The study finds that receiving and providing monetary support had a comparable beneficial effect on mothers and fathers, but mothers benefited more psychologically from closer relationships with their children.
Among other results, researchers find that Hispanic respondents who had future nonspousal caregiving help had a much lower likelihood of nursing home use than Hispanics who did not have future caregiving help.
The study finds that family and friend relationships make unique contributions to the well-being of older African Americans.
Data of 1076 nursing home residents having Minimum Data Set for Resident Assessment Instrument (MDS-RAI) assessment records since 2005 from six government-subvented long-term care facilities in Hong Kong were included in this study.
Researchers find that elder mistreatment is significantly associated with 2-week and 12-month suicidal ideation in older women but not in older men.
The study is the first to evaluate the psychometric properties of the pain assessment items of the Hong Kong version of interRAI CHA among community-dwelling elders in Hong Kong.
The study aimed to to analyze the factor structure of the German version of the TFEQ and (II) to examine the association between eating behavior and the body mass index (BMI) in a general population sample of 3,144 middle-aged and older participants (40-79 years).
The study is the first of its kind in an urban population in the eastern part of Germany.
Researchers finds that older individuals showed significantly higher mean scores than the younger ones in the domain of cognitive restraint, but lower mean scores in disinhibition and hunger .
Results from the study suggest that a professional life enriched with work tasks stimulating verbal intelligence and executive functions may help to sustain a good cognitive functioning in old age.
