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Eleanor Schildwachter McConnell

Eleanor Schildwachter McConnell

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
eleanor.mcconnell@duke.edu
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
School of Nursing, 307 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works - Conferences

Hidden Structure of Care Coordination in Heart Failure Care Transitions: A Mixed-Method Network Analysis of Clinical Notes.

Conference Journal of cardiac failure · January 2026 IntroductionPatients with heart failure, especially those with lower socioeconomic position, are vulnerable to adverse outcomes of care fragmentation. Care coordination mitigates care fragmentation; however, a comprehensive assessment of relations ... Full text Cite

Integrating Medication Management and Access, Medicare Counseling, and Tailored Referrals: Planning to Scale a Community-Based Model.

Conference North Carolina medical journal · July 2025 Senior PharmAssist (SPA), a community-based not-for-profit agency, addresses medication-related challenges through 4 integrated services: medication therapy management, financial assistance for medications, tailored community referrals, and counseling on M ... Full text Cite

Mobile-Based Cognitive Training for Older Chinese Americans: Perspectives from Older Adults and Adult Children

Conference Innovation in Aging · January 1, 2025 Background and Objectives The older Chinese American population is growing rapidly in the United States, but they have limited access to culturally responsive dementia prevention services. Cognitive training has benefits for cognitive health, yet these int ... Full text Cite

Dementia caregiver interventions among Chinese population: What we know and we need to do next

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · September 1, 2018 Link to item Cite

Identifying risk of readmission in hospitalized elderly adults through inpatient medication exposure.

Conference J Am Geriatr Soc · June 2014 OBJECTIVE: To use electronic health record (EHR) data to examine the association between inpatient medication exposure and risk of hospital readmission. DESIGN: Retrospective, observational study. SETTING: Tertiary and quaternary care academic health syste ... Full text Link to item Cite

Design and evaluation of a prelicensure interprofessional course on improving care transitions.

Conference Gerontol Geriatr Educ · 2014 Effective management of care transitions for older adults require the coordinated expertise of an interprofessional team. Unfortunately, different health care professions are rarely educated together or trained in teamwork skills. To address this issue, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

CONNECT for Fall Prevention: a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Conference JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY · April 1, 2013 Link to item Cite