Social Networks in an Assisted Living Community: Correlates of Acquaintance and Companionship Ties Among Residents.

Objectives: Social relationships are important for older adults' well-being, including those who live in assisted living (AL) communities. This study explores coresident networks within an AL community and identifies factors associated with residents' social ties.

Methods: Acquaintance and companionship networks within the community are described using cross-sectional survey data (N = 38).

Emergency Nurses' Experiences in Treating Patients With Mental Illness: A Qualitative, Interpretive Metasynthesis.

Introduction: Each year, emergency departments are seeing an increase in the number of patients with mental illness. Nurses often do not feel equipped with the knowledge or skills for this patient population while caring for them. Although there is published literature about nurses caring for patients with mental illness, there is a gap in knowledge about the lived experiences of these frontline workers.

Supports and gaps in federal policy for addressing racial and ethnic disparities among long-term care facility residents.

Older adults from racial and ethnic minority groups are likely to face disparities in their health as well as care experiences in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities just as they do in the United States as a whole. Policymakers in the United States face concerns around long-term services and supports to address the growing demands of a rapidly aging population through public and private sector initiatives. It is important to create inclusive and culturally responsive environments to meet the needs of diverse groups of older adults.

Amplified music with headphones and its implications on hearing health in teens.

Objective: To analyze the habits and behavior of adolescents exposed to amplified music with headphones and its implications on their hearing health.

Methods: One hundred thirty-one high school students, aged 15 to 18 years were given a questionnaire containing closed questions regarding their habits and behavior related to personal stereos use. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study and used the Chi-square test.

The Structure of Oral Language and Reading and Their Relation to Comprehension in Kindergarten through Grade 2.

This study examined the structure of oral language and reading and their relation to comprehension from a latent variable modeling perspective in Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2. Participants were students in Kindergarten ( = 218), Grade 1 ( = 372), and Grade 2 ( = 273), attending Title 1 schools. Students were administered phonological awareness, syntax, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and decoding fluency measures in mid-year.

Reconsidering the simple view of reading in an intriguing case of equivalent models: commentary on Tunmer and Chapman (2012).

Recently, Tunmer and Chapman provided an alternative model of how decoding and listening comprehension affect reading comprehension that challenges the simple view of reading. They questioned the simple view's fundamental assumption that oral language comprehension and decoding make independent contributions to reading comprehension by arguing that one component of oral language comprehension (vocabulary) affects decoding. They reported results from hierarchical regression analyses, exploratory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling to justify their conclusion.