J L Locher
Biographic Data
| ID | 732366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J L Locher |
| GIVEN NAMES | J L |
| FAMILY NAME | Locher |
| SIGNATURE | LOCHER J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2639-6459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Grandparenting and Physical Activity
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine a continuum of grandparenting intensity and its association with physical activity using three perspectives: grandparents are active, the more constraints perspective, and the selection bias perspective . Method: We use 2014 data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally-representative panel study of the US population over the age of 50 and their spouses ( n = 17,851). Results: We fou…
Social and Demographic Predictors of Nutritional Risk: Cross-sectional Analyses From the UAB Study of Aging II
Social factors may disparately affect access to food and nutritional risk among older adults by race and gender. This study assesses these associations using the Mini Nutritional Assessment among 414 community-dwelling persons 75+ years of age in Alabama. Descriptive analyses on the full sample and by African American men, African American women, white men, and white women showed that mean scores for the full Mini Nutritional Assessment differed …
Distinct age and self-rated health crossover mortality effects for African Americans: Evidence from a national cohort study
Alone at the Table: Food Behavior and the Loss of Commensality in Widowhood: Table 1
Eating alone symbolized loss and was less enjoyable, yet the pleasure experienced with food was intact. Focusing on the pleasure of eating may help support women when they lose regular commensality late in life. Free from the commitment of commensality, some shifted away from regular meals and simplified their meal preparation strategies. This has implications for clinical and research endeavors
Food behavior change in late-life widowhood: A two-stage process
The influence of gender, age, education and household size on meal preparation and food shopping responsibilities
Objective To examine the extent to which the gendered division of labour persists within households in the USA in regard to meal planning/preparation and food shopping activities. Design Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data. Setting 2007–2008 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Subjects Sub-sample of 3195 adults at least 20 years old who had a spouse or partner. Results Analyses revealed that the majority of women and men r…
A History of Fear of Food. Why We Worry About What We Eat: By Harvey Levenstein
Favorite foods of older adults living in the Black Belt Region of the United States. Influences of ethnicity, gender, and education
Measuring Symptoms in Community-dwelling Older Adults: The Psychometric Properties of a Brief Symptom Screen
BACKGROUND: With aging, the probability of experiencing multiple chronic conditions has increased, along with symptoms associated with these conditions. Symptoms form a central component of illness burden, and distress. To date, most symptom measures have focused on a particular disease population. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to develop and evaluate a simple symptom screen using data obtained from a representative sample of community-dwelling older adult…
Recruitment of volunteers for a home-delivered meals programme serving homebound older adults: A theoretically derived programme among faith communities
Objective Home-delivered nutrition programmes that are federally subsidized by the US Administration on Aging seek to ensure that socially isolated older adults who are unable to purchase and prepare their own food have nutritious meals delivered to them regularly by both employed and volunteer staff. Unfortunately, there are long waiting lists in some neighbourhoods that are often due to a shortage of volunteers. The present paper describes a th…
The Effects of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 on Home Health and Hospice in Older Adult Cancer Patients
BACKGROUND: Home health and hospice services can constitute important elements in the continuum of care for older adults diagnosed with cancer. The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 included provisions affecting those services. OBJECTIVES: The first objective of this study is to assess the effect of the BBA of 1997 on home health and hospice service utilization in older cancer patients. The second objective is to estimate the effect of the BBA of…
Comfort Foods: An Exploratory Journey Into The Social and Emotional Significance of Food
This paper uses symbolic interactionist and structuralist perspectives to examine the social construction of some food objects as “comfort foods,” highlighting how cultural studies of food should take into account its social and physiological dimensions. This study's empirical findings are based upon the food items brought to class by 264 undergraduate students at a southeastern university in the United States. Comfort foods are classified into f…
Social isolation, support, and capital and nutritional risk in an older sample: Ethnic and Gender Differences
Psychological Improvements Associated With Behavioral and Drug Treatment of Urge Incontinence in Older Women
The purpose of this study was to explore changes in psychological distress associated with behavioral treatment and drug treatment for urge incontinence in community-dwelling older women. Participants were 197 ambulatory, nondemented women (aged 55 years or older) with persistent urge urinary incontinence. Participants were patients in a randomized clinical trial comparing biofeedback-assisted behavioral treatment, drug treatment with oxybutynin …
Adult Development, Control, and Adaptive Functioning
This article examines variations in control over the adult life course and their relation to adaptive functioning. First, normative adult physical declines and the age‐graded structure of western societies are described, in order to identify biological and societal constraints on exercising primary control. The central theme of this article is that primary control first increases as humans develop from infancy through middle age and then decrease…
The World of M. C. Escher
Veranderende Europese visie op een buiteneuropese wereld
Social isolation, support, and capital and nutritional risk in an older sample: Ethnic and Gender Differences
Comfort Foods: An Exploratory Journey Into The Social and Emotional Significance of Food
This paper uses symbolic interactionist and structuralist perspectives to examine the social construction of some food objects as “comfort foods,” highlighting how cultural studies of food should take into account its social and physiological dimensions. This study's empirical findings are based upon the food items brought to class by 264 undergraduate students at a southeastern university in the United States. Comfort foods are classified into f…
Alone at the Table: Food Behavior and the Loss of Commensality in Widowhood: Table 1
Eating alone symbolized loss and was less enjoyable, yet the pleasure experienced with food was intact. Focusing on the pleasure of eating may help support women when they lose regular commensality late in life. Free from the commitment of commensality, some shifted away from regular meals and simplified their meal preparation strategies. This has implications for clinical and research endeavors
