Kenneth F Ferraro

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Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk
The Measurement of Fear of Crime
Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime: Role of Social and Physical Incivilities
Aging and cumulative inequality: how does inequality get under the skin?
Are racial disparities in health conditional on socioeconomic status?
Women's Fear of Victimization: Shadow of Sexual Assault?
Self-ratings of health among the old and the old-old.
ASSESSING AGE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERCEIVED RISK AND FEAR OF CRIME
Cumulative Disadvantage and Health: Long-Term Consequences of Obesity?
Health trajectories: long-term dynamics among black and white adults.
The Measurement of Fear of Crime
Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime: Role of Social and Physical Incivilities
Aging and cumulative inequality: how does inequality get under the skin?
Are racial disparities in health conditional on socioeconomic status?
Women's Fear of Victimization: Shadow of Sexual Assault?
Self-ratings of health among the old and the old-old.
ASSESSING AGE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERCEIVED RISK AND FEAR OF CRIME
Cumulative Disadvantage and Health: Long-Term Consequences of Obesity?
Health trajectories: long-term dynamics among black and white adults.
IS THERE A GOLD STANDARD FOR MEASURING MORBIDITY
Volunteering and Depression in Later Life: Social Benefit or Selection Processes?∗
Religion and Health among Black and White Adults: Examining Social Support and Consolation
Body mass index and disability in adulthood: a 20-year panel study.
Self-rated health and mortality among black and white adults: examining the dynamic evaluation thesis.
Distress and perceived health: mechanisms of health decline.
Cumulative inequality theory for research on aging and the life course.
The black/white disability gap: persistent inequality in later life?
Religious Consolation Among Men and Women: Do HealthProblems Spur Seeking?
Double jeopardy, aging as leveler, or persistent health inequality? A longitudinal analysis of white and black Americans.
Double jeopardy to health hypothesis for African Americans: analysis and critique.
Are older people most afraid of crime? Reconsidering age differences in fear of victimization.
The life course of severe obesity: does childhood overweight matter?
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk.
Does religion influence adult health
Children of Misfortune: Early Adversity and Cumulative Inequality in Perceived Life Trajectories1
Childhood Disadvantage and Health Problems in Middle and Later Life
The Stigma of Obesity
Medical need and use of services among older men and women.
Neighborhood Residential Segregation and Physical Health among Hispanic Americans: Good, Bad, or Benign?∗
The Elderly's Fear of Crime
Does Religion Increase the Prevalence and Incidence of Obesity in Adulthood?
Relationships between health literacy and heart failure knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-care adherence.
Financial strain, social relations, and psychological distress among older people: a cross-cultural analysis.
Widowhood, health, and friendship support in later life.
Firm believers ? Religion, body weight, and well-being
Body weight and self-ratings of health.
Gerontology : perspectives and issues
Physician-evaluated and self-reported morbidity for predicting disability.
Reports of Abusive Experiences During Childhood and Adult Health Ratings
Are black older adults health-pessimistic?
Childhood misfortune as a threat to successful aging: avoiding disease.
Age, body mass index, and functional illness.
Functional limitations and religious service attendance in later life: barrier and/or benefit mechanism?
Double jeopardy to health for black older adults?
Social relations and health assessments among older people: do the effects of integration and social contributions vary cross-culturally?
Widowhood and Social Participation in Later Life
Measuring morbidity: disease counts, binary variables, and statistical power.
Psychological Distress and Mortality: Are Women More Vulnerable?∗
The health consequences of relocation among the aged in the community.
Health Literacy Influences Heart Failure Knowledge Attainment but Not Self-Efficacy for Self-Care or Adherence to Self-Care over Time
Gerontology education in transition: considering disciplinary and paradigmatic evolution.
Social network properties and self-rated health in later life: comparisons from the Korean social life, health, and aging project and the national social life, health and aging project
A 3-D Model of Health Decline: Disease, Disability, and Depression among Black and White Older Adults∗
Does Childhood Misfortune Increase Cancer Risk in Adulthood?
Are older people afraid of crime
Does childhood misfortune raise the risk of acute myocardial infarction in adulthood?
Do productive activities reduce inflammation in later life? Multiple roles, frequency of activities, and C-reactive protein.
Accumulated financial strain and women's health over three decades.
