Research Interests for Deborah T. Gold

Dr. Gold's research focuses on the psychosocial consequences of chronic illness in late life. In particular, she has studies the impact of an exercise and psychosocial intervention on women with osteoporosis living in retirement communities as well as the impact of chronic pain on community-dwelling older women with osteoporosis. She has also looked at issues of quality of life in Paget's disease of bone, Parkinson's disease, syncope, and cancer. In addition, Dr. Gold has also investigated the sibling relationships of older adults and how those relations change across the life course. She is particularly interested in race and gender differences in older sibling dyads. Dr. Gold also heads the Data Processing Team of the Duke longitudinal study entitled Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE).

Keywords:

African Americans, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Alendronate, Analysis of Variance, Ankle Joint, Attitude to Health, Australia, Bereavement, Bone Density, Bone Density Conservation Agents, Calcium, Dietary, Case-Control Studies, Chronic Disease, Cohort Studies, Community Networks, Comorbidity, Confidence Intervals, Cross-Over Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, European Continental Ancestry Group, European Union, Family, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Fracture, Fractures, Bone, Health Behavior, Health Education, Health Promotion, Health Services for the Aged, Health Status Indicators, Health Surveys, Hip Fractures, Hip Joint, History, 20th Century, Home Care Services, Home Nursing, Humans, Incidence, Life Change Events, Linear Models, Longitudinal Studies, Lumbar Vertebrae, Male, Marriage, Middle Aged, Motor Activity, North America, North Carolina, Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal, Osteoporotic Fractures, Pain, Pain Management, Patient Compliance, Patient Education as Topic, Persistence, Population Surveillance, Prognosis, Proportional Hazards Models, Psychometrics, Quality of Health Care, Quality of Life, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Recurrence, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Role, Severity of Illness Index, Sibling Relations, Social Class, Social Support, Sociology, Spinal Fractures, Stroke, Syncope, Thoracic Vertebrae, Weight-Bearing, Women's Health

Representative Publications

1. Gold, D.T., Stegmaier, K., Bales, C.W., Lyles, K.W., Westlund, R.E., & Drezner, M.K. (1993). Psychosocial functioning and osteoporosis in late life: Results of a multidisciplinary intervention. Journal of Women's Health, 2, 149-155.
2. Gold, D.T., Woodbury, M.A., & George, L.K. (1990). Relationship classification using Grade of Membership (GOM) analysis: A typology of sibling relationships in later life. Journal of Gerontology, 45, S43-S51.