Julie Norstrand

Boston College | BC · Graduate School of Social Work

Menec's (2011 Menec, V. H., Means, R., Keating, N., Parkhurst, G., & Eales, J. (2011). Conceptualizing age-friendly communities. Canadian Journal on Aging, 30(3), 479–493. doi:10.1017/S0714980811000237[CrossRef], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]) framework for understanding age-friendly efforts rests on two ideas: first, that we need t...

Social capital has been connected with positive health outcomes across countries, including China. Given the rise in the number of seniors living alone, there is a need to examine the health benefits of social capital, accounting for living arrangements. Data from the 2005 Chinese General Social Survey were used to test research hypotheses. Control...

The influence of living arrangements on the association between neighborhood connectedness and health among older adults remains poorly understood. By living arrangements, we mean whether the elder lives alone or with others. The purpose of this study was to compare relationships between indicators of social capital, a concept measuring neighborhoo...

Research is needed to examine the connection between older adults and their community as they age. This is important as increasing numbers of older adults wish to age in place. Regression models were examined across 3 cohorts testing relationships among social capital indicators (neighborhood trust, neighborhood support, neighborhood cohesion, neig...

The gender dimension of social capital remains underinvestigated, particularly in the Eastern context. Goal: This chapter examines the relationship between social capital and health among a sample of older adults from China, particularly from a gender perspective. Method: Sample (N = 1,854) of older Chinese (60 years and over), 46.4% female, were o...

Understanding the complex relationship between the environmental context and the well-being of older adults is paramount as aging in place is increasingly acknowledged as a policy goal. This study investigated how the social environment (measured by social capital) was related to both physical and mental health. A sample of 3,219 older adults (60 y...

This study examines different types of individual-level social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) and their relationships with physical and emotional health among older Chinese living in urban and rural settings. Using the 2005 China General Social Survey, physical and emotional health were regressed on social capital controlling for sociodem...

Previous research from the Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation (CCDE) programs in New Jersey, Arkansas, and Florida suggests that consumers' control over personal care greatly improves their satisfaction with care arrangements and their outlook on life. Still, some argue that consumer-directed care may not be appropriate for consumers...

Building on previous research on basic needs and civic engagement, this study attempts to understand whether or not attainment of basic needs will predict civic engagement in a resource-constrained environment. We also assess the moderating effects of perceived trust in governmental institutions on this relationship. We use data from the Afrobarome...

This study examined the association of depression with laterality of epilepsy surgery in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy before standard lobectomy. Forty-nine patients presented for EEG telemetry for localization of epilepsy and eventual temporal lobectomy. Patients underwent routine neuropsychiatric evaluation blinded for epileptic focus, inc...

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has been increasingly recognized as extending into adulthood, affecting occupational, interpersonal, and psychological functioning. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and its revision (MMPI-2) have been widely used in the assessment of patients with psychiatric disorders, but few studies have att...

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has been increasingly recognized as extending into adulthood, affecting occupational, interpersonal, and psychological functioning. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and its revision (MMPI-2) have been widely used in the assessment of patients with psychiatric disorders, but few studies have att...

"May, 2002." Thesis (M.S.)--MCP Hahnemann University, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-35).