Esther M Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3926636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther M Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther M |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Future Availability of Family Caregivers: Implications for Late-Life Care Gaps
Discussions about future care needs of U.S. older adults have frequently called attention to ongoing changes in families as the harbinger of a looming family care shortfall. To explore this premise, we paired estimates from the National Health and Aging Trends Study with projections of kinship patterns by age, sex, race through 2040. We defined care gaps in two complementary ways: the number of older adults with care needs who have (1) no family …
Perceived loss of support to community caregivers during the Covid‐19 pandemic in the United States
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had a negative impact on the health and well-being of community caregivers. Few studies examine the pandemic's negative impact on the availability of social networks of caregivers. This article uses data collected during COVID-19 before vaccination to examine caregivers' reports of perceived lost and reduced network support. We assessed the personal networks of a nationally representative sample of 2214 community ca…
Work Performance Among Informal Caregivers: A Review of the Literature
Objectives: To examine the association between informal caregiving and caregiver work performance. Method: A systematized review of the literature. Results: We found that caregiving has an adverse impact on work performance: caregivers experience substantial work disruptions and negative work performance outcomes, and these findings were consistent across measures. Our synthesis suggests that caregivers miss a significant amount of work and have …
Early-Life Adversity and Dysregulation of Adult Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm
Early-life adversity appears to leave a long-term imprint on cortisol secretion dynamics, reducing diurnal dynamic range without increasing total secretion. This points to the importance of examining the adaptation capacity of physiological systems when studying the impact of early-life and chronic stresses on adult health
Neighborhood age structure and cognitive function in a nationally-representative sample of older adults in the U.S
Early Life Adversity and Adult Biological Risk Profiles
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether there is a relationship between early life adversity (ELA) and biological parameters known to predict health risks and to examine the extent to which circumstances in midlife mediate this relationship. METHODS: We analyzed data on 1180 respondents from the biomarker subsample of the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. ELA assessments were based on childhood socioeconomic…
Childhood Adversities and Adult Cardiometabolic Health: Does the Quantity, Timing, and Type of Adversity Matter
Findings demonstrate the insights that can be gleaned about the early-life origins of adult health by examining operationalization of childhood exposures
Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated With a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults
Although some health conditions precipitate moves among middle-aged and older adults, others do not. This work has important implications for understanding the role of different aspects of health and functioning in the likelihood of migration among older adults
Neighbourhood racial/ethnic composition and segregation and trajectories of cognitive decline among US older adults
BACKGROUND: The influence of the sociodemographic context of one's environment on cognitive ageing is not well understood. METHODS: We examined differences in cognitive trajectories according to the racial/ethnic characteristics of the residential environment. On the basis of 63 996 person-years of data from a nationally representative cohort of 6150 adults over the age of 50 years from the Health and Retirement Study, we used multivariate linear…
Educational attainment and adult health: Under what conditions is the association causal
Good friends, good food … what more could we want? Assessing the links between social relationships and dietary behaviors. A commentary on Conklin et al
The Schooling of Offspring and the Survival of Parents
Contemporary stratification research on developed societies usually views the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage as a one-way effect from parent to child. However, parents’ investment in their offspring’s schooling may yield significant returns for parents themselves in later life. For instance, well-educated offspring have greater knowledge of health and technology to share with their parents and more financial means to prov…
Social strain and cortisol regulation in midlife in the US
The Schooling of Offspring and the Survival of Parents
Contemporary stratification research on developed societies usually views the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage as a one-way effect from parent to child. However, parents’ investment in their offspring’s schooling may yield significant returns for parents themselves in later life. For instance, well-educated offspring have greater knowledge of health and technology to share with their parents and more financial means to prov…
Educational attainment and adult health: Under what conditions is the association causal
Social strain and cortisol regulation in midlife in the US
Childhood Adversities and Adult Cardiometabolic Health: Does the Quantity, Timing, and Type of Adversity Matter
Findings demonstrate the insights that can be gleaned about the early-life origins of adult health by examining operationalization of childhood exposures
Neighborhood age structure and cognitive function in a nationally-representative sample of older adults in the U.S
Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated With a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults
Although some health conditions precipitate moves among middle-aged and older adults, others do not. This work has important implications for understanding the role of different aspects of health and functioning in the likelihood of migration among older adults
