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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"health and retirement study"”.
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Engagement In Activities And Cognitive Functioning Among Older Adults In The Health And Retirement Study
… is to examine the effect of cognitive and social activities on cognitive performance and health conditions in a national sample of older adults from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This dissertation first aimed to identify longitudinal relations between activity frequency and …
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Major life-changing events and preferred retirement time among older adults : evidence from the 1992 to 2014 Health and Retirement Study
This study evaluated the way life-changing events affect older adults' preferred and actual retirement age using the 1992/1993, 1994/1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 surveys of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). In this dissertation, retirement timing was …
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Determinants of spouse/partner informal caregiving and its impacts on informal caregivers' physical, psychological health and economic well-being: evidence from the health and retirement study
… have recently trended towards encouraging home and community-based services (HCBS) over institutionalized care because of the relative higher costs and lower quality in institutions. Studies suggest, however, that this cost-saving strategy has hidden individual and societal costs that may only …
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Essays in the Economics of Long-Term Care Utilization
… conditions, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, and inter-vivos transfers – that influence both the availability of long-term care services and the use of these services. The first essay explores how changes in the macroeconomy, specifically the 2007-2009 “Great Recession,” affect the utilization …
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Individual and Partner Exercise Status and Cognitive Function in Older Adults
The present study used a linear mixed model analytic approach to assess the association between a combined respondent and spousal exercise score and cognitive outcomes of older adult respondents drawn from a nationally representative dataset, The Health and Retirement Study. Informed by the …
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Gender and the Subjective Well-being of Widowed Elders
… of aging men because of gender inequality. This study explored the 2014 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to discover whether gender influences the factors that affect subjective well-being of elderly widows and widowers (aged 65 and over). To look at subjective well-being, I used a feminist …
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Economic Analysis Of Preventive Care Utilization Among Older Adults
… two studies that focus on the effects of public health policy and health shocks on the initiation of use of preventive services among older adults.</p> <p>In January 2005, Medicare began covering a one-time initial preventive physical examination (IPPE), also called a "Welcome to Medicare" visit, …
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Essays on impact of risk preference on health and occupational choice
<p>This dissertation re-examines Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data in order to ascertain whether there exists behavioral heterogeneity among people regarding health risk as compared to that of financial risk as well as whether there exists racial-ethnic and gender heterogeneity in the health …
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Individual personality differences in adjustment to retirement
Retirement is an important life event to study at present, because more people are entering their retirement years and are spending more time in retirement than ever before in our nation’s history. Historically, research has shown mixed results on effects of retirement that are not accurately …
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Comparative Models of the Impact of Social Support on Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients
This study tested the relationship between Social Support, Psychological Distress, and Illness Stress in individuals who report cancer as a health condition. This study was based on archival data obtained from the Wave 1 of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The HRS provides a nationally …
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The Effects Of Individual-Level Income And Contextual-Level Income Inequality On Health
<p>The relationship between income inequality and health is often studied at either the individual-level or contextual-level. The purpose of this research is to assess both of these levels, by simultaneously examining the individual and contextual contributions of income inequality on health. To …
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Measuring Resilient Aging in Different Populations of Older Adults
Resilience, the ability to adapt and ‘bounce back’ despite adversity, has gained a lot of attention in the aging literature in the past decade. The risk of adverse events increases linearly with age and therefore focusing on factors that help older adults recover can result in improvements in care …
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The Roles of Estate Planning and Social Support in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care
… discussing end of life care preferences, and assigning a durable power of attorney for healthcare – may be associated with improvements in quality of end of life care and more specifically with receiving care congruent with one’s wishes. Despite this, stark differences in completion rates …
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Gender, Race, Marriage, and Health in Later Life
Research on health in old age finds gender and racial differences in physical and mental health and points to several social factors that can influence health in later life, including marriage. However, it remains unclear whether the health impacts of marriage differ between men and women or across …
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What Impacts Life Satisfaction Of Aging Adults Following Stressful Life Events?: An Examination Of The Buffering Effect Of Personal Resources
… life satisfaction, but social support, autonomy, and financial security. What the literature is lacking, is examination of the buffering effect of social support, autonomy, and financial security on the relationship between stressful life events and life satisfaction. This study hypothesizes that …
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Conscientiousness and preparedness for retirement and end of life
… of the United States is growing older, and previous research has found that many do not appear to be well-prepared for retirement and end of life (EOL). The current research investigated how conscientiousness is related to preparedness for retirement and EOL in three different ways using …
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Tax policy, housing markets, and elderly homeowners
This dissertation consists of three essays studying the impact of tax policy on housing markets and elderly homeowners. Chapter One examines the potential lock-in effect of capital gains taxation on home sales, using the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA97) as a policy instrument. Before 1997, …
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Lifecourse Patterns of Productive Engagement among Rural and Urban Older Adults
… activities that have important ramifications for health in later life. However, little is known about rural-urban patterns of productive engagement across the lifecourse. This dissertation used six waves (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) of the nationally representative Health and Retirement …
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Identifying Cognitive Profiles and Determinants of Cognitive Superaging Among Older Adults
… aging among older adults is heterogeneous and does not follow a single trajectory. This study used a person-centered approach to identify cognitive profiles, specifically cognitive superagers, among United States adults aged 75 and older and to quantify transitions between cognitive …
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Is Private Long-Term Care Insurance Affordable For Older Adults?
… is small, or desires to simply rely on children and spouses for LTC. This study examines another possible explanation - that private LTC insurance is simply "unaffordable" for most older Americans, which may be why they don't buy it.</p> <p>This study begins by investigating the meaning of …
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