Engaging Communities, Advancing Research
The USC Roybal Institute maintains a regularly updated database of academic literature and relevant research reports that are published by its faculty. The online library is not intended to be exhaustive, but we hope it provides useful information for researchers, policy advocates, health service providers and others who wish to learn more about aging and diverse populations.
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Reserachers conducted a literature search in the databases Pubmed and PsycInfo and identified 31 relevant studies using a broad spectrum of methods and neuropsychological instruments.
Latent class analysis revealed 5 types of intergenerational relations in rural Chinese families: (a) tight-knit, (b) nearby but discordant, (c) distant discordant, (d) distant reciprocal, and (e) distant ascending.
Researchers followed more than 350 families composed of more than 3,500 individuals to find out how religion is, or is not, passed down from one generation to the next.
People in the lower income areas had more limited choices for formal long-term care services overall.
The study finds that there are significant differences in the age-net transfers pattern across European welfare regimes.
This study provides a context for understanding social support and primary spousal caregiving for elders in Chinese culture.
Among other results, researchers find that higher levels of depressive symptoms were associated with more chronic health conditions, greater functional disability, and lower levels of sense of mastery, social network, and acculturation.
The study explores the multiple employment barriers that Korean immigrants face, which lead to limited job opportunities and employment discontinuity.
The study finds that black people living in U.S. Virgin Islands have lowers cardiovascular diseases prevalence than black people living in the United States.
The study finds that older adults who had a paid job, provided family assistance, or volunteered reported significantly lower levels of depression and better self-rated health.
