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Purpose: To determine the status of depression and its key influencing factors among Chinese older adults in different living situations.
Method: Data of 7,092 older adults were obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey. This study analyzed key variables influencing depressive symptoms using random forest modeling and logistic regression.
Gastroenterol Nurs
January 2025
About the authors: Katherine K. Sink, PhD, APRN-CNS, is a Retired Professor, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.
Obesity is a worldwide health concern with one highly effective solution being bariatric surgery. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the experiences of postoperative bariatric surgery patients related to perceptions of helpful interventions for achieving and maintaining weight loss. Fifteen participants shared their perceived support received and their perceptions of desired support needed after bariatric surgery.
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March 2025
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, United States.
Although socioeconomic status is salient for health and well-being across the life course, previous research indicates that the social gradient in health is racialized and that Black adults experience diminishing health returns on higher socioeconomic status. We extend this literature by examining whether there are diminishing physiological health returns on intergenerational mobility groups for Black adults and, if so, whether diminishing health returns vary across age. We use six waves of data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 11,846) and mixed effects models; and average marginal effects are used to interpret the race by intergenerational mobility interaction.
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January 2025
Department of Medical Insurance and Price, Dongguan First Hospital Affiliated to Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China.
Objective: Long-term care needs have grown with population aging. This study explores the relationships among health status, healthcare expenditure, and long-term care insurance (LTCI) among the older adults.
Methods: Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, and 2020) and based on the demand model for healthcare services, this study employed the difference-in-difference (DID) method to assess how the implementation of LTCI contributed to the health status and healthcare expenditures of the older adults.
BMC Psychol
January 2025
College of Physical Education, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China.
Objective: This study aimed to explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), sleep, and lower extremity function in older adults using a nationally representative cohort.
Methods: This study included 4,439 participants aged 60 years or older (mean age: 67.2 ± 5.
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