A Regula Herzog
Biographic Data
| ID | 318122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Regula Herzog |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Regula |
| FAMILY NAME | Herzog |
| SIGNATURE | HERZOG A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4462-454X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 607 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: Study Design and Methods
Objective: We describe the design and methods of the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), a new national study that will provide data on the antecedents, prevalence, outcomes, and costs of dementia and ‘cognitive impairment, not demented’ (CIND) using a unique study design based on the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We also illustrate potential uses of the ADAMS data and provide information to interested re…
Additive and Interactive Effects of Comorbid Physical and Mental Conditions on Functional Health
Stroke, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms exhibit strong independent effects on physical functioning. Support for the hypothesis that cognitive impairment and depression exacerbate the impact of stroke and diabetes is more limited
Trends in Scores on Tests of Cognitive Ability in the Elderly U.S. Population, 1993-2000
There appears to have been little improvement of cognitive functioning across recent cohorts of older Americans. However, the study points out the complexities of using panel data to study cohort differences, particularly when the measures of interest are likely influenced by prior wave participation. Future studies based on other data sources are needed
Individual Consequences of Volunteer and Paid Work in Old Age: Health and Mortality
The impacts of the productive social activities of volunteer and paid work on health have rarely been investigated among the oldest Americans despite a recent claim for their beneficial effect (Rowe and Kahn 1998). This paper used data from Waves 3 and 4 of the Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Study to (1) investigate the impact of these activities on health measured as self-reported health and activities of daily living (AD…
National estimates of the quantity and cost of informal caregiving for the elderly with dementia
Changes in Driving Patterns and Worsening Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults
Changes in driving patterns can be deleterious for older people's depressive symptoms. Initiatives for assisting older people should focus on strategies that help them retain driving skills, that prepare them for the possible transition from driver to ex-driver, and that ensure that they have access to mental health therapies if driving changes are imminent
Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Middle-Aged and Older Women: A Survey-Based Methodological Experiment
The prevalence of incontinence is likely to be underestimated unless studies attend to the possibility of biased reporting. The finding of a form by age interaction suggests the importance of survey context in studies of risk factors, as well as in prevalence studies
Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults: Findings From a National Sample
We discuss the possibility that the curvilinear relationship we observe between volunteering and mortality is due to a combination of factors, including self-identity, role strain, and meaningfulness. Other research using more precise data is needed to determine whether these ideas are supportable
The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation among Middle- Aged Adults
Linda A. Wray, A. Regula Herzog, Robert J. Willis, Robert B. Wallace, The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation among Middle- Aged Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 271-294
Measures of Cognitive Functioning in the Ahead Study
Decline in cognitive functioning and onset of cognitive impairment are potentially important predictors of elderly persons needing informal assistance and formal health care. This article describes the measures of cognitive functioning that were developed for the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study of some 6,500 Americans aged 70 years and older. The study was designed to investigate the impact of health on disbursement o…
Overview of the Health Measures in the Health and Retirement Study
This report discusses the conceptual and logistical issues that lead to the items and instruments used to measure health and function status in Wave 1 of the Health and Retiremeni Study (HRS). Health status was conceptualized as multidimensional, and included selected major symptoms, diseases and conditions, global self-assessment of health, physical and cognitive functional status, the utilization of health services and selected elements of emot…
Robust Aging among the Young-Old, Old-Old, and Oldest-Old
This study defined and examined the interrelationships among four multicategory definitions of robust aging: productive involvement, affective status, functional status, and cognitive status. Data are from a sample of 1,644 adults aged 60 and older who participated in a nationwide household survey in 1986. The four robust aging indicators were minimally correlated, suggesting that they tap a multidimensional phenomenon. Several personal character…
Change in Productive Activity in Late Adulthood: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Both cross-sectional comparisons and patterns of change in productive activities among members of the MacArthur Successful Aging cohort were examined. The data came from a three-site longitudinal study of community-dwelling adults aged 70-79. The highest functioning cohort (n = 1,192) was found to be significantly more productive than a comparison group of medium- and low-functioning respondents at baseline in four of five domains examined. In lo…
Effects of Parental Divorce and Memories of Family Problems on Relationships between Adult Children and their Parents
We examined adult child-parent relations by childhood family structure and memories of family problems. Relative to those who grew up in two-parent families, adult children of divorce perceive both relationships with mothers and fathers to be of lower quality, although the magnitude of effects is generally two or three times greater for fathers. We find these effects to be significant for positive features of father-child relations, whereby adult…
The Social Stratification of Aging and Health
