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| Bill Strawbridge |
Email: Bill.Strawbridge@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 514-3994
William J. Strawbridge, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Health & Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. As a medical sociologist, Dr. Strawbridge has a background in both health planning and health research.
For the past 15 years, his research has focused on areas of gerontology. He is particularly interested in older persons' adaptations to the challenges of aging.
Before coming to IHA, Dr. Strawbridge spent 12 years working with George Kaplan, serving as project director for the Alameda County Study. Dr. Strawbridge is now directing analyses examining how spouses impact the health and well-being of their partners.
He was recently named a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Title: Epidemiology of Health
and Function Over 40 Years in Alameda County
Project Period: 1/1/06-1/31/08
Funding Agency: University of Michigan
Description: This is a qualitative study of adaptations to
cognitive problems in Alameda County, California, reflecting a range of
difficulties with memory, to determine the efficacy of strategies used to cope
with memory problems.
Title: Health and Function over Three
Decades in Alameda County
Project Period: 4/1/98-12/31/03
Funding Agency: NIH/NIA
Description: Major goals of this project were to
ascertain the determinants of function in older persons, ascertain determinants
of clinical depression, identify factors associated with less decline among
those who are frail, and continue analyses of impact of socioeconomic status and
community as determinants of health and function.
Title: Relationship Precursors of
Well-Being in Old Age
Project Period: 8/15/01-3/31/02
Funding Agency: NIH/NIA
Description: Major goals were to assemble
Dr. Dorothy Field's data and prepare a new grant to complete analyses of the impact
of family relationships on well-being in old age using data from the Berkeley
Older Generation Study and the Alameda County Study.
Selected Articles
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI, Shema SJ. Impact of spouse vision impairment on partner health and well-being: A longitudinal analysis of couples. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, In Press.
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI. Impact of family conflict on adult child caregivers. The Gerontologist.
1991;31:770-777.Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI. Is all in the family always best? Journal of Aging Studies 1992;6:81-91.
Strawbridge WJ, Kaplan GA, Camacho T, Cohen RD. The dynamics of disability and functional change in an elderly cohort: Results from the Alameda County Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992;40:799-806.
Kaplan GA, Strawbridge WJ, Camacho T, Cohen RD. Factors related to change in physical functioning in the elderly: Results from a six-year prospective study. J Aging Health 1993;5:140-154.
Strawbridge WJ, Camacho T, Cohen RD, Kaplan GA. Gender differences in factors associated with change in physical functioning in old age: A 6-year longitudinal study. Gerontologist 1993;33:603-9.
Camacho, TC, Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Kaplan GA. Functional ability in the oldest old: Cumulativeimpact of risk factors from the preceding two decades. J Aging Health 1993;5:439-454.
Wallhagen MI, Strawbridge WJ, Kaplan GA, Cohen RD. Impact of internal health locus of control on health outcomes for older men and women: A longitudinal perspective. Gerontologist 1994;34:299-6.
Wallhagen MI, Strawbridge WJ. My parent -- not myself: Contrasting themes in family care. J Aging Health 1995;7:552-572.
Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. Successful aging: Predictors and associatedactivities. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144:135-41.
Wallhagen MI, Strawbridge WJ, Kaplan
GA.
Six-year impact of hearing impairment on psychosocial and
physiologic
functioning.
Nurse Pract 1996;21(9):11-14.
Kaplan GA, Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Hungerford LR. Natural history of leisure-time physical activity and its correlates: Associations with mortality from all-causes and cardiovascular disease over 28 years. Am J Epidemiol 1996;144:793-797.
Wallhagen MI, Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Kaplan GA. Increasing prevalence of hearing impairment andassociated risk factors over three decades of the Alameda County Study. Am J Public Health 1997;87:440-442.
Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. Frequent attendance at religious services andmortality: A 28-year follow-up. Am J Public Health 1997;87:957-961.
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. New burdens or more of the same? Comparing grandparent, spouse, and adult child caregivers. Gerontologist 1997;37:505-510.
Roberts RE, Kaplan GA, Shema SJ, Strawbridge WJ. Does growing old increase risk for depression? Am J Psychiatry 1997;154:1384-1390.
Strawbridge WJ, Shema SJ, Balfour JL, Higby HR, Kaplan GA. Antecedents of frailty over three decades in an older cohort. J Gerontol Soc Sci 1998;53B:S9-S16.
Strawbridge WJ Shema SJ, Cohen RD, Roberts RE, Kaplan GA. Religiosity buffers effects of somestressors on depression but exacerbates others. J Gerontol Soc Sci 1998;53B:S118-126.
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI. Self-rated health and mortality over three decades. Research on Aging 1999;21:402-416.
Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Kurata J, Kaplan GA. Re: Physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk in middle-aged and older women. Am J Epidemiol 2000;151:736-7.
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. Negative consequences of hearing impairment in old age: A longitudinal analysis. Gerontologist 2000;40:320-326.
Roberts RE, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA, Strawbridge WJ. Sleep complaints and depression in an aging cohort: A prospective perspective. Am J Psychiatry 2000;157:81-80.
Roberts RE, Kaplan GA, Shema SJ, Strawbridge WJ. Are the obese at greater risk for depression? Am J Epidemiol 2000;152:163-170.
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI, Shema SJ. New NHLBI clinical guidelines for obesity and overweight: Will they promote health? Am J Public Health 2000;90:340-343.
Strawbridge WJ, Shema SJ, Cohen RD, Kaplan GA. Religious attendance increases survival by improving and maintaining good health behaviors, mental health, and social relationships. Ann Behav Med 2001; 23:68-74.
Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Shema SJ. Comparative strength of association between religious attendance and survival. Int J Psychiatry Med 2001;30:299-308.
Wallhagen MI, Strawbridge WJ, Shema SJ, Kurata J, Kaplan GA. Comparative impact of hearing and vision impairment on subsequent functioning. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001;49:1086-92.
Roberts RE, Strawbridge WJ, Deleger S, Kaplan GA. Are the fat more jolly? Ann Behav Med 2002;24:169-80.
Strawbridge WJ, Deleger S, Roberts RE, Kaplan GA. Physical activity reduces risk of subsequentdepression for older adults. Am J Epidemiol 2002;156:328-34.
Strawbridge WJ, Wallhagen MI, Cohen RD. Successful aging and well-being: Self-report compared with Rowe and Kahn. Gerontologist 2002;42:727-733.
Roberts RE, Deleger S, Strawbridge WJ, Kaplan GA. The prospective association between obesity and depression: Evidence from the Alameda County Study. Int J Obese 2003;27:514-21.
Wallhagen MI, Strawbridge WJ, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. Impact of self-reported hearing loss on a spouse: A longitudinal analysis of couples. J Gerontol Soc Sci 2004;59:S190-S196.
Strawbridge WJ, Shema SJ, Roberts RE. Impact of spouse sleep problems on partners. Sleep 2004;27:527-531.
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