Bob G. Knight

TL;DR: The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Seventh Edition, provides a basic reference source on the behavioral processes of aging for researchers, graduate students, and professionals and provides perspectives on the Behavioral Science of Aging for researchers and professionals from other disciplines.

TL;DR: It is suggested that ethnicity and culture play a significant role in the stress and coping process for Latino caregivers and Socioeconomic class and minority group status are discussed as additional sources of variation in the caregiver stress and cope model.

TL;DR: This review revises the sociocultural stress and coping model for culturally diverse family caregivers proposed in 1997 by Aranda and Knight and suggests a common core model that is consistent across ethnic groups and that links care recipients' behavior problems and functional impairments to caregivers' burden appraisals and health outcomes.

TL;DR: Cumulatively, it is suggested that individual psychosocial interventions and respite programs are moderately effective; psychossocial interventions with groups are less so.

TL;DR: A lifestyle-oriented occupational therapy intervention has beneficial effects for ethnically diverse older people recruited from a wide array of community settings and has the potential to help reduce health decline and promote well-being in older people.