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My Independent Streak May Get In The Way': How Older Adults Respond To Falls Prevention Education In Hospital, Anne-Marie Hill, Jacqui Francis-Coad, Terry P. Haines, Nicholas Waldron, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Leon Ricker, Katharine Ingram, Steven Mcphail

Physiotherapy Papers and Journal Articles

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine how providing individualised falls prevention education facilitated behaviour change from the perspective of older hospital patients on rehabilitation wards and what barriers they identified to engaging in preventive strategies.

Design: A prospective qualitative survey.

Methods: Older patients (n=757) who were eligible (mini-mental state examination score>23/30) received falls prevention education while admitted to eight rehabilitation hospital wards in Western Australia. Subsequently, 610 participants were surveyed using a semistructured questionnaire to gain their response to the in-hospital education and their identified barriers to engaging in falls prevention strategies. Deductive content analysis …

Judicial Wisdom: An Introductory Empirical Account, Jeremy A. Blumenthal, Daria A. Bakina

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

For millennia, the notion of “wisdom” has been the purview of philosophers or religious scholars. Philosophers literally loved and sought wisdom; biblical scholars lionized King Solomon, wisest man of all.1 More recently, however, psychologists have begun to investigate the concept of wisdom empirically. Beginning in the mid-1970s and proceeding apace,2 social scientists have studied wisdom from a variety of perspectives, falling under two headings of implicit and explicit theories.3

IMPLICIT THEORIES OF WISDOM

At least three different approaches have been taken to the development of implicit theories of wisdom. One thread of research, probably the most common, uses a three-step …

Improvement Of Under-Represented Minority Individuals In The Healthcare Field Of Communication Sciences And Disorders, Allison Webb

Lewis Honors College Capstone Collection

Individuals from under-represented minority backgrounds are scarce within healthcare careers. Former research has suggested that this lack of diversity begins at the undergraduate level. This proposal discusses a potential solution to this problem occurring at the University of Kentucky and other colleges across the United States. Suggested intervention targeted diverse populations, connected students with faculty and staff, and provided shadowing resources for individuals from under-represented minority backgrounds. Based on research and current diversity statistics, populations of individuals from diverse backgrounds are expected to increase within the Communication Sciences and Disorders program. Demographic information for the fall 2016 semester will become …

Reason Is King And Science Is His Crown: A Study Of French Science-Fiction For The Dissemination Of Philosophical Thought, Lauren A. Gandy

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The thesis seeks to explore the didactic application of French science-fiction during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the portrayal and dissemination of their respective philosophical theories. Studying science-fiction novels during these centuries will allow a comparison of seventeenth and eighteenth-century dissemination methods, to determine if the foundational seventeenth-century methods were retained or modified to more accurately represent the change in philosophical attitudes. Exploration of this topic will contribute to a greater understanding of French Enlightenment theory, analysis of relatively unstudied novels in the science-fiction genre, and a novel approach to “proto” science-fiction literature by connecting the previously separate genres …

The Influence Of Time On Food Intake Patterns: Age, Period, Cohort Differences, Karina L. Christopher

Theses and Dissertations--Gerontology

The impact of diet and exercise on overall health and chronic disease risk has been well examined. Multiple studies show that Americans eat more now than they did fifty years ago. What isn’t known is how much of an impact time has on food intake patterns of individuals in terms of different age groups, historic periods of structural influences, and birth cohorts.

In order to identify the impact of time on food intake this study examined time from multiple perspectives. The first aim of this study was to determine food intake patterns among age groups across five time periods using …

Challenges Related To Walking In Persons With Peripheral Artery Disease, Angela J. Caldieraro-Bentley

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to explore self-efficacy and its relationship to walking in the older person with peripheral artery disease (PAD). Specifically, the aim of this compendium is to identify measurement instruments for self-efficacy that are appropriate for individuals with PAD, explore motivators and barriers to walking for this population, and to describe the challenges of recruiting the older person with PAD for exercise trials. Design: This dissertation is comprised of three manuscripts. Within the context of Self-Efficacy Theory, this dissertation includes integrative reviews of instruments used to measure self-efficacy, and motivators and barriers to walking in …

Caring Minds, University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston School Of Nursing

Caring Minds

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Relationship Between Old Age And Prosecution Specifically Addressing Whether Old Age Should Ever Be A Factor In Deciding Whether To Prosecute Large Scale Human Rights Abusers, Assuming Reasonable Health., Valerie Villacampa

War Crimes Memoranda

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Emu Today, September 21, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, September 19, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, September 16, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, September 15, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, September 14, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Emu Today, September 13, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Winter Commencement, December 17, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

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Spring Commencement, April 24, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

Commencement Programs and Materials

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Relative Preservation Of Emotion Recognition Abilities In Women Compared To Men With Parkinson's Disease, Colleen Frank

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Successful emotion recognition is necessary for healthy relationships. Parkinson’s disease (PD) can be associated with deficits in emotion recognition through both auditory and visual modalities. Because past research has also documented that gender plays a role in emotion recognition, PD could differentially affect men and women. This study examined the abilities of men and women with PD to recognize specific emotions through emotional facial expressions and emotional prosody compared to healthy controls. This study included 28 PD patients (14 men, 14 women) and 40 (20 men, 20 women) age-matched healthy control participants. The PD group displayed deficits on both the …

