we …
Increasing Opportunities for the Productive Engagement of Older Adults: A Response to Population Aging
"Productive aging" puts forward the fundamental view that the capacity of older adults must be better developed and utilized in activities that make economic contributions to society-working, caregiving, volunteering. It is suggested that productive engagement can lead to multiple positive ends: offsetting fiscal strains of a larger older population, contributing to the betterment of families and civil society, and maintaining the health and econ…
Older adults in the community: Capacities and engagement for ageing in place
An Investigation of Activity Profiles of Older Adults
The use of a 5-level categorical activity profile variable may allow more complex analyses of activity that capture the "whole person." There is clearly a vulnerable group of low-activity individuals as well as a High Activity group that may represent the "active ageing" vision
Personality Accounts for the Connection Between Volunteering and Health
These results indicate that volunteering may be related to health outcomes because of the personality characteristics of volunteers, not the volunteering experience in and of itself. Future longitudinal studies are needed to further explore the relationship between personality, volunteering, and health
Increasing Older Adults' Benefits from Institutional Capacity of Volunteer Programs
This study examined the extent to which the institutional capacity of volunteer programs explained variations in older adults' self-perceived psychosocial benefits. This quantitative study analyzed 401 older adults serving in 13 volunteer programs across the United States. Individual volunteer-level characteristics (sociodemographics and volunteer experience) and program-level characteristics (flexibility, recognition, incentives, and so on) were…
Does Identification of Depression Affect Community Long-Term Care Services Ordered for Older Adults
Given the increasing push for professionals in non-mental health settings to detect and respond to the mental health needs of vulnerable populations, this article examines whether the identification of depression influences service authorization in a publicly funded community long-term care (CLTC) setting. Using interview and case record data for 533 older, Medicaid-funded CLTC clients, the authors tested how CLTC workers' notation of depression …
Productive engagement in later life: A global perspective
Foreword: Productive ageing is likely to become a major policy discussion in China Michael Sherraden Introduction: Cross-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives on maximizing productive engagement of the ageing population Nancy Morrow-Howell and Ada C. Mui Part I: Overview of the concept of productive ageing in China 1. Productive ageing in China: a human capital perspective Ada C. Mui 2. What is productive in Taiwanese centenarians' lives? A ch…
Engaging Older Adult Volunteers in National Service
Volunteer-based programs are increasingly designed as interventions to affect the volunteers and the beneficiaries of the volunteers' activities. To achieve the intended impacts for both, programs need to leverage the volunteers' engagement by meeting their expectations, retaining them, and maximizing their perceptions of benefits. Programmatic features that may increase volunteer engagement include supervision, flexibility, assistance, training,…
The Effect of the Experience Corps® Program on Student Reading Outcomes
A randomized field trial involving 883 students at 23 schools in three urban cities assessed the effectiveness of Experience Corps® (EC), a program that places older adult volunteers in elementary schools to tutor students who are poor readers. Students were assessed at the beginning and end of the academic year with standardized reading measures. Program effects were analyzed using Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) to adjust for clustering …
Social Support Resources and Post-Acute Recovery for Older Adults with Major Depression
Stipends in Volunteer Civic Service: Inclusion, Retention, and Volunteer Benefits
What is the role of stipends as an institutional facilitator in volunteer civic service? By examining the relationship of stipend receipt to volunteer diversity, time commitment, and perceived benefits from a longitudinal study of older adults serving in Experience Corps, this article assesses stipend status relative to volunteer sociodemographic characteristics, motivations, intensity and duration of time served, and volunteers’ self‐reported be…
Volunteering in Later Life: Research Frontiers
OBJECTIVES: This review summarizes the current knowledge about volunteering in later life and suggests 5 research questions at the forefront of knowledge development. RESULTS: Rates of volunteering do not decline significantly until the middle of the 7th decade, and older volunteers commit more hours than younger volunteers. Older adults with more human and social capital tend to volunteer, and there is good evidence of a reciprocal relationship …
Productive engagement of older Americans
As the US population ages, the capacity of the older population grows as well, with increasing levels of health and education. Older adults are also highly motivated to stay vitally involved in productive activities of working, volunteering, and providing assistance to family members and friends. Too often, older adults face barriers and disincentives to their ongoing participation in productive roles. We argue that the productive engagement of o…
Cross-cultural, multidisciplinary perspectives on maximizing productive engagement of the ageing population
Why do older adult volunteers stop volunteering
