Unmet Assistance Need Among Older American Indians: The Native Elder Care Study.

Handgrip strength among older American Indians: the Native Elder Care Study.

The association of resilience with mental and physical health among older American Indians: the Native Elder Care Study.

We examined the association of resilience with measures of mental and physical health in a sample of older American Indians (AIs). A validated scale measuring resilience was administered to 185 noninstitutionalized AIs aged>=55 years. Unadjusted analyses revealed that higher levels of resilience were associated with lower levels of depressive symptomatology and chronic pain, and with higher lev...

Insomnia Symptoms and Cardiovascular Disease among Older American Indians: The Native Elder Care Study

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among American Indians. It is not known if symptoms of insomnia are associated with CVD in this population. METHODS We examined 449 American Indians aged ≥ 55 years from the Native Elder Care Study. The main outcome-of-interest was self-reported CVD. RESULTS Short sleep duration, daytime sleepiness, and difficulty falling...

Barriers to cancer clinical trial participation among Native elders.

OBJECTIVES American Indians/Alaska Natives are underrepresented in clinical trials. Therefore, they must participate in large-scale cancer clinical trials to ensure the generalizability of trial results and improve their access to high-quality treatment. Our goal was to identify factors that influenced participation in cancer clinical trials among American Indians/Alaska Natives. METHODS An a...

The adverse consequences of unmet need among older persons living in the community: dual-eligible versus Medicare-only beneficiaries.

OBJECTIVE Our objective is to estimate and compare the prevalence of selected adverse consequences associated with unmet need for assistance among a socioeconomically and medically vulnerable subgroup of the older adult population, those who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, with those eligible for Medicare only. METHOD Using data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (...