Researching Social Gerontology

VOLUME ONE: AGEING AND PLACES PART ONE: HOME AND HOUSING The Home Environment of Older People - Robert Rubinstein A Description of the Psychosocial Processes Linking Person to Place Situating 'Home' at the Nexus of the Public and Private Spheres - Anne Martin-Matthews Ageing, Gender and Home Support Work in Canada The Home as a Site for Long-Term Care - Isabel Dyck et al Meanings and Management of Bodies and Spaces Relationships between Housing and Health Aging in Very Old Age - Frank Oswald et al The Outcomes of Re-Housing Older Homeless People - Maureen Crane and Anthony Warnes A Longitudinal Study PART TWO: NEIGHBORHOODS The Surveillance Zone as Meaningful Space for the Aged - Graham Rowles The Contributions of Race, Individual Socioeconomic Status and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context on the Self-Rated Health Trajectories and Mortality of Older Adults - Li Yao and Stephanie Robert Neighborhood-Level Cohesion and Disorder - Kathleen Cagney et al Measurement and Validation in Two Older Adult Urban Populations The Relationship of Built Environment to Perceived Social Support and Psychological Distress in Hispanic Elders - Scott Brown et al The Role of 'Eyes on the Street' Natural Neighborhood Networks - Paula Gardner Important Social Networks in the Lives of Older Adults Aging in Place PART THREE: COMMUNITIES Becoming 'at Home' in Assisted-Living Residences - Malcolm Cutchin, Steven Owen and Pei-Fen Chang Exploring Place Integration Processes Managing Decline in Assisted Living - Mary Ball et al The Key to Aging in Place A City within a City - Mary Byrnes A 'Snapshot' of Aging in a HUD 202 in Detroit, Michigan These White Walls - Kevin McHugh and Elizabeth Larson-Keagy The Dialectic of Retirement Communities 'This Is Where We Buried Our Sons' - Janet Seeley et al People of Advanced Old Age Coping with the Impact of the AIDS Epidemic in a Resource-Poor Setting in Rural Uganda PART FOUR : MIGRATION Predictors of Non-Local Moves among Older Adults - Charles Longino et al A Prospective Study How Left behind Are Rural Parents of Migrant Children? Evidence from Thailand - John Knodel et al Contribution of Residential Relocation and Lifestyle to the Structure of Health Trajectories - Song-lee Hong and Li-Mei Chen There's No Place Like Home - Joseph Sabia A Hazard Model Analysis of Aging in Place among Older Home Owners in the PSID VOLUME TWO: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND AGEING PART ONE: FAMILY AND FICTIVE KIN Challenges in Moving from Macro to Micro - Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild Hagestad Population and Family Structures in Ageing Societies Intergenerational Co-Residence and Family Transitions in the United States, 1850-1880 - Steven Ruggles Beyond the Nuclear Family - Vern Bengston The Increasing Importance of Multigenerational Bonds Grandparent-Grandchild Ties - Candace Kemp Reflections on Continuity and Change across Three Generations Perspectives on Extended Family and Fictive Kin in the Later Years - Katherine Allen, Rosemary Bleiszner and Karen Roberto Strategies and Meanings of Kin Re-Interpretation PART TWO: FRIENDSHIP Gender and Friendship Norms among Older Adults - Diane Felmlee and Anna Muraco Friendships among People with Dementia in Long-Term Care - Kate de Medeiros et al PART THREE: CARE AND CAREGIVING RELATIONSHIPS Family Responsibility and Caregiving in the Qualitative Analysis of the Alzheimer's Disease Experience - Jaber Gubrium The Health Implications of Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren in China - Feinian Chen and Guangya Liu Does Providing Tangible Support to Children Enhance Life Satisfaction of Older Chinese Women? The Role of Perceived Filial Piety of Children - Man Guo and Iris Chi Emotional Health of Black and White Dementia Caregivers - Ishan Williams A Contextual Examination Growing Old in the Era of a High Prevalence of HIV/AIDS - Chantal Munthree and Pranitha Maharaj The Impact of AIDS on the Older Men and Women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa A Framework for Categorizing Social Interactions Related to End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes - Mercedes Berg-Klug PART FOUR: SOCIAL ROLES, NETWORKS AND RESOURCES The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course - Philippa Clarke et al Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging Profiles of Social Relations among Older Adults - Katherine Fiori, Toni Antonucci and Hiroko Akiyama A Cross-Cultural Approach Gender, Marital Status and Ageing - Sara Arber Linking Material, Health and Social Resources Financial Strain, Negative Social Interaction and Self-Related Health - Neal Krause, Jason Newsom and Karen Rook Evidence from Two United States Nationwide Longitudinal Surveys PART FIVE: SOCIAL CONTACT AND ENGAGEMENT Age Trends in Daily Social Contact Patterns - Benjamin Cornwell Age and Loneliness in 25 European Nations - Keming Yang and Christina Victor Civic Engagement among Older Chinese Internet Users - Bo Xie Writing about Age, Birthdays and the Passage of Time - Bill Bytheway VOLUME THREE: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, THE LIFE COURSE AND AGEING PART ONE: THE STATE AND SOCIAL POLICY The Devolution of Risk and the Changing Life Course in the United States - Angela O'Rand State Care Provision, Societal Opinion and Children's Care of Older Parents in 11 European Countries - Klaus Haberkern and Marc Szydlik Inter-Generational Transfers of Time and Money in European Families - Marco Albertini, Martin Kohli and Claudia Vogel Common Patterns - Different Regimes? