People with long-term chronic conditions often struggle to access and navigate complex health and social services.
Bhushan Khatiwada • Shradha S. Parsekar • Sabuj Kanti Mistry • Saruna Ghimire • Uday Narayan Yadav • Grish Paudel • Ashmita Gurung
Technology-enhanced medication taking and symptom monitoring
Taking medications correctly is a challenge worldwide.
Joel W. Hughes • R. Ranjan • L. Larsen • B. Grimm • Anthony A. Sterns • O. S. Muir • F. Ma
Greene County Council on Aging: 2021 Community Survey Findings
Read the survey results conducted to gain better understanding of the needs and interests of older Greene County residents. The Greene County Council on Aging partnered with the Scripps Gerontology...
Most older adults will eventually stop driving, but few engage in planning for driving retirement.
Athena Koumoutzis • Jonathon M. Vivoda • Annie C. Harmon • Jiawei Cao • Ganesh M. Babulal
This report highlights findings from a community needs assessment survey of Oxford and Oxford Township residents age 50 and older.
Meghan Young • Usha Dhakal • Valerie Flores (Valerie Kessler) • Suzanne R. Kunkel
This study explores how older adults respond to audiovisual virtual reality (VR) and perceive its usefulness to their lives.
Amy Restorick Roberts • M. Elise Radina • Bob De Schutter • Kelley Franks
This study compared Dr. Sidney Katz's original dichotomous measure of dependence in performing activities of daily living (ADL) with the National Health and Aging Trends Study's (NHATS) b...
Shahla Mehdizadeh • Stephen Frochen
In the 2017-2018 academic year, the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University First Year Research Experience (FYRE) class conducted a qualitative study to explore the perceptions of Oxford, Ohio as an age-friendly city.
Bobbie Hall • Blair Arnell • Tone Pryor • Cole Baker • Kate de Medeiros • Senjooti Roy • Aaron Davidson-Bey • Brooke Bennington • Sundeep Vaswani • Katie Graham • Cassandra Woodford
Planning for a nondriving future: Behaviors and beliefs among drivers 53-92
Despite the reality of older adults living many years after driving cessation, few prepare for the eventuality; empirically, planning for a nondriving future has not been directly quantified or exp...
David B. Carr • Annie C. Harmon • Ganesh M. Babulal • Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher • Jonathon M. Vivoda
Animal-assisted activity programs are commonly used in long-term care facilities to enhance the well-being of older residents.
Sara J. McLaughlin • Kate de Medeiros
Livable Communities: Helping Older Ohioans Live Independent and Fulfilling Lives
This report defines the concept and components of livable communities and several variations, including universal design and green spaces.
Michael Payne • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Karisha Wilcox