7 results match your criteria: "From the National Institute on Aging[Affiliation]"
Health Equity - Are We Finally on the Edge of a New Frontier?
N Engl J Med
September 2020
From the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore.
Original Research: Understanding Nursing Home Staff Attitudes Toward Death and Dying: A Survey.
Am J Nurs
August 2020
Nhat Bui is an adult gerontology NP at the Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Elizabeth Halifax is an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing. Daniel David is an assistant professor at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing in New York City. Lauren Hunt is an assistant professor in the UCSF School of Nursing and at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Edyssa Uy is an NP at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, CA. Christine Ritchie is the Kenneth L. Minaker Chair in Geriatrics and director of research for the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Caroline Stephens is an associate professor and the Helen Lowe Bamberger Colby Presidential Endowed Chair in Gerontological Nursing at the University of Utah College of Nursing in Salt Lake City. Support for this study included grants from the National Institute on Aging Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award (K76AG054862), the UCSF Pepper Center, and the National Institutes of Health (8 KL2 TR000143-08). Contact author: Nhat Bui, The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Background: Nearly 70% of nursing home residents are eligible for palliative care, yet few receive formal palliative care outside of hospice. Little is known about nursing home staff attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors related to palliative care.
Methods: We administered a modified survey measuring attitudes toward death to 146 nursing home staff members, including both clinical and nonclinical staff, from 14 nursing homes.
Diagnosing and Treating Systemic Racism.
N Engl J Med
July 2020
From the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore (M.K.E.); and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (L.R.).
Risk of mild cognitive impairment: The Olmsted County MCI Risk Score.
Neurology
April 2015
From the National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program (A.B.Z.), National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD; and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (T.G.), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Germany.
CE: critical care recovery center: an innovative collaborative care model for ICU survivors.
Am J Nurs
March 2015
Babar A. Khan is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, where Malaz A. Boustani is a professor. Khan and Boustani are also affiliated with the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., also in Indianapolis. Sue Lasiter is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing. The authors acknowledge Lisa Hovious for her role as a care coordinator at the Critical Care Recovery Center (CCRC). The CCRC project received funding from Wishard Health Services. Khan's work on the project was supported through a career development award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA K23-AG043476); Boustani's work was partially supported through a grant from the same institute (R01AG034205). Contact author: Sue Lasiter, The authors and planners have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Five million Americans require admission to ICUs annually owing to life-threatening illnesses. Recent medical advances have resulted in higher survival rates for critically ill patients, who often have significant cognitive, physical, and psychological sequelae, known as postintensive care syndrome (PICS). This growing population threatens to overwhelm the current U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDietary antioxidant intake and its association with cognitive function in an ethnically diverse sample of US adults.
Psychosom Med
January 2015
From the National Institute on Aging (M.A.B., M.H.K.-T., M.K.E., A.B.Z.), NIA/NIH/IRP, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition (M.T.F.-K.), University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware; Graduate Program in Public Health (H.A.B.), Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia; Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, (J.S.K.) McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Statistical Information Systems (M.A.M.), MedStar Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.
Background: Dietary antioxidants can inhibit reactions accompanying neurodegeneration and thus prevent cognitive impairment. We describe associations of dietary antioxidants with cognitive function in a large biracial population, while testing moderation by sex, race, and age and mediation by depressive symptoms.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional analysis of 1274 adults (541 men and 733 women) aged 30 to 64 years at baseline (mean [standard deviation] = 47.