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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Eva Kahana is an American sociologist. Career Kahana is the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D Robson Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Department of Sociology, and the Director of the Elderly Care Research Center at Case Western Reserve University. She has published over 200 academic articles on Holocaust survivors, aging, and stressors.

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Defining successful aging: a tangible or elusive concept? (2015) (274)
Depressive Symptoms and 3-Year Mortality in Older Hospitalized Medical Patients (1999) (263)
Person, Environment, and Person-Environment Fit as Influences on Residential Satisfaction of Elders (2003) (249)
The meaning of older adults' health appraisals: congruence with health status and determinant of mortality. (1996) (204)
Specifying caregiver outcomes: gender and relationship aspects of caregiving strain. (1989) (204)
Altruism, Helping, and Volunteering (2013) (160)
Grandparenthood from the perspective of the developing grandchild (1970) (144)
Altruism in later life (1994) (141)
Cancer in the elderly. (2006) (140)
Proactive aging: A longitudinal study of stress, resources, agency, and well-being in late life (2012) (128)
Elder Abuse: Conflict in the Family (1986) (116)
Conceptual and empirical advances in understanding aging well through proactive adaptation. (1996) (113)
Coping with Extreme Trauma (1988) (109)
The Personal and Social Context of Planning for End‐of‐Life Care (2004) (101)
Long-Term Impact of Preventive Proactivity on Quality of Life of the Old-Old (2002) (100)
Job Commitment and Turnover among Women Working in Facilities Serving Older Persons (1997) (100)
Social integration and morale: a re-examination. (1980) (97)
When Do Older Adults Become “Disabled”? Social and Health Antecedents of Perceived Disability in a Panel Study of the Oldest Old∗ (2006) (97)
Improving functional outcomes in older patients: lessons from an acute care for elders unit. (1998) (90)
Alternative models of person-environment fit: prediction of morale in three homes for the aged. (1980) (88)
History and mobility exam index to identify community-dwelling elderly persons at risk of falling. (2001) (87)
Family Caregiving Across the Lifespan (1996) (84)
Motivational Antecedents of Preventive Proactivity in Late Life: Linking Future Orientation and Exercise (2005) (81)
Adjustment and situationally-bound locus of control among institutionalized aged. (1974) (79)
Spirituality and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors: Stress Counter-balancing Effects on the Well-being of Older Adults (2006) (77)
Successful aging among people with HIV/AIDS. (2001) (76)
Emerging lifestyles and proactive options for successful ageing (2003) (75)
Theoretical and Research Perspectives on Grandparenthood (1971) (72)
Proactive Approaches to Successful Aging: One Clear Path through the Forest (2014) (70)
Psychological well-being among Holocaust survivors and immigrants in Israel (1988) (66)
The context of caregiving and well-being outcomes among African and Caucasian Americans. (1995) (66)
The impact of transportation support on driving cessation among community-dwelling older adults. (2012) (63)
The Effects of Stress, Vulnerability, and Appraisals on the Psychological Well-Being of the Elderly (1995) (62)
Stress and health among the elderly (1992) (59)
Gender, recovery from late life heart attack, and medical care. (1993) (57)
Patient proactivity enhancing doctor-patient-family communication in cancer prevention and care among the aged. (2003) (55)
13 – Environmental Continuity, Futurity, and Adaptation of the Aged (1983) (52)
Predictors of Psychological Well-Being among Survivors of the Holocaust (1988) (51)
Strategies of Coping and Postinstitutional Outcomes (1987) (49)
Cross-cultural comparability of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale: an American-Japanese comparison. (1987) (48)
Self and staff conceptions of institutionalized aged. (1969) (47)
Psychological well-being of elderly board and care home residents. (1989) (41)
Altruism, Well-Being, and Mental Health in Late Life (2007) (38)
Social support and cognitive functioning as resources for elderly persons with chronic arthritis pain (2016) (38)
Changes Over Time in the Utilization of Disease-Related Internet Information in Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients 2007 to 2013 (2014) (37)
Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Changes in Depressive Symptoms and Mortality in a Sample of Community-Dwelling Elderly People (2009) (36)
Residential Relocation of Amenity Migrants to Florida: “Unpacking” Post-amenity Moves (2010) (36)
Financial well-being among the aged: a further elaboration. (1980) (36)
Social Resources and the Mental Health of Aging Nazi Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants (1993) (35)
Predictors of Attitudes toward Three Target Groups of Elderly Persons (1996) (33)
Attitudes and Behavior of Staffin Facilities for the Aged (1984) (32)
Baby boomers' expectations of health and medicine. (2014) (31)
Self-Regulatory Driving Behaviors: Gender and Transportation Support Effects (2013) (31)
Forced Disruption in Continuity of Primary Care: The Patients' Perspective (1997) (30)
Developmental Challenges and Family Caregiving: Bridging Concepts and Research (1994) (29)
Chapter Five Person-Environment Transactions Relevant to Control And Helplessness in Institutional Settings (1988) (28)
The humane treatment of old people in institutions. (1973) (27)
Successful Aging from the Viewpoint of Older Adults: Development of a Brief Successful Aging Inventory (SAI) (2017) (25)
The Emergent Discipline of Health Web Science (2013) (24)
A Framework for Understanding the Chronic Stress of Holocaust Survivors (1997) (22)
The price of mental well-being in later life: the role of financial hardship and debt (2020) (22)
Social Factors in Institutional Living. (1984) (22)
Racial and socioeconomic aspects of myocardial infarction recovery: studying confounds. (1991) (21)
Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants: Late Life Adaptations (2005) (20)
Determinants of Altered Life Perspectives Among Older-Adult Long-term Cancer Survivors (2011) (19)
Boundary spanning and health: invitation to a learning community (2012) (19)
Beyond dependency, autonomy, and exchange: Prosocial behavior in late-life adaptation (1987) (18)
The Role of Pain in the Cascade from Chronic Illness to Social Disability and Psychological Distress in Late Life (1997) (18)
Childhood Autism and Proactive Family Coping: Intergenerational Perspectives (2015) (17)
Emerging issues in institutional services for the aging. (1971) (17)
A Self-Reliant Umbrella: Defining Successful Aging Among the Old-Old (80+) in Shanghai (2020) (17)
Altruistic Moral Judgment among Older Adults (1999) (17)
Perspectives of aged on victimization, "ageism", and their problems in urban society. (1977) (17)
On being a proactive health care consumer: Making an “unresponsive” system work for you (2001) (16)
The Older Woman (1981) (16)
Changes in mental status of elderly patients in age-integrated and age-segregated hospital milieus. (1970) (15)
Nursing practice models: implications for information system design. (1998) (15)
Conceptualizing stress, coping, and illness management in heart disease caregiving. (1987) (14)
Toward Advocacy in Cancer Care for Older Adults: Survivors Have Cautious Personal Actions but Bold Advice for Others (2009) (14)
Clinical Issues of Middle Age and Later Life (1982) (14)
Early Origins of Later Life Psychological Well-Being? A Novel Application of Causal Mediation Analysis to Life Course Research (2017) (14)
Age, Medical Advice about Cardiac Risk Reduction, and Patient Compliance (1989) (13)
Toward a Temporal—Spatial Model of Cumulative Life Stress (1998) (13)
Therapeutic potential of age integration. Effects of age-integrated hospital environments on elderly psychiatric patients. (1970) (12)
Health-Care Consumerism and Access to Health Care: Educating Elders to Improve Both Preventive and End-of-Life Care (2011) (12)
Prosocial Behavior in Late Life (2015) (11)
Mealtime Interactions and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults in Shanghai (2017) (11)
Whose advocacy counts in shaping elderly patients’ satisfaction with physicians’ care and communication? (2018) (11)
Unlicensed board and care homes: An extra-familial living arrangement for the elderly (1987) (11)
"Care-getting": a conceptual model of marshalling support near the end of life. (2010) (11)
Depressive symptoms among elderly men and women who transition to widowhood: comparisons with long term married and long term widowed over a 10-year period (2019) (10)
Marshalling Social Support: A Care-Getting Model for Persons Living With Cancer (2009) (10)
Long-Term Care: Tradition and Innovation (2011) (9)
Elderly Cancer Survivors Reflect on Coping Strategies During the Cancer Journey (2016) (9)
Helping by the Elderly: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations1 (1983) (9)