The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)--specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional data suggest that among higher SES persons the onset of health problems is usually postponed until rather late in life, while health declines are prevalent in lower SES groups by middle age. Thus, SES differences in health are small in early adulthood, but increase with age until relatively l…
Providing Support to Others and Well-Being in Later Life
Although there is now a voluminous literature on supportive social relations in later life, most of this research has been concerned with assessing the beneficial effects of receiving support from others. The purpose of this study is to assess whether giving support to others within informal as well as formal settings might also benefit older help-providers. Findings from a recent nationwide survey of the elderly suggest that giving informal assi…
Wealth and Economic Status of Older Women
Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Health
Analysts dispute what roles biomedical, psychosocial, and other factors play in determining the duration of morbidity and disability over the life course. Cross-sectional data from two national surveys of adults aged 25 years and over not only show, however, that age and socioeconomic status (SES) are significant predictors of self-reported physical health; they also demonstrate that the relation of age to health varies with SES features. Longitu…
Interviewing Older Adults: Mode Comparison Using Data from a Face-to-Face Survey and a Telephone Resurvey
A face-to-face survey conducted in 1984 with a sample of 1491 residents of the Detroit metropolitan area (including an oversample of older adults) and a reinterview of a random subset of these respondents by telephone were used to compare the two modes of data collection across two age levels. Except for a tendency toward a disproportionately large number of DK answers and a disproportionately large amount of interviewer assistance on the telepho…
Paid work, child care, and housework: A national survey of high school seniors' preferences for sharing responsibilities between husband and wife
Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities
Journal Article Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities Get access A. REGULA HERZOG, A. REGULA HERZOG A. Regula Herzog is Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Willard L. Rodgers is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michig…
High School Seniors' Occupational Plans and Values: Trends in Sex Differences 1976 through 1980
Occupational plans and values of high school seniors were examined for evidence of declining sex differences. Questionnaire data were collected in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980from large national samples of high school seniors. Marked sex differences were found for the kinds of work seniors plan to do when they are 30 years old, the settings they would like to work in, and the work characteristics that are important to them. Between 1976 and 1…
Effects of Questionnaire Length on Response Quality
A response tendency resulting from the length of a group-administered questionnaire instrument is described. Respondents answering items that are included in large sets toward the later parts of a long questionnaire are more likely to give identical answers to most or all of the items, compared with those responding to items in smaller sets or in shorter questionnaires. While means and intercorrelations among items within the same set are affecte…
The Social Stratification of Aging and Health
The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)--specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional data suggest that among higher SES persons the onset of health problems is usually postponed until rather late in life, while health declines are prevalent in lower SES groups by middle age. Thus, SES differences in health are small in early adulthood, but increase with age until relatively l…
Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults: Findings From a National Sample
We discuss the possibility that the curvilinear relationship we observe between volunteering and mortality is due to a combination of factors, including self-identity, role strain, and meaningfulness. Other research using more precise data is needed to determine whether these ideas are supportable
Measures of Cognitive Functioning in the Ahead Study
Decline in cognitive functioning and onset of cognitive impairment are potentially important predictors of elderly persons needing informal assistance and formal health care. This article describes the measures of cognitive functioning that were developed for the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study of some 6,500 Americans aged 70 years and older. The study was designed to investigate the impact of health on disbursement o…
Effects of Questionnaire Length on Response Quality
A response tendency resulting from the length of a group-administered questionnaire instrument is described. Respondents answering items that are included in large sets toward the later parts of a long questionnaire are more likely to give identical answers to most or all of the items, compared with those responding to items in smaller sets or in shorter questionnaires. While means and intercorrelations among items within the same set are affecte…
Individual Consequences of Volunteer and Paid Work in Old Age: Health and Mortality
The impacts of the productive social activities of volunteer and paid work on health have rarely been investigated among the oldest Americans despite a recent claim for their beneficial effect (Rowe and Kahn 1998). This paper used data from Waves 3 and 4 of the Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Study to (1) investigate the impact of these activities on health measured as self-reported health and activities of daily living (AD…
Changes in Driving Patterns and Worsening Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults
Changes in driving patterns can be deleterious for older people's depressive symptoms. Initiatives for assisting older people should focus on strategies that help them retain driving skills, that prepare them for the possible transition from driver to ex-driver, and that ensure that they have access to mental health therapies if driving changes are imminent
Change in Productive Activity in Late Adulthood: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Both cross-sectional comparisons and patterns of change in productive activities among members of the MacArthur Successful Aging cohort were examined. The data came from a three-site longitudinal study of community-dwelling adults aged 70-79. The highest functioning cohort (n = 1,192) was found to be significantly more productive than a comparison group of medium- and low-functioning respondents at baseline in four of five domains examined. In lo…
