Independent Living

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "The Sun Came Up Because You Got Here…": A Qualitative Exploration of Person-Centered Care Strategies Used by Adult Day Care Centers to Manage Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia. 
  • A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Randomized Control Trial of a Tailored, Multifactorial Program to Prevent Falls Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly. 
  • A New Method of Identifying Characteristics of Needing Help to Take Medications in an Older Representative Community-Dwelling Population: The Older Adults Medication Assist Scale. 
  • A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Caregivers of Community Dwelling Persons with Severe Dementia (PISCES): Study Protocol. 
  • A Simplified Approach for Classifying Physical Resilience among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study. 
  • A comparison of attitudes toward length and quality of life between community-dwelling older adults and patients with advanced cancer. 
  • Acculturation and Subsequent Oral Health Problems Among Foreign-Born Older Chinese Americans: Does Neighborhood Disorder Matter? 
  • Age trends in estradiol and estrone levels measured using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in community-dwelling men of the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Age-Friendly Communities Initiative: Public Health Approach to Promoting Successful Aging. 
  • Antihypertensive adherence and outcomes among community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 
  • Application of neuropsychological criteria to classify mild cognitive impairment in the active study. 
  • Art Attendance and Change in Cognitive Function Among U.S. Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Association Between Exposure to General Versus Regional Anesthesia and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults. 
  • Association Between Late-Life Blood Pressure and the Incidence of Cognitive Impairment: A Community-Based Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Association between Elder Mistreatment and Suicidal Ideation among Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults in the USA. 
  • Association between indoor ventilation frequency and cognitive function among community-dwelling older adults in China: results from the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey. 
  • Association between tooth loss and hypertension among older Chinese adults: a community-based study. 
  • Association of Frailty With Recovery From Disability Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From Two Large U.S. Cohorts. 
  • Association of Frailty with recovery from disability among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: China health and retirement longitudinal study. 
  • Association of Retail Environment and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status With Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in the United States: Cardiovascular Health Study. 
  • Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. 
  • Association of Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure With All-Cause Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Prospective Observational Study. 
  • Association of neuropsychiatric symptoms and sub-syndromes with cognitive impairment in community-dwelling Asian elderly. 
  • Association of peripheral artery disease with life-space mobility restriction and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Associations between superoxide dismutase, malondialdehyde and all-cause mortality in older adults: a community-based cohort study. 
  • Biomarker-based risk prediction in the community. 
  • Caregiver-Reported Sleep Disturbances Are Associated With Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in an Asian Elderly Cohort With Cognitive Impairment-No Dementia. 
  • Changes in nocturnal sleep and daytime nap durations predict all-cause mortality among older adults: the Panel on Health and Ageing of Singaporean Elderly. 
  • Circulating Estrogen Levels and Self-Reported Health and Mobility Limitation in Community-Dwelling Men of the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Continue or not to continue? Attitudes towards deprescribing among community-dwelling older adults in China. 
  • Contributions of symptomatic osteoarthritis and physical function to incident cardiovascular disease. 
  • Correlates of functional capacity among centenarians. 
  • Cost trajectories as a measure of functional resilience after hospitalization in older adults. 
  • Decreased cancer-independent life expectancy in the head and neck cancer population. 
  • Derivation, and establishment of the validity and reliability, of the CASP-11-SG quality of life scale among community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Directed content analysis of Veterans Affairs policy documents: A strategy to guide implementation of a dementia home safety toolkit for Veterans to promote ageing in place. 
  • Does Caregiving Strain Increase as Patients With and Without Dementia Approach the End of Life? 
  • Dyspnea in Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Multifactorial Geriatric Health Condition. 
  • Effect of a Community-Based Service Learning Experience in Geriatrics on Internal Medicine Residents and Community Participants. 
  • Efficacy of path-oriented psychological self-help interventions to improve mental health of empty-nest older adults in the Community of China. 
  • Enhancing physical function in HIV-infected older adults: A randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Examining indirect associations between physical activity, function, and disability in independent- and assisted-living residents. 
  • Family Caregiver Perspectives on Suffering of Persons With Severe Dementia: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Feasibility of 24-Hr Urine Collection for Measurement of Biomarkers in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. 
  • Gender differences in quality of life among community-dwelling older adults in low- and middle-income countries: results from the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). 
  • Geospatial analysis of Mediterranean diet adherence in the United States. 
