Widowhood
Mostrando 13-15 de 15 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Institutionalization of Older Adults After the Death of a Spouse
Objectives. We investigated the risk of entering long-term institutional care after the death of a spouse in relation to the duration of widowhood among older Finnish men and women. We also examined whether high levels of education or household income buffered the effects of bereavement on institutionalization.
American Public Health Association.
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14. Predictors of disability in a longitudinal sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Information from the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) is used to identify which variables measured in 1981 successfully predict the severity of disease in 1989 and the eight year change in severity of disease in a sample of 330 residents of Santa Clara County, California, USA. This study is exploratory and no previous hypotheses are made. Using univaria
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15. Marital Trajectories and Mortality Among US Adults
More than a century of empirical evidence links marital status to mortality. However, the hazards of dying associated with long-term marital trajectories and contributing risk factors are largely unknown. The authors used 1992–2006 prospective data from a cohort of US adults to investigate the impact of current marital status, marriage timing, divorce and
Oxford University Press.