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Financial strain, social relations, and psychological distress among older people: a cross-cultural analysisK F Ferraro
Department of Sociology and Gerontology Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 54:S3-15. 1999..This article examines how financial strain and social relations may independently and jointly influence psychological distress among older people in four nations...
The color of hospitalization over the adult life course: cumulative disadvantage in black and white?Kenneth F Ferraro
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2108, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S299-306. 2006..Drawing from cumulative disadvantage theory, this research addresses the following questions: Do hospital admission and discharge rates differ for White and Black adults? If yes, do the differences amplify in later life?..- Black and white chains of risk for hospitalization over 20 yearsKenneth F Ferraro
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, Stone Hall, 700 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2059, USA
J Health Soc Behav 49:193-207. 2008..The findings suggest that the racial disparities in hospital length of stay and mortality are explained by the cumulative effects of social and health inequalities over the life course... - Aging and cumulative inequality: how does inequality get under the skin?Kenneth F Ferraro
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, Young Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2108, USA
Gerontologist 49:333-43. 2009..This article draws from cumulative disadvantage and life course theories to develop a new theory for the social scientific study of aging... - A half century of longitudinal methods in social gerontology: evidence of change in the journalKenneth F Ferraro
Department of Sociology and Gerontology Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 2059, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:S264-70. 2003..With a focus on the use of longitudinal data, this study reviews trends in the quantitative analysis of social science data on aging during the past half century... - The life course of severe obesity: does childhood overweight matter?Kenneth F Ferraro
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 49707 2059, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:S110-9. 2003..A life course perspective is used to examine the epidemiology of severe obesity in adulthood, defined as a body mass index > or = 35 kg/m(2)... - Physician evaluation of obesity in health surveys: "who are you calling fat?"Kenneth F Ferraro
Purdue University, Sociology, Stone Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907 1365, USA
Soc Sci Med 55:1401-13. 2002..The findings suggest that the cluster of status characteristics is important to physicians during medical evaluations... - Body mass index and disability in adulthood: a 20-year panel studyKenneth F Ferraro
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind 47907 1365, USA
Am J Public Health 92:834-40. 2002..This study examined whether body mass index (BMI) or change in BMI raises the risk of disability in adulthood... - Measuring morbidity: disease counts, binary variables, and statistical powerK F Ferraro
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 1365, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 55:S173-89. 2000..In particular, the analysis seeks to determine if statistical power is adequate for the binary variable approach... - Self-rated health and mortality among black and white adults: examining the dynamic evaluation thesisK F Ferraro
Department of Sociology and Gerontology Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 56:S195-205. 2001..Although self-ratings of health may be dynamic perceptions of health, relatively few studies have systematically examined this possibility... - Physician-evaluated and self-reported morbidity for predicting disabilityK F Ferraro
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind 47907 1365, USA
Am J Public Health 90:103-8. 2000..This study compared the predictive validity of physician-evaluated morbidity and self-reported morbidity on disability among adults... - Age, body mass index, and functional illnessK F Ferraro
Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 54:S339-48. 1999..This study examines the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and selected measures of functional illness and whether the relationship between BMI and these outcomes is stronger in advanced ages... - Psychological distress and mortality: are women more vulnerable?Kenneth F Ferraro
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, 700 W State St, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2059, USA
J Health Soc Behav 47:227-41. 2006..Men with high levels of psychological distress were more vulnerable to ischemic heart disease mortality. Women with high levels of distress were more vulnerable to cancer mortality... - Obesity and hospitalization over the adult life course: does duration of exposure increase use?Markus H Schafer
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2108, USA
J Health Soc Behav 48:434-49. 2007..The findings highlight the utility of measures of the duration of risk exposure for both life-course studies of health and tests of cumulative-disadvantage theory... - Long-term obesity and avoidable hospitalization among younger, middle-aged, and older adultsMarkus H Schafer
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, 302 Wood Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2018, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:2220-5. 2007..We examined whether obesity, particularly long-term obesity, is associated with risk for and frequency of avoidable hospital stays... - Neighborhood residential segregation and physical health among Hispanic Americans: good, bad, or benign?Min Ah Lee
Purdue University, USA
J Health Soc Behav 48:131-48. 2007.... - Reports of abusive experiences during childhood and adult health ratings: personal control as a pathway?Shalon M Irving
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 1365, USA
J Aging Health 18:458-85. 2006..This study examines the relationship between reports of childhood abuse and self-rated health in adulthood, and the potential of personal control to serve as a mediator... 
Assistive device use as a dynamic acquisition process in later lifeKaris A Pressler
Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University, Ernest C Young Hall, 155 South Grant Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907 2114, USA
Gerontologist 50:371-81. 2010..This study identifies risk factors, including incident disability, for the use of assistive devices (ADs) among older people...- Are racial disparities in health conditional on socioeconomic status?Melissa M Farmer
VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Sepulveda Ambulatory and Nursing Home Center, Sepulveda, CA 91343, USA
Soc Sci Med 60:191-204. 2005..Overall, the findings provide evidence for the continuing significance of both race and SES in determining health status over time... - The black/white disability gap: persistent inequality in later life?Jessica A Kelley-Moore
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 59:S34-43. 2004..The present research identifies several reasons for the inconsistent results to date and examines Black/White differences in disability trajectories over 6 years... - A 3-D model of health decline: disease, disability, and depression among Black and White older adultsJessica A Kelley-Moore
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD 21250, USA
J Health Soc Behav 46:376-91. 2005..The effect of widowhood is more deleterious to the health of Black older adults than for their White counterparts... - Imagining the disciplinary advancement of gerontology: Whither the tipping point?Kenneth F Ferraro
Gerontologist 46:571-3. 2006 - Is gerontology interdisciplinary?Kenneth F Ferraro
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:S2. 2007 - Is gerontology inclusive?Kenneth F Ferraro
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:S3. 2006 - Gerontology's greatest hitsKenneth F Ferraro
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 63:S3-6. 2008
Research Grants
- INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON LIFE COURSE INEQUALITYKENNETH FERRARO; Fiscal Year: 2005....
- AGING AND HEALTH TRAJECTORIES AMONG BLACK & WHITE ADULTSKENNETH FERRARO; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- AGING AND HEALTH STATUS AMONG BLACK AND WHITE ADULTSKENNETH FERRARO; Fiscal Year: 1999..These surveys provide the scientific community with hitherto unavailable information for understanding health trajectories in adulthood and later life among Black and White persons. ..
- Enduring Effects of Early Adversity on Adult Health?Kenneth F Ferraro; Fiscal Year: 2010..As healthcare policymakers continue to search for affordable cost- containment strategies, it is becoming increasingly important to understand adult health and illness in a life course perspective. ..