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A Case Study of Aging and Intellectual and Developmental Disability Collaboration in Ohio

Service and research organizations in Ohio collaborated to develop and expand dementia-capable home and community-based service systems, with a focus on individuals living with intellectual and dev...

Jessica Bibbo • Salli Bollin • Megan Huth • Ashley Haas • Lauranne Scharf • Lyndi Wyrostek • Marty Williman • Jennifer Hudak • Jennifer Heston-Mullins (Jennifer L. Heston) • Bonnie Burman • Donna Barrett • Branka Primetica • Elizabeth Kinzig

Embracing the Shift

The Impact of Health Care Contracting on Community-Based Organizations

Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Isha Karmacharya

Lifting the Veil: How Networks Form, Operate, Struggle, and Succeed

This qualitative study examines community-based organizations (CBOs) seeking to work with each other and to contract with health care entities to improve coordination, reduce fragmentation, and inc...

Suzanne R. Kunkel • Robert J. Graham • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)

Presentation - Domestic and International Perspectives on Implementing Alternatives to Finance Lifelong Education

In this presentation, we share information on access to and participation in adult education and training (AET) and then share examples of alternative methods for funding AET...

Phyllis A. Cummins • Abigail Helsinger • Takashi Yamashita • Nytasia M. Hicks

"It's been a whole new world": Staff perceptions of implementing a person-centered communication intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged the way nursing homes deliver person-centered care (PCC).

Katherine M. Abbott • Miranda C. Kunkel • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Kamryn Kasler • Alexandra Heppner • Megan Kelley

Presentation - Strategies to Engage Marginalized Adults in Education

Our section of the presentation focused on strategies to engage marginalized adults in education.

Abigail Helsinger • Samuel Van Vleet

Exploring cause of death as a factor in social convoy membership: The case of Pauline

Research integrating social convoy and continuing bonds frameworks suggests that deceased individuals can be included in convoys as connections may carry on after death.

Kate de Medeiros • M. Elise Radina • Sara E. Stemen

Presentation - Literacy, Numeracy, and Problem-Solving Skills in Technology-Rich Environment in the STEM-related Subbaccalaureate Programs in the U.S.

This video provides an introduction and overview of the IES-funded project Literacy, Numeracy, and Problem-Solving Skills in Technology-Rich Environment in the STEM-related Subbaccalaure...

Takashi Yamashita • Jenna Kramer • Phyllis A. Cummins • Abigail Helsinger • Rita Karam • Maia Punksungka

Presentation - Barriers to Engage Low-Skilled Adults in Educational Opportunities: A Global Perspective

As outlined in this presentation, providing more support and opportunities for formal, non-formal, and informal learning can enhance continuing education and training participation of low-skilled o...

Meghan Young • Abigail Helsinger • Oksana Dikhtyar • Takashi Yamashita • Nytasia M. Hicks • Phyllis A. Cummins

Presentation - Practical Guidance in Identifying, Recruiting, and Interviewing International Key Informants in Adult Education Research

This presentation explains qualitative research strategies that have been successful in identifying, recruiting, and interviewing key informants from multiple countries.

Abigail Helsinger • Phyllis A. Cummins • Nytasia M. Hicks

Presentation - Equity in Adult Education: The Ohio Story

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Abigail Helsinger • Phyllis A. Cummins

Presentations - Job Training for Adults without Credentials: Models that Work

This video highlights segments of a presentation on opportunities for education and training for adults as well as barriers adult learners face when pursuing those opportunities.

Wendi Copeland • Abigail Helsinger • Phyllis A. Cummins • Takashi Yamashita

End-of-Life Educational Needs of State Tested Nurse Aides in Ohio Long-Term Care Facilities

This research brief shares the findings of a qualitative research study that solicited the opinions of current State Tested Nurse Aides (STNAs), registered nurses (RNs), and licensed practical nurs...

Kimberly K. Ogle • Alex D'Errico-Bronston

Through the Montessori Looking-Glass: Barriers to Implementing a Montessori-Based Intervention

Montessori methods are used with individuals with dementia to create meaningful, inclusive, failure-free activities that enhance quality of life.

Kathleen M. Farfsing • Jennifer M. Kinney • Leah M. Janssen

Strategies employed by Ohio community colleges to improve labor market outcomes for older students

To remain competitive in the labor market, many middle-aged and older adults need to upgrade existing or learn new skills through occupational training and education.

Oksana Dikhtyar • Phyllis A. Cummins • Kathryn McGrew • Peter Riley Bahr

"Place" in the small stories of African American elders: A narrative case study

This study analyzed small stories from five African Americans to better understand “place” in the context of their lives.

