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| Trajectories of impairment, social support, and depressive symptoms in later life | | Author(s) | Miles G Taylor, Scott M Lynch |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 4, July 2004 |
| Pages | pp S238-S246 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Informal care ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research has increasingly focused on the dynamic nature of disability and depressive symptoms in later life. Here, the authors investigate the relationship between long-term patterns of disability, perceived and received social support, and depressive symptoms in later life. They use random coefficient growth models of four waves of the Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) data to determine whether disability, support and depressive symptoms follow linear trajectories across age, and whether support mediates the relationship between disability and depressive symptoms. They find that disability, social support and depressive symptoms are strongly interrelated processes in later life. Their results are consistent with previous research in showing that perceived, rather than received, support mediates the relationship between disability and depressive symptoms, but their results extend previous research in showing that this mediation occurs across time. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041130230 A |
| Classmark | BN: ENR: CT: P6: 49: 3J: 7T |
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