Beyond Ageist Attitudes: Researchers Call for NIH Action to Limit Funding for Older Academics (2017) (8)
Compensatory Use of Computers by Disabled Older Adults (2006) (8)
Social Context and Personal Need: A Study of Polish and Jewish Aged (1977) (8)
Dimensions of conformity: a multidisciplinary view. (1969) (8)
Patient Advocacy and Cancer Screening in Late Life (2010) (8)
Racial differences in future care planning in late life (2020) (7)
Caregiving Issues after a Heart Attack: Perspectives on Elderly Patients and Their Families (1994) (7)
Meeting Challenges of Late Life Disability Proactively (2019) (7)
The future of post-reproductive health – The role of the Internet, the Web, information provision and access (2016) (7)
Attitudes of Young Men and Women toward Awareness of Death (1972) (7)
Loving Others: The Impact of Compassionate Love on Later-Life Psychological Well-Being (2020) (7)
Testing a Symmetrical Model of Caregiving Outcomes During Recovery from Heart Attacks (1993) (7)
Motivators, resources and barriers in voluntary international migration of the elderly: The case of Israel-bound aged (1986) (6)
“Their Today Is Our Future”: Direct Carers’ Work Experience and Formal Caring Relationships in a Community-Based Eldercare Program in Shanghai (2016) (6)
Dynamics of Financial Hardship in the United States: Health and Retirement Study 2006–2016 (2021) (6)
The role of goal and meaning in life for older adults facing interpersonal stress (2020) (6)
Health Web Science (2014) (6)
Holocaust Trauma and Sequelae (2001) (6)
THE PROACTIVE AGED:NEW PLAYERS IN THE WEB WORLD (2011) (5)
The relationship of impulse control to cognition and adjustment among institutionalized aged women. (1975) (5)
Stress and agentic ageing: A targeted adaptation model focused on cancer (2010) (4)
Dual Meanings of Collective Memory: Survivors' and Academics' Perspectives on Genocide (2006) (4)
Holocaust survivors and immigrants (2005) (4)
IMPLEMENTING A NATIONAL MENTORSHIP PROGRAM IN GERONTOLOGY (1990) (4)
Innovations in Institutional Care from a Patient-Responsive Perspective (2009) (4)
Altruistic Attitudes Among Older Adults: Examining Construct Validity and Measurement Invariance of a New Scale (2020) (4)
Institutional Constraints on Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities for the Elderly (2006) (4)
Productive Activity Patterns and Functional Health: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Chinese Older Adults (2020) (4)
Changing attitudes toward the aged. (1979) (4)
Life Altruism, Helping, and Volunteering : Pathways to Well-Being in Late (2013) (3)
Smart Phone Health Applications (2015) (3)
The Effects of the Holocaust: Psychiatric, Behavioral, and Survivor Perspectives (1984) (3)
THE VICTIM AS HELPER-PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR DURING THE HOLOCAUST* (2016) (3)
Hoping for the best and preparing for the worst: end-of-life attitudes of the elderly (2011) (3)
Trauma and the life course in a cross national perspective: Focus on Holocaust survivors living in Hungary. (2015) (3)
Disability and Aging: Learning from Both to Empower the Lives of Older Adults (2017) (3)
Expanding the Time Frame for Advance Care Planning: Policy Considerations and Implications for Research (2012) (3)
Preventive Health Behavior Advice (1987) (2)
With Shaking Hands: Aging with Parkinson’s Disease in America’s Heartland (2010) (2)
FUTURE CARE PLANNING INTERVENTION WITH RURAL OLDER ADULTS (2019) (2)
Health and illness behavior of Type A persons. (1991) (2)
MEDICINE AND SOCIETY Baby Boomers' Expectations of Health and Medicine (2014) (2)
Positive affect, depressive symptoms, and arthritis pain of elderly people over time (2015) (2)
The Effects of Osteoarthritis on Depressive Symptomatology Among Older U.S. Military Veterans (2022) (2)
Neighborhood Deprivation and Incident Alzheimer's Disease: A Regional Cohort Study of Electronic Medical Records (2021) (2)
NO LONGER IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT: THE IMPACT OF DRIVING ON IDENTITY AS A DISABLED PERSON (2018) (2)
TRUST IN THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP ENHANCES WELL-BEING AND LIFE SATISFACTION AMONG OLDER LGBTQ PEOPLE (2018) (2)
Some Determinants and Consequences of Helping by the Elderly. (1983) (2)
Physical Health of Holocaust Survivors and Immigrants in the U.S. and Israel (2005) (2)
Investigating Factors of Active Aging among Chinese Older Adults: A Machine Learning Approach. (2021) (2)
Driving Cessation in Old Age: Gender Influences on Mortality (2021) (2)
