"What Does 'Age-Friendly' Mean to You?": The Role of Microaggressions in a Retirement and Assisted Living Community.

Background And Objectives: In conversations about expanding age-friendly ecosystems, the concept of "age-friendliness" has not been explored in relation to residential settings.

Research Design And Methods: This multiple-case study compared four residents' perspectives on the age-friendliness of a retirement and assisted living community, combining individual semi-structured interviews with observational data and organizational document analyses in a contextualist thematic examination.

Results: Three themes depict (A) existing experiences of the setting as "age-friendly" and the tension of the built design vs.

Impact of Antecedent and Organizational Differences on Nurse-Social Worker Collaboration in a Retirement and Assisted Living Community with Skilled Nursing Care.

Nurse-social worker collaborative interactions in long-term care settings have received limited attention. This qualitative thematic study of 23 participants (11 social workers and 12 nurses) at an urban retirement and assisted living community explores experiences of collaborative work. Two themes of contrasts in responding to resident complexity and contrasts in peer-to-peer work highlight four subthemes reflecting: (a) social workers' orientation toward resident self-determination, requisite care, and advocacy; (b) nurses' orientation toward resident safety, tasks, and clinical outcomes; (c) social workers' devalued professional identity; and (d) nurses' attribution of collaborative challenges to individuals.

Miracle friends and miracle money in California: a mixed-methods experiment of social support and guaranteed income for people experiencing homelessness.

Background: This paper describes the protocols for a randomized controlled trial using a parallel-group trial design that includes an intervention designed to address social isolation and loneliness among people experiencing homelessness known as Miracle Friends and an intervention that combines Miracles Friends with an economic poverty-reduction intervention known as Miracle Money. Miracle Friends pairs an unhoused person with a volunteer "phone buddy." Miracle Money provides guaranteed basic income of $750 per month for 1 year to Miracle Friends participants.

Association of Total Hip Arthroplasty Flexural Rigidity With Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Histological Findings.

Background: Modular connections in total hip arthroplasty (THA) offer surgical advantages, but can contribute to implant fretting and corrosion due to micromotion at the head-stem interface. Previous studies implicated lower flexural rigidity as a key contributing factor to THA corrosion and fretting, but none associated flexural rigidity with direct histological evaluation or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine how implant flexural rigidity is associated with MRI imaging metrics and histopathological outcomes in patients who have a failed THA.

Clinical outcomes and return to dance after total hip arthroplasty or hip resurfacing in professional dancers.

Aims: Professional dancers represent a unique patient population in the setting of hip arthroplasty, given the high degree of hip strength and mobility required by their profession. We sought to determine the clinical outcomes and ability to return to professional dance after total hip arthroplasty (THA) or hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA).

Methods: Active professional dancers who underwent primary THA or HRA at a single institution with minimum one-year follow-up were included in the study.