This paper reports a United States study of the factors that influence the turnover of older adult volunteers. Based on a parent study of programmes that use older adult volunteers, the follow-up study examined the experience for 207 older volunteers who served in ten programmes in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Telephone interviews and mail surveys were used to collect programme and personal information. The findings indicated that aspects of the …
Health outcomes of Experience Corps (R): A high-commitment volunteer program
Effects of Volunteering on the Well-Being of Older Adults
This work contributes to a knowledge base that points to the development of social programs and policies that maximize the engagement of older adults in volunteer roles. The findings suggest that targeting efforts may not be warranted, in that there are not differential benefits according to personal characteristics of the volunteer. Future studies have to address the nature of the social institutions that will maximize the number of elders in th…
Imputing Missing Data: A Comparison of Methods for Social Work Researchers
Choosing the most appropriate method to handle missing data during analyses is one of the most challenging decisions confronting researchers. Often, missing values are just ignored rather than replaced with a reliable imputation method. Six methods of data imputation were used to replace missing data from two data sets of varying sizes; this article examines the results. Each imputation method is defined, and the pros and cons of its use in socia…
Rationales for Practice Decisions: Variations in Knowledge Use by Decision Task and Social Work Service
This article addresses social workers' use of knowledge by studying the rationale they provided for their actual practice decisions. Extent of knowledge use was compared across four practice decision tasks and between medical and psychiatric social work services. Data were obtained from the records of 297 clients treated by 34 experienced M.S.W. social workers in medical and psychiatric services units of two midwestern hospitals. Workers were pre…
An Investigation of Activity Profiles of Older Adults
The use of a 5-level categorical activity profile variable may allow more complex analyses of activity that capture the "whole person." There is clearly a vulnerable group of low-activity individuals as well as a High Activity group that may represent the "active ageing" vision
Health outcomes of Experience Corps (R): A high-commitment volunteer program
Stipends in Volunteer Civic Service: Inclusion, Retention, and Volunteer Benefits
What is the role of stipends as an institutional facilitator in volunteer civic service? By examining the relationship of stipend receipt to volunteer diversity, time commitment, and perceived benefits from a longitudinal study of older adults serving in Experience Corps, this article assesses stipend status relative to volunteer sociodemographic characteristics, motivations, intensity and duration of time served, and volunteers’ self‐reported be…
The Effect of the Experience Corps® Program on Student Reading Outcomes
A randomized field trial involving 883 students at 23 schools in three urban cities assessed the effectiveness of Experience Corps® (EC), a program that places older adult volunteers in elementary schools to tutor students who are poor readers. Students were assessed at the beginning and end of the academic year with standardized reading measures. Program effects were analyzed using Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) to adjust for clustering …
Why do older adult volunteers stop volunteering
This paper reports a United States study of the factors that influence the turnover of older adult volunteers. Based on a parent study of programmes that use older adult volunteers, the follow-up study examined the experience for 207 older volunteers who served in ten programmes in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Telephone interviews and mail surveys were used to collect programme and personal information. The findings indicated that aspects of the …
Institutional Facilitation in Sustained Volunteering among Older Adult Volunteers
Journal Article Institutional Facilitation in Sustained Volunteering among Older Adult Volunteers Get access Fengyan Tang, PhD, Fengyan Tang, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work George Warren B…
A Conceptual Framework on Self-Employment in Later Life: Toward a Research Agenda
Older adults consistently have a higher rate of self-employment than their younger counterparts, and the rates of self-employment among workers continue to rise as age increases from the “young old” to the “old old.” However, we know relatively little about why older adults decide to pursue self-employment in later life, the self-employment experience itself, and the individual and societal outcomes of this growing type of work. Additionally, we …
Adequacy of Care: The Concept and Its Measurement
This article presents a methodology for measuring the adequacy of care. Little attention has been given to how well services, both informal and formal, come together to meet the specific needs of dependent elderly in-home care. The measure of adequacy of care derives from an assessment of need and assistance received in 14 activities of daily living. In each activity area where the elderly need assistance, assessments are made of the quantity and…
Patterns of Social Engagement Among Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment
Our findings suggest that social engagement is heterogeneous among people with CIND and that some groups of people with CIND have possibilities of engaging in more social activities, especially in formal social activities. Results also indicate that providing informal social resources may be essential for social programs designed specifically for people with CIND to promote their formal social engagement. Future study is needed to examine possibl…
The M word: Multicollinearity in multiple regression
