PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS          ARTICLES          REPORTS          REVIEWS & ESSAYS

BOOKS
Under review. Health of Aging Hispanics: The Mexican-Origin Population (with Keith E. Whitfield, eds.).

1997. Who Will Care For Us? Aging and Long-term Care in Multicultural America. New York: New York University Press. Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book list, 1998 (with Ronald J. Angel)

1993. Painful Inheritance: Health and the New Generation of Fatherless Families. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press (with Ronald J. Angel).

1991. Health and Living Arrangements of the Elderly. New York: Garland Publishing.

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ARTICLES
2006. "Minority Group Status and Healthful Aging: Does Social Structure Still Matter?" American Journal of Public Health (with Ronald J. Angel).

2006. "Religious Attendance and Cognitive Functioning among Older Mexican Americans." Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences 61:P3-9 (with Terrence D. Hill, Amy M. Burdette and Ronald J. Angel).

2005. "Religious Attendance and Mortality: An Eight-Year Follow Up of Older Mexican Americans." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 60B:S102-109 (with Terrence Hill, Christopher Ellison and Ronald J. Angel).

2004. "Can the Family Still Cope? Social Support and Health as Determinants of Nursing Home Use in the Older Mexican-origin Population." Journal of Aging and Health 16:338-354 (with Ronald J. Angel, Maria P. Aranda and Toni P. Miles).

2003. "Financial Strain and Health among Older Mexican Americans." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44:536-551 (with Ronald J. Angel, Michelle Frisco, and David Chiriboga).

2003. "Gender, Widowhood, and Long-term Care in the Older Mexican American Population." Journal of Women and Aging 15:89-103 (with Ronald J. Angel and Nora Douglas).

2003. "Devolution ane the Social Welfare of Elderly Immigrants: Who Will Bear the Burden?" Public Administration Review 63:79-89.

2002. "Stability and Change in Health Insurance among Older Mexican Americans: Longitudinal Evidence from the Hispanic-EPESE." American Journal of Public Health 92:1264-1271 (with Ronald J. Angel and Kyriakos S. Markides).

2001. "Duration or Disadvantage? Exploring Nativity, Ethnicity, and Health in Midlife." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B:S275-S284 (with Cynthia J. Buckley and Arthur Sakamoto).

2001. "Nativity and Self-Assessed Health among Pre-retirement Age Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites." International Migration Review 35(3):784-804 (with Cynthia J. Buckley, and Brian K. Finch).

2000. "Nativity and Older Women's Health: Constructed Reliance in the Health and Retirement Study." Journal of Women and Aging 13:21-37 (with Cynthia J. Buckley and Dennis Donahue).

2000. "Policy Development and the Older Latino Population in the 21st Century." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 11:177-188. Reprinted in Francis G. Caro, Robert Morris, and Jill R. Norton (eds.) Advancing Aging Policy as the 21st Century Begins. The Haworth Press, Binghamton, New York (with Jan E. Mutchler).

2000. "Late Life Immigration, Changes in Living Arrangements and Headship Status among Older Mexican-Origin Individuals." Social Science Quarterly 81:389-403 (with Ronald J. Angel, and Kyriakos S. Markides).

1999. "Helping Families to Navigate the System of Long-term Care Alternatives: The Role of Information Technology." Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 91:116-123.

1999. "STAR*PLUS Program: Implications for Quality of Care." Texas Journal on Aging 2:12-19 (with Jacqueline J. Fickel).

1999. "Age at Migration and Family Dependency Among Older Mexican Immigrants: Recent Evidence from the Mexican American EPESE." The Gerontologist 39:59-65 (with Ronald J. Angel, Geum-Yong Lee, and Kyriakos S. Markides).

1998. "Aging Trends: Mexican-Americans in the Southwestern USA." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 13:281-290 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1997. "Contextualizing Social Support and Health in Old Age: Reconsidering Culture and Gender." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 17:83-116 (with Ronald J. Angel, and Kristin Henderson).

1996. "Nativity, Declining Health, and Preferences in Living Arrangements among Elderly Mexican Americans: Implications for Long-term Care." The Gerontologist 36:464-473 (with Ronald J. Angel, Judi L. McClellan, and Kyriakos S. Markides).

1996. "The Extent of Private and Public Health Insurance Coverage among Adult Hispanics." The Gerontologist 36:332-340 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1996. "Physical Co-morbidity and Medical Care Use among Children with Emotional Problems." Public Health Reports 3:140-145 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1995. "Diminished Health and Living Arrangements of Rural Elderly Americans." National Journal of Sociology 9.1:31-57 (with Gordon F. DeJong, Gretchen T. Cornwell, and Janet M. Wilmoth).

