Danielle Jimenez

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PhD at Fordham University

Wealth inequality is rising, and millennials will be the future recipients of the largest intergenerational wealth transfer. Meanwhile, there is a need to move more money to support transformative social justice movements. This study examines the impact of spirituality as a motivator for the social justice movement giving among progressive young ad...

The purpose of this study (N=304) was to examine the characteristics of LDCs’ informal caregivers (IC; Co-caregivers [Co-CG], other informal helpers) network providing assistance to the care recipient (CR), and factors associated with more help received from ICs. The majority of the LDCs in the sample reported working with at least one IC (81.9%) i...

The purpose of this study (N=304) was to identify differences in LDCs’ experiences with their care recipient’s (CR) formal care providers (FCPs) among four LDC groups based on CR dementia status and residential setting (community/nursing home [NH]). Results show that LDCs of CRs without dementia living in a NH are less likely to be satisfied with i...

Long-distance caregivers (LDCs) are defined by geography, with little known about what they actually do when visiting and from afar. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 304 LDCs. Half of LDCs lived more than 500 miles away from the care receiver (CR); 38% visited at least 1x a month, another 53% visited several times a year....

This study investigated the impact of LDC on mental health utilizing the Sociocultural Stress Process Model as a conceptual framework. A path analytic model tested the impact of caregiving stressors (i.e. distance, frequencies of visits, hours spent helping, burden) and sociocultural values (i.e. familialism) on LDCs’ mental health outcomes (i.e. d...

The purpose of this study (N=304) was to examine the characteristics of LDCs’ informal caregiver (IC) network (Co-caregivers [Co-CG], other informal helpers) providing assistance to the care recipient (CR), and factors associated with more help received from ICs. The majority of LDCs in the sample reported working with at least one IC (81.9%) indic...

The purpose of this study was to examine the specific types of challenges related to distance that were reported by caregivers who participated in the Fordham Long Distance Caregiving (LDC) Study. We coded 60 open-ended responses to a question that asked about the challenges caregivers face in providing care to an older adult who lives at least two...

This paper presents recruitment experiences and sample information from the Fordham LDC Study (N=286). We initially planned to recruit LDCs from primary contacts of elders receiving residential or home care services. However, low recruitment rates lead us to research matching services, list serves, and participant and personal referrals. As a resul...

The purpose of this study was to examine Long-Distance Caregiving (LDC) stressors (i.e., work and family conflict, caregiver [CG] burden) and mental health consequences (i.e., depression and anxiety), and to identify subgroup difference (i.e., by ethnicity, income adequacy, and gender). We analyzed data from the Fordham Long Distance Caregiving Stu...

Using data from the Fordham Long Distance Caregiving (LDC) Study (N=286), the purpose of these analyses was to describe the formal service use and needs (e.g., support groups, geriatric care management) of LDCs and to identify subgroup differences based on caregiver and care recipient characteristics. We found that rates of service use were low wit...