Stacy Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacy Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacy |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aging, care and dependency in multimorbidity: How do relationships affect older Bangladeshi women’s use of homecare and health services
Gender issues can create major barriers to healthcare utilization for older women with multimorbidity, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Elderly rural women in Bangladesh, are the poorest of the poor, and the women with multimorbidity live in a regulated family atmosphere. This study explored the relationship dimensions of older women with multimorbidity in homecare and their utilization of health services. To gain a deeper unde…
Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
Healthcare Bias and Discrimination
Stacy Torres and Erica Torres on Healthcare Bias
For a Younger Crowd: Place, Belonging, and Exclusion among Older Adults Facing Neighborhood Change
Cities are gentrifying, yet we know little about the experience of older adults aging in gentrifying areas. Most research has focused on a shortage of affordable housing and threat of eviction for low-income residents but has paid less attention to age. This trend neglects a fuller understanding of place's heightened significance for older people and how commercial gentrification threatens their possibilities to connect in non-institutional, inte…
On Elastic Ties: Distance and Intimacy in Social Relationships
Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork among older adults in a New York City neighborhood, I present empirical data that complement survey approaches to social isolation and push our understanding of social ties beyond weak and strong by analyzing relationships that defy binary classification. Usual survey items would describe these participants as isolated and without social support. When questioned, they minimize neighborhood relations…
Aging Alone, Gossiping Together: Older Adults’ Talk as Social Glue
Higher rates of divorce and lifelong singlehood, coupled with increased longevity, will compel greater numbers of older adults to construct alternative support networks. My findings suggest that more will draw these connections from unconventional venues such as neighborhood public places
Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong
Changing Family Patterns
All societies have families, but their form varies greatly across time and space. The history of the family is thus one of changing family forms, which result from the interplay of shifting social and economic conditions, diverse and contested ideals, and the attempts of ordinary people to build their lives amid the constraints of their particular time and place. Because the family is a site of our most intimate experiences, the study of families…
Aging Women, Living Poorer
Sociologist Stacy Torres examines why higher poverty rates persist among older women compared with older men and finds that women continue to face significant economic disadvantages in old age, partly due to a lifetime of unpaid, work-interrupting care giving responsibilities.
For a Younger Crowd: Place, Belonging, and Exclusion among Older Adults Facing Neighborhood Change
Cities are gentrifying, yet we know little about the experience of older adults aging in gentrifying areas. Most research has focused on a shortage of affordable housing and threat of eviction for low-income residents but has paid less attention to age. This trend neglects a fuller understanding of place's heightened significance for older people and how commercial gentrification threatens their possibilities to connect in non-institutional, inte…
Aging Alone, Gossiping Together: Older Adults’ Talk as Social Glue
Higher rates of divorce and lifelong singlehood, coupled with increased longevity, will compel greater numbers of older adults to construct alternative support networks. My findings suggest that more will draw these connections from unconventional venues such as neighborhood public places
On Elastic Ties: Distance and Intimacy in Social Relationships
Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork among older adults in a New York City neighborhood, I present empirical data that complement survey approaches to social isolation and push our understanding of social ties beyond weak and strong by analyzing relationships that defy binary classification. Usual survey items would describe these participants as isolated and without social support. When questioned, they minimize neighborhood relations…
Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong
Aging Women, Living Poorer
Sociologist Stacy Torres examines why higher poverty rates persist among older women compared with older men and finds that women continue to face significant economic disadvantages in old age, partly due to a lifetime of unpaid, work-interrupting care giving responsibilities.
Changing Family Patterns
All societies have families, but their form varies greatly across time and space. The history of the family is thus one of changing family forms, which result from the interplay of shifting social and economic conditions, diverse and contested ideals, and the attempts of ordinary people to build their lives amid the constraints of their particular time and place. Because the family is a site of our most intimate experiences, the study of families…
Aging Alone, Gossiping Together: Older Adults’ Talk as Social Glue
Higher rates of divorce and lifelong singlehood, coupled with increased longevity, will compel greater numbers of older adults to construct alternative support networks. My findings suggest that more will draw these connections from unconventional venues such as neighborhood public places
Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong
On Elastic Ties: Distance and Intimacy in Social Relationships
Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork among older adults in a New York City neighborhood, I present empirical data that complement survey approaches to social isolation and push our understanding of social ties beyond weak and strong by analyzing relationships that defy binary classification. Usual survey items would describe these participants as isolated and without social support. When questioned, they minimize neighborhood relations…
Healthcare Bias and Discrimination
Stacy Torres and Erica Torres on Healthcare Bias
For a Younger Crowd: Place, Belonging, and Exclusion among Older Adults Facing Neighborhood Change
Cities are gentrifying, yet we know little about the experience of older adults aging in gentrifying areas. Most research has focused on a shortage of affordable housing and threat of eviction for low-income residents but has paid less attention to age. This trend neglects a fuller understanding of place's heightened significance for older people and how commercial gentrification threatens their possibilities to connect in non-institutional, inte…
Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
Aging, care and dependency in multimorbidity: How do relationships affect older Bangladeshi women’s use of homecare and health services
Gender issues can create major barriers to healthcare utilization for older women with multimorbidity, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Elderly rural women in Bangladesh, are the poorest of the poor, and the women with multimorbidity live in a regulated family atmosphere. This study explored the relationship dimensions of older women with multimorbidity in homecare and their utilization of health services. To gain a deeper unde…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works)