Later Life (later + life)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Schizophrenia into Later Life: Treatment, Research and Policy.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY, Issue 8 2005
Carl I. Cohen.
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


Moderate Alcohol Consumption in Later Life: Time for a Trial?

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY, Issue 6 2009
Iain A. Lang PhD
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


Family Disruption and Support in Later Life: A Comparative Study Between the United Kingdom and Italy

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 4 2007
Cecilia Tomassini
Global population aging has led to considerable disquiet about future support for frail older people; however, the determinants are poorly understood. Moreover, most industrialized societies have witnessed considerable changes in family behavior (e.g., rises in divorce and declining fertility). Such trends may have adversely affected the support systems of older people; nonetheless, only recently has research begun to address this issue. Employing data from the longitudinal British Household Panel Survey (1991,2003) and the 1998 Indagine Multiscopo sulle Famiglie "Famiglia, soggetti sociali e condizione dell'infanzia," we investigated the association between family disruptions due to divorce, separation, or death and three key dimensions of informal support: (i) frequency of contact with unrelated friends (among all respondents aged 65 years and over); (ii) co-residence with children (among unmarried mothers aged 65 years and over); and (iii) regular or frequent help received from children (e.g., household assistance including care) among parents aged 65 years and over. In addition, we conducted a comparative investigation of the relationship between family disruptions and the use of home care services (i.e., health visitor or district nurse; home help; meals-on-wheels) among parents aged 65 years and over. Our findings suggest that in a culture like the U.K.'s, where relations between kin are primarily influenced by individualistic values, support in later life appears to be primarily related to need, whereas in societies with a strong familistic culture (like Italy's), support is received irrespective of the older person's individual characteristics. [source]


Identifying Mechanisms Underlying the Pain and Disability Relationship in Later Life: What Role Does the Brain Play?

PAIN MEDICINE, Issue 8 2010
Cary Reid MD
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


Quality of Care After Early Childhood Trauma and Well-Being in Later Life: Child Holocaust Survivors Reaching Old Age

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY, Issue 4 2007
Elisheva van der Hal-van Raalte PhD
The link between deprivation and trauma during earliest childhood and psychosocial functioning and health in later life was investigated in a group of child Holocaust survivors. In a nonconvenience sample 203 survivors, born between 1935 and 1944, completed questionnaires on Holocaust survival experience and several inventories on current health, depression, posttraumatic stress, loneliness, and attachment style. Quality of postwar care arrangements and current physical health independently predicted lack of well-being in old age. Loss of parents during the persecution, year of birth of the survivors (being born before or during the war), and memories of the Holocaust did not significantly affect present well-being. Lack of adequate care after the end of World War II is associated with lower well-being of the youngest Holocaust child survivors, even after an intervening period of 60 years. Our study validates Keilson's (1992) concept of "sequential traumatization," and points to the importance of aftertrauma care in decreasing the impact of early childhood trauma. [source]