A5034168241- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Helminth infection and control
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Animal health and immunology
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Family Support in Illness
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
MGH Institute of Health Professions
2008-2022
University of Kansas Medical Center
2022
Christiana Care Health System
2007-2013
Massachusetts General Hospital
2005-2010
Harvard University
1999-2010
University of Vermont
2008
Hebrew SeniorLife
1998-2005
Boston Medical Center
1994-2000
Boston University
1994-1997
University of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1995
Although family caregiving has been intensively studied in the past decade, little attention paid to impact of end-of-life care on caregivers who are members persons with dementia or caregivers' responses death patient.
Established in 1995, Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer’s Caregiver Health (REACH) is a unique, multisite research program sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and Nursing Research. The primary purpose of REACH to carry out social behavioral interventions designed enhance family caregiving disease (AD) related disorders. Specifically, has two goals: test effectiveness multiple different evaluate pooled effect overall. developed from Institutes initiative that acknowledged...
Purpose: We determine the main outcome effects of a 12-month computer-mediated automated interactive voice response (IVR) intervention designed to assist family caregivers managing persons with disruptive behaviors related Alzheimer's disease (AD). Design and Methods: conducted randomized controlled study 100 caregivers, 51 in usual care control group 49 technology group, who received yearlong access an IVR-mediated system. The system provided caregiver stress monitoring counseling...
With the upcoming reform of healthcare system and greater emphasis on care in home other living environments, geriatric providers will need alternate ways monitoring disease, activity, response to therapy, patient safety. Current understanding dynamic nature chronic illnesses, their effects health over time, ability manage them community are limited measuring a set variables at discrete points which does not account for interactions between physiological systems environments daily life....
Although there has been considerable interest in racial differences family caregiving for persons with dementia, most research to date either ignored diversity or based conclusions on small numbers of caregivers drawn primarily from single site studies. The current study utilized participants four sites the REACH (Resources Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health) multi-site compare well-being, appraisal, and religious coping by race. African-American (n = 295) Caucasian 425) dementia cities...
Purpose: We explored cross-cultural similarities and differences in minority family caregivers' perceptions of the onset diagnosis Alzheimer's disease their relatives, with specific attention to clinical encounters. Design Methods: performed a meta-synthesis three qualitative studies conducted Massachusetts 22 African American, Latino, Chinese caregivers. Results: All participants conveyed striking thought about normalization cognitive symptoms until one critical event, usually relocation,...
While Quality of Life (QOL) has long been an explicit or implicit policy goal, adequate definition and measurement have elusive.Diverse "objective" "subjective" indicators across a range disciplines scales, recent work on subjective well-being (SWB) surveys the psychology happiness spurred renewed interest.Drawing from multiple disciplines, we present integrative QOL that combines measures human needs with happiness.QOL is proposed as multiscale, multi-dimensional concept contains...
Telephone-Linked Care (TLC) technology has been developed and applied as an alternative to a supplement for office visits means deliver ambulatory care. TLC is used monitor patients with chronic diseases, counsel on important health behaviors, provide information support home caregivers of disabling condtions. speaks over the telephone in their homes using computer-controlled digitized human speech. Patients use keypad communicate. conversations last 2–15 minutes per call take place weekly...
The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon dementia caregiving in an ethnically diverse group Latino caregivers, with goal identifying cultural influences on experience. This qualitative, descriptive, cross-sectional used Leininger's ethnonursing approach. There were more similarities than differences multiethnic sample caregivers understanding symptoms, beliefs about role, and factors affecting ongoing care. A lack knowledge dementia, rather culturally influenced beliefs, major...
(1973). Bovine babesiasis: The persistence of immunity to Babesia argentina and B. bigemina in calves (Bos taurus) after naturally acquired infection. Annals Tropical Medicine & Parasitology: Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 197-203.
Innovative technologies are rapidly emerging that offer caregivers the support and means to assist older adults with cognitive impairment continue living "at home." Technology research development efforts applied dementia invoke special grant review institutional board concerns, ensure not only safe but also ethically appropriate interventions. Evidence is emerging, however, tensions growing between innovators reviewers. Reviewers antitechnology biases in a position stifle needed innovation....
(1971). Bovine babesiasis: estimation of infection rates in the tick vector Boophilus microplus (Canestrini) Annals Tropical Medicine & Parasitology: Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 309-317.
Three distinct monoclonal antibody-producing hybridomas have been produced against a partly purified protective fraction of Babesia bovis. All three stain the parasite or infected erythrocytes both in precise and different manners when fluorescent-antibody techniques are used. The relevant antigens for each antibody were isolated by immunoadsorption, their native molecular weights being 1.3 X 10(6), 180 10(3), 44 10(3). Each antigen reacted serological assays with homologous heterologous...
The increasing number of cognitively impaired older adults who exhibit wandering tendencies raises safety concerns. purpose the current study was to research State-of the-Art in Wearable Technologies for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and identify challenges unique this population lessons learned. Inclusion criteria specified systems/devices that completed laboratory testing were commercially available usage by community-based family caregivers. Methods included a series Internet product...
The objective of this research was to determine the feasibility and receptivity first computerized workplace-based direct caregiver intervention assess effects on businesses, working family caregivers, their elderly relatives. Working with at least one health and/or safety concern related an elder residing alone home during workday, were recruited from five companies (n = 27). Caregivers received free computer access Worker Interactive Networking (WIN) Internet online support group a remote...