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy - Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren and Sheera Joy Olasky PART TWO: WORK AND THE LIFE COURSE Reasoning with Case Studies - Victor Marshall Issues of an Aging Workforce Generational Affinities and Discourses of Difference - Julie Ann McMullin, Tammy Duerden Comeau and Emily Jovic A Case Study of Highly Skilled Information Technology Workers Labour Market Transitions and the Erosion of the Fordist Lifecycle - Jill Quadagno, Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg Discarding Older Workers in the Automobile Manufacturing and Banking Industries in the United States Age Discrimination, Social Closure and Employment - Vincent Rosigno et al Changing Employment Patterns of Women in Germany - Julia Simonson, Laura Romeu Gordo and Nadiya Titova How Do Baby Boomers Differ from Other Cohorts? A Comparison Using Sequence Analysis PART THREE: RETIREMENT, INCOME AND INEQUALITY Incorporating Diversity - Toni Calasanti Meaning, Levels of Research and Implications for Theory Leisure Activities and Retirement - Simone Scherger, James Nazroo and Paul Higgs Do Structures of Inequality Change in Old Age? Shifts in Public-Private Provision of Retirement Income - Brian Gran A Four-Country Comparison Retirement and Wealth Relationships - Gabriela Topa et al Meta-Analysis and SEM PART FOUR: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTIONS Inspection Visits in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly - Cristina Flores, Alan Bostrom and Robert Newcomer The Effects of a Policy Change in California The 'Regulated Death' - Katherine Froggatt A Documentary Analysis of the Regulation and Inspection of Dying and Death in English Care Homes for Older People Substitution between Formal and Informal Care - Linda Pickard A 'Natural Experiment' in Social Policy in Britain between 1985 and 2000 Reconceptualizing the Relationship between 'Public' and 'Private' Elder Care - Catherine Ward-Griffin and Victor Marshall Medicaid Cost-Savings of Home and Community-Based Service Programs for Older Persons in Florida - Adam Shapiro, Chung-Ping Loh and Glenn Mitchell II PART FIVE: OTHER SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS Aging Contested - John Vincent Anti-Ageing Science and the Cultural Construction of Old Age Association of Religious Participation with Mortality among Chinese Old Adults - Yi Zeng, Danan Gu and Linda George VOLUME FOUR: CROSS-CUTTING EPOSITEMOLOGICAL ISSUES PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL BASES OF INQUIRY Comparative Ageing Research - Clemens Tesch-Roemer and Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz A Flourishing Field in Need of Theoretical Cultivation Stress and the Life Course - Leonard Pearlin and Marilyn McKean Skaff A Paradigmatic Alliance Aging and Cumulative Inequality - Kenneth Ferraro and Tetyana Shippee How Does Inequality Get under the Skin? Identifying Connections between the Subjective Experience of Health and Quality of Life in Old Age - Maria-Eugenia et al Place in Occupational Science - Graham Rowles A Life-Course Perspective on the Role of Environmental Context in the Quest for Meaning Life Stories to Understand Diversity - Janet Giele Variations by Class, Race and Gender PART TWO: DESIGN AND MEASUREMENT Generating Large-Scale Longitudinal Data Resources for Aging Research - John Gallacher and Scott Hofer Instrument Development, Study Design Implementation and Survey Conduct for the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project - Stephen Smith et al Who Participates? Accounting for Longitudinal Retention in the MIDUS National Study of Health and Well-Being - Barry Radler and Carol Ryff Later-Life Mental Health in Europe - George Ploubidis and Emily Grundy A Country-Level Comparison Conceptualization and Measurement of Quality of Life in Dementia - Meryl Brod et al The Dementia Quality of Life Instrument (DQoL) How Valid Are the Responses to Nursing Home Survey Questions? Some Issues and Concerns - Denise Tyler et al PART THREE: CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Cross-Cultural Gerontology Research Methods - Iris Chi Challenges and Solutions Advancing the Science of Recruitment and Retention of Ethnically Diverse Populations - Anna Napoles and Letha Chadiha The Development of Culturally Sensitive Measures for Research on Ageing - Berit Ingersoll-Dayton PART FOUR: PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND ETHICS Culture Change in Long-Term Care - Robin Shura, Rebecca Siders and Dale Dannefer Participatory Action Research and the Role of the Resident Lessons from a Community-Based Participatory Research Project - Martha Doyle and Virpi Timonen Older People's and Researchers' Reflections Interviews on End-of-Life Care with Older People - Sabine Pleschberger et al Reflections on Six European Studies Understanding Aging and Disability Perspectives on Home Care - Phillip Clark Uncovering Facts and Values in Public-Policy Narratives and Discourse