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| Kathy Richards, PhD, RN, receives $2.2 million grant funding from the National Institute of Health | |
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Kathy Richards, PhD, RN, Diplomate American Board of Sleep Medicine, Research Health Scientist at the Central Arkansas VA, and Associate Professor and Co-Director of the John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Nursing is studying ways to help older adults to sleep better at night. Her previous research has shown that back massage and social activities, such as painting, dominoes, and games, improve sleep. She recently received a $2.2 million grant, funded by the National Institutes of Health, to investigate the effect of progressive resistance muscle strength training in combination with social activities on sleep in nursing home residents with dementia.
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Hartford
Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence meet at the University of
Pennsylvania for annual meeting The University of Iowa College of Nursing and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing hosted the annual meeting of the five Hartford Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. The meeting was held at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme was “Building Synergy Across the Hartford Center Network”. Highlights included a keynote address by Shirley Chater, PhD on “Leveraging: Individual versus Collective Agendas and Cultures”. Her address focused on how leveraging fits into program development. Leveraging, or using strength of position or outcome to push forward, is an important tactic for accomplishing goals. Following the keynote presentation, participants divided into groups to discuss opportunities for synergy. Informal opportunities for synergy included dinner at the School of Nursing and a cocktail party at the home of Dr. Neville Strumpf.
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Sandra Pope, PhD, MPH,
has been funded to investigate dietary and genetic risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's Disease Sandra K. Pope, PhD, MPH has recently been funded to investigate dietary and genetic risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's Disease. Her hypothesis is that many of the risk factors for memory life are modifiable, and these modifiable behaviors are especially important when one is genetically predisposed to the disease outcome. Dr. Pope completed her training in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and is now at the UAMS College of Medicine in the Department of Geriatrics. She is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and in the Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health. She has recently received funded to conduct the following studies in the Healthy Aging and Body Composition Study (Health ABC), a cohort of over 3,000 African Americans and Caucasians in Memphis and Pittsburgh, aged 70-79 years of age when they entered the study five years ago:
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Jean McSweeney, PhD, RN is featured on CNN Headline News and national newspapers
Recently, Jean McSweeney,
PhD, RN, made headlines in CNN Headline News and national newspapers when she
presented findings which showed that women may show signs of an impending heart
attack up to two years before the heart attack occurs. These findings were
presented in a conference of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. McSweeney’s study was
conducted between September 1999 and December 2001. Her findings came as the
result of interviews with nearly 650 women who have had a heart attack. These
women were from In the future, McSweeney
plans to interview women from other states and wishes to broaden the scope of
her research to include interviewing women who have not had a heart attack but
who may be at risk.
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