  • Home-time Is a Patient-Centered Outcome Variable for Stroke: An Executive Summary. 
  • Hospice Care Preferences and Its Associated Factors among Community-Dwelling Residents in China. 
  • Hospitalization Risk Among Older Adults with Sensory Impairments: Development of a Prognostic Model. 
  • Impact of patient education on influenza vaccine uptake among community-dwelling elderly: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Impairment of activities of daily living and incident heart failure in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • In situ monitoring of health in older adults: technologies and issues. 
  • Incidence of frailty among community-dwelling older adults: a nationally representative profile in China. 
  • Is shame a proximal trigger for drinking? A daily process study with a community sample. 
  • Just for us. 
  • Living alone and cardiovascular risk in outpatients at risk of or with atherothrombosis. 
  • Longitudinal Associations of US Acculturation With Cognitive Performance, Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia. 
  • Muscle Mass Assessed by the D3-Creatine Dilution Method and Incident Self-reported Disability and Mortality in a Prospective Observational Study of Community-Dwelling Older Men. 
  • New or Worsening Symptoms and Signs in Community-Dwelling Persons with Dementia: Incidence and Relation to Use of Acute Medical Services. 
  • Novel metabolomics markers are associated with pre-clinical decline in hand grip strength in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Older Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Who Live Alone: An Analysis From the REHAB-HF Trial. 
  • Oral Health Symptoms and Cognitive Function Among US Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Outcome and life satisfaction of adults with myelomeningocele. 
  • Perceptions of Stroke and Associated Health-Care-Seeking Behavior in Northern Tanzania: A Community-Based Study. 
  • Physical Performance Predictor Measures in Older Adults With Falls-Related Emergency Department Visits. 
  • Physical function and independence 1 year after myocardial infarction: observations from the Translational Research Investigating Underlying disparities in recovery from acute Myocardial infarction: Patients' Health status registry. 
  • Predictors of discharges to a nursing home in a hospital-based cohort. 
  • Preoperative Frailty Increases Risk of Nonhome Discharge after Elective Vascular Surgery in Home-Dwelling Patients. 
  • Preoperative dysphagia risk in community-dwelling adults aged ≥50 years: Prevalence and risk factors. 
  • Prevalence and health correlates of anaemia among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence and health correlates of reduced kidney function among community-dwelling Chinese older adults: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. 
  • Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Malays - Epidemiology of Dementia in Singapore Study. 
  • Prevalence of and factors associated with sarcopenia among multi-ethnic ambulatory older Asians with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a primary care setting. 
  • Productive engagement patterns and their association with depressive symptomatology, loneliness, and cognitive function among older adults. 
  • Projecting the number of older singaporeans with activity of daily living limitations requiring human assistance through 2030. 
  • Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: the role of children. 
  • Recruitment of rural and cognitively impaired older adults for dental research. 
  • Relationship Between Dual-Task Gait Speed and Walking Activity Poststroke. 
  • Religiosity and depressive symptoms among older adults in Colombia. 
  • Religiosity and self-rated health among older adults in Colombia. 
  • Resiliency Groups Following Hip Fracture in Older Adults. 
  • Risk of late effects of treatment in children newly diagnosed with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study cohort. 
  • Social Support, Social Strain, and Cognitive Function Among Community-Dwelling U.S. Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Subjective cognitive decline and objective cognition among diverse U.S. Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging (SOL-INCA). 
  • Successful Community Discharge Following Postacute Rehabilitation for Medicare Beneficiaries: Analysis of a Patient-Centered Quality Measure. 
  • Surgical Menopause and Frailty Risk in Community-Dwelling Older Women: Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. 
  • The AGING Initiative experience: a call for sustained support for team science networks. 
  • The Association between Frailty and Healthcare Expenditure among Chinese Older Adults. 
  • The INSPIRE Population Survey: development, dissemination and respondent characteristics. 
  • The Impact of Living Alone and Intergenerational Support on Depressive Symptoms Among Older Mexican Americans: Does Gender Matter? 
  • The impact of functional dependency on outcomes after complex general and vascular surgery. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • Using Root Cause Analysis to Inform a Falls Practice Change in the Home Care Setting. 
  • Validation of the Total Cerebrovascular Disease Burden Scale in a Community Sample. 
  • Visit-to-Visit Variability in Blood Pressure Is Related to Late-Life Cognitive Decline. 
  • Visual Impairment in Old and Very Old Community-dwelling Asian Adults.