Neighborhood effects on health research has grown over the past 20 years. While the
substantive findings of this literature have been published in systematic reviews, meta …

Disruptive events have significant consequences for the individuals and families who
experience them, but these effects do not occur equally across the population. While some …

Perceived social support has long been recognized as associated with better health and
longevity. However, important factors that may moderate this relationship have not been …

Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives, Third Edition
shows the continuity and advancements in our understanding of human life-span …

The study of spousal bereavement and mortality has long been a major topic of interest for
social scientists, but much remains unknown with respect to important moderating factors …

Objectives. We investigated the effect of spousal bereavement on mortality to document
cause-specific bereavement effects by the causes of death of both the predecedent spouse …

Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for
many Americans is characterized by comfortable retirement, good health, and fulfilling …

AIMS: Associations between marital status and self-rated health were investigated, adjusting
for material conditions and trust (social capital). METHODS: The 2004 public-health survey …

Background Recent increases in numbers of older people have been accompanied by
increases in those with functional disability. No study has examined the association between …

The loss of a loved one is often associated with “death from a broken heart” for the survivor,
and there is evidence that shows that widowers and widows are at risk for higher morbidity …