Older adults as a community resource: results from the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging.

abstract

• Using data collected from the first wave of a longitudinal data set collected in the late fall and winter of 1990-1991, the National Survey of Self-Care and Aging (NSSCA), we examined the extent and type of assistance older people provided to others. Age, gender, and perceived health status were the most consistent predictors of the four types of assistance: personal care, child care, volunteer work, and listening/offering advice and support. Help with instrumental activities of daily living either alone or in combination with other activities of daily living was the most common type of personal care provided.

authors

• Ory, Marcia

published proceedings

• Gerontologist

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Kincade, J. E., Rabiner, D. J., Bernard, S. L., Woomert, A., Konrad, T. R., DeFriese, G. H., & Ory, M. G.

citation count

• 44

complete list of authors

• Kincade, JE||Rabiner, DJ||Bernard, SL||Woomert, A||Konrad, TR||DeFriese, GH||Ory, MG

publication date

• August 1996

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• The Gerontologist  Journal

keywords

• Activities Of Daily Living
• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 And Over
• Aging
• Female
• Helping Behavior
• Humans
• Longitudinal Studies
• Male
• Medicare
• Middle Aged
• Self Care
• United States
• Volunteers

PubMed Central ID

• 8771975

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/geront/36.4.474

start page

• 474

end page

• 482

volume

• 36

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geront/36.4.474