Inverse Inclusion: Transforming Dispositions Of Disability And Inclusion, Angela M. Laporte

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

Inverse inclusion, a novel pedagogy, transforms preservice teachers’ dispositions about disability and inclusion during an action research study of two university intercession service learning course collaborations with a community-based art program for disabled adults (clients). In this approach, university students (preservice teachers) rotate and reflect on roles as student, teacher, teacher’s assistant, and observer within an inclusive art class. Among these rotations, the student position relinquishes their hierarchical perspective as teacher, assistant, and observer, and situates them as a collaborative learner, conducive to building egalitarian relationships with clients. Based on qualitative data from university student participants in the form …

Artists As Mentors: A Mid-Career Art Educator Rekindles Her Artist Self, Liz Langdon

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

A mentoring relationship between a mid-career art educator and a late-stage artist, is facilitated through the art educator's action research and life story narrative which is key in learning and sharing the artist’s philosophy. The author uses narrative inquiry and Deleuze's sense and event to represent the affective knowing of IG learning and demonstrates psychosocial benefits of mentoring.

Full Issue

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

No abstract provided.

Agenda, November 5, 2019, Programs Committee

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 044, Number 06, November 5, 2019, Grand Valley State University

2019-2020, Volume 44

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Ucc Minutes 11-5-19, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Longitudinal Associations Between Hearing Loss, Vision Loss, And Dual Sensory Loss And Cognitive Decline, Shaoqing Ge

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The audience will gain a good understanding of the longitudinal relationship between vision loss, hearing loss, and cognitive decline as people grow older. The audience will also gain a good understanding of the dataset and the analytical approach we used in our study.

Nursing Campus Therapy Dog, Deborah A. Hall

Nursing Theses and Dissertations

An acknowledged bond has existed between humans and animals throughout history. Therapeutic physical and psycho-social effects of these bonding relationships have been noted in health care settings. Professional nursing education is known to be one of the most demanding and stressful fields of study. Students begin to experience extreme stress early in their nursing education. An animal-assisted intervention with a therapy dog is an innovative and inexpensive action that can help decrease the stress, anxiety, and depression students experience in higher education.

The focus of this dissertation portfolio was an animal-assisted intervention with a nursing campus therapy dog. The initial …

Planning And Presenting A Yearly Informational Conference For Grandfamilies, Susan M. Collins 3512464

GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy

Abstract

This practice brief describes the planning and implementation of a local yearly conference for grandparents raising grandchildren. The conference was first held in 2002, and today is offered by a task force consisting of Area Agency on Aging staff, grandparents, Human Service program staff, representatives of various provider agencies and organizations, and academics from a local university. This practice brief describes funding, venue, logistics of the conference day, topics of most interest over the years, and the challenge of reaching grandfamilies. Also described is how evaluation by grandparents has helped the conference evolve to remain relevant and meaningful for …

The Impact Of A Goal-Setting Intervention With Custodial Grandmothers: A Demonstration Project, Julian Montoro-Rodriguez, Bert Hayslip

GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy

The increasing number of grandparents raising grandchildren underscores the need to provide assistance to grandparent caregivers in terms of training them not only to refresh intergenerational skills, but also developing appropriate and effective strategies associated with the setting of personally meaningful goals for themselves. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a socio-cognitive pilot demonstration program to improve the health and social psychological outcomes for grandmothers raising grandchildren using the theory of Selection, Optimization and Compensation (Freund & Baltes, 1998).

Sixteen grandmothers raising a grandchild under the age of 18 without the assistance of that child’s …

Asian American Grandparents Caring For Grandchildren: Findings From The Census 2010-2012 American Community Survey, Fengyan Tang, Heejung Jang, Elizabeth Mulvaney

GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice and Policy

Research on grandparent caregivers has received growing attention, yet information about Asian American grandparents is limited. Using 2010-2012 American Community Survey (ACS) data, this study provides a national profile of Asian American grandparent caregivers across ethnic groups by region (East, Southeast, and South Asians), and examines socioeconomic and cultural factors related to grandparent caregiving. Of the over half a million Asian Americans who lived with grandchildren during 2010-2012, about 16 percent reported as primary caregivers, and over 31 percent lived in grandparent-headed households. Compared with East Asians, South Asian grandparents were less likely to be primary caregivers for their grandchildren, …

Risk Factors For Falls In Homebound Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Yunchuan (Lucy) Zhao, Jenny Alderden, Bonnie Lind, Jennifer Stibrany

Nursing Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objective: To examine risk factors associated with falls among homebound community-dwelling older adults, a vulnerable population often possessing functional disabilities and chronic conditions.

