A lot of research suggests that stress can lead and/or contribute to many health-related issues. I looked for different articles that looked into how race-related stress affected the health of elderly African-Americans. Talking to my interviewee she talked about things like getting into fights, not making the same pay as the Caucasians she worked with, and being looked down upon. These are similar challenges to those in the study faced. Reading the study done by Utsey, Payne, Jackson, and Jones (2002), I found similarities between their participants and even some of the individuals who were close to the woman I interviewed. There were two similarities that stood out the