The complexity of positive and negative emotions was examined in a sample of 40 adults between the ages of 60 and 85 years. Participants' emotional experiences were assessed by use of a 30-day assessment protocol. Results suggest that different vulnerability and resilience factors are implicated in the intraindividual experience of positive and negative emotions. Individual differences in perce...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This article examines the impact of early- and later-life circumstances on loneliness among people aged 65+ in Ireland. DESIGN AND METHODS Data are from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling adults aged 50+. The participants (N = 2,645) aged 65+ were included in the analysis. Because of the large...

Findings from home interviews with older adults who consider themselves to be „recording their memories for posterity‟ are presented. Two practices are described: the archiving and preservation of existing family content, and the creation of new artefacts as a way of recording one‟s own memories. Findings that are highlighted include recipient design when recording stories, memory as an authent...

OBJECTIVE to assess levels of fruit and vegetable consumption in elderly people, and to examine the socio-economic, physical and psychological factors which influence this consumption. METHODS a three-phase survey: face to face interviews; self-completed dietary diaries with a food frequency questionnaire; and follow-up face-to-face interviews. PARTICIPANTS 445 elderly people (aged 65+) ran...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The aim was to examine the influence of domestic crowding and household amenities in early life on later mortality from all causes and specifically from stomach cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and rheumatic heart disease. DESIGN This was a retrospective cohort study of people whose houses had been surveyed in 1936 and whose household size was known from the 193...

The purpose of this paper has been to assess the psycho-social factors in the onset and course of late life depressions. The sample consisted of 100 consecutive depressed in-patients, over 65 year-olds and 100 consecutive cases under 65. Our findings indicate that the number of precipitating factors was higher in the elderly group in comparison with the control group. Patients whose depression ...

OBJECTIVES This review summarizes the current knowledge about volunteering in later life and suggests 5 research questions at the forefront of knowledge development. RESULTS Rates of volunteering do not decline significantly until the middle of the 7th decade, and older volunteers commit more hours than younger volunteers. Older adults with more human and social capital tend to volunteer, and...

This paper analyzes the impact of childbearing history on later-life mortality for ever-married men and women using high-quality historical longitudinal microlevel data for southern Sweden. The main advantage of using historical data is that it makes it possible to investigate the experience of many birth cohorts with medium to high fertility, thereby facilitating estimation of the effects of t...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this work was to assess the applicability of socioemotional selectivity theory to the realm of volunteerism by analyzing data drawn from the September 2002 Current Population Survey Volunteer Supplement. METHODS Total number of organizations volunteered for and total number of hours engaged in volunteer activities were utilized to obtain measures of volunteer hours per o...

Economic well-being plays a key role in older adults’ life and well-being. However, relatively few studies have considered the role of poverty on sleep—a critical risk factor for physical health and mortality in later life. This study investigated the relationship between poverty and sleep using two waves of data (2009 and 2013) from Panel Study of Income Dynamics—Disability and Use of Time Sup...