Design and Sample: The study was a cross-sectional study utilizing round 6 data of the National Health and Aging Trend Study (NHATS). Descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted. A total of 1,356 homebound community-dwelling older adults aged 65 and above participated in the NHATS.

Measures: The outcome variable was falls within the last month reported in NHATS. Independent variables were selected based on the NHATS disability conceptual model and literature review, including personal conditions, …

2019-2020 Spring Bulletin, University Of Mississippi Medical Center

Bulletins/Catalogs

2019-2020 Spring Bulletin

Lexington For All Ages: A Community Needs Assessment, Sue Berger, Jan Mutchler, Nidya Velasco Roldán, Ceara Somerville, Rebecca Mailman, Caitlin Coyle

Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging Publications

The Lexington for All Ages initiative is meant to ensure that Lexington is and remains a place where older adults can comfortably and safely age in place. This report describes research undertaken by the Center for Social & Demographic Research on Aging within the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, on behalf of the Lexington Department of Human Services, to investigate the needs, interests, preferences, and opinions of Lexington’s residents age 50 and older. Structured around livability principles embedded in the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly Community framework, the Lexington for All Ages initiative considers physical infrastructure as well …

Living Below The Line: Economic Insecurity And Older Americans, Insecurity In The States 2019, Jan Mutchler, Yang Li, Nidya Velasco Roldán

Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging Publications

New estimates from the 2019 Elder Index^TM suggest that half of older adults living alone, and 23% of older adults living in two-elder households, lack the financial resources required to pay for basic needs. The Gerontology Institute compares the 2019 household incomes for adults age 65 and above living in one- and two-person households to the 2019 Elder Index for each state and Washington, DC to calculate Elder Economic Insecurity Rates (EEIRs), the percentage of independent older adults age 65 or older living in households with annual incomes that do not support economic security. The EEIRs allow state and …

The Empower Action Model: A Framework For Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences By Promoting Health, Equity, And Well-Being Across The Life Span, Aditi Srivastav, Melissa Strompolis, Amy Moseley, Kelsay Shania Daniels

Faculty Publications

The empower action model addresses childhood adversity as a root cause of disease by building resilience across multiple levels of influence to promote health, equity, and well-being. The model builds on the current evidence around adverse childhood experiences and merges important frameworks within key areas of public health—the socio-ecological model, protective factors, race equity and inclusion, and the life course perspective. The socio-ecological model is used as the foundation for this model to highlight the multilevel approach needed for improvement in public health. Five key principles that build on the protective factors literature are developed to be applied at each …

Post-Acquisition Processing Confounds In Brain Volumetric Quantification Of White Matter Hyperintensities, Ahmed A. Bahrani, Omar M. Al-Janabi, Erin L. Abner, Shoshana H. Bardach, Richard J. Kryscio, Donna M. Wilcock, Charles D. Smith, Gregory A. Jicha

Neurology Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Disparate research sites using identical or near-identical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition techniques often produce results that demonstrate significant variability regarding volumetric quantification of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in the aging population. The sources of such variability have not previously been fully explored.

NEW METHOD: 3D FLAIR sequences from a group of randomly selected aged subjects were analyzed to identify sources-of-variability in post-acquisition processing that can be problematic when comparing WMH volumetric data across disparate sites. The methods developed focused on standardizing post-acquisition protocol processing methods to develop a protocol with less than 0.5% inter-rater variance.

RESULTS: A series …

Living Below The Line: Economic Insecurity And Older Americans, Insecurity In Massachusetts 2019, Jan Mutchler, Yang Li, Nidya Velasco Roldán

Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging Publications

New estimates from the 2019 Elder Index^TM reveal that in Massachusetts, more than six out of ten older adults living alone, and three out of ten living in two-person households, cannot afford the basic necessities of life such as food, housing, and health care. The Gerontology Institute compares household incomes for adults age 65 and above living in one- and two-person households to the 2019 Elder Index for Massachusetts to calculate Elder Economic Insecurity Rates (EEIRs), the percentage of independent older adults age 65 or older living in households with annual incomes that do not support economic security. The …

Raps Sheet, November 2019, Retirement Association Of Portland State

RAPS Sheet: Monthly Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Measuring The Prevalence Of Delirium In Hospitalized Patients, Kimberly J. Salee, Linda M. Cason, Abby J. Schmitt

Biennial Convention (CONV)

A point prevalence study for delirium was conducted in six acute care hospitals. Additional data was collected to identify clinical factors that contribute to delirium. This presentation will discuss a collaborative approach to multi-institutional research and review the results of this study.

