Christine L Himes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine L Himes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine L |
| FAMILY NAME | Himes |
| SIGNATURE | HIMES C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The difference in stigmatizing attributions toward older adults with or without Alzheimer’s disease
Aging and Health in Old Age
Killer Fat
Cohort Differences in Adult Obesity in the United States
Although increasing diversity in the older population will probably result in higher rates of obesity in the future, increasingly sedentary lives and the uncertain impact of smoking cessation on weight outweigh population composition effects. More research is needed on the impact of lifestyle behaviors on the American population
Linking Benefits to Marital Status
In the US, marital status is more important than work history in determining economic security for many older women. Two-thirds of older women in the US receive spouse or widow Social Security benefits. These benefits generally require recipients to be currently married or to have had a ten-year marriage. Declining marriage rates, coupled with shorter marriages, dramatically change the distributional impact of these benefits on each cohort as the…
The changing relationship between obesity and educational status
Applied Demography
Scope and Methods of Applied Demography. Recent Population Trends and Prospects and Interrelations with Selected Social and Economic Programs. Basic Sources of Demographic and Socioeconomic Data and Ways of Accessing Them. Limitations of Census and Survey Data. Geodemography: Geographic Area Concepts and Information Systems for Demographic Applications. Demographic Applications in Business Planning. Demographic Applications to Government and Priv…
Linking Social Gerontology with Quantitative Skills
Dans cet article, les AA. font part d'un exercice pedagogique lie a l'interpretation de donnees en gerontologie sociale. Les etudiants ont eu pour tâche d'expliquer et comparer des donnees brutes de recensement de la population âgee de deux etats americains. Les AA. soulignent ici l'importance de l'utilisation des outils quantitatifs, et le recul necessaire face a un afflux de donnees, dans la pratique interpretative inherente au cursus universit…
Nursing home entry in Germany and the United States
Obesity, disease, and functional limitation in later life
Little is known about the effects of obesity late in life. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Aging and the Assets and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old Survey, this study finds an increased prevalence of obesity, over time, among those 70 and older. Obesity is related most strongly to limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) for women and to activities related to mobility. One ADL, eating, has a negative association to obesity. Ob…
The Influence of Caregiving and Employment on the Voluntary Activities of Midlife and Older Women
One factor thought to contribute to higher levels of stress among caregivers is the restriction on personal time and leisure activities that they feel. We use data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to examine the influences that caregiving, the relationship of the care-recipient with the caregiver, and the intensity of the caregiving have on women's participation in personal, family-centered, and community activities. We …
Immigrant and Non‐immigrant Living Arrangements Among America's White, Hispanic, and Asian Elderly Population
Do the living arrangements of immigrant elderly differ significantly from those for non‐immigrant elderly? If so, are differences between immigrants and non‐immigrants due to population composition or immigration‐based cultural preferences? To answer these questions this research examines the living arrangements of Non‐Hispanic White, Hispanic, and Asian elderly using data from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). The standardization and …
Living Arrangements of Minority Elders
We used 1990 census data to examine differences in the current living arrangements of minority elderly. We found that differences among the minority populations in age, sex, and marital status account for only a small part of the observed differences in living arrangements. However, while minority groups as a whole differ substantially from the White population, national ethnic patterns within groups appear to be relatively small. Hispanic ethnic…
Demography of Aging
Biological and social determinants of body size across the life span
Differences in the Use of Health Services by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Elderly
This study examined the importance of place of residence on the elderly's use of health services through Andersen's framework of health service utilization. The study found that nonmetropolitan elderly, both farm and nonfarm, make fewer physician visits than their metropolitan counterparts. This difference is not explained by differences in their predisposing or need characteristics. No residential differences were found in the number of short‐te…
Age Patterns of Mortality and Cause-of-Death Structures in Sweden, Japan, and the United States
This paper uses a new standard model of adult mortality to compare the mortality patterns of Swedes, Japanese, and U.S. whites between 1950 and 1985. It examines changes in the age patterns of mortality and the cause-of-death structures within the populations. and the relationships between those two factors. As Japan has reached a level of mortality similar to that in Sweden, the age patterns of mortality in the two populations have become more s…
A Relational Model of Mortality at Older Ages in Low Mortality Countries
This paper presents a relational model of age-specific death rates at ages 45–99. It is based upon death rates calculated for single years of age and five-year periods from 1950 to 1985 in 16 low-mortality countries. Eighty-two data sets are used in the construction of the model. These data passed a rigorous quality test which involved comparisons of intercensal changes in cohort size with intercensal deaths. Construction of the model is based up…
Applied Demography
Part 1 Introduction: the characteristics of applied demography. Part 2 Basic concepts of applied demography: the basic demographic variables secondary demographic and related socio-economic variables. Part 3 The sources of demographic data for applied analysis: sources of data on basic demographic variables sources of data on secondary demographic and related variables. Part 4 Methods for applied demographic analysis: general demographic measures…
