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Friedman, Susan M.; Mendelson, Daniel A.; Bingham, Karilee W.; McCann, Robert M. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: Previous studies investigating adverse outcomes of hospitalized elders have focused on community-dwelling patients. Given the rapid growth of populations living in other settings, such as assisted living facilities, it is important to understand whether these patients are at higher risk of experiencing specific adverse outcomes during…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Gerontology, Residential Care, Hospitals
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Bos, Angelo J. G.; Padilha, Dalva Maria Pereira; Bos, Antonio M. G.; Gomez, Fernando – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2007
Every year the proportion of elderly people increases at a greater rate compared with other age groups, changing the population structure of most countries. Latin America has been internationally known for its higher percentage of young compared with elderly persons. The United Nations predicts that the proportion of elderly persons in Latin…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees
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Dwyer-Moore, Kimberly J.; Dixon, Mark R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2007
Functional analyses were conducted for the problem behavior of 3 older adults in a long-term care setting. Two of the problem behaviors were maintained by attention, and a third was maintained by escape from demands. Function-based interventions were implemented that resulted in decreases in problem behavior in each case. Implications for the use…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Older Adults, Health Services
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Koder, Deborah-Anne; Helmes, Edward – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
Despite the growing number of older adults that implies an increasing need for psychological services, few psychologists choose to specialize in working with older clients. The present cross-sectional research examined predictors of student interest in working with older clients in an effort to understand factors that may influence future…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Psychologists, Student Interests, Older Adults
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Douglass, Carolinda; Henry, Beverly W.; Kostiwa, Irene M. – Educational Gerontology, 2008
The Aging Game, a simulation activity, has been used successfully with medical students in the development of empathetic attitudes toward older adults. To date, the Aging Game has not been used extensively with allied health students. It has been viewed as too costly, time-consuming and labor-intensive. The purpose of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Simulation, Educational Games, Aging (Individuals)
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Browne, Colette V.; Mokuau, Noreen – Educational Gerontology, 2008
The increase in the nation's present and projected multicultural aged population is both dramatic and well documented. One result of this growth is a sharpened focus on racial and ethnic disparities in health, health care access, and utilization of services that impact aging adults. This paper presents work conducted by a university-community…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Gerontology, Racial Differences, Social Work
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Temkin-Greener, Helena; Zheng, Nan; Norton, Sally A.; Quill, Timothy; Ladwig, Susan; Veazie, Peter – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: The objectives of this study were to develop measures of end-of-life (EOL) care processes in nursing homes and to validate the instrument for measuring them. Design and Methods: A survey of directors of nursing was conducted in 608 eligible nursing homes in New York State. Responses were obtained from 313 (51.5% response rate) facilities.…
Descriptors: Nurses, Construct Validity, Nursing, Quality Control
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Masters, Julie L.; Holley, Lyn M. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2009
Introductory gerontology courses have the potential to enhance student appreciation of aging issues. The effectiveness of such courses for informing views about individual aging is little studied. This study, using a quasi-experimental design, examines the impact of participation in an introductory course in aging on 158 undergraduate students in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Introductory Courses, Student Attitudes
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Kane, Rosalie A.; Wilson, Keren Brown; Spector, William – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: We describe an approach to identifying knowledge gaps, research questions, and methodological issues for assisted living (AL) research. Design and Methods: We undertook an inventory of AL literature and research in progress and commissioned background papers critiquing knowledge on selected subtopics. With an advisory committee, we…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Information Systems, Researchers, Older Adults
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Arean, Patricia; Hegel, Mark; Vannoy, Steven; Fan, Ming-Yu; Unuzter, Jurgen – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: We compared a primary-care-based psychotherapy, that is, problem-solving therapy for primary care (PST-PC), to community-based psychotherapy in treating late-life major depression and dysthymia. Design and Methods: The data here are from the IMPACT study, which compared collaborative care within a primary care clinic to care as usual in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Patients, Program Effectiveness, Data Analysis
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Siegel, Elena O.; Young, Heather M.; Mitchell, Pamela H.; Shannon, Sarah E. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: Nursing supervision of the routine daily care (e.g., grooming, feeding, and toileting) that is delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) is critical to nursing home service delivery. The conditions under which the supervisory role is organized and operationalized at the work-unit level, taking into account workloads, registered…
Descriptors: Nurses, Supervision, Nursing Homes, Content Analysis
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Hanoch, Yaniv; Wood, Stacey; Rice, Thomas – Human Development, 2007
Herbert Simon's work on bounded rationality has had little impact on researchers studying older adults' decision making. This omission is surprising, as human constraints on computation and memory are exacerbated in older adults. The study of older adults' decision-making processes could benefit from employing a bounded rationality perspective,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Memory, Decision Making, Attention
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Ballin, Liora; Balandin, Susan – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2007
Background: There is a large body of research focusing on the experiences of loneliness of older adults, yet little is known about the loneliness experiences of older adults with lifelong disability. In this paper, the authors present some findings from a larger qualitative study on the loneliness experiences of older people with cerebral palsy.…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Social Networks, Psychological Patterns, Older Adults
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Phillips, Charles D.; Chen, Min; Sherman, Michael – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: This research investigates what factors affect the degree to which nursing home performance explains variance in residents' change in status of activities of daily living (ADL) after admission. Design and Methods: The database included all residents admitted in 2002 to a 10% random sample of nursing homes in the United States.…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Homogeneous Grouping, Nursing Homes, Heterogeneous Grouping
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Van Houtven, Courtney Harold; Jeffreys, Amy S.; Coffman, Cynthia J. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The Veterans Affairs or VA health care system is in the process of significantly expanding home health care (HOC) nationwide. We describe VA HHC use in 2003 for all VA HHC users from 2002; we examine whether VA utilization across a broad spectrum of services differed for a sample of VA HHC users and their propensity-score-matched…
Descriptors: Health Facilities, Respite Care, Veterans, Health Services
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