Racial Stratification In Self-Rated Health Among Black Mexicans And White Mexicans, Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde, Nicole E. Jones, Verna M. Keith

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

How do Mexicans of distinct racial backgrounds fit into the recognized patterns of racial health disparities? We conduct regression analyses using data from the 2000-2017 National Health Interview Survey to determine if Mexicans who self-identify as White or Black have a relative advantage or disadvantage in self-rated health in relation to Non-Hispanic (NH) Whites and Blacks in the U.S. Our results indicate that both Black Mexicans and White Mexicans have a significant disadvantage in relation to NH-Whites while White Mexicans have a slight advantage in relation to both NH-Blacks and Black Mexicans. Overall, our results suggest that studying health outcomes …

Fatness, Intersectionality, And Environmental Justice: Working Towards Health And Sustainability, Ginneh L. Akbar, Meg Panichelli

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

No abstract provided.

Full Circle: A Qualitative And Art-Informed Investigation Into The Experience Of Midlife Transition For Female Art Therapists, Sharon Marianetti-Leeper

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Midlife for women comprises the ages of roughly 40 to 65 years and is potentially a time of great developmental change. This qualitative and arts-informed study sought to explore the experiences of midlife transition for seven female art therapists who fell within the midlife age range. Participants were asked to create a mandala (circular art piece) for each of six midlife domains: physical/biological, emotional, social-relational, spiritual, intellectual/psychological, and sociocultural. Participants also created one-page artist statements about each mandala and engaged in a telephone interview with the researcher about the artmaking process. Thematic analysis of the written and transcribed data …

A Conceptual Model Of Palliative Care Within The Chronic Illness Continuum, Shena Gazaway, Autumn M. Schumacher

Biennial Convention (CONV)

An evidence-based conceptual model was developed concerning the use of palliative care. The model illustrates three phases (early, episodic, late) of palliative care along the chronic illness continuum. Research is needed to determine best nursing practices during the early phase to prevent crises during the episodic phase.

Korean Informal Caregivers' Experience For Family With Dementia: Difficulties And Strategies, Sohyun Kim

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The study explored nine Korean informal caregiver's experiences for people living with dementia. The qualitative description was used to analyze in-depth interviews. Participants identified six caregiving difficulties and six strategies they used. The results indicates focus areas for interventions to help informal caregivers manage their distress and caregiving skills.

Global Leadership As A Focus For Mentoring, Elizabeth Anne Rosser, Samantha Edwards, Kimberly T. Hodges, Misae Ito, Rick Y. C. Kwan, Mila Delia M. Llanes, Amanda M. Mcguire, Danita R. Potter

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Globally developed leaders are needed to support transformational change The Global Leadership Mentoring Community encouraged growth through personal leadership achievements, to gain confidence to lead in our Sigma chapter, and consider leadership roles in our region. All pairs truly connected, collaborated and catalyzed their global potential to realize their aims.

Global Leadership: Characteristics And Commitment Developed Through Community, Carole D. Liske, Joanne Ramsbotham, Kelly Strickland, Naomi F. Tutticci, Yat-Wa Justina Liu, Samar Noureddine, Stanley Malo Iii Rungua, Sylvia Muthoni Waweru

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The Global Leadership Mentoring Community strives to develop global nurse leaders through intentional mentoring. Key demographics and relational attributes facilitate successful mentoring of leadership tenets. The value of successful mentoring can be found in a more resilient and insightful emerging nurse leader contributing to a joyful and productive workforce.

The Global Leadership Mentoring Community: Expanding And Focusing In Cohort Two, Ellen B. Buckner, Claudia Kam Yuk Lai, Dorette Sugg Welk

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The Global Leadership Mentoring Community was formed in 2015 as a Sigma Community of Interest. This paper introduces how the second cohort demonstrated global leadership mentoring processes and outcomes. The Community members have sought to connect, collaborate, and catalyze global nursing leadership through relationships.

Transforming The Nursing Landscape: Sigma Academies Redefined, Cynthia Vlasich, Matthew S. Howard, Danielle Perkins Manning, Karen M. Beranek

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Sigma's leadership academies have been educating nurses for more than 15 years with great success and outcomes. Now, as Sigma works to prepare the next generation of nurse leaders and faculty, a transformation has taken place. This session will map out the next Academy model for the future.

A Nurse Practitioner-Led Interprofessional Chronic Disease Management Model Utilizing Pharmacy Telehealth, Terri Olivia Fowler, Catherine O. Durham, James J. Sterrett, Whitney A. Smith, Kathryn Van Ravenstein

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The purpose of the presentation is to describe a Doctor of Nursing Practice led chronic disease management model integrating an interprofessional care team and pharmacy telehealth in a free clinic.