RESEARCH & FINDINGS

 

PUBLICATIONS FROM HEALTHIER BLACK ELDERS CENTER 

 

Vega, I. E., Ajrouch, K. J., Rorai, V., Gadwa, R., Roberts, J. S., & Nyquist, L. (2023). Engaging diverse populations in aging research during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from four National Institutes of Health funded-centers. Frontiers in Public Health, 11:1062385. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.203.1062385

Mitchell, J., Perry, T., Rorai, V., Ilardo, J., Lichtenberg, P.A., & Jackson, J. S. (2020). Building and Sustaining a Community Advisory Board of African American Older Adults as the Foundation for Volunteer Research Recruitment and Retention in Health Sciences. Ethnicity and disease, 30 (Suppl 2), 755. DOI: 10.18865/ed.30.S2.755

 

 

Rorai, V., & Perry, T. E. (2020) An innovative telephone outreach program to seniors in Detroit, a city facing dire consequences of COVID-19. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2020.1793254

 

 

Chadiha, L. A., Washington, O. G., Lichtenberg, P. A., Green, C. R., Daniels, K. L., & Jackson, J. S. (2011). Building a registry of research volunteers among older urban African Americans: recruitment processes and outcomes from a community-based partnership. The Gerontologist, 51 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), S106–S115. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnr034

 

 

Hall, L. N., Ficker, L. J., Chadiha, L. A., Green, C. R., Jackson, J. S., & Lichtenberg, P. A. (2016). Promoting Retention: African American Older Adults in a Research Volunteer Registry. Gerontology & geriatric medicine, 2, 2333721416677469. https://doi.org/10.1177/2333721416677469

 

 

Lichtenberg P. A. (2011). The generalizability of a participant registry for minority health research. The Gerontologist, 51 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), S116–S124. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnr021

 

 

Nápoles, A. M., Chadiha, L. A., & Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (2011). Advancing the science of recruitment and retention of ethnically diverse populations. The Gerontologist, 51 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), S142–S146. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnr019

 

 

Chatters, L. M., Taylor, H. O., & Taylor, R. J. (2020). Older black Americans during COVID-19: Race and Age double jeopardy. Health Education & Behavior, 47(6), 855-860, DOI: 10.1177/1090198120965513