World Mortality Trends Since 1870
Later Phases of the Family Cycle
Demographic Conditions Responsible for Population Aging
This article develops and applies two expressions for the rate of change of a population's mean age. In one, aging is shown to be negatively related to contemporary birth rates and death rates. In a general sense, aging occurs when vital rates are too low, as illustrated through applications to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan. The other expression relates the rate of aging to a population's demographic history, in particular to chan…
Demographic Conditions Responsible for Population Aging
This article develops and applies two expressions for the rate of change of a population's mean age. In one, aging is shown to be negatively related to contemporary birth rates and death rates. In a general sense, aging occurs when vital rates are too low, as illustrated through applications to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan. The other expression relates the rate of aging to a population's demographic history, in particular to chan…
Living Arrangements of Minority Elders
We used 1990 census data to examine differences in the current living arrangements of minority elderly. We found that differences among the minority populations in age, sex, and marital status account for only a small part of the observed differences in living arrangements. However, while minority groups as a whole differ substantially from the White population, national ethnic patterns within groups appear to be relatively small. Hispanic ethnic…
Obesity, disease, and functional limitation in later life
Little is known about the effects of obesity late in life. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Aging and the Assets and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old Survey, this study finds an increased prevalence of obesity, over time, among those 70 and older. Obesity is related most strongly to limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) for women and to activities related to mobility. One ADL, eating, has a negative association to obesity. Ob…
A Relational Model of Mortality at Older Ages in Low Mortality Countries
This paper presents a relational model of age-specific death rates at ages 45–99. It is based upon death rates calculated for single years of age and five-year periods from 1950 to 1985 in 16 low-mortality countries. Eighty-two data sets are used in the construction of the model. These data passed a rigorous quality test which involved comparisons of intercensal changes in cohort size with intercensal deaths. Construction of the model is based up…
Immigrant and Non‐immigrant Living Arrangements Among America's White, Hispanic, and Asian Elderly Population
Do the living arrangements of immigrant elderly differ significantly from those for non‐immigrant elderly? If so, are differences between immigrants and non‐immigrants due to population composition or immigration‐based cultural preferences? To answer these questions this research examines the living arrangements of Non‐Hispanic White, Hispanic, and Asian elderly using data from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). The standardization and …
The changing relationship between obesity and educational status
Cohort Differences in Adult Obesity in the United States
Although increasing diversity in the older population will probably result in higher rates of obesity in the future, increasingly sedentary lives and the uncertain impact of smoking cessation on weight outweigh population composition effects. More research is needed on the impact of lifestyle behaviors on the American population
Linking Social Gerontology with Quantitative Skills
Dans cet article, les AA. font part d'un exercice pedagogique lie a l'interpretation de donnees en gerontologie sociale. Les etudiants ont eu pour tâche d'expliquer et comparer des donnees brutes de recensement de la population âgee de deux etats americains. Les AA. soulignent ici l'importance de l'utilisation des outils quantitatifs, et le recul necessaire face a un afflux de donnees, dans la pratique interpretative inherente au cursus universit…
The Influence of Caregiving and Employment on the Voluntary Activities of Midlife and Older Women
One factor thought to contribute to higher levels of stress among caregivers is the restriction on personal time and leisure activities that they feel. We use data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to examine the influences that caregiving, the relationship of the care-recipient with the caregiver, and the intensity of the caregiving have on women's participation in personal, family-centered, and community activities. We …
Age Patterns of Mortality and Cause-of-Death Structures in Sweden, Japan, and the United States
This paper uses a new standard model of adult mortality to compare the mortality patterns of Swedes, Japanese, and U.S. whites between 1950 and 1985. It examines changes in the age patterns of mortality and the cause-of-death structures within the populations. and the relationships between those two factors. As Japan has reached a level of mortality similar to that in Sweden, the age patterns of mortality in the two populations have become more s…
Nursing home entry in Germany and the United States
Linking Benefits to Marital Status
In the US, marital status is more important than work history in determining economic security for many older women. Two-thirds of older women in the US receive spouse or widow Social Security benefits. These benefits generally require recipients to be currently married or to have had a ten-year marriage. Declining marriage rates, coupled with shorter marriages, dramatically change the distributional impact of these benefits on each cohort as the…
Killer Fat
Biological and social determinants of body size across the life span
Demographic Conditions Responsible for Population Aging
This article develops and applies two expressions for the rate of change of a population's mean age. In one, aging is shown to be negatively related to contemporary birth rates and death rates. In a general sense, aging occurs when vital rates are too low, as illustrated through applications to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan. The other expression relates the rate of aging to a population's demographic history, in particular to chan…
Later Phases of the Family Cycle
Applied Demography
