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Browsing by Subject "older adults"
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Accounting for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Severity With Pre- and Posttrauma Measures: A Longitudinal Study of Older Adults.
(Clin Psychol Sci, 2016-03)Using data from a longitudinal study of community-dwelling older adults, we analyzed the most extensive set of known correlates of PTSD symptoms obtained from a single sample to examine the measures' independent and combined ... -
Challenges in the Management of Geriatric Obesity in High Risk Populations.
(Nutrients, 2016-05-04)The global prevalence of obesity in the older adult population is growing, an increasing concern in both the developed and developing countries of the world. The study of geriatric obesity and its management is a relatively ... -
Early Mobility in the Hospital: Lessons Learned from the STRIDE Program.
(Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland), 2018-12)Immobility during hospitalization is widely recognized as a contributor to deconditioning, functional loss, and increased need for institutional post-acute care. Several studies have demonstrated that inpatient walking programs ... -
Family Ties, Economic Resources, and the Well-Being of Older Adults Across Communities in China
(2013)Many older adults in the developing world rely on their adult children for financial, instrumental, and emotional support. The People's Republic of China (PRC), which will experience rapid population aging in the current ... -
Prediction models for depression risk among older adults: systematic review and critical appraisal.
(Ageing research reviews, 2022-11)<h4>Objective</h4>To provide an overview of prediction models for the risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) among older adults.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a systematic review combined with a meta-analysis and critical ... -
Preoperative Cognitive Impairment As a Predictor of Postoperative Outcomes in a Collaborative Care Model.
(J Am Geriatr Soc, 2018-01-13)OBJECTIVES: To compare postoperative outcomes of individuals with and without cognitive impairment enrolled in the Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) program at Duke University, a comanagement model involving ... -
Rapid Transition to Telehealth Group Exercise and Functional Assessments in Response to COVID-19.
(Gerontology & geriatric medicine, 2020-01)Exercise is critical for health maintenance in late life. The COVID-19 shelter in place and social distancing orders resulted in wide-scale interruptions of exercise therapies, placing older adults at risk for the consequences ... -
Self-Regulation before and after a Developmental Transition: a Study of Adaptive Goal Change in Retirement
(2008-08-08)Retirement is the quintessential transition from mid-life to late-life for many working Americans. However, questions about the positive and negative effects of retirement have sparked widely divergent empirical findings. ... -
Sexual risk behaviors and HIV risk among Americans aged 50 years or older: a review.
(Subst Abuse Rehabil, 2015)Although HIV-related sexual risk behaviors have been studied extensively in adolescents and young adults, there is limited information about these behaviors among older Americans, which make up a growing segment of the US ... -
Training and Retraining Older Workers, an Annotated Bibliography.
(1965)A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. The need for economy-wide measures designed to retrain workers of all ages resulted in development of this annotated bibliography which is primarily ... -
Use of the consolidated framework for implementation research in a mixed methods evaluation of the EQUIPPED medication safety program in four academic health system emergency departments.
(Frontiers in health services, 2022-01)<h4>Background</h4>Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Adults Discharged from the Emergency Department (EQUIPPED) is an effective quality improvement program initially designed in the Veterans Administration ... -
Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Mixed Methods Research: An Evaluation of an Integrated Care Program for Frequently Hospitalized Older Adults in Singapore
(Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2020-04-01)Traditional evaluation techniques are often not suitable for studying health interventions operating in real-world settings, particularly when interventions operate through complex causal pathways. We describe a mixed methods ... -
Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic.
(Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021-11)Hospitalization is common among older adults. Prolonged time in bed during hospitalization can lead to deconditioning and functional impairments. Our team is currently working with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical ...
