Health Services for the Aged

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A controlled trial of geriatric evaluation. 
  • A controlled trial of inpatient and outpatient geriatric evaluation and management. 
  • A nursing center for ambulatory well, older adults. 
  • A summated score for the medication appropriateness index: development and assessment of clinimetric properties including content validity. 
  • Accessing timely rehabilitation services for a global aging society? Exploring the realities within Canada's universal health care system. 
  • Aging-related diagnostic variations: need for diagnostic criteria appropriate for elderly psychiatric patients. 
  • An Interdisciplinary Academic Detailing Approach to Decrease Inappropriate Medication Prescribing by Physician Residents for Older Veterans Treated in the Emergency Department. 
  • An international model for geriatrics program development in China: the Johns Hopkins-Peking Union Medical College experience. 
  • An intradisciplinary team in a nurse managed center. 
  • Application of the RAND-UCLA Appropriateness Methodology to a Large Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Group Evaluating the Validity and Feasibility of Patient-Centered Standards in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Are We Ready for the Graying of the HIV Epidemic? 
  • Battles Worth Fighting. 
  • Biological, clinical, and psychosocial correlates at the interface of cancer and aging research. 
  • COVID-19, Mental Health and Aging: A Need for New Knowledge to Bridge Science and Service. 
  • Can the New Cooperative Medical Scheme promote rural elders' access to health-care services? 
  • Cancer Screening in Older Adults. 
  • Cardiac care for older adults. Time for a new paradigm. 
  • Caring for older adults in a nursing wellness centre. 
  • Caring for the older adult: avoiding the lumping syndrome. 
  • Change in functional disability of geriatric patients in a family medicine program: implications for patient care. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Changes in health, mortality, and disability and their impact on long-term care needs. 
  • Changes in the use of personal assistance and special equipment from 1982 to 1989: results from the 1982 and 1989 NLTCS. 
  • China's agenda for an old-age insurance program in rural areas. 
  • Chinese Dementia Specialist Education Program: training Chinese American health care professionals as dementia experts. 
  • Chronic care management for the elderly: an opportunity for gerontological nurse practitioners. 
  • Cognitive impairment and outcomes in older adult survivors of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the translational research investigating underlying disparities in acute myocardial infarction patients' health status registry. 
  • Comparing proxy and patients' perceptions of patients' functional status: results from an outpatient geriatric clinic. 
  • Computer use among elderly people. 
  • Curriculum development for geriatric-gerontology training: a problem-solving approach. 
  • Depression treatment in a sample of 1,801 depressed older adults in primary care. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Disability and depressive symptoms in the elderly: the effects of instrumental support and its subjective appraisal. 
  • Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care? 
  • Domain Management Approach to Heart Failure in the Geriatric Patient: Present and Future. 
  • Effect of type II odontoid fracture nonunion on outcome among elderly patients treated without surgery: based on the AOSpine North America geriatric odontoid fracture study. 
  • Effectiveness of an innovative and comprehensive eye care model for individuals in residential care facilities: results of the residential ocular care (ROC) multicentred randomised controlled trial. 
  • Elderly suicide, mental health professionals, and the clergy: a need for clinical collaboration, training, and research. 
  • Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies. 
  • Epidemiological, demographic, and social correlates of disability among the elderly. 
  • Equity of access to outpatient care and hospitalization among older community residents in Brazil. 
  • Evidence-based care for all patients. 
  • Expanding Evidence for Clinical Care of Older Adults: Beyond Clinical Trial Traditions and Finding New Approaches. 
  • Exploring patterns of health service use in older emergency department patients. 
  • Factors affecting influenza vaccination among attendees at a senior center. 
  • Factors predicting change in prescription and nonprescription drug use in a community-residing black and white elderly population. 
  • Feeding the Beast. 
  • Frailty and its potential relevance to cardiovascular care. 
  • Frequency and predictors of adverse health outcomes in older Medicare beneficiaries discharged from the emergency department. 
  • From Hospital to Home: Impact of Transitional Care on Cost, Hospitalisation and Mortality. 
  • Future patterns of chronic disease incidence, disability, and mortality among the elderly. Implications for the demand for acute and long-term health care. 
  • Future requirements for and supply of ophthalmologists for an aging population in Singapore. 
  • Genetic testing for Alzheimer's and long-term care insurance. 
  • Geriatric health: need to make it an essential element of primary health care. 
  • Geriatric oncology health services research: Cancer and Aging Research Group infrastructure core. 
  • Geriatric rehabilitation: state of the art. 
  • Health care and social service use among Chinese immigrant elders. 
  • Health services use of older veterans treated and released from veterans affairs medical center emergency departments. 
  • Health status and service needs of the oldest old: current patterns and future trends. 
  • Home health care: house calls revisited. 
  • Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Identifying Palliative Care Champions to Promote High-Quality Care to Those with Serious Illness. 
  • Impact of comorbid panic and posttraumatic stress disorder on outcomes of collaborative care for late-life depression in primary care. 
  • Impact of managed care on the treatment, costs, and outcomes of fee-for-service Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Improving Care for Older Adults in China: Development of Long-Term Care Policy and System. 
  • Improving nutritional quality of life for older adults: bringing global unity to the field. 
