The 41st volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, "Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter," reflects an important moment in the continuing development and maturation of research and scholarship on the lives of older Black Americans. The volume includes literature reviews and empirical analyses on a broad range of topics, including physical and mental health status, psychosocial factors and health, biomarkers, cognitive health, social networks and relationships, social isolation and loneliness, marriage and romantic relationships, discrimination, and cancer caregiving within the family context. In addition, it examines issues familiar to gerontology, such as relationships with family, intimate partners, and fictive kin. The collected works in this volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics greatly enrich the understanding of the diversity of life experiences of older Black adults.Key Topics: Racial Discrimination and discrimination-related coping Stress Processes and mental health Physical functioning and genomics Marital and romantic relationship satisfaction Psychosocial resources and mental health
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at Johns Hopkins, founding director of the university's program for research on men's health, and deputy director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions. Jessica A. Kelley, PhD, is professor and director of the graduate program, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Linda M. Chatters, PhD, FGSA, FAASWSW, is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health and professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She is a faculty associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research and the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health.
Older African American, Black Caribbean, and Non-Latino White Fictive Kin Relationships Sociodemographic Correlates of Sleep Among Older African American Men and Women: Findings From the National Survey of American Life-Reinterview Social Network Typology and Cognitive Status Among African Americans: Findings From the Health and Retirement Study Racial Discrimination, Discrimination-Related Coping, and Mental Health Among Older African Americans Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Physical and Mental Health Among Black Older Adults Gender, Stress, and Mental Health Among Older African Americans Black Older Adults in the Age of Biomarkers, Physical Functioning, and Genomics: Heterogeneity, Community Engagement, and Bioethics Cancer and Caregiving Among Older Black Americans and Families Marital and Romantic Satisfaction Among Older African Americans "What Doesn't Kill You, Makes You Stronger": Psychosocial Resources and the Mental Health of Black Older Adults Stress Processes and the Physical Health of Older Black Women Psychosocial and Physical Contextual Factors in Cognitive Aging in Older Blacks
