• Neighborhood Social Environment and Lower Extremity Function in Older Adults 

  Millar, Roberto J (2020-01-01)

  Background: Research examining the linkages between neighborhood social environments and physical function in older adults is scarce. In order to reduce functional health disparities in older adulthood, it is critical to ...

• Voice User Interfaces supporting older adults with differing physical and cognitive abilities complete daily activities 

  Larsen, Alison (2019-01-01)

  The number of older adults is expected to increase from 43.1 million in 2012 to 87.3 million people in 2050 and with that, the instances of aging related disorders such as Mild Neurocognitive Disorders (mNCD) and low vision ...

• Quality and quality improvement in end-of-life care: Perceptions of hospice providers 

  Johnson, Karen (2020-01-20)

  Hospice is both a philosophy of care and a system for delivering care to patients near the end of life. The goals of hospice are to provide comfort care around the process of dying and to support the dying individual and ...

• Emergency Medical Services Providers' Perceptions of Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, and Older Adult Patients 

  King, Laura Kimberley (2018-01-01)

  While inequalities in prehospital care may be attributed to ageism, studies that examine the perceptions of age and aging among prehospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers are lacking. This qualitative study ...

• EXPERIENCE OF STROKE RECOVERY FOR WOMEN 60 OR OLDER 

  Johnson, Iona (2019-01-01)

  Stroke is a common health concern in the U.S. with 795,000 new strokes each year. Women dominate these numbers, with 55,000 more strokes per year than men, yet they are disproportionately underrepresented in stroke research. ...

• Oldest-old Adults Face Higher Risk of COVID-19 Mortality 

  Sahoo, Shalini; Roberto, Millar; Takashi, Yamashita (2020-04-30)

• AutoCogniSys: IoT Assisted Context-Aware Automatic Cognitive Health Assessment 

  Alam, Mohammad Arif Ul; Roy, Nirmalya; Holmes, Sarah; Gangopadhyay, Aryya; Galik, Elizabeth (2020-03-17)

  Cognitive impairment has become epidemic in older adult population. The recent advent of tiny wearable and ambient devices, a.k.a Internet of Things (IoT) provides ample platforms for continuous functional and cognitive ...

• Automated Functional and Behavioral Health Assessment of Older Adults with Dementia 

  Alam, Mohammad Arif Ul; Roy, Nirmalya; Holmes, Sarah; Gangopadhyay, Aryya; Galik, Elizabeth (IEEE, 2016-08-18)

  Dementia is a clinical syndrome of cognitive deficits that involves both memory and functional impairments. While disruptions in cognition is a striking feature of dementia, it is also closely coupled with changes in ...

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