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.
The project brought together mainstream agencies with ethnic agencies to provide an array of coordinated services to Latino dementia-affected families.
Results from the study of older Black Americans finds that gender, marital status, and extraversion are factors in determining emotional support from relatives and friends.
Among other results, researchers find that all four ethnic groups reported high rates of psychological distress, with Mexican Americans reporting significantly higher rates of depression than Anglo or African Americans.
Drawing from the longest-running longitudinal study of families in the world, the book casts doubt on the conventional wisdom about family decline during the last decades of the twentieth century.
The study examines successful aging among Hong Kong Chinese older adults, defined by four dimensions including functional status, affective status, cognitive status, and productive involvement status.
The study examines the impact of a series of chronic illnesses on change in depressive symptoms among the older people.
The study examines the implications and limitations of the standard Chinese version of PDQ-39.
The study finds that being a woman and dealing with chronic financial strain are among the factors associated with greater depressive symptomatology.
The journal article discusses issues that are especially critical to dementia caregiver research with older racial and ethnic minorities and their familial caregivers, particularly persons of Latino origin.
The study finds that problematic behavior of the dementia-affected person was found to be the most important factor associated with depressive symptoms, followed by poor self-reported health of the caregiver.