Journal Article The M word: Multicollinearity in multiple regression Get access Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, ACSW Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, ACSW Associate Professor and Investigator Center for Mental Health Services, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University , Campus Box 1196 St. Louis, MO 63130 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 1994, Pag…
The Use of Logistic Regression in Social Work Research
Manv dependent variables of interest to social work researchers are dichotomous rather than continuous, and an appropriate and powerful statistical procedure for modeling such variables is logistic regression. This paper presents the assumptions of logistic regression; the estimation procedure; the testing and interpretation of parameters; and measures of the goodness of the model. A review of recent social work research which utilizes the proced…
Neighborhood resources associated with frailty trajectories over time among community-dwelling older adults in China
Increasing Older Adults' Benefits from Institutional Capacity of Volunteer Programs
This study examined the extent to which the institutional capacity of volunteer programs explained variations in older adults' self-perceived psychosocial benefits. This quantitative study analyzed 401 older adults serving in 13 volunteer programs across the United States. Individual volunteer-level characteristics (sociodemographics and volunteer experience) and program-level characteristics (flexibility, recognition, incentives, and so on) were…
Engaging Older Adult Volunteers in National Service
Volunteer-based programs are increasingly designed as interventions to affect the volunteers and the beneficiaries of the volunteers' activities. To achieve the intended impacts for both, programs need to leverage the volunteers' engagement by meeting their expectations, retaining them, and maximizing their perceptions of benefits. Programmatic features that may increase volunteer engagement include supervision, flexibility, assistance, training,…
Involving Rural, Older African Americans and Their Female Informal Caregivers in Research
Knowledge about the involvement of rural, older African Americans and recruitment of their female informal caregivers in research is essential to understanding recruitment successes and pitfalls in ethnic minority research
Evaluating an Intervention for the Elderly at Increased Risk of Suicide
This article presents an evaluation of Link-Plus, a social work service provided over the telephone under the auspices of a suicide prevention hot line agency. The program targets the elderly at increased risk of suicide by virtue of depression, social isolation, and unmet needs. A two-group pretest-posttest design with randomization was used to test its effectiveness After receiving standard crisis intervention, 31 participants provided a wait-l…
Productive engagement of older Americans
As the US population ages, the capacity of the older population grows as well, with increasing levels of health and education. Older adults are also highly motivated to stay vitally involved in productive activities of working, volunteering, and providing assistance to family members and friends. Too often, older adults face barriers and disincentives to their ongoing participation in productive roles. We argue that the productive engagement of o…
Advance Directives: A Social Work Initiative to Increase Participation
This article compared data on 200 patients at a large urban hospital on a number of demographic variables to distinguish clients who initiated an advance directive from those who declined. To better understand why some respondents refused, a telephone survey was conducted. As a result of the survey, an educational intervention was initiated in the walk-in clinic area. A social work student provided informatton and assisted with the completion of …
Re-emergence of social work in modern China: A perspective by Chinese and U.S. partners
In this article, we offer a perspective on the re-emergence of social work in China from the viewpoint of a longstanding and very productive partnership between Chinese and U.S. social work educators and researchers. We begin with a brief historical context, followed by a description of partnership development among Peking University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Washington University in St. Louis. To illustrate academic collaborations a…
Personality Accounts for the Connection Between Volunteering and Health
These results indicate that volunteering may be related to health outcomes because of the personality characteristics of volunteers, not the volunteering experience in and of itself. Future longitudinal studies are needed to further explore the relationship between personality, volunteering, and health
Does Identification of Depression Affect Community Long-Term Care Services Ordered for Older Adults
Given the increasing push for professionals in non-mental health settings to detect and respond to the mental health needs of vulnerable populations, this article examines whether the identification of depression influences service authorization in a publicly funded community long-term care (CLTC) setting. Using interview and case record data for 533 older, Medicaid-funded CLTC clients, the authors tested how CLTC workers' notation of depression …
Notation of Depression in Case Records of Older Adults in Community Long-Term Care
Although significant numbers of social service clients experience mental health problems, virtually no research has examined the responsiveness of social service agencies to mental disorder. This article examines the extent to which client depression is reflected in records of a public social service agency, community long-term care (CLTC). Researchers assessed new, consenting CLTC clients for depression using standardized research criteria in a …
The Family as an Income Source for the Older Adult
