Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on long-term care residents, family, and staff. Nursing homes are facing persistent challenges such as staff shortage, lack of personal protective equipm…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. “OK, Boomer” is a phrase used to dismiss an older person for their perceived out-of-touch or offensive beliefs. The popularity of this retort suggests the presence of intergenerational tension; this study…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. Social prescribing is a non-clinical approach to addressing social, environmental, and economic factors affecting how people feel physical and/or emotionally. It involves connecting people to “community a…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. Our aim was to identify latent factors underlying multiple observed risk factors for older adult falls and to examine their effects on falls by age and sex. We performed exploratory factor analysis on 13 …
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. This study provides insight into circumstances that facilitate or hamper living at home with advanced dementia until the end of life. Interviews were held with 11 bereaved family caregivers, two general p…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. This study explored nursing home social services directors’ interest in pursuing trauma-informed care (TIC) training, and individual and organizational characteristics associated with their interest. Data…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. The theft of controlled substances has been studied in the community and healthcare settings including hospitals, pharmacies, hospice, and pain clinics. However, research on these thefts in long-term care…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. In this study, we aimed to determine whether paid work has an impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among older adults. Over three years, we longitudinally collected data from 5,260 community-d…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. Despite the significant stress of family caregiving, caregivers’ needs and risks are often overlooked in healthcare settings. This study examined the factors associated with primary care physicians’ perce…
Journal of Applied Gerontology, Ahead of Print. This research examines patterns of intergenerational digital contact before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Wave nine and the f…