Food insecurity and loneliness amongst older urban subsidised housing residents: The importance of social connectedness.

Food insecurity and loneliness are shockingly large and growing problems in the older population in the U.S. and globally.

Establishing a Research Agenda for Understanding the Role and Impact of Mental Health Peer Specialists.

Mental health peer specialists are individuals with serious mental illnesses who receive training to use their lived experiences to help others with serious mental illnesses in clinical settings. This Open Forum discusses the state of the research for mental health peer specialists and suggests a research agenda to advance the field. Studies have suggested that peer specialists vary widely in their roles, settings, and theoretical orientations.

Validity of the Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY) for Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in sustainable development projects.

Background: Participation in home, school, and community activities is an important indicator of child health and well-being. Evaluating environmental influences on children's participation can inform efforts to develop sustainable built environments, but few validated measures exist.

Objective: To examine the concurrent validity and utility of the Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY) for Health Impact Assessment in non-urban sustainable development projects affecting children with disabilities.

The mediating role of the environment in explaining participation of children and youth with and without disabilities across home, school, and community.

Objective: To test the effect of personal and environmental factors on children's participation across 3 different settings (home, school, community); to ascertain the interrelations between these factors; and to propose and test 3 models, 1 for each setting, using structural equation modeling.

Design: Survey, cross-sectional study, and model testing.

Setting: Web-based measures were completed by parents residing in North America in their home/community.

The vision of recovery today: what it is and what it means for services.

In the past, practice in mental health was guided by the belief that individuals with serious mental illnesses do not recover. The course of their illness was either seen pessimistically, as deteriorative, or optimistically, as a maintenance course. Research over the past thirty to forty years has indicted that belief and shown that a vision of recovery can be achieved for many individuals.

Concordance and discordance between two measures of lower extremity function: 400 meter self-paced walk and SPPB.

Background And Aims: The purpose of the study was to assess the concurrent validity of the 400 meter self-paced walk test (400-m W) against the commonly used short physical performance battery (SPPB). A secondary purpose was to determine whether the 400-m W could better discriminate physical performance among high functioning older adults by examining the distribution of 400-m W scores.

Methods: 101 men and women (80.

Use of self-report to predict ability to walk 400 meters in mobility-limited older adults.

Objectives: To determine whether the ability to walk 400 m could be predicted from self-reported walking habits and abilities in older adults and to develop an accurate self-report measure appropriate for observational trials of mobility when functional measures are impractical to collect.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: University-based human physiology laboratory.

The effectiveness of feedback in improving safe behaviors: a review of the literature.

Reducing unsafe behaviors in the work place is of primary concern in industry. Unsafe behaviors seem to be shaped both by a subtle reinforcement of these behaviors by the work culture and by management's failure to define what constitutes unsafe behavior. Thus, any program to change these behaviors must focus both on defining and reinforcing safe behaviors.