There is little attention given to the issue of the family as a source of income for the older adult. Yet this is a topic of increasing importance with the current funding problems in the Social Security system. This article presents an empirical analysis of family contributions to the income of adults in or near retirement. Findings confirm that the within-family transfer of money is rarely a source of income for the older adult. Those who recei…
Household Income of Retired Social Workers
Journal Article Household Income of Retired Social Workers Get access Martha N. Ozawa, Martha N. Ozawa Martha N. Ozawa, PhD, is Bettie Bofinger Brown Professor of Social Policy, The George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130. Joel Leon, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Nancy Morrow-Howell, DSW, is Assistant Prof essor, and Christopher Rice is PhD candidate, George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Search f…
The Use of Logistic Regression in Social Work Research
Manv dependent variables of interest to social work researchers are dichotomous rather than continuous, and an appropriate and powerful statistical procedure for modeling such variables is logistic regression. This paper presents the assumptions of logistic regression; the estimation procedure; the testing and interpretation of parameters; and measures of the goodness of the model. A review of recent social work research which utilizes the proced…
Patient and Family Satisfaction with Discharge Plans
This study explored factors affecting patient and family satisfaction with discharge plans, an outcome of discharge planning provided by the hospital department of social work. Adequacy of discharge plans was rated by 126 patients and 130 family members within 24 hours before hospital discharge. Patient ratings of discharge plans were related to their degree of involvement in decision making, social support networks (sex and marital status), and …
The M word: Multicollinearity in multiple regression
Journal Article The M word: Multicollinearity in multiple regression Get access Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, ACSW Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, ACSW Associate Professor and Investigator Center for Mental Health Services, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University , Campus Box 1196 St. Louis, MO 63130 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Work Research, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 1994, Pag…
Discharge Destinations of Medicare Patients Receiving Discharge Planning: Who Goes Where
This study aims to increase knowledge about factors affecting discharge destinations of Medicare patients leaving the hospital after receiving discharge planning services. Medical, social, financial, and demographic factors are tested in relation to three dispositions: home, nursing home, and rehabilitation unit. Polytomous logistic regression was used to assess the likelihood of going to one destination versus another. For both nursing home vers…
Rationales for Practice Decisions: Variations in Knowledge Use by Decision Task and Social Work Service
This article addresses social workers' use of knowledge by studying the rationale they provided for their actual practice decisions. Extent of knowledge use was compared across four practice decision tasks and between medical and psychiatric social work services. Data were obtained from the records of 297 clients treated by 34 experienced M.S.W. social workers in medical and psychiatric services units of two midwestern hospitals. Workers were pre…
Physical and Cognitive Functioning Among Chronically Ill African-American and White Elderly in Home Care Following Hospital Discharge
OBJECTIVES: Although race is recognized as an important variable in health status and medical care, the conditions of African-American and white elders have not been studied sufficiently as they enter home care after hospital discharge. This study tests hypotheses that African-American elders enter home care sicker, more dependent, and cognitively impaired. METHODS: Hypotheses were tested in two independent studies, both conducted in a Midwestern…
Adequacy of Care: The Concept and Its Measurement
This article presents a methodology for measuring the adequacy of care. Little attention has been given to how well services, both informal and formal, come together to meet the specific needs of dependent elderly in-home care. The measure of adequacy of care derives from an assessment of need and assistance received in 14 activities of daily living. In each activity area where the elderly need assistance, assessments are made of the quantity and…
Evaluating an Intervention for the Elderly at Increased Risk of Suicide
This article presents an evaluation of Link-Plus, a social work service provided over the telephone under the auspices of a suicide prevention hot line agency. The program targets the elderly at increased risk of suicide by virtue of depression, social isolation, and unmet needs. A two-group pretest-posttest design with randomization was used to test its effectiveness After receiving standard crisis intervention, 31 participants provided a wait-l…
Advance Directives: A Social Work Initiative to Increase Participation
This article compared data on 200 patients at a large urban hospital on a number of demographic variables to distinguish clients who initiated an advance directive from those who declined. To better understand why some respondents refused, a telephone survey was conducted. As a result of the survey, an educational intervention was initiated in the walk-in clinic area. A social work student provided informatton and assisted with the completion of …
Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges
Effects of Volunteering on the Well-Being of Older Adults
