AGING ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE: RESEARCH COLLECTIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF COMPUTERIZED DATA ON AGING

Abstract Creating and maintaining sustainable data archives can be challenging, but it offers clear advantages. Properly curated data can be used by multiple researchers, testing a variety of hypotheses and increasing the return on investment to the expensive data collection process. An internally managed archival system also provides greater control and autonomy in the equitable distribution of data resources. This process ensures all researchers will have full use of the data for original research, teaching, and new directions once the data leaves the control of the local investigator. This poster reviews the advantages of having a local strategy to preserve and share gerontological research data. Using the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) as a working example, the poster offers an overview of collections at NACDA. Using our metadata tools and variable search database, NACDA can identify studies in its collections that examine aspects of aging and health among adults during their lifecourse. Many of the studies are longitudinal or repeat measure cross-sectional studies. We can also identify studies that focus on aging not maintained by NACDA are available to interested researchers. Using a strategy of archival preservation combined with a strong focus on productive research Innovation in Aging, NACDA has amassed data and metadata covering a wide array of studies worldwide that address the aging lifecourse. Because our collections are multinational, we share these data at no cost to interested users worldwide


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EATING DIFFICULTY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: MODERATING EFFECTS OF EATING AND LIVING ALONE
Background and Objectives: Previous studies report that poor oral health reduces the opportunity for social interaction and increases the risk of psychological distress and that eating alone affects depressive symptoms and its connection differs by living arrangements. The present study aims to investigate the moderating effects of eating alone and living arrangements on the relationship between difficulty eating food due to poor oral health and depressive symptoms among Korean older adults.
Methods: Data were drawn from the 2020 Survey of Living Conditions and Welfare Needs of Korean Older Persons, a nationally representative survey. A total of 9,920 participants aged 65 years and older were included in analyses.
Results: Results from hierarchical regression analyses showed that difficulty eating food was positively correlated with depressive symptoms and eating alone did not moderate the relationship between difficulty eating food and depressive symptoms (b = 1.394, p < .001; b=-0.062, p > 0.05, respectively). However, the effects of eating alone significantly differed by living arrangements (b = 1.663, p < .05). In the case of older adults who live alone, eating alone significantly moderated the relationship between difficulty eating food and depressive symptoms, whereas for those living with others, eating alone did not moderate the relationship. Discussion: Social isolation can be a risk factor that worsens the mental health of older adults who have difficulty eating due to poor oral health. Practical implications for ways to reduce loneliness are discussed. The purpose of this study was to identify the association between physical/mental health problems and depressive symptoms among older Black Americans (age ≥ 65) using the 2018 Health and Retirement Study (N = 812). People with multiple medical conditions face substantial emotional difficulties including depressive symptomatology. The study of depressive symptoms among older Black Americans is an emerging area of research. Several existing studies reported a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms among this population. They also experience a disproportionate burden of multimorbidity, both physically and mentally. For statistical analysis, depressive symptoms were measured with the eight-item CES-D scale (M = 1.514, SD = 1.916). Physical multimorbidity was measured by asking whether respondents had ever been diagnosed with seven diseases (high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, heart disease, stroke, and arthritis; M = 2.876, SD = 1.284). Mental multimorbidity was measured by asking whether they had ever been diagnosed with three diseases (clinical depression, Alzheimer's Disease, or other memory impairment including dementia; M = .228, SD = .467). Covariates included gender, marital status, and income (logged). A negative binomial regression showed that (a) higher numbers of physical health problems were associated with higher depressive symptoms (Incidence rate ratios [IRR] = 1.073, p = .048); (b) higher number of mental health problems were also related to higher depressive symptoms among older Black Americans (IRR = 2.077, p < .001). These findings underscore the importance of identifying and managing depressive symptoms among older Black Americans, who present with greater physical/mental health multimorbidity.

