Late-life widowhood in the United States: New directions in research and theory

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Older Adults' Perceptions of Intergenerational Support After Widowhood (2006, methodology): “A large body of research has explored older adults’adaptation to loss (see Carr & Utz, 2002, for overview) and reciprocal helping relationships between older parents and their adult children (e.g., Eggebeen & Hogan, 1990; Gallagher, 1994; Spitze & Logan, 1992), yet few studies bridge these two…”
The desire to date and remarry among older widows and widowers (2004, methodology): “Baseline face-to-face interviews were conducted in 1987 and 1988 (Carr & Utz, 2002).”
Changes in contact and support exchange in personal networks after widowhood (2007, methodology): “Following Carr and Utz’s (2002) guidelines, this study used prospective longitudinal data, contrasted the bereaved with a nonbereaved control group, and adjusted for preloss characteristics or resources, such as gender, education, and network size that affect the risk of consequences of widowhood.”
Gender, Preloss Marital Dependence, and Older Adults’ Adjustment to Widowhood (2004, result): “The response rate for the Wave 1 interview was 68%, which is consistent with rates for other Detroit-area studies in that period (see Carr & Utz, 2002 for detail on the CLOC study).”