The Impact of Widowhood on the Social Relations of Older Persons
Environmental Satisfaction, Sociability, and Well-Being among Urban Elderly
Health benefits of religion among Black and White older adults? Race, religiosity, and C-reactive protein.
Longitudinal change in physical activity and disability in adults.
When Does Disadvantage Not Accumulate? Toward a Sociological Conceptualization of Resilience.
Aging, Obesity, and Mortality
Assistive device use as a dynamic acquisition process in later life.
SELF-INTEREST AND PUBLIC OPINION TOWARD SMOKING POLICIES; A REPLICATION AND EXTENSION
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk
Alternative Measures of Self-Rated Health for Predicting Mortality Among Older People: Is Past or Future Orientation More Important?
What Do We Mean by Accumulation? Advancing Conceptual Precision for a Core Idea in Gerontology.
Perceived discrimination and health among Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans: buffering effect of the Lazo matrimonial?
Diverse Aging and Health Inequality by Race and Ethnicity
The color of hospitalization over the adult life course: cumulative disadvantage in black and white?
Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities?
Cohort analysis of retirement preparation, 1974-1981.
Obesity and Hospitalization over the Adult Life Course: Does Duration of Exposure Increase Use?∗
Imagining the disciplinary advancement of gerontology: Whither the tipping point?
Age and the tenses of life satisfaction.
Why Do Older People Change Their Ratings of Childhood Health?
Relocation Desires and Outcomes among the Elderly
Beyond the barriers: racial discrimination and use of complementary and alternative medicine among Black Americans.
The Effect of Widowhood on the Health Status of Older Persons
Cohort change in images of older adults, 1974-1981.
Physician evaluation of obesity in health surveys: "who are you calling fat?".
A half century of longitudinal methods in social gerontology: evidence of change in the journal.
Health and Aging
Measuring compliance among in-center hemodialysis patients
Child maltreatment and adult health in a national sample: heterogeneous relational contexts, divergent effects?
Sensory impairment among older US workers.
Self and Age Differences in Defining Health Situations
Is gerontology interdisciplinary?
Images of Older People in Western Art and Society
Participation in Multipurpose Senior Centers
Racial disparity in access to cardiac intensive care over 20 years
Age, Aging, and Mental Health
Distal and variably proximal causes: education, obesity, and health.
Childhood Misfortune and Adult Health
RELIGIOUS SEEKING AMONG AFFILIATES AND NON-AFFILIATES: DO MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS SPUR RELIGIOUS COPING?
The Evolution of Gerontology Education Over Three Decades Reflections and Prospects
Long-term obesity and avoidable hospitalization among younger, middle-aged, and older adults.
Reexamining the double jeopardy to health thesis.
Domains of medical practice: physicians' assessment of the role of physician extenders.
Black and White Chains of Risk for Hospitalization Over 20 Years∗
Self and older-people referents in evaluating life problems.
Early Origins of Adult Cancer Risk Among Men and Women: Influence of Childhood Misfortune?
Self-Rated Health and Mortality Among Black and White Adults
The time of our lives: recognizing the contributions of Mannheim, Neugarten, and Riley to the study of aging.
Health Status and Risk Indicator Trends of the Aging US Health Care Workforce
Life Course Lens on Aging and Health
Social Compensation in Adulthood and Later Life
Genetic and Environmental Overlap Between Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Physical Health
Low socioeconomic status and body mass index as risk factors for inflammation in older adults: conjoint influence on C-reactive protein?
Is Gerontology Ready for Accreditation?
Health Beliefs and Proscriptions on Public Smoking
Childhood Misfortune and Handgrip Strength Among Black, White, and Hispanic Americans
Mortality Risk Among Black and White Working Women
Gerontology's greatest hits.
Does Occupational Mobility Influence Health among Working Women? Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Work Trajectories
Contextualization of Survey Data: What Do We Gain and Does It Matter?
Assessing the Impacts of Community-Based Health Care Policies and Programs for Older Adults
Utility of Cumulative Inequality Theory for Sociological studies of the Life Course
Filled with the "Holy Smoke": Religion and Tobacco in Carolina
Physician Resistance to Innovations: The Case of Contract Medicine
Avoiding the Major Causes of Death: Does Childhood Misfortune Reduce the Likelihood of Being Disease Free in Later Life?
Aging and the Social Sciences: Progress and Prospects
Childhood Misfortune, Personality, and Heart Attack: Does Personality Mediate Risk of Myocardial Infarction?
