Becoming a Social Worker: Real Students, Real Clients, Real Growth, by Judy Smith; and Becoming a Social Worker With Older Adults: Real Students, Real Clients, Real Growth, by Judy Smith

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 659-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Kolb
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Real Growth

To Survive on This Shore

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (139) ◽  
pp. 211-223
Author(s):  
Jess T. Dugan ◽  
Vanessa Fabbre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender

Abstract For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. Seeking subjects whose lived experiences exist at the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and geographic location, they documented the life stories of this important but largely underrepresented group of older adults. The resulting photographs and interviews provide a nuanced view into the struggles and joys of growing older as a transgender person and offer a poignant reflection on what it means to live authentically despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

The Transplant Optimization Program (TOP): Implementing a geriatric assessment (GA)-guided interdisciplinary clinic (IDC) prior to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in older adults.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 7045-7045
Author(s):  
Benjamin Avi Derman ◽  
Keriann Kordas ◽  
Jean Ridgeway ◽  
Selina Lai-ming Chow ◽  
William Dale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Overall Survival ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Individualized Care ◽  
Over Time

7045 Background: Limitations found on GA correlate with worse outcomes after HCT, but no data exists on prospectively utilizing GA prior to HCT. We established the TOP IDC in March 2013 to implement a cancer-specific GA and an IDC to risk-stratify HCT candidacy and create an individualized care plan for allograft candidates 60+ yrs. Methods: The IDC consisted of a HCT physician, advanced practice provider, dietician, PT/OT, social worker, ID physician, and a geriatric oncologist to devise a pt specific optimization strategy. We compared consecutive HCT pts ≥ 60 years undergoing GA prior to TOP implementation (pre-TOP) from 2005-2012 (n=75) to TOP pts from 2013-2018 (n=86). Results: 3/89 HCT pts 60+ yrs who did not attend TOP were excluded; all 3 died before 1 year post-HCT. Compared with controls, the TOP group was older (median age 67 vs. 64 yrs, p<0.001) but was similar in HCT-CI ≥ 3 (37% vs. 48%, p=0.2), use of myeloablative regimens (20% vs. 19%, p=0.8), and advanced ASBMT risk disease (46% for both). Relative to the pre-TOP group, TOP pts at baseline had fewer impairments in independent activities of daily living (30% vs. 48%, p=0.02) and fewer frail 4-meter walk tests (7% vs. 31%, p<0.001). Pts undergoing optimization in TOP fared better versus pre-TOP (Table). 1-yr non-relapse mortality (NRM) and 1-yr overall survival (OS) continued to improve including 11% NRM and 89% OS in 2017. Conclusions: A GA-guided interdisciplinary optimization clinic for allograft recipients age 60+ reduced transplant associated morbidity and mortality, with marked improvements in NRM and OS over time. A GA-based IDC can facilitate selection and optimization of older pts considering HCT.[Table: see text]

Cognitive control constrains memory attributions

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen M. Kelley ◽  
Larry L. Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Cognitive Control

Abstract Cognitive control constrains retrieval processing and so restricts what comes to mind as input to the attribution system. We review evidence that older adults, patients with Alzheimer's disease, and people with traumatic brain injury exert less cognitive control during retrieval, and so are susceptible to memory misattributions in the form of dramatic levels of false remembering.

Cognitive Load Affects Speech Motor Performance Differently in Older and Younger Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1258-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan K. MacPherson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Incongruent Condition ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Movement Duration ◽  
Production Task ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Speech Motor

PurposeThe aim of this study was to determine the impact of cognitive load imposed by a speech production task on the speech motor performance of healthy older and younger adults. Response inhibition, selective attention, and working memory were the primary cognitive processes of interest.MethodTwelve healthy older and 12 healthy younger adults produced multiple repetitions of 4 sentences containing an embedded Stroop task in 2 cognitive load conditions: congruent and incongruent. The incongruent condition, which required participants to suppress orthographic information to say the font colors in which color words were written, represented an increase in cognitive load relative to the congruent condition in which word text and font color matched. Kinematic measures of articulatory coordination variability and movement duration as well as a behavioral measure of sentence production accuracy were compared between groups and conditions and across 3 sentence segments (pre-, during-, and post-Stroop).ResultsIncreased cognitive load in the incongruent condition was associated with increased articulatory coordination variability and movement duration, compared to the congruent Stroop condition, for both age groups. Overall, the effect of increased cognitive load was greater for older adults than younger adults and was greatest in the portion of the sentence in which cognitive load was manipulated (during-Stroop), followed by the pre-Stroop segment. Sentence production accuracy was reduced for older adults in the incongruent condition.ConclusionsIncreased cognitive load involving response inhibition, selective attention, and working memory processes within a speech production task disrupted both the stability and timing with which speech was produced by both age groups. Older adults' speech motor performance may have been more affected due to age-related changes in cognitive and motoric functions that result in altered motor cognition.

Effects of Aging on the Subcortical Encoding of Stop Consonants

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-403
Author(s):  
Dania Rishiq ◽  
Ashley Harkrider ◽  
Cary Springer ◽  
Mark Hedrick
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Auditory Brainstem ◽  
Auditory Brainstem Responses ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
Formant Frequency ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Second Formant ◽  
Effects Of Aging

Purpose The main purpose of this study was to evaluate aging effects on the predominantly subcortical (brainstem) encoding of the second-formant frequency transition, an essential acoustic cue for perceiving place of articulation. Method Synthetic consonant–vowel syllables varying in second-formant onset frequency (i.e., /ba/, /da/, and /ga/ stimuli) were used to elicit speech-evoked auditory brainstem responses (speech-ABRs) in 16 young adults ( M age = 21 years) and 11 older adults ( M age = 59 years). Repeated-measures mixed-model analyses of variance were performed on the latencies and amplitudes of the speech-ABR peaks. Fixed factors were phoneme (repeated measures on three levels: /b/ vs. /d/ vs. /g/) and age (two levels: young vs. older). Results Speech-ABR differences were observed between the two groups (young vs. older adults). Specifically, older listeners showed generalized amplitude reductions for onset and major peaks. Significant Phoneme × Group interactions were not observed. Conclusions Results showed aging effects in speech-ABR amplitudes that may reflect diminished subcortical encoding of consonants in older listeners. These aging effects were not phoneme dependent as observed using the statistical methods of this study.

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