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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"older couples"”.
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Health discrepancies and marital satisfaction in older couples
… (RELATE) study (N=82, comprising 41 heterosexual couples) completed questionnaire packets regarding demographics, health status, and global marital satisfaction. Additionally, participants completed experience sampling surveys, called ecological momentary assessment surveys (EMA), each day for 7 …
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Relationship-Focused Support, Body Image, and Quality of Life in Older Couples Coping with Skin Cancer
For older couples facing a skin cancer diagnosis, the experience is stressful, not only for the individual with the diagnosis, but also for the healthy partner. Couples may use various types of coping and styles of support to deal with the stress, including relationship-focused support, which …
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Sexual Satisfaction in Older Marriages: Effects of Family-of-Origin Distress and Marital Distress
… study was to examine how sexual satisfaction in older marriages (marriages with at least one spouse between the ages of 55 and 75) was affected by family-of-origin distress (recent measure of recollection of childhood experiences) and marital distress (measure of current marital relationship) for …
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Service Utilization among Bereaved Spouses and Family Caregivers
… by spousal caregivers in the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) study. The second study examined bereavement service utilization among dementia caregiver participants in the Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) study. Both employed Andersen's Behavioral Model of …
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Cultural influences on farm families' responses to difficult life events
… involved in this study. In a two-hour interview couples provided information regarding life events during the past three years, current physiological and psychological stress symptoms, yeoman/entrepreneur world view, and farm and family characteristics. The results indicated a wide range of …
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Marital adjustment of older adult couples with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and couples without cancer
… study was to explore the marital adjustment of older adult couples with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and couples who have experienced neither. Participants were 64 couples in which at least one of the spouses was over 55 years of age, including 19 breast cancer couples, 20 prostate cancer …
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Patterns and Outcomes of Bereavement Support-Seeking Among Older Adults with Complicated Grief and Bereavement-Related Depression
… about bereavement support-seeking among older adults with Complicated Grief (CG) and/or depression and to examine the outcomes of support received. This three-paper dissertation uses data from two studies of bereaved older adults: the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) Study and the …
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Understanding the role and meaning of food for older people through participant-driven photo-elicitation.
… ability and social connections are identified by older people as important for positive active ageing. Food is an occupation that can be connected to any or all of these areas. Research into older people’s experiences of food has often focused on nutritional needs, life course events or …