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHYSICAL/MENTAL MULTIMORBIDITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG OLDER BLACK AMERICANS
to the expensive data collection process. An internally managed archival system also provides greater control and autonomy in the equitable distribution of data resources. This process ensures all researchers will have full use of the data for original research, teaching, and new directions once the data leaves the control of the local investigator. This poster reviews the advantages of having a local strategy to preserve and share gerontological research data. Using the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) as a working example, the poster offers an overview of collections at NACDA. Using our metadata tools and variable search database, NACDA can identify studies in its collections that examine aspects of aging and health among adults during their lifecourse. Many of the studies are longitudinal or repeat measure cross-sectional studies. We can also identify studies that focus on aging not maintained by NACDA are available to interested researchers. Using a strategy of archival preservation combined with a strong focus on productive research Innovation in Aging, NACDA has amassed data and metadata covering a wide array of studies worldwide that address the aging lifecourse. Because our collections are multinational, we share these data at no cost to interested users worldwide

THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY HISTORIES OF ACTIVE AGING IN POLAND Jessica Robbins-Panko, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
In contemporary Poland, Universities of the Third Age are the most visible institutional forms of active aging. These lifelong-learning institutions that are specifically for retirees often cultivate ideals of independence through workshops and classes that teach new, and potentially transformative, skills and hobbies (Kobylarek, 2018). Universities of the Third Age in Poland emerged out of the fields of andragogy, pedagogy, and social work, fields that have regional intellectual roots in the late 19th/early 20th-century presocialist era, and are based on radically different ideals of personhood, relationality, and care than those of the contemporary postsocialist neoliberal era (Robbins, 2021). This paper analyzes 1) historical data from institutional archives of two Universities of the Third Age in Poland, and 2) secondary sources on histories of andragogy, pedagogy, and social work, to create a locally grounded intellectual history of active aging in central and eastern Europe. The Polish case offers an opportunity to think across divergent political-economic eras, in which assumptions about the value of a person to society have shifted. By tracing how the fields of andragogy, pedagogy, and social work have shaped active aging in Poland, this paper finds that 1) dichotomies of East/West, socialist/ capitalist, and individual/collective are insufficient to explain the history of contemporary practices of active aging, and 2) intellectual history can reveal complex relations between political-economic change, and ideals and practices of aging. These findings have implications for advancing gerontological theories of 1) active aging in cross-cultural contexts, and 2) how active aging relates to sociopolitical change.
Louisiana State University,Baton Rouge,Louisiana,United States,2. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,Boston,Massachusetts,United States,3. Boston University,Boston,Massachusetts,United States Catastrophic hurricanes and flooding threaten health and well-being, although the long-term consequences of these events for survivors are poorly understood. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the US Gulf Coast. Many lost homes in these storms and relocated permanently inland. In August of 2016, historic flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana devastated a 22-parish (county) region, resulting in widespread destruction and a second round of disaster-related losses for those who relocated to Baton Rouge after Katrina. The present research is part of a larger longitudinal study on health and well-being after multiple disasters. Cherry et al. (2021) reported that greater flood damage was associated with more symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress during the Wave 1 immediate impact phase. Here we examined symptoms of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at Wave 2, a follow-up assessment that occurred 9 (+/-3) months after Wave 1 testing. Three flood exposure groups were compared: non-flooded (controls), single disaster (flooded in 2016) and double disaster (flooded in 2005 and again in 2016). Results indicated that symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress, which were elevated at Wave 1 for the single and double disaster groups relative to the non-flooded controls, were reduced at Wave 2 and did not differ from the controls. Correlation analyses revealed that age was negatively associated with symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety, consistent with the inoculation view of post disaster psychological reactions. Implications of these data for understanding older adults' psychological health after multiple disaster exposures are discussed. Very old parents and their "old" children are a growing group in industrialized countries worldwide. However, little is known about the nature and implications of this relationship constellation, especially the challenges and/or rewards experienced within the relationship. We therefore examined factors associated with perceptions of challenge and reward among very old parents and their children. Using data from 114 very old parent-child dyads in the Boston Aging Together Study, we estimated Actor-Partner Interdependence Models to predict challenge, reward, and challenge/reward ratio outcomes of dyad members as a function of relationship quality, support exchanges, family norms, and personality. Relationship quality emerged as the most influential predictor, albeit more consistently for children than for parents. When children experienced the parent-child relationship as Innovation in Aging, 2022, Vol. 6, No. S1