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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Loneliness among Older Adults: The Role of Income and Education as Mediators
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Loneliness among Older Adults: The Role of Income and Education as Mediators
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Loneliness is a major public health concern; however, limited research has examined the...
Effect of soundscape augmentation on behavioural symptoms in people with dementia: A pilot randomized controlled trial
Effect of soundscape augmentation on behavioural symptoms in people with dementia: A pilot randomized controlled trial
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Sound is an important environmental factor that influences the expression of behavioura...
Positive Impact of an Educational Brochure on Follow-up for a Formal Hearing Evaluation
Positive Impact of an Educational Brochure on Follow-up for a Formal Hearing Evaluation
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Half of older persons experience serious hearing loss, yet it remains under-assessed in...
The effects of the built environment on the mental health of older adults: A case study in Hangzhou, China
The effects of the built environment on the mental health of older adults: A case study in Hangzhou, China
AbstractBackground and Objectives. This study examines the association between the built environment and mental health amo...
From Personalized Medicine to Personalized Aging Services
Abstract. As medical models become more ubiquitous in developing strategies to provide long term care services and support...
The Gerontological Case Against Fossil Fuels
Abstract. Climate change is a threat to persons of all ages, but the older population is especially susceptible to the har...
The financial and psychological impact of identity theft among older adults
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Society’s growing reliance on technology to transfer private information has created mo...
Cost-benefit Analysis of the COPE Program for Persons Living With Dementia: Toward a Payment Model
AbstractBackground and Objectives. There is a critical need for effective interventions to support quality of life for per...
Sedentary Behavior and Happiness: The Mediation Effects of Social Capital
AbstractBackground and Objectives. This study aimed to examine the associations between time spent in six different domain...
Questions to Measure Enjoyment of and Satisfaction with Physical Activity: Are They Appropriate for Use in an Older Population?
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Enjoyment of and satisfaction with physical activity have been proposed as two actionab...
Age Patterns in Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment among Older Latino Subgroups and Non-Latino Whites in the U.S., 1997 to 2018: Implications for Public Health Policy
AbstractBackground and objectives. U.S. Latinos are a heterogeneous population with unique characteristics related to indi...
"You Just Forge Ahead”: The Continuing Challenges of Disaster Preparedness and Response in Long-term Care
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Protecting nursing home and assisted living community residents during disasters contin...
Does Adult Day Service Use Improve Well-Being of Black Caregivers of People Living with Dementia?
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Despite adult day services (ADS) being the most racially diverse home-and-community bas...
Age-Related Differences of Rumination on the Loneliness-Depression Relationship: Evidence from a Population-Representative Cohort
AbstractBackground and Objective. This study examined the association of loneliness with depressive symptoms across variou...
Negative perception of aging is associated with frailty transitions within a cohort of sexual minority men
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Older people have increased risk of developing frailty, an age-related clinical syndrom...
Age Differences in Multi-modal Quantitative Sensory Testing and Associations with Brain Volume
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Somatosensory function is critical for successful aging. Prior studies have shown decli...
Older Adults’ Daily Activity and Mood Changes Detected During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Remote Unobtrusive Monitoring Technologies
AbstractBackground and Objectives. The COVID-19 pandemic has limited older adults’ access to in-person medical care, inclu...
A Prospective Study on Child Abuse and Elder Mistreatment: Assessing Direct Effects and Associations with Depression and Substance Use Problems during Adolescence and Middle Adulthood
AbstractBackground and Objectives. We examined the prospective association between two measures of child abuse, one based ...
Psychometric evaluation of the Making it CLEAR questionnaire, a resilience measure for older adults
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Previous efforts to develop a resilience measure for older adults have largely failed t...
Narrative Group Intervention to Rediscover Life Wisdom among Hong Kong Chinese Older Adults: A Single-Blind Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial
AbstractBackground and Objectives. We developed a new group practice using strength- and meaning-based Narrative Therapy (...
Left Turns by Older Drivers With Vision Impairment: A Naturalistic Driving Study
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Older drivers are over-represented in collisions at intersections while making left tur...
Cognitive dispersion predicts grip strength trajectories in men but not women in a sample of the oldest-old without dementia
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Grip strength is a reliable marker of biological vitality and it typically demonstrates...
Longitudinal Comparison of Stability and Sensitivity in Quality of Life Scores Among Nursing Home Residents With and Without Diagnoses of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Prevalence of nursing home residents with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD...
Understanding Elderspeak: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Elderspeak is an inappropriate simplified speech register that sounds like baby talk an...
Factors Associated with Hearing Aid Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries
AbstractBackground and Objectives. In the U.S., up to two-thirds of older adults have hearing loss. Untreated hearing loss...
Sex-Specific Difference in Dynamic Balance Following Total Hip Replacement
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Total hip replacement (THA) is a common surgical procedure in older adults (65 years or...
Patient-Caregiver Treatment Preference Discordance and its Association with Caregiving Burden and Esteem
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Many patient-caregiver dyads report conflicting treatment decisions regarding preferenc...
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