1995. "Geographic Mobility of the Very Old: Motives and Explanations." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 50b:S395-S404 (with Gordon F. DeJong, Janet M. Wilmoth, and Gretchen T. Cornwell).

1992. "Minority Group Status, Health Transitions, and Community Living Arrangements among the Elderly." Research on Aging 14:496-521 (with Ronald J. Angel and Christine L. Himes).

1992. "Age at Migration, Social Connections, and Well-being among Elderly Hispanics." Journal of Aging and Health 4:480-499 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1992. "The Impacts of Farmwork on Health: Analyses of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey." International Migration Review 26:111-132 (with Peter Guarnaccia and Ronald J. Angel).

1992. "The Demography of Minority Aging Populations." Journal of Family History 17:95-114. Pp. 9-21 reprinted in Minority Elders: Five Goals Toward Building a Public Policy Base. Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, 1994 (with Dennis P. Hogan).

1991. "The Impact of Marital Status and Employment Status on Depressive Affect for Hispanic Americans." Journal of Community Psychology 19:136-149 (with Peter J. Guarnaccia and Ronald J. Angel).

1991. "Intra-group Differences in the Health of Hispanic Children." Social Science Quarterly 72:361-378 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1990. "Poverty and Health: Older Minority Women and the Rise of the Female-headed Household." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 31:370-83 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1990. "Functional Capacity and Living Arrangements of Unmarried Elderly Persons." Journal of Gerontology 45:95-101 (with Ronald J. Angel).

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REPORTS
In press. Hispanic Health and Aging in a New Century. National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Washington, DC (with Rahel C. Kahlert and Keith E. Whitfield).

2005. An Analysis of Level-of-Care Criteria Used in Determining Eligibility for Medicaid 1915(c) Community-Based Waiver Programs. Final Report to the Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC.

2003. The Health Care Safety Net for Mexican Americans. Center for Health and Social Policy Working Paper Series, No. 03-1. LBJ School of Public Affairs, Austin, TX (with Ronald J. Angel and Laura Lein).

2002. Expanding Health Care Coverage for the Uninsured in Texas. LBJ School of Public Affairs, Austin, TX (with David Warner and Kenneth Apfel).

2001. Aging in the Americas: Critical Social Policy Issues. LBJ School of Public Affairs, Policy Roundtable, Austin, TX.

2000. Aging, Immigrants, Nativity and Declining Health. The National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD.

1997. Managed Community Long-term Care in Texas: Planning for the 21st Century. LBJ School of Public Affairs, Report #122, Austin, TX.

1996. Empower Texans to Make Long-term Care Choices: Final Report. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Austin, TX.

1994. Mexican American Aging and Social Policy: A Summary Report. The National Academy on Aging, Syracuse, NY.

1994. "Family and Cultural Factors in Mental and Physical Comorbidity in Children." Proceedings from the Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics (PHCRS). National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD (with Ronald J. Angel).

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BOOK REVIEWS AND ESSAYS
In press. "Living Arrangements." Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, edited by Kyriakos S. Markides. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (with Elena Lewis).

In press. "Longitudinal Study of Aging." Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, edited by Kyriakos S. Markides. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

In press. "Hispanic Elderly." Encyclopedia of Aging. (4th ed.), edited by Linda Noelker. New York: Springer (with Lindsay Littlefield).

2005. "Hispanics." Pp. 168-171 in Encyclopedia of Ageism, edited by Laurence Branch and Erdman Palmore. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

2004. "Retirement Security." Austin American-Statesman, September 30, A13.

2003. "Hispanic Diversity and Health Care Coverage." Public Policy and Aging Report 13:8-12 (with Ronald J. Angel).

2002. "Medicare Needs Top-notch Help as Needs of Seniors Change." San Antonio Express-News, March 23.

2001. "Long-term Health Care Reform: Who is Going to Care For Us?" Austin American-Statesman, May 3, A15.

2001. "Bush and Retirement Security in the 21st Century." Austin American-Statesman, January 31.

2001. "Challenges of Caring for Hispanic Elders." The Public Policy and Aging Report 11:11-16.

2000. "Coming of Age: Minority Elders in the United States." The Gerontologist 40:502-507.

1999. "Understanding Latino Families: Scholarship, Policy and Practice." Social Science Quarterly 80:423-424.

1999. "Growing Old in Multicultural America." Discovery 15:30-33.

1998. "Caring for Our Elders: Latino America Struggles with Change." Hispanic September: 18-26 (with Ronald J. Angel).

1998. "Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Caregiving in Middle and Working Class Families." Social Forces 76:1578-79.

1994. "Losing Generations: Adolescents in High-risk Settings." Contemporary Sociology 23:700-702.

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