Browsing SOC Faculty Publications by Author "Hill, Twyla J."
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Chapter 1 -- Social context of family caregiving
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)The historical and current contexts of caregiving in later life in the United States are briefly discussed. A short description of the types of health problems typical in the elderly and affecting their need for care is ... -
Chapter 2 -- Spousal and intimate partner caregiving
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners is reviewed. Husbands and wives tend to provide different types of care. Caregiving has different effects, costs, consequences, and rewards for husbands and wives. Also, ... -
Chapter 3 -- Adult child caregiving
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Caregiving by adult children to older parents is described. Sons and daughters generally provide different types and amounts of care, as well as receiving different amounts and types of support from others. Variations exist ... -
Chapter 4 -- Caregiving by other relatives, secondary caregivers, and members of minority groups
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Caregiving by siblings, grandchildren, and other relatives (including fictive kin and ex-spouses) is discussed. Research on secondary caregivers and team caregiving also is reviewed. Studies of kin care within sexual and ... -
Chapter 5 -- Current policy regarding caregiving and policy implications
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Discusses current policy regarding caregiving and policy implications. Although little federal and state legislation directly address familial provision of care, several policies affect people’s ability and willingness to ... -
Family caregiving in aging populations
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Family care giving policies and practices. -
Grandchild, grandparent, and parent coresidence from 1970 to 1990: structural factors affecting state patterns
Hill, Twyla J. (Baywood Publishing, 2006)This study analyzes structural forces affecting state patterns of parental presence within grandparent-grandchild coresidence by testing demographic, social change, policy environment, and social problems models. The project ... -
Grandparents in law: investigating the institutionalization of extended family roles
Hill, Twyla J. (Baywood Publishing, 2002)Previous research on grandparents has focused on the individual and familial level and has characterized grandparent roles as ambiguous and contingent. Emphasizing instead structural phenomena, this theoretical paper argues ... -
Having it all: psychosocial correlates of well-being in highly educated older women
Krampe, Edythe M.; Hill, Twyla J.; Lopez, K. M. (Oxford University Press, 2015-11)We examined subjective well-being (SWB) in a sample of highly educated older women. Our sample consisted of 137 females from an education program for retired adults. The sample was evenly split between partnered and not, ... -
Predictors of change in sexual activity after cardiac diagnosis: elements to inform sexual counseling
Mosack, Victoria A.; Hill, Twyla J.; Steinke, Elaine E. (SAGE Publications Ltd., 2017-06)Safely returning to sexual activity after being diagnosed with a cardiac condition is at the core of sexual counseling strategies. To further inform sexual counseling, this study examined changes in sexual activity before ... -
Preface
Hill, Twyla J. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)Americans are living longer than in the past and the percentage of the population that is 65 years old and older is rapidly increasing. The aging of the US po(k)pulation will have major impacts on family life in the ... -
Prescription for trouble: Medicare Part D and patterns of computer and internet access among the elderly
Wright, David W.; Hill, Twyla J. (Routledge, 2009-04)The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 specifically encourages Medicare enrollees to use the Internet to obtain information regarding the new prescription drug insurance plans and to ... -
Risk factors, depression, and drugs influencing sexual activity in individuals with and without stroke
Dusenbury, Wendy L.; Hill, Twyla J.; Mosack, Victoria A.; Steinke, Elaine E. (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2020-02)PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to analyze factors affecting sexual activity in individuals with and without stroke, ages 40-59 years, in a national, cross-sectional, population-based sample derived from the National ... -
Toward on-device weight monitoring from selfie face images using smartphones
Siddiqui, Hera; Rattani, Ajita; Cure, Laila; Woods, Nikki Keene; Lewis, Rhonda K.; Twomey, Janet M.; Smith-Campbell, Betty; Hill, Twyla J. (Springer, 2022-02-24)Obesity is a serious health problem that is on the rise at the global level. Recent studies suggest that BMI can be inferred from facial images using deep learning-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for obesity ...