Home Modification and Adaptation Educational Seminar for Individuals with Parkinson Disease to Reduce Risk of Falls

Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisClients with Parkinson’s disease have high rates of falls within their homes due to the movement disorders typically associated with the disease. This study used quantitative methods to determine the program evaluation of educational seminars on home modifications and adaptations to reduce the risk of falls in Parkinson’s disease (PD) clients. Two educational seminars were given to PD clients and caregivers on how to make modifications and adaptations to their homes and included resources for where to find adaptive equipment and services for providing installations and modifications. Data was collected through pre and post-surveys and analyzed using an independent samples t-test analysis. There was a significant difference in the knowledge of how to make living spaces, bathrooms, and bedrooms safer to reduce the risk of falls in the home. There was also a significant difference in the overall satisfaction of participants’ knowledge on how to complete home modifications and adaptations and for their knowledge on resources/places to find adaptive equipment. Recommendations included continuing to provide home modification education to people with Parkinson’s to ensure further safety and help reduce the risk of falls within the home. The results propose that PD clients are not receiving education on home modifications at rates that would be of benefit to them.Occupational Therap

Occupational Therapy Interventions to Support Aging in Place: A Rapid Systematic Review

Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisThis rapid systematic review discusses the evidence of 30 studies for the effectiveness of occupational therapy (OT) in supporting aging in place, or safely living in one’s home independently. Many older adults suffer from at least one disability, which can be a threat to both independence and safety. Further, falls and injuries raise healthcare costs, which can include nursing facility housing. The transition from living in one’s home to living in a long-term care facility dramatically impacts occupational participation and performance. Supporting aging in place increases safety, quality of life, and independence in one’s home environment. In order to support aging in place, we looked at the effectiveness of multiple occupational therapy interventions that targeted occupational performance and participation, quality of life, falls and hospital readmissions, and community mobility. Overall, we found strong evidence to support the effectiveness of these client centered occupational therapy interventions for improving aging in place in community dwelling older adults and preventing negative health outcomes.Occupational Therap

Parenting Behavior and Child Emotion Regulation During a Delay Task

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The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb29

“We (Don’t) Talk About It”: Parent’s Dismissing Strategies And Teen’s Discomfort With Sadness And Anger

In recent years, greater attention has been paid towards teaching individuals to be mindful and accepting of negative emotions rather than pushing them away. Gottman, Fainsilber, & Katz (1997) described parents as emotion coaching if they treated the child’s feelings as important and an opportunity to teach about feelings. Emotion coaching has been associated with children having less anxiety, less anger, better social skills, and higher self-esteem. The present study hypothesizes that parent’s attitudes and behaviors towards their teen’s feelings will be correlated with their teen’s own acceptance and comfort with feelings. Specifically, in our study of 21 families, parents and teens (mean age 16, 9 female) completed complementary, standardized interviews about sadness and anger. The teen interviews were coded for indicators of accepting and adaptive attitudes towards these emotions, using a series of 5-point scales. Separate total scores were derived for sadness and anger. The parent interviews are currently being coded. These are assigned a classification of being coaching, dismissing, or disapproving, as well as rated with a 10-point scale reflecting the degree of disapproval of how their teen expressed the emotion. With nearly half of the sample’s parent interviews coded, the vast majority of parents have been classified as dismissing. If this pattern holds with all coding completed by presentation time, this will have implications for how their adolescents deal with feelings, both on our interview and in life in general

User Services and Technical Services Analysis of Ex Libris vs EBSCO Discovery Layer and Electronic Resources Management Tools

With CUL’s planned move to FOLIO for library resource management, it makes sense to consider implementing EBSCO’s Discover Service (EDS) and related electronic resources management (ERM) tools, as they will integrate more closely with FOLIO than does our Discovery and ERM solution from Ex Libris, Summon and Intota. Separate groups worked to assess the pros and cons from both a user services and technical services perspective. After considered analysis, the groups’ consensus is to recommend that CUL shift to the EBSCO-based discovery and ERM services.Cornell University Library Executive Grou