The intersection of race and financial strain: The pain of social disconnection among women in the United States (2022) (1)
Gender Differences Prominent in Linking Anxiety to Long-Term Mortality Among the Elderly (2009) (1)
Humanizing institutional care for the aged. (1975) (1)
Gendered “Long Arm” of Parental Education? Life Course Influences on Later Life Functional Limitations in India (2018) (1)
CHANGING HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES OF OLDER ADULTS: COMPARISON OF HMO AND FEE-FOR-SERVICE ENROLLEES (2004) (1)
SUCCESSFUL AGING A SELF-RELIANT UMBRELLA: DEFINING SUCCESSFUL AGING AMONG THE OLD-OLD (80+) IN SHANGHAI (2019) (1)
Patient Planning and Initiative Enhances Physician Recommendations for Cancer Screening and Prevention. (2015) (1)
The role of informal norms in determining institutional totality in homes for the aged. (1979) (1)
Disability and Aging (2017) (1)
Financial Hardship and the Pain of Social Disconnection During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States (2021) (1)
Process and Structure: Service Satisfaction and Recommendation in a Community-based Elderly Meal Service in Shanghai. (2019) (1)
Strengthening hospital nursing: innovations for the improvement of patient care. (1991) (1)
OLDER MEN HARD-HIT IN TRANSITION TO WIDOWHOOD: A 10 YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY (2018) (1)
Dreams of Hot Toast and Smiling Nurses: Toward a Model of Patient-Responsive Care in Nursing Homes (2006) (1)
Redefining the temporal framework for end-of-life planning: the planful self-advocacy model (2011) (1)
Gerontology at Case Western Reserve University: A History of Pioneering Scholarship. (2005) (1)
The Elderly Helper. (1983) (1)
MEANING IN LIFE AMONG THE OLD-OLD (2019) (1)
Future Care Plan at the Contemplation Stage Among Older Adults (2020) (0)
Productive Aging in India: Pre-Retirement Perceptions, Priorities, and Gendered Perspectives (2020) (0)
Racial, ethnic and neighborhood socioeconomic differences in incidence of dementia: A regional retrospective cohort study. (2023) (0)
The Holocaust Years Survivors Share Their Wartime Experiences (2005) (0)
Cumulative Stress Experiences of Holocaust Survivors and the Immigrant Comparison Group (2005) (0)
Proactively Coping with Widowhood in Old Age (2011) (0)
Community-dwelling older adults' experiences and perceptions of needs for home modification in Shanghai (2023) (0)
Editorial - Enhancing Disability Free Life Expectancy Through Proactive Lifestyles (2010) (0)
Promoting Successful Aging among Older Adults with Disabilities: Empowerment through Interventions (2014) (0)
Studying Physically Ill Elderly. (1983) (0)
430. Changes in mental status of elderly patients in age-integrated and age-segregnted hospital milieus (1970) (0)
Coping With Uncertainty: Use of Contemplative Practices Amid a Pandemic (2021) (0)
Development & Testing of a Comprehensive Digital Self-Care Support System for Older Adults With Chronic Conditions (2021) (0)
Gender Differences in Mortality Risk After Driving Cessation Among Older Men and Women: a Mediation Analysis (2020) (0)
Grappling with Forgiveness: Perspectives of Jewish, LGBT and Roma Holocaust Survivors (2018) (0)
ELDERLY CHINESE AND KOREAN IMMIGRANTS AGING IN PLACE IN SENIOR HOUSING. (2017) (0)
The Long Arm of Child Maltreatment and Mental Health in Later Life: The Effects of Maltreatment and Family Context? (2021) (0)
COMPASSIONATE LOVE AND LONELINESS: LATER LIFE MENTAL HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES (2022) (0)
Tangible Social Support Scale (2016) (0)
Elderly Care Research Center (ECRC) Coping Scale (1982) (0)
Introducing the Journal of Elder Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Policies that Protect Older Adults are More Important Than Ever (2020) (0)
Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships: A Proposed Mutuality Model With a Focus on Young Children and Adolescents (2019) (0)
COMPASSIONATE LOVE AND LONELINESS: LATER LIFE MENTAL HEALTH IN THE UNITED STATES (2022) (0)
Coping with Stress 1975 (1982) (0)
FOLLOWING PHYSICIAN’S ADVICE IN LATE LIFE: THE ROLES OF LOCUS OF CONTROL AND HEALTH STATUS (2022) (0)
Expanding Domains of Understanding for Environmental Psychology. (2004) (0)
The Primacy of Compassionate Love: Loneliness and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life. (2023) (0)
Q&A Eva Kahana: Ageing proactively. Interview by Rebecca Kessler. (2012) (0)
Aging in the face of Serial Trauma: Holocaust Survivors Living in Hungary Reflect on History (2013) (0)
SPEAK UP! AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE CANCER SCREENING AND PREVENTION AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS (2018) (0)
