A5026576625- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Family Support in Illness
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Resilience and Mental Health
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2014-2023
University of Colorado Boulder
2022
University of Colorado System
1985-2018
University of Illinois Chicago
2018
Philipps University of Marburg
2014-2017
University of Aberdeen
2014-2017
Purdue University West Lafayette
2014-2017
Connecticut State Department of Education
2013
This article reports on the outcome of a presidential initiative 2012 American Psychological Association President Suzanne Bennett Johnson to delineate competencies for primary care (PC) psychology in six broad domains: science, systems, professionalism, relationships, application, and education. Essential knowledge, skills, attitudes are described each PC competency. Two behavioral examples provided illustrate Clinical vignettes demonstrate action. Delineation these is intended inform...
Long-term care services and supports are primarily a family industry that warrants psychologists' involvement through practice, research, policy advocacy. Families poorly integrated into service systems despite the dominance of caregiving work within health long-term care. This article positions context life across span, noting overlaps distinctions between normal for older adults whose physical or cognitive challenges require assistance. The prevalence, work, consequences described....
This paper presents our recent research on integrating artificial emotional intelligence in a social robot (Ryan) and studies the robot's effectiveness engaging older adults. Ryan is socially assistive designed to provide companionship for adults with depression dementia through conversation. We used two versions of study, empathic non-empathic. The utilizes multimodal emotion recognition algorithm expression system. Using different input modalities emotion, i.e., facial speech sentiment,...
As the proportion and sheer number of older adults in United States continues to increase, we need plan for their behavioral health care. Access accurate data about current workforce characteristics psychology can provide essential information inform planning. In this paper, present results American Psychological Association's Center Workforce Studies survey psychologists, with a focus on adults. Participants (N = 4,109) were doctoral psychologists identified through state licensing boards....
Rapid population growth among older adults means an increased need for psychologists prepared to provide mental health services this population. A representative survey of 1,227 practitioner members the American Psychological Association yielded information about current patterns practice with adults, sources training in geropsychology, perceived continuing education (CE) and preferred CE formats. Most respondents provided some but typically very little. The are inadequate meet projected...
Access to recreational and medical marijuana is common in the United States, particularly states with legalized use. Here, we describe patterns of use self-reported health among older persons using a geographically sampled survey Colorado. The in-person or online was offered community-dwelling aged above 60 years. We assessed past-year including recreational, medical, both; methods use; source; reasons for sociodemographic factors; health. Of 274 respondents (mean age = 72.5 years, 65%...
Objective: Clinical settings require an efficient and informative approach to the assessment of caregiving situations help providers decide how focus interventions. Providers serving caregivers need know about care recipients, who may not be available in same clinical setting where caregiver is being served, so checklists have been developed elicit caregivers’ perceptions problem (e.g., symptoms, functional challenges, attributions for problem). The purpose this study was conduct a...
Cannabis use among older adults is on the rise. Despite growing interest in topic, there exists a paucity of standardized measures capturing cannabis-specific attitudes adults. Using data from survey Coloradans, we create two scales that separately measure medical and recreational cannabis attitudes. We also examine how these relate to individual-level characteristics. assess reliability using Cronbach's alpha item-rest correlations perform confirmatory factor analyses test attitude models....
Models for professional functioning include the four dimensions of logic assessment, focus efforts, locus responsibility, and pace action. In turn, models team three attention, decision-making style, beliefs about interprofessional dependence. Using this descriptive system, many differences opinion or behavior which arise in multidisciplinary settings can be understood as rationally arising from model differences.
The development of disease concepts for conditions such as Alzheimer's (AD) is an ongoing social process that evolves over time. biomedical paradigm about AD has informed our culture's understanding brain aging the past several decades currently undergoing a major and timely renovation in early 21st century. This evolution reflected new guidelines issued by National Institute on Aging Association (NIA/AA) diagnosis related aim at helping researchers identify eventually treat its...
Gerontological research provides sufficient evidence of the central role families in lives older adults to warrant serious concern about as a locus intervention. Whether independent or dependent, experience integral their daily life and wellbeing (Shanas, 1979). The application family therapy techniques theories aging has been slow emerge, however. Family models that address structure functioning are only rarely discussed relevant (Qualls, 1995; Shields et al., 1995), investigating impact is...