High School Seniors' Occupational Plans and Values: Trends in Sex Differences 1976 through 1980
Occupational plans and values of high school seniors were examined for evidence of declining sex differences. Questionnaire data were collected in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980from large national samples of high school seniors. Marked sex differences were found for the kinds of work seniors plan to do when they are 30 years old, the settings they would like to work in, and the work characteristics that are important to them. Between 1976 and 1…
Interviewing Older Adults: Mode Comparison Using Data from a Face-to-Face Survey and a Telephone Resurvey
A face-to-face survey conducted in 1984 with a sample of 1491 residents of the Detroit metropolitan area (including an oversample of older adults) and a reinterview of a random subset of these respondents by telephone were used to compare the two modes of data collection across two age levels. Except for a tendency toward a disproportionately large number of DK answers and a disproportionately large amount of interviewer assistance on the telepho…
Effects of Parental Divorce and Memories of Family Problems on Relationships between Adult Children and their Parents
We examined adult child-parent relations by childhood family structure and memories of family problems. Relative to those who grew up in two-parent families, adult children of divorce perceive both relationships with mothers and fathers to be of lower quality, although the magnitude of effects is generally two or three times greater for fathers. We find these effects to be significant for positive features of father-child relations, whereby adult…
Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities
Journal Article Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities Get access A. REGULA HERZOG, A. REGULA HERZOG A. Regula Herzog is Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Willard L. Rodgers is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michig…
Trends in Scores on Tests of Cognitive Ability in the Elderly U.S. Population, 1993-2000
There appears to have been little improvement of cognitive functioning across recent cohorts of older Americans. However, the study points out the complexities of using panel data to study cohort differences, particularly when the measures of interest are likely influenced by prior wave participation. Future studies based on other data sources are needed
Robust Aging among the Young-Old, Old-Old, and Oldest-Old
This study defined and examined the interrelationships among four multicategory definitions of robust aging: productive involvement, affective status, functional status, and cognitive status. Data are from a sample of 1,644 adults aged 60 and older who participated in a nationwide household survey in 1986. The four robust aging indicators were minimally correlated, suggesting that they tap a multidimensional phenomenon. Several personal character…
The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation among Middle- Aged Adults
Linda A. Wray, A. Regula Herzog, Robert J. Willis, Robert B. Wallace, The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation among Middle- Aged Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 271-294
Paid work, child care, and housework: A national survey of high school seniors' preferences for sharing responsibilities between husband and wife
Effects of Questionnaire Length on Response Quality
A response tendency resulting from the length of a group-administered questionnaire instrument is described. Respondents answering items that are included in large sets toward the later parts of a long questionnaire are more likely to give identical answers to most or all of the items, compared with those responding to items in smaller sets or in shorter questionnaires. While means and intercorrelations among items within the same set are affecte…
High School Seniors' Occupational Plans and Values: Trends in Sex Differences 1976 through 1980
Occupational plans and values of high school seniors were examined for evidence of declining sex differences. Questionnaire data were collected in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980from large national samples of high school seniors. Marked sex differences were found for the kinds of work seniors plan to do when they are 30 years old, the settings they would like to work in, and the work characteristics that are important to them. Between 1976 and 1…
Paid work, child care, and housework: A national survey of high school seniors' preferences for sharing responsibilities between husband and wife
Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities
Journal Article Interviewing Older Adults: A Comparison of Telephone and Face-to-Face Modalities Get access A. REGULA HERZOG, A. REGULA HERZOG A. Regula Herzog is Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Willard L. Rodgers is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michig…
Interviewing Older Adults: Mode Comparison Using Data from a Face-to-Face Survey and a Telephone Resurvey
A face-to-face survey conducted in 1984 with a sample of 1491 residents of the Detroit metropolitan area (including an oversample of older adults) and a reinterview of a random subset of these respondents by telephone were used to compare the two modes of data collection across two age levels. Except for a tendency toward a disproportionately large number of DK answers and a disproportionately large amount of interviewer assistance on the telepho…
Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Health
Analysts dispute what roles biomedical, psychosocial, and other factors play in determining the duration of morbidity and disability over the life course. Cross-sectional data from two national surveys of adults aged 25 years and over not only show, however, that age and socioeconomic status (SES) are significant predictors of self-reported physical health; they also demonstrate that the relation of age to health varies with SES features. Longitu…
Wealth and Economic Status of Older Women
Providing Support to Others and Well-Being in Later Life
Although there is now a voluminous literature on supportive social relations in later life, most of this research has been concerned with assessing the beneficial effects of receiving support from others. The purpose of this study is to assess whether giving support to others within informal as well as formal settings might also benefit older help-providers. Findings from a recent nationwide survey of the elderly suggest that giving informal assi…
