Aging & Social Factors
Positive and Negative Perceptions of Older Workers
As a growing number of older adults find themselves looking for work, it is important to understand how older adults are viewed and treated in…
Unmarried Cohabitating Partners: A Growing Caregiver Population
As the population of older adults in need of care continues to rise, more informal care work is provided by family and friends. Evidence has…
The Evidence-Practice Gap: Drug Trials & Older Patients
Older adults are underrepresented as subjects in drug trial, and this is particularly true for older adults with chronic disease, who represent a rapidly growing…
Mental Health Benefits of Neighborhood for Older Mexican American Men
For all the positive steps we can take for our health—exercise, social engagement, diet—much of our wellbeing is out of our control. A growing body…
Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging Identifies 10 Senior Living Trends
Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging derived 10 top senior living trends after surveying 600 senior living organizations representing more than 1,000 communities from 15 states.…
Clinical Trials Fail to Sufficiently Represent Older Adults
Older adults use the highest proportion of medical and pharmaceutical treatment, but are vastly underrepresented in clinical trial research. A recent review of publications based…
Employment and Aging: Using Large Scale Data To Ask, “Who Works?”
The so-called Great Recession has changed how Americans view work, and not just due to our 10% unemployment rate. Attacks on social security and pensions,…
Why Older Workers are Struggling to Find Work
Researchers at Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College recently released a research brief outlining the employment challenges faced by adults 55 years…
Gender and Aging: What Do We Know?
The popular science press hosts countless reports of sex-based differences between men and women. Magazines, weekend newspapers and email inboxes teem with commentary about statistically…
Aging, Health, and Culture: Two Recent Studies
Two recent articles in the Journal of Gerontology examine culture and its role in assessing well-being. Each article, one published in the Social Science section…
Interviewing Residents on the Decision to Relocate to Nursing Homes
One of the strengths of interview research, and other qualitative methodologies, is that we can empirically study the significance of events to individuals. Quantitative research,…
Examining the Role that Caregivers Play in the Decision to Move to Assisted Living
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte recently published results from a study that examined the family caregiver’s experiences while moving relatives with Alzheimer’s…
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