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The complex nature of family support across the life span: Implications for psychological well-being.

Structural equation modeling indicated that among young and middle-aged adults, increasing family negativity was associated with increases in depressive symptoms over time, but these findings were moderated by family negativity.
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Subjective well-being and mortality revisited: differential effects of cognitive and emotional facets of well-being on mortality.

A differential impact of cognitive and emotional well-being on mortality is suggested and it is suggested that in middle-aged adults the effects of SWB on mortality are attenuated by self-rated health and physical activity.
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Towards bridging the grey digital divide: changes in internet access and its predictors from 2002 to 2014 in Germany

The current study contrasts influencing factors of internet access, comparing samples from 2002 to 2014 across age groups using data from the German Ageing Survey (DEAS), and serves as a basis for identifying groups mostly affected by this increasingly important form of social inequality.
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Use of activPAL to Measure Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review

The activPAL is most often used to collect data on step count and walking, sit-to-stand transitions, and sedentary time in community-dwelling older adults.
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The Strength of Weaker Ties: An Underexplored Resource for Maintaining Emotional Well-Being in Later Life

Contrary to popular theoretical orientations in gerontology, weaker ties may offer older adults a more effective avenue for promoting emotional well-being over time than close ties, and may have the additional benefit of compensate for losses in the number of close ties.
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The Physician’s Role in Reducing SIDS

To continue to decrease the SIDS rate, physicians must take responsibility for educating themselves and parents about safe sleep practices and other SIDS risk factors.
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A Framework for Aging-Friendly Services and Supports in the Age of COVID-19

This essay discusses the perfect storm of individual and environmental risk factors, including deconditioning, reductions in formal and informal care support, and social isolation, that may produce a cascade of disability after the pandemic subsides.
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Living healthier, living longer: The benefits of residing in community

Convoys of social relations: Cohort similarities and differences over 25 years.

Overall patterns of network structure and composition are largely similar in the 2 cohorts, and the effects of age and emotional closeness were largely consistent over 25 years, providing continued support for the importance of close relations in later life across historical periods.
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Alcohol Consumption Decisions Among Nonabusing Drinkers Diagnosed with Hepatitis C

Patients who quit drinking tended to attribute postdiagnosis drinking to occasional triggers, whereas patients who were still drinking were more likely to endorse rationales not tied to specific triggers.
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