Does Religion Increase the Prevalence and Incidence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in Adulthood
Race and Health Disparities
Group benefit orientation toward older adults at work? A comparison of cohort analytic methods.
Data Sources for Studying Aging
Marital Contributions to Well-Being in Later Life
Visions of the Life Course: Risks, Resources, and Vulnerability
Wishful Thinking? Early Adversity and Cumulative Inequality in Perceived Life Trajectories
Wealth in Middle and Later Life: Examining the Life Course Timing of Women's Health Limitations.
Diversifying Undergraduate Chemistry Course Pathways to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Students
Relationships Between Health Literacy, Self-care, Self-efficacy, and Knowledge in Heart Failure
Validity, Reliability, and Hostility: A Comment on Longshore
The Gerontological Imagination: An Integrative Paradigm of Aging
Theory welcome here.
The Elderly’s Fear of Crime
Are Biological Consequences of Childhood Exposures Detectable in Telomere Length Decades Later?
The social impact of widowhood on older persons: A longitudinal analysis.
Neighborhood Residential Segregation and Health: Differential Effects among Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans?
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences: Eighth Edition
Does Early-Life Misfortune Increase the Likelihood of Psychotropic Medication Use in Later Life?
Use of Time and Satisfaction with the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
Digital technology use and depressive symptoms among older adults in Korea: beneficial for those who have fewer social interactions?
Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach:
Editing in the Rearview Mirror
Is gerontology inclusive?
Racial Disparity in Cardiac Care Length of Stay
The ADEA Amendment and Public Support for Older Workers
Do Health Limitations Raise the Risk of Poverty? Women's Entries into Poverty Over 36 Years
Does Childhood Misfortune Increase the Likelihood of Psychotropic Drug Use in Adulthood
Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life
REDUCING THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD MISFORTUNE: THE ROLE OF ADULT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON LATER OBESITY
Has Never Been Easier! Structural Equation Modeling
Do Mediators Linking Childhood Conditions to Late-Life Chronic Inflammation Vary by Race?
Does Health Influence Wealth? Examining Timing and Duration of Health Limitations Over the Life Course
INTEREST GROUP SESSION—AGE-FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY (AFU): AGE-FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES: PUTTING PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE
Author's response to reviews Title:Social Network Properties and Self-Rated Health in Later Life Comparisons from the Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project and the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project Authors:
Somatic Symptoms Index
Childhood Misfortune and Late-Life Stroke Incidence, 2004-2014.
Dissertation Title: Financial Strain and the Health of Black, White, and Hispanic Older Adults: Did the Great Recession Affect Physical Health?
Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
17. Health literacy influences knowledge attainment but not self-care or self-efficacy longitudinally in patients with heart failure
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Health Literacy Influences Knowledge Attainment but not Self-Care or Self-Efficacy Longitudinally in Heart Failure Patients
Life Course Stressors and Functional Limitations in Later Life among White, Black, and Hispanic Adults: Deleterious, Hardening, or Benign?
Medical Sociology: Health of Americans
CHILDHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND ADULT ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE: A LIFE COURSE PATHWAY MODEL OF HEALTH
LIFE COURSE ORIGINS OF FRAILTY IN LATER LIFE
Early Origins of Body Mass in Later Life: Examining Childhood Risks and Adult Pathways
Statistical Handbook on Aging Americans
Indiana Farm Occasional Wood Cutter Fatalities Involving Individuals 55 Years and Older.
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF SURVEY DATA: WHAT DO WE GAIN AND DOES IT MATTER?
DOES SOCIAL SUPPORT MEDIATE THE INFLUENCE OF CHILDHOOD EXPOSURES ON COGNITION IN LATER LIFE
Do Social Support and Strain Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Exposures and Frailty in Later Life?
LONGITUDINAL CHANGE IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND DISABILITY IN ADULTS
A pedagogical strategy addressing an unmet need: Making the biology of aging an accessible part of interdisciplinary gerontology education
Cumulative Inequality and Working Womens Mortality:Do Perceived Work Trajectories Get under the Skin?
Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and the Life-Course
Frontiers of social science research on aging
DOES CHILDHOOD MISFORTUNE INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF MOBILITY LIMITATION IN LATER LIFE
ARE BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDHOOD MISFORTUNE DETECTABLE DECADES LATER

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