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S J Cutler

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PubMed1988

Correlates of self-reported everyday memory problems.

Using the 1984 Supplement on Aging to the National Health Interview Survey, this study examined the prevalence and correlates of self-reported everyday memory problems in a sample of persons aged 55 and older (N = 14,783). Fifteen percent of the respondents reported having had trouble remembering things frequently during the past year, but 26 percent indicated having had no trouble. Of those reporting any problems, only 18 percent said the problem was happening with increasing frequency. Sex, age, educational attainment, subjective health status, perceived changes in health status, number of functional limitations, and vision and hearing impairments were examined in bivariate and multivariate analyses to identify significant predictors of self-reported memory problems.

Aged↗
PubMed1988

Residence differences in the health status of elders.

Using data from the 1984 Supplement on Aging to the National Health Interview Survey, this study examined residential differences on a selected group of health status measures among persons 65 years of age and older (N = 11,497). Mean values on indicators of health and impairment for each of the residence categories were examined before and after adjusting for distributional differences in background and demographic characteristics which are associated with both health and residence. Three important conclusions emerged from the analysis: (1) health status does not vary with residence in a unitary fashion; (2) the relationship between residence and health status does not appear to fall along a straightforward rural-urban continuum; and (3) there is both diversity in, and a general patterning of, the significant relationships between health and residence with the extremes of health status located in the rural categories.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1985

Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in the United States: a three-year study.

This report of the NIH-supported National Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) Registry summarizes data on 7,404 patients treated with CAPD during the three-year period 1981 through 1983, or nearly one-half of patients treated in the USA who were treated with CAPD during this time. While age and diabetes mellitus impact on mortality, they appear to have a limited influence on transfer or infection rate. There were 1.7 episodes of peritonitis, 0.7 exit site/tunnel infections, and 0.3 catheter replacements reported per patient year of observation. Patients averaged 10.2 hospital days per year for CAPD complications and 22.3 hospital days per year for all causes. Comparisons of these data with similar data reported for other therapies are subject to variations in the distribution of population and disease characteristics, as well as the length of the observation period.

Actuarial Analysis↗
PubMed1983

Aging and changes in attitudes about the women's liberation movement.

Using data from a four-year national panel study, this research examines changes in attitudinal support for the women's liberation movement over the period 1972-1976. All age groups became more favorable, but the extent of these shifts was greater among the older members of the panel than among the younger members. The findings provide no support for the notions that social and political attitudes become more conservative with aging or that they become rigid and fixed.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Aging and conservatism: cohort changes in attitudes about legalized abortion.

Cohort changes in attitudes about the availability of legal abortions are traced over a twelve year period using data from seven national surveys. Contrary to the aging-conservatism hypothesis, trends in the direction of increasingly favorable attitudes between 1965 and 1973 and general stability thereafter characterize all cohorts. On this issue, there is no evidence of growing conservatism, attitudinal rigidity, or change at a slower rate among the older cohorts.

Abortion, Legal↗
PubMed1977

Aging and voluntary association participation.

This longitudinal analysis examines changes in voluntary association participation levels over a 4-year period using data from the middle age of the Duke Adaptation Study (N=374) and over a 2 1/2-year period using data from a study of older persons in Oberlin, Ohio (N=104). The findings showed; the extent of participation was high in both samples; mean levels of participation remained essentially unchanged; persons with stable or increasing participation levels outnumbered those with declining levels; and persons not participating at the time of the initial interview were unlikely to be participating later, while those who were participating initially were likely to have continued their participation. Contrary to predictions of declining activity based on disengagement theory, aging appears to be accompanied by stability and continuity in levels of voluntary association participation.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

Who are we missing and why?

The concept of "missing" is defined as failure to diagnose cancer before it has spread beyond the organ of origin. Data are presented for the 11 sites at which cancer occurs most frequently in the United States. There is a clear association between the survival of patients with cancer of a particular site and the percentage of cancers of that site diagnosed in a localized stage. However, the reasons for variation in the proportion of cases discovered while localized, which varies from 79% for uterine corpus to 12% for pancreas, appear to be varied and complex. Available data suggest that the nature of the tumor-host relationship and metastatic potential of the neoplasm are probably more important than alertness on the part of the patient and the physician, and probably have a more profound influence on stage of disease at diagnosis than currently available screening techniques.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1976

Age profiles of membership in sixteen types of voluntary associations.

Several trends are noted which may lead future cohorts of older persons to belong to voluntary associations to a greater extent than current cohorts. Because the best previously available data which could be used to monitor changing membership levels are not two decades old, this study presents detailed age profiles of membership in 16 types of associations. Based on data from the 1974 and 1975 NORC General Social Surveys of the adult population of the USA (N = 2,974), various patterns of age differences in belonging to associations are identified and discussed for both the total sample and by sex. A rank order of the types of associations to which older persons are most likely to belong in 1974-1975 is compared with a similar rank order based on a 1955 survey. The paper concludes by specifying additional research questions which replicate studies should address.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Trends in survival rates of patients with cancer.

Reports on survival of patients with cancer issued by the National Cancer Institute indicate marked improvement for almost all forms of cancer from the 1940's to 1950's. Subsequently, prognosis for patients with forms of cancer accounting for approximately 42 per cent of all cancers continued to improve, although at a slower rate. For cancers of the lung, colon, rectum, stomach and pancreas, little improvement in patient survival during the 1960's was observed, and for women with invasive cervical cancer, survival rates decreased slightly. One-year survival results for patients with diagnoses made during 1970-71 suggest that improvement in five-year survival observed during the 1960's for many forms of cancer will be sustained. Continued reporting of survival of patients treated in the 1970's would ultimately demonstrate the degree of effectiveness of recently introduced therapeutic procedures.

Breast Neoplasms↗