Abstract: This multisite quality improvement (QI) project reports on a psychotherapy group for family care partners of persons living with neurodegenerative conditions. Following the plan-do-study-act model, a team of geropsychologists iteratively ...
Abstract: We asked 44 French and 42 Lebanese participants with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) who lived in their own homes to rate their depression and anxiety during the late fall/early winter 2020 lockdown and compared their responses. We also asked ...
Abstract. COVID-19 has expanded into a life-threatening global pandemic. We examined COVID-19 effects on trauma measures, loneliness, and death anxiety in senior Israelis. Young and old adults (N = 277) were recruited through social media. They completed ...
Abstract. We surveyed 377 undergraduates, half in the spring (i.e., before COVID-19) and half in the fall (i.e., during COVID-19) term of 2020 on explicit attitudes toward and intention to work with older adults (OAs). We asked open-ended questions about ...
Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the world. However, a particular group has felt the effects of the pandemic to an extraordinarily greater degree: Black older adults. This conceptual paper applies the law of small effects theory to ...
Abstract. The SARS-CoV2 pandemic meant considerable restrictions in the social life of many people. Older people belong to the high-risk group for a severe to fatal course of the SARS-CoV2 disease, which is why these groups received special protection. ...
Abstract. COVID-19 pandemic has raised serious concerns about the mental well-being of the older residents of long-term care facilities. The authors discuss the developing mental health crisis in this population, focusing on the major psychiatric ...
Abstract. Fear of choking is a relatively understudied phenomenon in older adults, despite the higher incidence of choking to death in this population and the associated mental health burden. This case report presents the use of a cognitive-behavioral (...
Abstract: Child and spousal abuse rates tend to increase during various disasters. This study sought to determine the prevalence and determinants of older adults’ experiences of increased verbal or physical conflict (+VPC) as a proxy for elder abuse ...
Abstract: Abuse and neglect of older adults is a pervasive global social issue resulting in harm to a vulnerable population. Because of the rapid increase in the number of dependent adults, elder abuse and neglect is likely to become even more pervasive. ...