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Residential placement of patients with dementia : relationship to care recipient and caregiver variables

Creator:: Coehlo, Deborah Padgett
Abstract:: The occurrence and timing of residential care of patients with dementia is impacted by several care recipient and caregiver variables. Previous research has shown a strong relationship among residential placement and marital status, cognitive decline, deterioration in functional abilities, and presence of behavior problems in the care recipient. Research on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Variables. Abstract Leslie Richards Karen Hooker The occurrence and timing of residential care of

The volunteer experience: predictors of success in the long term care Ombudsman role

Creator:: DeHart, Kimberly N.
Abstract:: This study explored the influence of motivations on the volunteer experience. The relationship among motivations. volunteer satisfaction, acceptance and support of the organizational goals, and outcomes of success in the volunteer role (pattern of participation and ombudsman effectiveness) were explored using Multiple Linear Regression analyses. Motivational Systems Theory (Ford, 1992)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ____ Karen A. Hooker This study explored the influence of motivations on the volunteer experience

Parental accounts of a child's death : influences on parental identity and behavior

Creator:: Brotherson, Sean E.
Abstract:: One of the most powerful and life-changing events that can occur in the life of a family is the death of a child. Researchers who have studied death and bereavement suggest that a child's death has a dramatic impact on parents. However, little is known about the ways in which...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and faculty, friends, and my Father in Heaven. I must first thank my major professors, Dr. Karen

Effects of a resistance exercise program on activities of daily living of elderly women

Creator:: DeVries, Christine L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine if a 5-month progressive-resistance exercise program would affect measures of activities of daily living (ADLs) and functional stability in elderly women. All subjects were ambulatory women, 80 to 93 years old, who lived in assisted-care facilities. Eight exercise and 7 control subjects...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . To my other graduate committee members: Dr. Karen Hooker of Gerontology, Dr. Christine Snow of

The effect of race on the knowledge and use of health services among rural elderly

Creator:: Bodison, Chantelle
Abstract:: This study was unique in that it focused on the rural elderly of both Black and White ethnicity's, explored differences between groups by comparing use and knowledge of health services, and controlled for gender, income, educational attainment, health status, age, and health beliefs - the independent variables of the study....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thank my other committee members, Dr. Karen Hooker, Dr. Arlene Holyoak, and Dr. John Hogan, for

An investigation of possible selves across stages of exercise involvement with middle-aged women

Creator:: Whaley, Diane E.
Abstract:: In order to develop effective interventions designed to encourage more middle-aged individuals to engage in regular exercise, there is a need to further understand the mechanisms involved in the decision to exercise. One appropriate conceptual framework involves future-oriented self-conceptions, or possible selves (Markus & Nurius, 1986). Possible selves, both hoped-for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Vicki Ebbeck, Dr. Becky Warner, Dr. Karen Hooker, Dr. Douglas Collier, and Dr. Jodi Engel. You have

Task and support surface constraints on the coordination and control of posture in older adults

Creator:: Clark, Sean
Abstract:: Although research evidence clearly indicates support surface properties are a major factor contributing to fall risk among the elderly, investigations examining the influence of variations in surface conditions on the postural control of older adults during task performance have been limited. Thus, the primary purpose of the present studies was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: enjoyable. To my committee, Dr. Karen Hooker, Dr. Gerald Smith, Dr. Doug Collier, Dr. Terry Wood, and Dr

Oxygen mass transfer and shear sensitivity studies during cultivation of Nicotiana tabacum var. Wisconsin 38 in a stirred-tank bioreactor

Creator:: Henderson, Kelley
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: agitation speeds affect cultivation. Hooker et al. [1990] investigated the effects of impeller design and

Relationship between the plasma catecholamine, lactate and ventilatory responses to incremental exercise in individuals with spinal cord injury

Creator:: Frey, Georgia C.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . I would like to thank Karen Hayden for her continual love and support and for serving as a

Constraints on functional competence in persons with multiple sclerosis

Creator:: Kasser, Susan L.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee, Dr. Doug Collier, Dr. Debra Rose, Dr. Vicki Ebbeck, Dr. Karen Hooker, and Dr. Larry Burt, thank

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Residential placement of patients with dementia : relationship to care recipient and caregiver variables

The volunteer experience: predictors of success in the long term care Ombudsman role

Parental accounts of a child's death : influences on parental identity and behavior

Effects of a resistance exercise program on activities of daily living of elderly women

The effect of race on the knowledge and use of health services among rural elderly

An investigation of possible selves across stages of exercise involvement with middle-aged women

Task and support surface constraints on the coordination and control of posture in older adults

Oxygen mass transfer and shear sensitivity studies during cultivation of Nicotiana tabacum var. Wisconsin 38 in a stirred-tank bioreactor

Relationship between the plasma catecholamine, lactate and ventilatory responses to incremental exercise in individuals with spinal cord injury

Constraints on functional competence in persons with multiple sclerosis

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