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J Gerontol Soc Work
January 2025
Wayne State University School of Social Work, Detroit, USA.
We examined information seeking strategies and predictors of service awareness from a 2019 survey of Detroit area adults. Participants were age 60+ (mean age = 72.10; SD = 8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Bone Joint Surg Am
November 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Background: Fractures of the thoracic and lumbar spine are increasingly common. Although it is known that such fractures may elevate the risk of near-term morbidity, the natural history of patients who sustain such injuries remains poorly described. We sought to characterize the natural history of patients treated for thoracolumbar fractures and to understand clinical and sociodemographic factors associated with survival.
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January 2025
Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
Research over the past two decades has noted significant racial/ethnic wealth inequalities-inequalities with important implications for life chances and institutional access. Home ownership is as a foundational element of such inequality with broad consequences for exposure to crime, quality of public safety services, and access to healthcare, education, and employment. Building on earlier scholarship that has tended to focus on specific forms of mortgages, we draw in this article on over 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gen Intern Med
January 2025
Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Background: Previous reports suggest patient and caregiver lack of awareness of dementia. Little is known about how this varies by ethnicity and how informal (family) caregiver burden is associated with knowing a dementia diagnosis.
Objective: To investigate whether participants with probable dementia were aware of a diagnosis provided by a physician and how this differed among Mexican American and non-Hispanic White participants; whether having a primary care physician was associated with dementia diagnosis unawareness; and the association of dementia diagnosis unawareness with caregiver burden.
Fam Community Health
January 2025
Author Affiliations: University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California (Mr Peterson), Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Dr de Haro), Department of Family Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Drs Kilgore and Billimek), Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Dr Sorkin), Department of Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Dr Gago-Masague).
Background And Objectives: As telehealth grows in ubiquity, it is important to understand the barriers and facilitators to telehealth utilization in historically marginalized populations. This study utilizes the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to assess correlates of the intention to utilize video consultations among low-income Hispanic patients.
Methods: This cross-sectional observational study included participants (N = 138) recruited from a federally qualified health center affiliated with a large university health system.
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