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.
Please Note: Many online journals require registration and payment to access full-length versions of articles. Faculty, students and staff at universities and colleges can often access electronic journals through their online campus library network for free or at a minimal cost. Some public libraries also provide such access to its members. Please contact your public or university library for more information.
This study of older adults in the greater Los Angeles area suggests that Latinos have significantly lower expectations about aging than non-Latino whites and African Americans.
The volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and paradoxically mature approach to theorizing and demonstrates how the development of theory is crucial to the future of family research.
The book contains almost 80 original chapters, commissioned and written by the world’s leading gerontologists from 16 countries and 5 continents; the broad focus of the handbook is on the behavioral and social sciences as well as important contributions from the biological and medical sciences.
Findings from the study underscore a large degree of unmet need in Hong Kong’s hospital-based nurses and social workers who work with the elderly regarding smoking cessation service provision and training.
The study examines how a proposed voucher system could tackle problems in the current system of long-term care.
Researchers find that the prevalence rate of depression among older Chinese adults in Hong Kong is more or less similar to rates found in Western countries.
The study examines the association between diabetes and depression among older Chinese to determine the extent to which depression is mediated by physical disability and diabetes-related comorbid conditions.
Among other results, researchers find that current diagnosis of major depression was associated with a significantly increased risk for attempted suicide.
The study investigates the associations between diabetes and disability in three domains and to determine whether the associations are mediated by diabetes-related complications.
The study suggests that pain is an important predictor of depression in elderly primary care patients.