  • Improving primary care for depression in late life: the design of a multicenter randomized trial. 
  • In our hands: responding to the IOM report on workforce needs for older adults with mental health and substance use disorders. 
  • Incorporating Geriatric Assessment into a Nephrology Clinic: Preliminary Data from Two Models of Care. 
  • Informal care and health care use of older adults. 
  • Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services. 
  • Inpatient care for elderly cancer patients: the role for Geriatric Evaluation and Management Units in fulfilling goals for care. 
  • Institutional care for elders in rural China. 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Life events, mental health functioning and the use of health care services by the elderly. 
  • Living Arrangements of Older Adults and COVID-19 Risk: It Is Not Just Nursing Homes. 
  • Long-term economic growth stimulus of human capital preservation in the elderly. 
  • Making the area agencies on aging work: the role of information. 
  • Management of prostate cancer in older men: recommendations of a working group of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology. 
  • Managing Depression among Diverse Older Adults in Primary Care: The BRIGHTEN Program. 
  • Monitoring changes in the health of the U.S. elderly population: correlates with biomedical research and clinical innovations. 
  • Morbidity, disability, and long-term care of the elderly: implications for insurance financing. 
  • Multicenter Validation of an Emergency Department-Based Screening Tool to Identify Elder Abuse. 
  • Not your grandparents' cardiac care: The future of geriatric cardiology. 
  • Nurse-managed approach to care. 
  • OARS methodology. A decade of experience in geriatric assessment. 
  • One size does not fit all: geriatric health maintenance in the 21st century. 
  • Paint by Numbers. 
  • Pillars for the care of older persons in the Caribbean. 
  • Position statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry regarding principles of care for patients with dementia resulting from Alzheimer disease. 
  • Postendarterectomy mortality in octogenarians and nonagenarians in the USA from 1993 to 1999. 
  • Predicting 10-year care requirements for older people with suspected Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Predicting long-term mortality in older patients after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: the CRUSADE long-term mortality model and risk score. 
  • Predicting nursing home placement among home- and community-based services program participants. 
  • Predictors of costs of caring for elderly patients discharged with heart failure. 
  • Projected use of long-term-care services by enrolled Veterans. 
  • Projecting the number of older singaporeans with activity of daily living limitations requiring human assistance through 2030. 
  • Promoting cognitive health: a formative research collaboration of the healthy aging research network. 
  • Providing services in nursing homes. A physician's legal obligations. 
  • Public's view of mental health services for the elderly: responses to Dear Abby. 
  • Racial differences in influenza vaccination among older Americans 1996-2000: longitudinal analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey. 
  • Racial differences in use of cancer prevention services among older Americans. 
  • Rectangularization of the survival curve: implications of an ill-posed question. 
  • Resource allocation and resident outcomes in nursing homes: comparisons between the best and worst. 
  • Response to the Institute of Medicine report, "Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging." The Gerontological Society of America. 
  • Ruth's resolve: what Jesus' great-grandmother may teach about bioethics and care. 
  • Screening mammography and Pap tests among older American women 1996-2000: results from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD). 
  • Self-reported delay in seeking care has poor validity for predicting adverse outcomes. 
  • Should age be a basis for rationing health care? 
  • Shoulder Arthroscopy in Adults 60 or Older: Risk Factors That Correlate With Postoperative Complications in the First 30 Days. 
  • Social Gerontology 
  • Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time. 
  • Surviving the Silver Tsunami: Training a Health Care Workforce to Care for North Carolina's Aging Population. 
  • Systematic review of the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions to improve quality of life of people with dementia. 
  • Teaching Chinese health care professionals about community-based long-term care (CBLTC) in China. 
  • Telehealth: Opportunities in geriatric patient care during COVID-19. 
  • The AOSpine North America Geriatric Odontoid Fracture Mortality Study: a retrospective review of mortality outcomes for operative versus nonoperative treatment of 322 patients with long-term follow-up. 
  • The Duke Center for the Study of Aging: one of our earliest roots. 
  • The Future of Informatics in Aged Care: An International Perspective. 
  • The challenge of health care delivery to the elderly patient with cardiovascular disease. Demographic, epidemiologic, fiscal, and health policy implications. 
  • The cost-effectiveness of a clinical pharmacist intervention among elderly outpatients. 
  • The development, validity, and reliability of the OARS multidimensional functional assessment questionnaire. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for the elderly population of the United States. 
  • The effects of technological advances on outcomes for elderly persons with exudative age-related macular degeneration. 
  • The functional approach to the care of the elderly: a conceptual framework. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • The role of geriatric palliative care in hospitalized older adults. 
  • The wellbeing of the elderly. Approaches to multidimensional assessment. 
  • Use of services by cognitively impaired elderly persons residing in the community. 
  • Using epidemiologic survey data to plan geriatric mental health services. 
  • Veterans Affairs Geriatric Scholars Program: Enhancing Existing Primary Care Clinician Skills in Caring for Older Veterans. 
  • Where to go if not the hospital? Reviewing geriatric bed utilization in an acute care hospital in Singapore. 
  • Working group recommendations: research on content and efficacy of geriatric evaluation and management interventions. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Van Houtven, Courtney Harold, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences