M. Jocelyn Armstrong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Kinesiology and Community Health), Clinical Associate Professor (Medical Humanities and Social Sciences)

Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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

Dr Armstrong works in the areas of aging studies and disability studies. Her research interests include the social contexts of aging and disability in comparative perspective, social epidemiology of cancer, and cultural competence in research and practice. Her research uses study populations in the US, Malaysia, and New Zealand. Ongoing projects involve cross-ethnic research of social aging and focus on social support resources 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