The Social Stratification of Aging and Health
The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)--specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional data suggest that among higher SES persons the onset of health problems is usually postponed until rather late in life, while health declines are prevalent in lower SES groups by middle age. Thus, SES differences in health are small in early adulthood, but increase with age until relatively l…
Overview of the Health Measures in the Health and Retirement Study
This report discusses the conceptual and logistical issues that lead to the items and instruments used to measure health and function status in Wave 1 of the Health and Retiremeni Study (HRS). Health status was conceptualized as multidimensional, and included selected major symptoms, diseases and conditions, global self-assessment of health, physical and cognitive functional status, the utilization of health services and selected elements of emot…
Robust Aging among the Young-Old, Old-Old, and Oldest-Old
This study defined and examined the interrelationships among four multicategory definitions of robust aging: productive involvement, affective status, functional status, and cognitive status. Data are from a sample of 1,644 adults aged 60 and older who participated in a nationwide household survey in 1986. The four robust aging indicators were minimally correlated, suggesting that they tap a multidimensional phenomenon. Several personal character…
Change in Productive Activity in Late Adulthood: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging
Both cross-sectional comparisons and patterns of change in productive activities among members of the MacArthur Successful Aging cohort were examined. The data came from a three-site longitudinal study of community-dwelling adults aged 70-79. The highest functioning cohort (n = 1,192) was found to be significantly more productive than a comparison group of medium- and low-functioning respondents at baseline in four of five domains examined. In lo…
Effects of Parental Divorce and Memories of Family Problems on Relationships between Adult Children and their Parents
We examined adult child-parent relations by childhood family structure and memories of family problems. Relative to those who grew up in two-parent families, adult children of divorce perceive both relationships with mothers and fathers to be of lower quality, although the magnitude of effects is generally two or three times greater for fathers. We find these effects to be significant for positive features of father-child relations, whereby adult…
Measures of Cognitive Functioning in the Ahead Study
Decline in cognitive functioning and onset of cognitive impairment are potentially important predictors of elderly persons needing informal assistance and formal health care. This article describes the measures of cognitive functioning that were developed for the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) study of some 6,500 Americans aged 70 years and older. The study was designed to investigate the impact of health on disbursement o…
The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation among Middle- Aged Adults
Linda A. Wray, A. Regula Herzog, Robert J. Willis, Robert B. Wallace, The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation among Middle- Aged Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 271-294
Volunteering and Mortality Among Older Adults: Findings From a National Sample
We discuss the possibility that the curvilinear relationship we observe between volunteering and mortality is due to a combination of factors, including self-identity, role strain, and meaningfulness. Other research using more precise data is needed to determine whether these ideas are supportable
Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence in Middle-Aged and Older Women: A Survey-Based Methodological Experiment
The prevalence of incontinence is likely to be underestimated unless studies attend to the possibility of biased reporting. The finding of a form by age interaction suggests the importance of survey context in studies of risk factors, as well as in prevalence studies
National estimates of the quantity and cost of informal caregiving for the elderly with dementia
Changes in Driving Patterns and Worsening Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults
Changes in driving patterns can be deleterious for older people's depressive symptoms. Initiatives for assisting older people should focus on strategies that help them retain driving skills, that prepare them for the possible transition from driver to ex-driver, and that ensure that they have access to mental health therapies if driving changes are imminent
Individual Consequences of Volunteer and Paid Work in Old Age: Health and Mortality
The impacts of the productive social activities of volunteer and paid work on health have rarely been investigated among the oldest Americans despite a recent claim for their beneficial effect (Rowe and Kahn 1998). This paper used data from Waves 3 and 4 of the Asset and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Study to (1) investigate the impact of these activities on health measured as self-reported health and activities of daily living (AD…
Additive and Interactive Effects of Comorbid Physical and Mental Conditions on Functional Health
Stroke, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms exhibit strong independent effects on physical functioning. Support for the hypothesis that cognitive impairment and depression exacerbate the impact of stroke and diabetes is more limited
Trends in Scores on Tests of Cognitive Ability in the Elderly U.S. Population, 1993-2000
There appears to have been little improvement of cognitive functioning across recent cohorts of older Americans. However, the study points out the complexities of using panel data to study cohort differences, particularly when the measures of interest are likely influenced by prior wave participation. Future studies based on other data sources are needed
The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: Study Design and Methods
Objective: We describe the design and methods of the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), a new national study that will provide data on the antecedents, prevalence, outcomes, and costs of dementia and ‘cognitive impairment, not demented’ (CIND) using a unique study design based on the nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We also illustrate potential uses of the ADAMS data and provide information to interested re…
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