Sarah L. Szanton

TL;DR: These measures of the frequency of leaving and ability to leave the home are developed and used to estimate the size of the homebound population in the US population to inform improvements in clinical and social services for elderly, community-dwelling adults.

TL;DR: A typology of social isolation was constructed using data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study and it was indicated that being unmarried, male, having low education, and low income were all independently associated with social isolation.

TL;DR: This meta-analysis observed an association between depression and oxidative stress and antioxidant status across many different studies, suggesting that well-established associations between Depression and poor heath outcomes may be mediated by high oxidative stress.

TL;DR: In this population-based sample, the odds of frailty were increased for those of low education or income regardless of race, and the growing population of older adults with low levels of education and income renders these findings important.

TL;DR: The purpose of this systematic review is to examine the construct of allostatic load and the published studies that employ it in an effort to understand whether the construct can be useful in quantifying health disparities.