Mortgage delinquency, foreclosure, and cognition in later life (2021) (0)
Facing Disability among Elderly Holocaust Survivors: Challenges for Trust and Care-Getting (2017) (0)
Caring for Disabled Elders: A Challenge for Long-Term Care (2010) (0)
The Many Faces of Creativity in Old Age (2021) (0)
From Destruction To Search For New Lives (2005) (0)
Formulating eHealth Utilizing an Ecological Understanding (2017) (0)
Facilitating Aging in Place: Planning for, Utilization and Satisfaction with Informal Supports and Formal Services for Older Adults (2022) (0)
Mental Health of Older Holocaust Survivors (2005) (0)
GENDER INFLUENCES ON LIFE SPACE TRAVEL AMONG THE OLD-OLD (2019) (0)
The Importance of Cancer-Related and Other Health Factors on Cognition Among Older-Adult Long-Term Survivors (2020) (0)
A Comprehensive Digital Self-care Support System for Older Adults With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Development, Feasibility, and Usability Testing of myHESTIA (2022) (0)
Vulnerability, Resilience, Memories, and Meaning (2005) (0)
Emotional Intelligence Skills Enhance Responsive Care of Hospitalized Older Patients (2021) (0)
MAINTAINING HEALTHY LIFESTYLE: RACIAL AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICIANS’ ADVICE TO OLDER ADULTS (2019) (0)
Beyond Uncertainty: The Long Haul of COVID-19 for Older Adults (2021) (0)
Social Resources and Psychological Well-Being (2005) (0)
Modeling the impact of financial hardship and age on self-rated health and depressive symptoms pre/post the great recession (2022) (0)
Who Helps? Attitudes and Characteristics of Elderly Altruists. (1988) (0)
RACIAL AND DISPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCES IN FUTURE CARE PLANNING AMONG COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS (2017) (0)
Illness Adaptation: Clarifying the Concept and Validating a Scale. (1983) (0)
Coping With Uncertainty: Use of Contemplative Practices Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. (2022) (0)
Placing Adaptation Among Elderly Holocaust Survivors in a Theoretical Context (2005) (0)
INTERNET LITERACY FROM GRANDCHILDREN OR YOUNGER GENERATION: A NEW DIRECTION FOR GERONTECHNOLOGY (2022) (0)
DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH TRAJECTORIES BETWEEN CANCER SURVIVORS AND NONCANCER OLDER ADULTS (2022) (0)
A COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL SELF-CARE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR OLDER ADULTS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK (2019) (0)
Predictors of Psychological Well-Being A Multivariate Model (2005) (0)
Feasibility and acceptability of the community-based program: Plan Ahead (2022) (0)
Linking Religious Identity, Participation, and Faith to Domains of Mental Health in Late Life (2021) (0)
LOVE IN LATE LIFE: PERSISTENT AND PREVALENT (2017) (0)
PLANNING FOR MOVES IN LATE LIFE: WHO PLANS AND HOW DOES PLANNING INFLUENCE OUTCOMES? (2017) (0)
BEYOND THE VEIL OF LIFE SATISFACTION: LESSONS FROM URBAN AFRICAN AMERICAN ELDERS (2018) (0)
Challenges of Participating in Research About Living with Mild Cognitive Impairment Among Disabled Veterans (2019) (0)
Global Aging (2018) (0)
Traveling with Disabilities in Later Life: A Targeted Resilience Model (2012) (0)
Proactivity as an Evolving Roadmap for Successful Aging (2014) (0)
The determinants of internet use for health information among patients with breast cancer: Cross-sectional data from 2007 to 2010. (2011) (0)
LONGING FOR LOVE: FINANCIAL STRAIN AND LATER LIFE MENTAL HEALTH IN THE US (2022) (0)
The Effects of Social Participation on Morale among Widowed Women. (1982) (0)
Improving the End-of-Life Experience of Elderly Patients and Their Families: Policy and Practice Fall Short of Providing Comfort and Support (2021) (0)
Elderly Care Research Center Altruism Scale (2014) (0)
Toward a Multidimensional Understanding of Later Life Disability: A Latent Profile Analysis (2021) (0)
Rethinking the Scope of Advance Care Planning for Older Adults (2012) (0)
The Legacy of the ADA for Older Adults Living with Disabilities Close to the End-of-Life (2011) (0)
Older Patients’ Experiences with Medical Care and Caregiving: Editorial (2022) (0)
Loneliness, Social Support, and Psychological Wellbeing Among Older Adults (2021) (0)
The Value of Patient Self-Advocacy in Cancer Prevention of the Aged (2011) (0)
MAINTAINING LIFE SPACE MOBILITY AMONG ELDERLY MIGRANTS TO THE SUNBELT: DEMOGRAPHIC, HEALTH AND SOCIAL ANTECEDENTS (2018) (0)

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