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Nationally recognized scholars address the unique problems encountered by minority elders in achieving the goal of maximum well-being as we enter the 21st century. Topics include physical health, continuum of care, mental health, social policy, econo
Publikováno v:
Research on Aging. 21:515-538
This longitudinal study of 121 caregivers of the elderly evaluates the change in their self-assessed mental and physical health over two years. The care recipients, who were drawn from a random sample of noninstitutionalized urban elders, showed incr
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Amasa B. Ford, Linda S. Noelker, Zak Mefrouche, Marie R. Haug, Paul K. Jones, Atwood D. Gaines, Kurt C. Stange
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Research on Aging. 20:317-338
This research examines the use of informal and formal assistance with personal and instrumental activities of daily living and the amount received by a randomly selected sample of urban older persons. A modified version of the Andersen behavioral mod
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Sally L. Hodder, Edward A. Mortimer, Paul K. Jones, Amasa B. Ford, Mary L. Kumar, Paula A. FitzGibbon
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 43:24-29
OBJECTIVE: To describe the 3-year incidence of acute respiratory illness in a population of noninstitutionalized elderly persons. DESIGN: Cohort analytic study with an observation period of 3 years. SETTING: Large midwestern urban community. SUBJECTS
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Amasa B. Ford
Publikováno v:
The Gerontologist. 43:415-417
Publikováno v:
Journal of Gerontology. 47:S297-S303
Recent social and economic trends suggest that the health and welfare of elderly persons living in urban areas may have deteriorated during the past two decades. Two representative samples of noninstitutionalized urban persons aged 65 and over were i
Publikováno v:
Care Management Journals. 2:132-134
SERVING MINORITY ELDERS IN THE 21ST CENTURY May L. Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN and Amasa B. Ford, MD, Editors New York: Springer Publishing, 1999, 340pp., $46.95 (hardcover). Serving Minority Elders in the 21st Century is a multi-authored text that takes it
Publikováno v:
Journal of Gerontology. 45:S163-S171
A population-based cohort of 1,598 urban residents, aged 65 years and over, was studied in 1975, and 645 survivors were re-interviewed in their places of residence in 1984. Since 25.6 percent of the subjects were Black, it was possible to examine rac
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Sally L. Hodder, Edward A. Mortimer, Klara K. Papp, James D. Cherry, Jeffrey Gornbein, Amasa B. Ford
Publikováno v:
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 31(1)
A serological study to determine the frequency of Bordetella pertussis infection in 100 adults aged >/=65 years was carried out over a 3-year period. Ten serum samples (collected every 4 months) from each subject were examined for IgA and IgG antibod
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Amasa B. Ford
Publikováno v:
New England Journal of Medicine. 356:972-973