Part 1 Introduction: the characteristics of applied demography. Part 2 Basic concepts of applied demography: the basic demographic variables secondary demographic and related socio-economic variables. Part 3 The sources of demographic data for applied analysis: sources of data on basic demographic variables sources of data on secondary demographic and related variables. Part 4 Methods for applied demographic analysis: general demographic measures…
World Mortality Trends Since 1870
Differences in the Use of Health Services by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Elderly
This study examined the importance of place of residence on the elderly's use of health services through Andersen's framework of health service utilization. The study found that nonmetropolitan elderly, both farm and nonfarm, make fewer physician visits than their metropolitan counterparts. This difference is not explained by differences in their predisposing or need characteristics. No residential differences were found in the number of short‐te…
Age Patterns of Mortality and Cause-of-Death Structures in Sweden, Japan, and the United States
This paper uses a new standard model of adult mortality to compare the mortality patterns of Swedes, Japanese, and U.S. whites between 1950 and 1985. It examines changes in the age patterns of mortality and the cause-of-death structures within the populations. and the relationships between those two factors. As Japan has reached a level of mortality similar to that in Sweden, the age patterns of mortality in the two populations have become more s…
A Relational Model of Mortality at Older Ages in Low Mortality Countries
This paper presents a relational model of age-specific death rates at ages 45–99. It is based upon death rates calculated for single years of age and five-year periods from 1950 to 1985 in 16 low-mortality countries. Eighty-two data sets are used in the construction of the model. These data passed a rigorous quality test which involved comparisons of intercensal changes in cohort size with intercensal deaths. Construction of the model is based up…
Biological and social determinants of body size across the life span
Living Arrangements of Minority Elders
We used 1990 census data to examine differences in the current living arrangements of minority elderly. We found that differences among the minority populations in age, sex, and marital status account for only a small part of the observed differences in living arrangements. However, while minority groups as a whole differ substantially from the White population, national ethnic patterns within groups appear to be relatively small. Hispanic ethnic…
Demography of Aging
The Influence of Caregiving and Employment on the Voluntary Activities of Midlife and Older Women
One factor thought to contribute to higher levels of stress among caregivers is the restriction on personal time and leisure activities that they feel. We use data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to examine the influences that caregiving, the relationship of the care-recipient with the caregiver, and the intensity of the caregiving have on women's participation in personal, family-centered, and community activities. We …
Immigrant and Non‐immigrant Living Arrangements Among America's White, Hispanic, and Asian Elderly Population
Do the living arrangements of immigrant elderly differ significantly from those for non‐immigrant elderly? If so, are differences between immigrants and non‐immigrants due to population composition or immigration‐based cultural preferences? To answer these questions this research examines the living arrangements of Non‐Hispanic White, Hispanic, and Asian elderly using data from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). The standardization and …
Nursing home entry in Germany and the United States
Obesity, disease, and functional limitation in later life
Little is known about the effects of obesity late in life. Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Aging and the Assets and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old Survey, this study finds an increased prevalence of obesity, over time, among those 70 and older. Obesity is related most strongly to limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) for women and to activities related to mobility. One ADL, eating, has a negative association to obesity. Ob…
Applied Demography
Scope and Methods of Applied Demography. Recent Population Trends and Prospects and Interrelations with Selected Social and Economic Programs. Basic Sources of Demographic and Socioeconomic Data and Ways of Accessing Them. Limitations of Census and Survey Data. Geodemography: Geographic Area Concepts and Information Systems for Demographic Applications. Demographic Applications in Business Planning. Demographic Applications to Government and Priv…
Linking Social Gerontology with Quantitative Skills
Dans cet article, les AA. font part d'un exercice pedagogique lie a l'interpretation de donnees en gerontologie sociale. Les etudiants ont eu pour tâche d'expliquer et comparer des donnees brutes de recensement de la population âgee de deux etats americains. Les AA. soulignent ici l'importance de l'utilisation des outils quantitatifs, et le recul necessaire face a un afflux de donnees, dans la pratique interpretative inherente au cursus universit…
Linking Benefits to Marital Status
In the US, marital status is more important than work history in determining economic security for many older women. Two-thirds of older women in the US receive spouse or widow Social Security benefits. These benefits generally require recipients to be currently married or to have had a ten-year marriage. Declining marriage rates, coupled with shorter marriages, dramatically change the distributional impact of these benefits on each cohort as the…
The changing relationship between obesity and educational status
Cohort Differences in Adult Obesity in the United States
Although increasing diversity in the older population will probably result in higher rates of obesity in the future, increasingly sedentary lives and the uncertain impact of smoking cessation on weight outweigh population composition effects. More research is needed on the impact of lifestyle behaviors on the American population
Killer Fat
Aging and Health in Old Age
The difference in stigmatizing attributions toward older adults with or without Alzheimer’s disease
Medicine (16 works) · Demography (15 works) · Gerontology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works)