This research is a qualitative investigation of how baby boomers (born 1946 to 1964) who self-identify as increasing in Christian religiosity from a place of no faith or nominal faith have done so as they enter early old age (age 65 to 80) in the rural American context. The qual…
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Brain aging is a poorly understood process widely understood to be a major causative factor in age-associated neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Proteins are involved in brain aging and neurodegeneration in many ways, and their functions and dysfunction…
A current gap in the literature exists related to the voices of working early Boomers (WEBs) and their perceptions of successful aging and their use of selection, optimization with compensation(SOC) strategies. My study explored and gained a deeper understanding of the lived exp…
This dissertation uses fundamental cause theory to understand how providers, essential staff, and Black, Hmong, and Latinx community members perceive the oral health and tobacco environment in a rural region of California’s Central Valley. According to Link and Phelan, fundament…
Introduction: Persons with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) show impairments in semantic and associative memory years before the onset of clinical symptoms. However, many tasks used to assess these deficits make use of previously learned stimuli, often within well-establishe…
O principal objetivo deste trabalho é compreender o que leva um indivíduo a desenvolver práticas de voluntariado e por sua vez perceber as motivações para o seu abandono, ou seja, perceber quais as motivações go in e go out. Este objetivo é desenhado num contexto específico, nom…
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance and econometric properties of the linking tools often us…
The purpose of this thesis was to conduct an analysis of the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly Act of 2010, including relevant historical policies and the act’s effectiveness in housing low-income older adults. This research utilized a qualitative design and involve…
Aging cohort studies recruit participants at an age before most of the population will experience the study outcome to document its natural history and related risk factors. Usually assumptions regarding “normative” aging, including average age at onset, are based on data on Whi…
Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of crip theory, stigma theory and intersectionality, I explore lesbian Deaf women’s experiences in the United States from 1945 to 2020. This is a span that includes several civil rights milestones affecting Deaf lesbians. Relevant events, …
This production dissertation explores the friendship dynamics between women as they contend with the stresses of changing life circumstances. Research indicates that friendship is a powerful factor in resilience to stress for both women and men. However, recent socio-biological …
This dissertation is comprised of four distinct essays in the general fields of empirical development and transition economics. The first essay concerns poverty change in Indonesia over the period 1984–1996 and measures the extent to which poverty change is correlated with overa…
Circadian rhythms have been reported to change with age, and such changes are hypothesized to underlie changes in the timing of sleep-wake behavior and sleep disorders, problems which affect up to 40% of older people. Using an animal model, the Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus aurat…
Successful reproduction depends upon a highly orchestrated cascade of events during optimal environmental conditions in order to appropriately time ovulation. In spontaneously ovulating rodents, neurons in the hypothalamus secreting gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) are trig…
Worldwide population aging will undoubtedly be accompanied by an increase in the number of disabled older adults. Female gender and increased age are two of the most widely identified risk factors for poor physical functioning and disability. Yet the contexts in which people are…
Four million people in the United States are diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (AD; Alzheimer's Association, 2002). It affects 10 percent of Americans 65 years or older and nearly 50 percent of those age 85 or older. Studies have suggested that older drivers with cognitive impa…
Alloy 800HT is a heat resistance material that is used in high temperature industrial applications such as steam/hydrocarbon reforming and ethylene plant tubes. Long time exposure under these service conditions cause the alloy to undergo microstructural changes. The alloy, in fa…
This study examined subjective and objective sleep and circadian rhythms in older patients with schizophrenia vs. older normal comparison subjects (NCs). For study 1, sleep questionnaires were administered semiannually to 48 schizophrenia patients and 53 NCs (age range = 45–79 f…