Search Results - "Gwyther, Lisa P."
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Age-Friendly Communities Initiative: Public Health Approach to Promoting Successful Aging
Published in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry (01-12-2016)“…Older adults consistently prefer aging in place, which requires a high level of community support and services that are currently lacking. With a rapidly aging…”
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Dementia in Relation to Family Caregiver Involvement and Burden in Long-Term Care
Published in Journal of applied gerontology (01-08-2014)“…To better understand the process and outcomes of family involvement for long-term care residents with varying stages of dementia, we analyzed family and staff…”
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Associations Among Perceptions of Social Support, Negative Affect, and Quality of Sleep in Caregivers and Noncaregivers
Published in Health psychology (01-03-2006)“…The authors used structural equation modeling to examine associations among perceptions of negative affect, social support, and quality of sleep in a sample of…”
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A multinational review of recent trends and reports in dementia caregiver burden
Published in Alzheimer disease and associated disorders (01-04-2004)“…This systematic review of the literature focuses on the influence of ethnic, cultural, and geographic factors on the caregivers of patients with dementia. In…”
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New or Worsening Symptoms and Signs in Community‐Dwelling Persons with Dementia: Incidence and Relation to Use of Acute Medical Services
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-04-2017)“…Objectives To understand the range of symptoms that present to family caregivers of community‐dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias…”
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Report on milestones for care and support under the U.S. National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-03-2016)“…Abstract Introduction Under the U.S. national Alzheimer's plan, the National Institutes of Health identified milestones required to meet the plan's biomedical…”
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Video-based coping skills to reduce health risk and improve psychological and physical well-being in Alzheimer's disease family caregivers
Published in Psychosomatic medicine (01-11-2010)“…To determine whether video-based coping skills (VCS) training with telephone coaching reduces psychosocial and biological markers of distress in primary…”
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Challenges and opportunities: recruitment and retention of African Americans for Alzheimer disease research: lessons learned
Published in Alzheimer disease and associated disorders (01-07-2010)“…For more than 3 decades, the recruitment and retention of African Americans for research in Alzheimer disease have been regarded as difficult undertakings with…”
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Community Engagement in Diverse Populations for Alzheimer Disease Prevention Trials
Published in Alzheimer disease and associated disorders (01-07-2014)“…The recruitment of asymptomatic volunteers has been identified as a critical factor that is delaying the development and validation of preventive therapies for…”
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From evidence to practice: Using the RE-AIM framework to adapt the REACHII caregiver intervention to the community
Published in Dementia (London, England) (01-01-2015)“…This article describes how the multi-step mid-course assessment of the REACH II community translation project in North Carolina was guided by the RE-AIM…”
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Fidelity Decision Making in Social and Behavioral Research: Alternative Measures of Dose and Other Considerations
Published in Social work research (01-09-2014)“…This article advances the discussion of treatment fidelity in social and behavioral intervention research by analyzing fidelity in an intervention study…”
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Sleep quality varies as a function of 5-HTTLPR genotype and stress
Published in Psychosomatic medicine (01-09-2007)“…To test the hypothesis that allelic variation in 5HTT gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) genotype was associated with sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep…”
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Where the rubber hits the road: Partnering with dementia caregivers in intervention design and implementation
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Advancing Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, treatment, and care: Recommendations from the Ware Invitational Summit
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-09-2012)“…Abstract To address the pending public health crisis due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative disorders, the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer…”
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Comparing Families and Staff in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: Implications for Social Work Practice
Published in Journal of gerontological social work (01-08-2013)“…Nursing homes and residential care/assisted living settings provide care to 2.4 million individuals. Few studies compare the experience of, and relationships…”
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A North Carolina service for those with questions about Alzheimer disease, other memory disorders, and family care
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Differences in assisted living staff perceptions, experiences, and attitudes
Published in Journal of gerontological nursing (01-01-2014)“…Research within residential care/assisted living (RC/AL) settings has shown that the attitudes of personal care (PC) staff toward their organization and its…”
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Spirituality and caring for older family members
Published in Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) (01-10-2006)Get full text
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Social Work Competencies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Published in Journal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care (01-01-2005)“…Social workers from clinical, academic, and research settings met in 2002 for a national Social Work Leadership Summit on Palliative and End-of-Life Care…”
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Community Engagement in Diverse Populations for Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Trials
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