Early-Life Adversity and Dysregulation of Adult Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm
Early-life adversity appears to leave a long-term imprint on cortisol secretion dynamics, reducing diurnal dynamic range without increasing total secretion. This points to the importance of examining the adaptation capacity of physiological systems when studying the impact of early-life and chronic stresses on adult health
Perceived loss of support to community caregivers during the Covid‐19 pandemic in the United States
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had a negative impact on the health and well-being of community caregivers. Few studies examine the pandemic's negative impact on the availability of social networks of caregivers. This article uses data collected during COVID-19 before vaccination to examine caregivers' reports of perceived lost and reduced network support. We assessed the personal networks of a nationally representative sample of 2214 community ca…
Neighbourhood racial/ethnic composition and segregation and trajectories of cognitive decline among US older adults
BACKGROUND: The influence of the sociodemographic context of one's environment on cognitive ageing is not well understood. METHODS: We examined differences in cognitive trajectories according to the racial/ethnic characteristics of the residential environment. On the basis of 63 996 person-years of data from a nationally representative cohort of 6150 adults over the age of 50 years from the Health and Retirement Study, we used multivariate linear…
Social strain and cortisol regulation in midlife in the US
Good friends, good food … what more could we want? Assessing the links between social relationships and dietary behaviors. A commentary on Conklin et al
The Schooling of Offspring and the Survival of Parents
Contemporary stratification research on developed societies usually views the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage as a one-way effect from parent to child. However, parents’ investment in their offspring’s schooling may yield significant returns for parents themselves in later life. For instance, well-educated offspring have greater knowledge of health and technology to share with their parents and more financial means to prov…
Early Life Adversity and Adult Biological Risk Profiles
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether there is a relationship between early life adversity (ELA) and biological parameters known to predict health risks and to examine the extent to which circumstances in midlife mediate this relationship. METHODS: We analyzed data on 1180 respondents from the biomarker subsample of the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. ELA assessments were based on childhood socioeconomic…
Childhood Adversities and Adult Cardiometabolic Health: Does the Quantity, Timing, and Type of Adversity Matter
Findings demonstrate the insights that can be gleaned about the early-life origins of adult health by examining operationalization of childhood exposures
Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated With a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults
Although some health conditions precipitate moves among middle-aged and older adults, others do not. This work has important implications for understanding the role of different aspects of health and functioning in the likelihood of migration among older adults
Neighbourhood racial/ethnic composition and segregation and trajectories of cognitive decline among US older adults
BACKGROUND: The influence of the sociodemographic context of one's environment on cognitive ageing is not well understood. METHODS: We examined differences in cognitive trajectories according to the racial/ethnic characteristics of the residential environment. On the basis of 63 996 person-years of data from a nationally representative cohort of 6150 adults over the age of 50 years from the Health and Retirement Study, we used multivariate linear…
Educational attainment and adult health: Under what conditions is the association causal
Neighborhood age structure and cognitive function in a nationally-representative sample of older adults in the U.S
Early-Life Adversity and Dysregulation of Adult Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm
Early-life adversity appears to leave a long-term imprint on cortisol secretion dynamics, reducing diurnal dynamic range without increasing total secretion. This points to the importance of examining the adaptation capacity of physiological systems when studying the impact of early-life and chronic stresses on adult health
Work Performance Among Informal Caregivers: A Review of the Literature
Objectives: To examine the association between informal caregiving and caregiver work performance. Method: A systematized review of the literature. Results: We found that caregiving has an adverse impact on work performance: caregivers experience substantial work disruptions and negative work performance outcomes, and these findings were consistent across measures. Our synthesis suggests that caregivers miss a significant amount of work and have …
Perceived loss of support to community caregivers during the Covid‐19 pandemic in the United States
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had a negative impact on the health and well-being of community caregivers. Few studies examine the pandemic's negative impact on the availability of social networks of caregivers. This article uses data collected during COVID-19 before vaccination to examine caregivers' reports of perceived lost and reduced network support. We assessed the personal networks of a nationally representative sample of 2214 community ca…
The Future Availability of Family Caregivers: Implications for Late-Life Care Gaps
Discussions about future care needs of U.S. older adults have frequently called attention to ongoing changes in families as the harbinger of a looming family care shortfall. To explore this premise, we paired estimates from the National Health and Aging Trends Study with projections of kinship patterns by age, sex, race through 2040. We defined care gaps in two complementary ways: the number of older adults with care needs who have (1) no family …
Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Demography (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works)