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EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF HEART DISEASE AND DIABETES ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF OLDER MINORITY ADULTS

As the world’s population ages and healthcare costs associated with the care of the elderly rise, it is pertinent to address these concerns. This study examines how older adults’ mental health is affected by chronic medical illnesses. It is hypothesized that minority older adults, on average, have w...

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Autores principales: Saroj, Sree, Panchagnula, Sainath
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766941/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2832
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description As the world’s population ages and healthcare costs associated with the care of the elderly rise, it is pertinent to address these concerns. This study examines how older adults’ mental health is affected by chronic medical illnesses. It is hypothesized that minority older adults, on average, have worse mental and physical health outcomes than their majority counterparts. A secondary data analysis of the National Health and Aging Trends Study, revealed that older minority adults experience higher rates of depression than non-minority older adults, as measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire – 2 (PHQ-2). European-Americans significantly differ from African Americans (AA) and Hispanics regarding their level of anxiety, as measured by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 2 (GAD-2) measure. AA and Hispanics are significantly more likely to exhibit anxiety than their European-American counterparts. Minority older adults with a higher rate of surgeries are not substantially more likely to be depressed, according to the PHQ-2. Minority older adults who reported having a difficult time falling asleep are considerably more depressed than older minority adults who did not endorse depressive symptomatology on the PHQ-2. Minority older adults who had two or more social supports in their lives have lower levels of anxiety compared to older minority adults who have less than two social supports in their lives. The findings from this study serves as groundwork to promote equity between majority and minority older adults, which will improve their abilities to perform independent activities of daily living successfully.
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spelling pubmed-97669412022-12-21 EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF HEART DISEASE AND DIABETES ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF OLDER MINORITY ADULTS Saroj, Sree Panchagnula, Sainath Innov Aging Late Breaking Abstracts As the world’s population ages and healthcare costs associated with the care of the elderly rise, it is pertinent to address these concerns. This study examines how older adults’ mental health is affected by chronic medical illnesses. It is hypothesized that minority older adults, on average, have worse mental and physical health outcomes than their majority counterparts. A secondary data analysis of the National Health and Aging Trends Study, revealed that older minority adults experience higher rates of depression than non-minority older adults, as measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire – 2 (PHQ-2). European-Americans significantly differ from African Americans (AA) and Hispanics regarding their level of anxiety, as measured by the Generalized Anxiety Disorder – 2 (GAD-2) measure. AA and Hispanics are significantly more likely to exhibit anxiety than their European-American counterparts. Minority older adults with a higher rate of surgeries are not substantially more likely to be depressed, according to the PHQ-2. Minority older adults who reported having a difficult time falling asleep are considerably more depressed than older minority adults who did not endorse depressive symptomatology on the PHQ-2. Minority older adults who had two or more social supports in their lives have lower levels of anxiety compared to older minority adults who have less than two social supports in their lives. The findings from this study serves as groundwork to promote equity between majority and minority older adults, which will improve their abilities to perform independent activities of daily living successfully. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766941/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2832 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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