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| 1 |  | Toward the development of an inventory of daily widowed life (IDWL): guided by the duel process model of coping with bereavement | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement (Stroebe & Schut, 1999) suggests that the most effective adaptation involves oscillaton between two coping processes: loss-orientation (LO) and restoration-orientation (RO). A 22-item Inventory of Daily Widowed Life (IDWL) was developed to measure t... | Bereavement; Grief reaction; Widowhood; Psychological orientation; Adaptation, Psychological | 2007-07 |
| 2 |  | Gray and green revisited: a multidisciplinary perspective of gardens, gardening, and the aging process | Wright, Scott D. | Over fourteen years ago, the concept of "gray and green" was first introduced by Wright and Lund (2000) to represent a new awareness and a call for increased scholarship at the intersection of environmental issues and the aging process. This review paper revisits that concept with a fresh perspectiv... | | 2014-01-01 |
| 3 |  | Update on emergency contraception | Murphy, Patricia A. | Emergency contraception (EC) is any method used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy. This article provides an overview of the history of EC methods and describes the current availability of oral and intrauterine EC. Oral forms include the Yuzpe regimen (combining ethinyl estradiol and levo... | | 2012-01-01 |
| 4 |  | Effect of exercise and/or fitness education on fitness in older, sedentary, obese women | Caserta, Michael; Gillett, Patricia Anne; White, Andrea T. | This paper reports on fitness changes in sedentary, obese (M BMI = 32.0 kg/m2), 60- to 70-year-old women following 4 months of exercise-based intervention. One hundred eighty-two women were randomly assigned to the following groups: health and fitness education (ED) (n = 70), health and fitness edu... | | 1996 |
| 5 |  | Effects of widowhood on disabled older women (the women's health and aging study)* | Caserta, Michael; Telonidis, Jacqueline Slattery; Lund, Dale A. | This study examined the effects of becoming widowed for older women with pre-existing physical disability. Data from three consecutive interviews from the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS) were used to compare depression, quality of life, and functional difficulty for widowed and nonwidowed wome... | Women's Health and Aging Study; WHAS; Disabled older women | 2005-01-01 |
| 6 |  | Age wave is here : the aging of the baby boomers November 2010 | Wright, Scott D. | Paul C. Light (1998) wrote one of the first books to examine the complexities of the baby boom generation and their future implications and impact. The book titled, "Baby Boomers", investigated what unified and what divided the generation and reflected on the potential for "golden days" (would it b... | | 2010-08 |
| 7 |  | Future directions in adult bereavement research | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | The primary purpose of this article is to stimulate interest in conducting research related to adult bereavement and provide suggestions for improving the quality of these studies and the application of their findings. Future research needs to generate new knowledge about grief and bereavement but ... | | 1998 |
| 8 |  | Sleep patterns in older bereaved spouses | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | The study examined the prevalence and pattern of reports of sleep disturbance over two years in a group of 296 adults aged 50 years and over, and assessed the relationship between patterns of sleep disturbance and bereavement adjustment over time. A sample of 192 widows and widowers were compared t... | Bereavement adjustment; Older bereaved spouses; Sleep patterns; Sleep disturbance | 2003-11-01 |
| 9 |  | Older bereaved spouses' participation in self-help groups | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | This study reports on bereaved spouses' assessments of their participation in twenty-six self-help groups which consisted of eight weekly meetings (short-term; N = 82) or ten monthly meetings in addition to the weekly ones (long-term; N = 52). Regardless of the duration of the groups whether they w... | Older bereaved spouses | 1992 |
| 10 |  | Identifying elderly with coping difficulties after two years of bereavement | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | This study answers three research questions. First, what proportion of the elderly are experiencing major coping difficulties after two years of bereavement? Second, what factors in early bereavement distinguish between those with difficulties and the others? Third, what set of factors are the best... | Coping difficulties | 1985 |
| 11 |  | Eccentric exercise versus usual-care with older cancer survivors: the impact on muscle and mobility- an exploratory pilot study | Beck, Susan L.; Lastayo, Paul C.; Marcus, Robin | Background: Resistance exercise programs with high compliance are needed to counter impaired muscle and mobility in older cancer survivors. To date outcomes have focused on older prostate cancer survivors, though more heterogeneous groups of older survivors are in-need. The purpose of this explorat... | | 2011 |
| 12 |  | Caring to cultivate on the long row of life: an eclectic look at gardens, gardening, and the aging process | Wright, Scott D. | Gardening is one of the most popular home-based leisure activities in the U.S. and represents an important activity in the lives of older adults in a variety of residential settings. Yet, there has been a lack of any comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of the nexus between gardening and... | gardening; gardens; aging; caring | 2010 |
| 13 |  | Pilgrim in the land of big G and little G - a review essay | Wright, Scott D. | It used to be said the life is short and art is long, but now in our supposed high point for the era of the ?scientific management of aging? (Cole, 1992), our goal is instead ? the art of living longer. Our current landscape for understanding the experience of aging is representing by the following... | Aging; Longevity; Book review | 2010 |
