M. Jocelyn Armstrong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Community Health
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
120 Huff Hall
1206 South Fourth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 244-1196
Fax: (217) 333-2766
E-mail: jocelyn@uiuc.edu

Area of Interest

Jocelyn Armstrong's aging research is concerned with social aging in comparative perspective, social epidemiology of disabling conditions, and cultural competence in professional practice. Her work is based in anthropology and has been developed through field research in New Zealand and Malaysia as well as the United States. Current projects focus on ethnicity and gender as sociocultural contexts of aging and their impact on the organization of social supports for aging well in the community.

Publications

Armstrong, M.J. (2001). Ethnic minority women as they age. In J.D. Garner & S.O. Mercer (Eds.), Women as they age (2nd ed., pp. 97-111). New York: Haworth Press.

Armstrong, M.J. (2000). Older women's organization of friendship support networks: An African American-White American comparison. Journal of Women & Aging, 12(1/2), 93-108.

Armstrong, R.W., Armstrong, M.J., & Lye, M.S. (2000). Social impact of nasopharyngeal carcinoma on Chinese households in Selangor, Malaysia. Singapore Medical Journal, 41, 582-587.

Armstrong, M.J. (1997). Informal social supports for aging with a disability: American perspectives. In L.F. Heumann (Ed.), Managing care, risk and responsibility: The challenge of the 21st century as the aged and disabled population grows and diversifies (pp. 110-116). Chacago: SYSTED.

Keywords

social aging, ethnicity, gender, social support, cultural competence