Parens Patraie: How Does Public Monitoring and Enforcement Provide for Older Adult Health and Well-Being?

This article explores the effects of being raised by married parents during childhood on health and well-being in adolescence and young adulthood in a longitudinal sample of African Americans. This study aims to address the following three questions: Does childhood with married patients lead to better health and well-being during adolescence? Does childhood with married patients lead to better health and well-being in young adulthood? Do the health effects of childhood with married patients differ for male and female? The authors found modest direct effects of childhood exposure to marriage on health for females. Having at least some childhood marriage exposure was also associated with several positive health behaviors. There is modest evidence that marriage bestows health benefits for children and that these benefits endure into young adulthood.

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Substance Use Disorder in Early Midlife: A National Prospective Study on Health and Well-Being Correlates and Long-Term Predictors

Substance Abuse Research and Treatment ◽

10.4137/sart.s31437 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9s1 ◽

pp. SART.S31437 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John E. Schulenberg ◽

Megan E. Patrick ◽

Deborah D. Kloska ◽

Julie Maslowsky ◽

Jennifer L. Maggs ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Substance Use Disorder ◽

Well Being ◽

Cannabis Use ◽

Adult Health ◽

Senior Year ◽

Cognitive Difficulties ◽

Monitoring The Future ◽

Health And Well Being

This study used national multicohort panel data from the Monitoring the Future study ( N = 25,536 from senior year classes 1977–1997 followed up to the age of 35 years in 1994–2014) to examine how early midlife (age 35 years) alcohol use disorder (AUD) and cannabis use disorder (CUD) are associated with adolescent and adult sociodemographics and health and well-being risk factors. Survey items adapted from DSM-5 diagnostic criteria were used to identify individuals who (a) showed symptoms consistent with criteria for AUD or CUD at age 35 years, (b) used the substance without qualifying for a disorder (nondisordered users), and (c) abstained from using alcohol or marijuana during the past five years. At age 35 years, the estimated prevalence of past five-year AUD was 28.0%, and that of CUD was 6.1%. Multinomial logistic regressions were used to identify variations in the relative risk of disorder symptoms as a function of sociodemographic characteristics, age 18 educational and social indices and substance use, and age 35 health and satisfaction indices and substance use. In the full models, age 18 binge drinking and marijuana use were found to be among the strongest predictors of age 35 AUD and CUD, respectively. Among age 35 health and well-being indicators, lower overall health, more frequent cognitive difficulties, and lower satisfaction with spouse/partner were consistently associated with greater risks of AUD and CUD. Some evidence was found for a J-shaped association between age 35 AUD or CUD status and health and well-being indices, such that nondisordered users were sometimes better off than both abstainers and those experiencing disorder. Finally, nondisordered cannabis use, but not CUD, was found to be more common in more recent cohorts. Implications are discussed regarding the importance of placing early midlife substance use disorder within the context of both adolescent substance use and adult health and well-being.

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Association of Income and Adversity in Childhood with Adult Health and Well-Being

Social Service Review ◽

10.1086/696891 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 92 (1) ◽

pp. 69-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

H. Luke Shaefer ◽

Adrienne Lapidos ◽

Reid Wilson ◽

Sandra Danziger

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Adult Health ◽

Health And Well Being

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Speaker, tell me a joke: The feasibility of using smart speaker technology for health and well-being in an older adult population (Preprint)

JMIR Aging ◽

10.2196/33498 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rachel Faulkenberry McCloud ◽

Carly Perez ◽

Mesfin Awoke Bekalu ◽

Kasisomayajula Viswanath

Keyword(s):

Older Adult ◽

Adult Population ◽

Well Being ◽

Older Adult Population ◽

Health And Well Being

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OP12 The impact of participant-led ‘assets’ during adolescence of early adult health and well-being in the UK: longitudinal analysis and well-being trajectories using the ‘next steps’ dataset

10.1136/jech-2019-ssmabstracts.12 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

JA McGowan ◽

A Hagell ◽

E Rigby ◽

R Shah ◽

M Heyes ◽

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Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Adult Health ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact ◽

Health And Well Being

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The Impact of Natural Hazards on Older Adult Health: Lessons Learned From Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2021.305 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Elizabeth L. Andrade ◽

Megan Jula ◽

Carlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz ◽

Lauren Lapointe ◽

Mark C. Edberg ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Puerto Rico ◽

Natural Hazards ◽

Older Adult ◽

Natural Hazard ◽

Emotional Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Adult Health ◽

Preparedness Planning ◽

The Impact

Abstract Objective: With natural hazards increasing in frequency and severity and global population aging, preparedness efforts must evolve to address older adults’ risks in disasters. This study elucidates potential contributors to the elevated older adult mortality risk following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico through an examination of community stakeholder preparedness, response, and recovery experiences. Methods: In April 2018, qualitative interviews (n = 22) were conducted with stakeholders in 7 Puerto Rican municipalities. Interview transcripts were deductively and inductively coded and analyzed to identify salient topics and themes representing participant response patterns. Results: The hurricane’s detrimental impact on older adult health emerged as a prominent finding. Through 6 months post-hurricane, many older adults experienced unmet needs that contributed to declining physical and emotional health, inadequate non-communicable disease management, social isolation, financial strain, and excess morbidity and mortality. These needs were predominantly consequences of lengthy public service gaps, unsafe living conditions, interrupted health care, and the incongruence between preparedness and event severity. Conclusions: In a landscape of increasing natural hazard frequency and magnitude, a pattern of older adult risk has become increasingly clear. Study findings compel practitioners to engage in natural hazard preparedness planning, research, and policy-making that considers the multiple facets of older adult well-being.

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Effect of the early-life nutritional environment on fecundity and fertility of mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2009.0121 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 364 (1534) ◽

pp. 3419-3427 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

D. S. Gardner ◽

S. E. Ozanne ◽

K. D. Sinclair

Keyword(s):

Biological Sciences ◽

Maternal Effects ◽

Early Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Genetic Constitution ◽

Adult Health ◽

Nutritional Environment ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Developmental Windows

The early-life developmental environment is instrumental in shaping our overall adult health and well-being. Early-life diet and endocrine exposure may independently, or in concert with our genetic constitution, induce a pathophysiological process that amplifies with age and leads to premature morbidity and mortality. Recently, this has become known as ‘programming’ but is akin to ‘maternal effects’ described for many years in the biological sciences and is defined as any influence that acts during critical developmental windows to induce long-term changes in the organisms' phenotype. To date, such delayed maternal effects have largely been characterized in terms of susceptibility to cardiovascular or metabolic disease. Here, we review evidence from experimental animal species, non-human primates and man for an effect of the early-life nutritional environment on adult fecundity and fertility. In addition, using a database of pedigree sheep, we also specifically test the hypothesis that being born small for gestational age with or without post-natal growth acceleration directly programmes fertility. We conclude that there is a lack of compelling evidence to suggest pre-natal undernutrition may directly reduce adult fecundity and fertility, but may exert some effects secondarily via an increased incidence of ‘metabolic syndrome’. Possible effects of being born relatively large on subsequent fecundity and fertility warrant further investigation.

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