Dyadic coping in couples facing chronic physical illness: a systematic review

K Weitkamp, F Feger, SA Landolt, M Roth… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: Chronic physical illness affects not only patients but also their partners. Dyadic
coping (DC)—the ways couples cope in dealing with a stressor such as chronic illness—has …

Relationship intimacy in older couples when one partner has mild cognitive impairment: A qualitative study

T Barak, I Levkovich, L Ayalon - Family Relations, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In this research, we examine perceptions of couple relationships and intimacy
among older couples when one partner is diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) …

Growing into retirement: Longitudinal evidence for the importance of partner support for self-expansion.

JM Tomlinson, BC Feeney, BJ Peters - Psychology and aging, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Retirement can be a turbulent time of life in which people must navigate changes in their
identity from ending a career and beginning a new phase of life. However, retirement can …

For better or for worse: Health and marital quality during midlife

EL Tracy, RL Utz - Journal of Aging and Health, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To examine how changes in health are associated with marital quality over a 20-
year period of midlife. Background: The health benefit associated with marriage (compared …

Doing informal care: Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication technologies in older people's everyday lives

F Andréasson - 2021 - diva-portal.org
Doing informal care : Identity, couplehood, social health and information and communication
technologies in older people’s everyday lives diva-portal.org Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet …

Communal coping and glycemic control: Daily patterns among young adult couples with type 1 diabetes.

JB Yorgason, NM Noorda, D Steeger… - Families, Systems, & …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Introduction: Young adulthood is a time when persons with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) become
more fully responsible for diabetes management. Establishing healthy diabetes routines …

Relationship quality change among partnered older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

JS Wong, S Zhong, H Liu - The Journals of Gerontology: Series …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic dramatically changed
social life, but we know less about whether partnered relationships changed during this time …

Happily ever after or not? Marital quality among culturally diverse older-aged Canadian parents

BA Mitchell, SK Dhillon - Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2023 - utpjournals.press
The quality of partnered relationships is integral to individual and family health and well-
being over the life span. Significant shifts in ethno-cultural diversity, parental roles, and …

Assessing spousal support and health in an aging population: Support and strain amidst changing social dynamics

M Hung, MW Voss, J Bounsanga, T Graff… - Social Work in Health …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the role of relationship quality on physical and psychological health
among older adults. It included 2,298 adults aged 50 and older who participated in the …

Mealtime behavior and depressive symptoms in late-life marriage.

T Ali, G McAvay, JK Monin - GeroPsych: The Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
This study examined whether one spouse's mealtime behaviors were associated with their
own and their partner's depressive symptoms among older, married couples. We examined …