Food behavior change in late-life widowhood: A two-stage process
Favorite foods of older adults living in the Black Belt Region of the United States. Influences of ethnicity, gender, and education
Distinct age and self-rated health crossover mortality effects for African Americans: Evidence from a national cohort study
Adult Development, Control, and Adaptive Functioning
This article examines variations in control over the adult life course and their relation to adaptive functioning. First, normative adult physical declines and the age‐graded structure of western societies are described, in order to identify biological and societal constraints on exercising primary control. The central theme of this article is that primary control first increases as humans develop from infancy through middle age and then decrease…
Psychological Improvements Associated With Behavioral and Drug Treatment of Urge Incontinence in Older Women
The purpose of this study was to explore changes in psychological distress associated with behavioral treatment and drug treatment for urge incontinence in community-dwelling older women. Participants were 197 ambulatory, nondemented women (aged 55 years or older) with persistent urge urinary incontinence. Participants were patients in a randomized clinical trial comparing biofeedback-assisted behavioral treatment, drug treatment with oxybutynin …
Veranderende Europese visie op een buiteneuropese wereld
The World of M. C. Escher
Adult Development, Control, and Adaptive Functioning
This article examines variations in control over the adult life course and their relation to adaptive functioning. First, normative adult physical declines and the age‐graded structure of western societies are described, in order to identify biological and societal constraints on exercising primary control. The central theme of this article is that primary control first increases as humans develop from infancy through middle age and then decrease…
Psychological Improvements Associated With Behavioral and Drug Treatment of Urge Incontinence in Older Women
The purpose of this study was to explore changes in psychological distress associated with behavioral treatment and drug treatment for urge incontinence in community-dwelling older women. Participants were 197 ambulatory, nondemented women (aged 55 years or older) with persistent urge urinary incontinence. Participants were patients in a randomized clinical trial comparing biofeedback-assisted behavioral treatment, drug treatment with oxybutynin …
Comfort Foods: An Exploratory Journey Into The Social and Emotional Significance of Food
This paper uses symbolic interactionist and structuralist perspectives to examine the social construction of some food objects as “comfort foods,” highlighting how cultural studies of food should take into account its social and physiological dimensions. This study's empirical findings are based upon the food items brought to class by 264 undergraduate students at a southeastern university in the United States. Comfort foods are classified into f…
Social isolation, support, and capital and nutritional risk in an older sample: Ethnic and Gender Differences
The Effects of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 on Home Health and Hospice in Older Adult Cancer Patients
BACKGROUND: Home health and hospice services can constitute important elements in the continuum of care for older adults diagnosed with cancer. The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 included provisions affecting those services. OBJECTIVES: The first objective of this study is to assess the effect of the BBA of 1997 on home health and hospice service utilization in older cancer patients. The second objective is to estimate the effect of the BBA of…
Recruitment of volunteers for a home-delivered meals programme serving homebound older adults: A theoretically derived programme among faith communities
Objective Home-delivered nutrition programmes that are federally subsidized by the US Administration on Aging seek to ensure that socially isolated older adults who are unable to purchase and prepare their own food have nutritious meals delivered to them regularly by both employed and volunteer staff. Unfortunately, there are long waiting lists in some neighbourhoods that are often due to a shortage of volunteers. The present paper describes a th…
A History of Fear of Food. Why We Worry About What We Eat: By Harvey Levenstein
Favorite foods of older adults living in the Black Belt Region of the United States. Influences of ethnicity, gender, and education
Measuring Symptoms in Community-dwelling Older Adults: The Psychometric Properties of a Brief Symptom Screen
BACKGROUND: With aging, the probability of experiencing multiple chronic conditions has increased, along with symptoms associated with these conditions. Symptoms form a central component of illness burden, and distress. To date, most symptom measures have focused on a particular disease population. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to develop and evaluate a simple symptom screen using data obtained from a representative sample of community-dwelling older adult…
The influence of gender, age, education and household size on meal preparation and food shopping responsibilities
Objective To examine the extent to which the gendered division of labour persists within households in the USA in regard to meal planning/preparation and food shopping activities. Design Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data. Setting 2007–2008 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Subjects Sub-sample of 3195 adults at least 20 years old who had a spouse or partner. Results Analyses revealed that the majority of women and men r…
Alone at the Table: Food Behavior and the Loss of Commensality in Widowhood: Table 1
Eating alone symbolized loss and was less enjoyable, yet the pleasure experienced with food was intact. Focusing on the pleasure of eating may help support women when they lose regular commensality late in life. Free from the commitment of commensality, some shifted away from regular meals and simplified their meal preparation strategies. This has implications for clinical and research endeavors
Food behavior change in late-life widowhood: A two-stage process
Distinct age and self-rated health crossover mortality effects for African Americans: Evidence from a national cohort study
Social and Demographic Predictors of Nutritional Risk: Cross-sectional Analyses From the UAB Study of Aging II
Social factors may disparately affect access to food and nutritional risk among older adults by race and gender. This study assesses these associations using the Mini Nutritional Assessment among 414 community-dwelling persons 75+ years of age in Alabama. Descriptive analyses on the full sample and by African American men, African American women, white men, and white women showed that mean scores for the full Mini Nutritional Assessment differed …
Grandparenting and Physical Activity
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine a continuum of grandparenting intensity and its association with physical activity using three perspectives: grandparents are active, the more constraints perspective, and the selection bias perspective . Method: We use 2014 data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally-representative panel study of the US population over the age of 50 and their spouses ( n = 17,851). Results: We fou…
Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works)