Kate de Medeiros • Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

"A bone of contention...": Perceived barriers and situational dependencies to food preferences of nursing home residents

This study investigated barriers to fulfilling food preferences from nursing home (NH) residents’ perspectives, and the reasons preferences changed (situational dependencies).

Amy Kotterman • Chelsea N. Goldstein • Katherine M. Abbott • Lauren R. Bangerter • Kimberly Van Haitsma

E-hail (rideshare) knowledge, use, reliance, and future expectations among older adults

The goals of this study were to explore e-hail (e.g., Uber/Lyft) knowledge, use, reliance, and future expectations among older adults. Specifically, to identify factors that were related to e-hail,...

Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher • Annie C. Harmon • Ganesh M. Babulal • Jonathon M. Vivoda

The effects of demographics, functioning, and perceptions on the relationship between self-reported and objective measures of driving exposure and patterns among older adults

This exploratory study examined: how strongly subjectively reported driving avoidance behaviors (commonly referred to as self-regulation) and exposure were related to their objectively measured cou...

Carolyn DiGuiseppi • the LongROAD Research Team • Lisa J. Molnar • David Strogatz • Scott E. Bogard • Lindsay Ryan • Raymond Yung • Thelma J. Mielenz • Michael J. Rovine • Guohua Li • David W. Eby • J. S. Zakraksek • David Joseph LeBlanc • Jacqui Smith • Linda V. Nyquist • Renée M. St Louis • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Nicole Zanier

The Caregiver Toolbox: Evaluation of a Workshop for Informal Caregivers

This report is an evaluation of a face-to-face group workshop designed for informal caregivers of older adults provided by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging.

Jane Straker • Jennifer Heston-Mullins (Jennifer L. Heston)

Neighborhood Assistants Pilot: A Program Evaluation of Person-Centered Staffing

The purpose of this study was to pilot test and evaluate an innovative staffing approach called the Neighborhood Assistant (NA) at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home.

Carol Burt • Katherine M. Abbott • Justine Sefcik • Lisa Slator

Chronic illness and generativity in late life: A case study

This article presents a narrative-based case study about chronic illness and genetic uncertainty and their relationship to generativity throughout the life course.

Kate de Medeiros

Initial exploration of newly implemented public health policy using Geographic Information Systems: the case of a U.S. Silver Alert program

Public health policies are designed for specific subsets of the population.

Dawn Carr • J. Scott Brown • Takashi Yamashita

Generativity in elderly Oblate Sisters of Providence

This paper explored how generativity and well-being merged in a group of childless older women: African and Hispanic Roman Catholic Religious Sisters, linking two minority identity characteristics.

Kate de Medeiros

Successful aging, Gerontological theory, and neoliberalism: A qualitative critique

This article is a critique of the successful aging (SA) paradigm as described in the Rowe and Kahn book, Successful Aging (1998).

Kate de Medeiros

Extending the framework of generativity through research: A qualitative Study

This study defines 4 foci of generativity (people, groups, things, and activities) and 4 spheres of generativity (historical, familial, individual, and relational) based in American culture and wit...

Kate de Medeiros

Using Art to Overcome Cognitive Barriers

OMA operates programs at eight other locations in southwestern Ohio, including long-term-care communities and adult-day centers serving about 125 elders and 200 volunteers a year in small-group ses...

Elizabeth Like Lokon

The Role of Relevancy and Social Suffering in Generativity Among Older Post-Soviet Women Immigrants

This paper examines generativity, social suffering, and culture change in a sample of 16 women aged 65 years or older who emigrated from the former Soviet Union.

Kate de Medeiros

Generative acts of people with dementia in a long-term care setting

Although generativity is used as a central cultural construct within life course theory to illustrate how older persons create interpersonal ties, it is also tied to key concepts in social exchange...

Kate de Medeiros

Analyzing state-based Silver Alert programs: the case of North Carolina

Recent discussions about securing the autonomy and safety of older people in a cost-effective way have culminated in the establishment of "Silver Alert" media-alert policies in more than ...

J. Scott Brown • Takashi Yamashita

Application of the model of allostasis to older women's relocation to senior housing

Adjustment to senior housing entails significant lifestyle changes and is a stressful process.

Heidi H. Ewen • Jennifer M. Kinney

Enriching Now with Then: Connecting Nursing Home Residents and Nursing Home Staff Through Oral History

This research presents and discusses findings on how increased staff knowledge of an Ohio nursing homes residents' past improved communication and relations between resident and staff and, als...

Michael Payne

Images of Ohio Centenarians: An Exploratory Study

This research report presents findings from face-to-face qualitative interviews with 16 centenarians residing in southwest, central, and northeast Ohio.

Jessie A. Leek • Lisa Groger

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