@article {10000, title = {The impacts of service related exposures on trajectories of mental health among aging veterans.}, journal = {Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences \& Social Sciences}, volume = {73}, year = {2018}, pages = {e131-e142}, abstract = {Objectives: Drawing on life-course perspective and cumulative advantage theory, we examined whether service related exposures (SREs)-combat and exposure to death-have lasting impacts on depressive symptom and psychiatric problem trajectories of aging veterans. Methods: The Health and Retirement Study and linked 2013 Veterans Mail Survey were used to examine SREs and mental health among older veterans between 2002 and 2012 (N = 1,662). Latent growth curves were used to measure how individuals vary from average mental health trajectories based on SREs and other important covariates. Results: Exposure to death had a significant and lasting effect on depressive symptoms for veterans in late life but was reduced to nonsignificance when physical health trajectories were included. Combat and exposure to death had independent and robust impacts on psychiatric problems, which were robust in final models. Discussion: SREs presented varied and significant impacts, suggesting that combat does not work alone in driving poor mental health trajectories, and that exposure to death is a more robust risk marker for later outcomes.}, keywords = {Depressive symptoms, Health Trajectories, Veterans}, issn = {1758-5368}, doi = {10.1093/geronb/gbw149}, author = {Urena, Stephanie and Miles G Taylor and Ben Lennox Kail} } @article {7762, title = {The influence of unpaid work on the transition out of full-time paid work.}, journal = {Gerontologist}, volume = {53}, year = {2013}, month = {2013 Feb}, pages = {92-101}, abstract = {

PURPOSE: Continued employment after retirement and engagement in unpaid work are both important ways of diminishing the negative economic effects of the retirement of baby boomer cohorts on society. Little research, however, examines the relationship between paid and unpaid work at the transition from full-time work. Using a resource perspective framework this study examines how engagement in unpaid work prior to and at the transition from full-time work influences whether individuals partially or fully retire.

DESIGN AND METHODS: This study used a sample of 2,236 Americans between the ages 50 and 68, who were interviewed between 1998 and 2008. Logistic regression was used to estimate transitioning into partial retirement (relative to full retirement) after leaving full-time work.

RESULTS: We found that the odds of transitioning into part-time work were increased by continuous volunteering (78\%) and reduced by starting parental (84\%), grandchild (41\%), and spousal (90\%) caregiving and unaffected by all other patterns of engagement in unpaid work.

IMPLICATIONS: Our findings suggest that volunteering is complementary with a transition to part-time work, and starting a new caregiving role at this transitioncreates a barrier to continued employment. In order to provide workers the opportunity to engage in the work force longer at the brink of retirement, it may be necessary to increase the support mechanisms for those who experience new caregiving responsibilities.

}, keywords = {Age Factors, Aged, Employment, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Logistic Models, Male, Middle Aged, Retirement, Salaries and Fringe Benefits, Volunteers, Work}, issn = {1758-5341}, doi = {10.1093/geront/gns080}, author = {Dawn C Carr and Ben Lennox Kail} }