| 14 |  | Symptom clusters: impediments and suggestions for solutions. | Beck, Susan L. | The human experience of cancer is marked by the occurrence of multiple symptoms that influence one's ability to continue usual activities and enjoy life. Although the symptom experience is complex and multifaceted, knowledge of it has been limited by a paradigm that has been singular in scope... | Cancer; Symptoms; Symptom Management; End-of-Life Care; Depression | 2004-07-21 |
| 15 |  | Dangerous spaces: Using geographic information systems in injury research | Edelman, Linda S. | PURPOSE: To provide an overview of geographic information systems (GIS) and to discuss current and future applications in injury and trauma research. DESIGN: Literature review and discourse of GIS technology related to injury and trauma research. METHOD: A search of scientific literature databases, ... | Community; Public Health; Technology; Internet; Risk Assessment; Wounds and Injuries | 2007-08 |
| 16 |  | Respite services: enhancing the quality of daily life for caregivers and persons with dementia | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A.; Wright, Scott D. | Many family caregivers are going far beyond their abilities and circumstances trying to be the best possible caregivers. This is a very commendable goal. Unfortunately, many of these caregivers are risking their own personal well-being and sometimes their family life in the process. Many caregivers... | | 2005 |
| 17 |  | Restoration after bereavement | Lund, Dale A.; Caserta, Michael; Wright, Scott D. | The death of a spouse in later life, after many years of marriage is one of the most common of all major stressful life transitions. After age 65, 32% of the U.S. population is widowed (14% for men and 45% for women) with this increasing to 46% after age 75 and 66% after the age of 85 (U.S. Bureau o... | Dual process model; bereavement adjustment; loss orientation | 2004 |
| 18 |  | Bereavement stress and coping among older adults: expectations versus the actual experience | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | This investigation compared the stress and coping levels of 108 older adults who recently lost their spouse with expectations of stress and coping reported by eighty-five matched nonbereaved controls. While the bereaved reported moderately high stress levels over two years, their stress scores were ... | Coping; Bereavement stress; Spousal bereavement | 1992 |
| 19 |  | The challenge and promise of autism spectrum disorders in adulthood and aging: a systematic review of the literature (1990-2013) | Wright, Scott D. | Abstract: In the past five years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of publications addressing the issues of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in the domain of adulthood and aging. However this increase still represents an extremely small proportion of the overall literature which is... | | 2013-01-01 |
| 20 |  | Challenges, transitions, and healthy aging: Introduction to the special issue | Caserta, Michael | Rowe and Kahn's (1987) seminal piece in the Journal, Science, and the work driven by the MacArthur Foundation that followed (Rowe & Kahn, 1997, 1998) arguably signaled a paradigm shift in how we think about aging and health. Rather than a purely biomedical view of aging and health, Rowe and Kahn pos... | | 2012-01-01 |
| 21 |  | Changes in aerobic power, body composition, and exercise adherence in obese, postmenopausal women, 6 months post-exercise training | Caserta, Michael | Abstract: To determine the acute and follow-up effects of 4 months of health and fitness education with and without exercise training, 182 sedentary, obese. 60- to 70-year-old women were randomly assigned to the following groups: fitness education (FD. n = 70). fitness education with aerobic trai... | Fitness; Health; Physical Activity | 1996 |
| 22 |  | Course of spousal bereavement in later life | Caserta, Michael | The overall purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the major findings from our research over the past 11 years on spousal bereavement among older adults in the United States. We began in 1980 with a longitudinal study funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) designed to describ... | Senior citizens; Support groups; Death; Bereavement | 1993 |
| 23 |  | Criterion-based screening for sexually transmitted infection: sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of commonly used questions | Murphy, Patricia A. | Background: Practice protocols that mandate pre-screening for sexually transmitted infection prior to insertion of an intrauterine device for contraception can pose obstacles for women seeking this highly effective method of birth control. Some practices screen for presumed risk factors for sexually... | | 2012-01-01 |
| 24 |  | When the unexpected happens: husbands coping with the deaths of their wives | Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | Most husbands do not outlive their wives. The 1990 Census of the United States reveals that while nearly 49 percent of women are widowed after age sixty-five only 14 percent of the men are widowed. After age eighty-five the rates of widowhood increase for both men and women. About 80 percent of thes... | | 2001 |
| 25 |  | Sampling, recruitment, and retention in a bereavement intervention study: experiences from the living after loss project | Caserta, Michael; Utz, Rebecca L.; Lund, Dale A. | This paper reports on the sampling and recruitment challenges, as well as the strategies used to address them in the Living After Loss (LAL) project, a bereavement intervention study conducted in Salt Lake City and San Francisco comparing two 14-week group conditions with follow-up. We encountered... | | 2010 |
