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Nancy Mendoza

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1970
Intergenerational Family Dynamics and CaregivingAging and Gerontology ResearchHealth disparities and outcomesMigration, Aging, and Tourism StudiesFamily Support in Illness

Publications

40

Citations

265

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

56

Publishing since 1970

Research summary
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Nancy Mendoza studies grandfamilies, meaning households where grandparents take on primary caregiving responsibility for their grandchildren, focusing on caregiver stress, resilience, and well-being. Her work examines how culture, race, and community context shape these caregiving experiences, and she has also developed and evaluated support interventions for grandparent caregivers, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of her recent research compares experiences across racial and cultural groups, such as Black, White, Korean, and Latinx grandfamilies in the United States.

Grandparents raising grandchildren (grandfamilies)Caregiver resilience and stressCultural and racial differences in caregivingIntervention design and evaluationAging and intergenerational family relationships

Publication output was fairly steady at 4-5 papers per year from 2017 through 2022, then declined to about 2 per year from 2023 to 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 5 publications5192020: 4 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 5 publications5222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Innovation in Aging×12
  • The International Journal of Aging and Human Development×3
  • Journal of Gerontological Social Work×2
  • Research on Aging×1
  • Family Relations×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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