Systematically comparable data on married elders from the United States (n = 567; ages 60 +) and Madras, India (n = 207; ages 55 +) and simultaneous factor analyses (LISREL) were used to test the cross-cultural metric and ...

Young and older adults performed skilled memory search after either a 3- or 6-month retention interval. Participants were first trained in consistent-mapping (CM) memory search; then, one of the search conditions was ...

Although much is known from cross-sectional studies about the use of physician services among older adults, little is known about the consistency of or changes in that utilization over time. Hierarchical multivariable ...

Adults from a wide range of ages were administered parallel versions of three memory tasks designed to involve verbal-symbolic information or visual-spatial information. Several analytical procedures were used to determine ...

We examined adult child-parent relations by childhood family structure and memories of family problems. Relative to those who grew up in two-parent families, adult children of divorce perceive both relationships with mothers ...

Twin analyses were conducted to determine the relative influence of genetic and environmental factors on functional aging. As part of the ongoing Minnesota Twin Study of Adult Development and Aging (MTSADA), measures of ...

The journal of gerontology: psychological sciences publishes articles on applied, clinical and counseling, experimental, and social psychology of aging. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to, animal behavior, ...

The journal of gerontology: social sciences is a bimonthly journal of the Gerontological Society of America that publishes articles dealing with aging issues from the fields of anthropology, demography, economics, epidemiology, ...

Loneliness is an experience that is commonly associated with being old and without a partner. Results from a Dutch sample involving 131 unpartnered men and women between the ages of 65 and 75 indicate that the absence of ...