This work contributes to a knowledge base that points to the development of social programs and policies that maximize the engagement of older adults in volunteer roles. The findings suggest that targeting efforts may not be warranted, in that there are not differential benefits according to personal characteristics of the volunteer. Future studies have to address the nature of the social institutions that will maximize the number of elders in th…
Role Enhancement or Role Strain: Assessing the Impact of Multiple Productive Roles on Older Caregiver Well-Being
Proponents of productive aging claim that occupying productive roles is beneficial to the self and others. The authors use the role enhancement and role strain perspectives to examine the impact of multiple productive roles on the well-being of older caregivers. Using three waves of the America Changing Lives Study, the authors controlled for invariant and time-variant factors to test the effects of occupying multiple productive roles on the thre…
Involving Rural, Older African Americans and Their Female Informal Caregivers in Research
Knowledge about the involvement of rural, older African Americans and recruitment of their female informal caregivers in research is essential to understanding recruitment successes and pitfalls in ethnic minority research
Comparing the Congruency of Self-Report and Provider Records of Depressed Elders??? Service Use by Provider Type
BACKGROUND: An accurate accounting of service use is necessary to understand use patterns and outcomes. Yet such an accounting remains challenging, in part because of the reliability and validity of the collection method and sources. OBJECTIVES: This study describes 2 methods of data collection: self-report and the retrieval of provider records. We report on the effort, yield, and challenges of retrieving records. Then, we compare the congruency …
Research Priorities for Gerontological Social Work: Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives
This article describes a Delphi study to identify research priorities of gerontological social work practitioners and to compare these priorities with those of social work academic researchers. A national expert panel of 52 gerontological social work practitioners completed questionnaires to delimit a set of high-priority research topics. Findings were compared with a similar Delphi study conducted with academic social work researchers. The resea…
Civic Engagement at the 2005 White House Conference on Aging
Civic Engagement at the 2005 White House Conference on Aging Get access Nancy Morrow-Howell Nancy Morrow-Howell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Policy & Aging Report, Volume 16, Issue 1, Winter 2006, Pages 13–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/16.1.13 Published: 01 January 2006
Changes in the SF-12 among Depressed Elders Six Months after Discharge from an Inpatient Geropsychiatric Unit
Imputing Missing Data: A Comparison of Methods for Social Work Researchers
Choosing the most appropriate method to handle missing data during analyses is one of the most challenging decisions confronting researchers. Often, missing values are just ignored rather than replaced with a reliable imputation method. Six methods of data imputation were used to replace missing data from two data sets of varying sizes; this article examines the results. Each imputation method is defined, and the pros and cons of its use in socia…
Contribution of Secondary Caregivers to Post-Acute Home Care for Elderly Patients
This study examined the contribution of secondary caregivers to the elderly patients' use of informal services and use of formal services, and the adequacy of care provided to the elderly patients in the period following acute hospitalization. A sample of 149 elderly patients diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF) were interviewed at their home two weeks after their hospital discharge. Nearly three quarters of the elderly patients had one …
Notation of Depression in Case Records of Older Adults in Community Long-Term Care
Although significant numbers of social service clients experience mental health problems, virtually no research has examined the responsiveness of social service agencies to mental disorder. This article examines the extent to which client depression is reflected in records of a public social service agency, community long-term care (CLTC). Researchers assessed new, consenting CLTC clients for depression using standardized research criteria in a …
Predicting the Influence of Social Resources on African American Wife and Daughter Caregivers' Depressive Symptoms
This study-on 100 African American wife and 258 daughter primary caregivers - uses a contextual approach in its examination of the relationship between social resources and caregiver depressive symptoms. At the bivariate level, significant differences in certain key characteristics of primary caregivers and care receivers underscore the generational differences between the caregiver samples. Using separate ordinary least squares regression models…
Who Benefits From Volunteering? Variations in Perceived Benefits
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to document the benefits of volunteering perceived by older adults and to explain variation in these self-perceived benefits. DESIGN AND METHODS: This is a quantitative study of 13 volunteer programs and 401 older adults serving in those programs. Program directors completed telephone interviews, and older volunteers completed mailed surveys. Volunteer-level and program-level data were merged. RESULTS: Older…
Institutional Facilitation in Sustained Volunteering among Older Adult Volunteers
Journal Article Institutional Facilitation in Sustained Volunteering among Older Adult Volunteers Get access Fengyan Tang, PhD, Fengyan Tang, PhD assistant professor School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work George Warren B…
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