The Effectiveness Of Biology Ptechls Module In A Rural Secondary School In Malaysia, Norlidah Alias, Dorothy Dewitt, Saedah Siraj, A.R. Mohd Nazri, G. Rashidah Begum, Rose Amnah Abd Rauf

Research Publications (2016 to 2020)

The PTechLS module combines learning styles with the use of technology to increase students’ learning experience, especially in learning abstract concepts. The PTechLS module prototype was developed by Alias (2010). The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of the Biology PTechLS module in a rural secondary school in Malaysia. The PTechLS module was implemented from year 2012 to year 2014. The study adopted the exploratory implementation design which incorporates a quasi-experimental research design. 37 students agreed to participate in this study. In addition, a retrospective usability evaluation of the the implementation of thePTechLS module, …

Emerging Technologies To Measure Neighborhood Conditions In Public Health: Implications For Interventions And Next Steps, M. Schootman, E. J. Nelson, K. Werner, E. Shacham, M. Elliott, Kendra Ratnapradipa, M. Lian, A. Mcvay

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

Adverse neighborhood conditions play an important role beyond individual characteristics. There is increasing interest in identifying specific characteristics of the social and built environments adversely affecting health outcomes. Most research has assessed aspects of such exposures via self-reported instruments or census data. Potential threats in the local environment may be subject to short-term changes that can only be measured with more nimble technology. The advent of new technologies may offer new opportunities to obtain geospatial data about neighborhoods that may circumvent the limitations of traditional data sources. This overview describes the utility, validity and reliability of selected emerging technologies to …

Comt And Oprm1 Genotype Associations With Daily Knee Pain Variability And Activity Induced Pain, Lynn M. Martire, Stephanie J. Wilson, Brent J. Small, Yvette P. Conley, Piotr K. Janicki, Martin J. Sliwinski

Aging Studies Faculty Publications

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a common and increasingly prevalent condition that is one of the primary causes of chronic pain. Staying physically active protects against disability from knee OA but is also very challenging. A critical but unexamined question is whether patients at greatest risk for becoming less active are those with a genetic predisposition for greater sensitivity to daily pain.

Aims: We examined day-to-day variability in knee OA pain for patients with different variants of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and mu-opioid receptor (OPRM1) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and whether patients with a specific genotype experience more pain following …

Home Burials, Church Graveyards, And Public Cemeteries: Transformations In Ibadan Mortuary Practice, 1853-1960, Olufunke Adeboye

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

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Recollections By Shirley Sorenson, Shirley Sorenson

Recollections

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Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2016-2017, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a downloadable PDF version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Walking-Induced Fatigue Leads To Increased Risk In Older Adults, S. Morrison, S. R. Colberg, H. K. Parson, S. Neumann, R. Handel, E. J. Vinik, J. Paulson, A. I. Vinik

Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

Background- For older adults, falls are a serious health problem, with more than 30% of people older than 65 suffering a fall at least once a year. One element often overlooked in the assessment of falls is whether a person's balance, walking ability, and overall falls risk is affected by performing activities of daily living such as walking.

Objective- This study assessed the immediate impact of incline walking at a moderate pace on falls risk, leg strength, reaction time, gait, and balance in 75 healthy adults from 30 to 79 years of age. Subjects were subdivided into 5 equal groups …

Making Sense Of Family Communication About And At The End Of Life: Family Communication Around End-Of-Life Planning And Decision Making, April R. Trees, Jennifer E. Ohs

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

Families faced with end-of-life (EOL) decisions on behalf of a family member are charged with honoring a care recipient’s wishes, which may or may not be clear to them. The process of decision making is challenging for surrogate decision makers and their families, and it often results in suboptimal decisions that fail to meet the best interests of the patients, cause stress for family members, and burden the legal and medical systems. Effective family communication, something that legal representatives, medical professionals, and social workers are often in positions to influence, can enhance the quality of EOL care planning and decisions. …

Fact Book 2016-17, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

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Faculty Senate Yearbook, 2016-17, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

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What We Know And Need To Know About Pro Bono Service Delivery, April Faith-Slaker

South Carolina Law Review

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What's Their Expiration Date? Age Discrimination In The Workplace, Bianca L. Tomlin

Masters Theses

Age discrimination, although illegal, continues to have a presence within organizations against older individuals. Previous research on age discrimination has determined that the social identity of those older workers discriminated against are affected. This project examines how older workers are being discriminated against, how age discrimination affects the dignity of an older worker, and how age discrimination affects the professional identity of older workers. This study focuses on eleven white-collar workers, age 45-65 who have experienced age discrimination in the workplace. Analysis revealed that older workers found themselves being fired from organizations, barred from entry into organizations, and denied training …

Alexander Street Press 2016, Ucf Libraries

Technology Fee Funded Projects

The UCF Libraries is requesting $94,000 (list price of $95,000 less $1,000.00 cost sharing) for the purchase of streaming videos from Alexander Street Press in four collections: