MUSIC THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA: EVIDENCE INFORMED RECOMMENDATIONS

This thesis will explore the research on implementing music therapy into the care of patients with dementia to decrease anxiety, agitation, and depression. Dementia is a term to describe symptoms secondary to certain medical conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, or a traumatic brain injury. Symptoms of dementia include memory loss, decreased reasoning and judgement, and a decline in language function. Some of the symptoms associated with dementia are a decreased quality of life, depression, anxiety, and agitation. The literature review explores the integrative intervention of music therapy and whether it is beneficial at addressing both symptoms of dementia, and symptoms associated with dementia. Additionally, which forms of music therapy are most effective, and how they can be implemented into the care of patients with dementia successfully are addressed. While the review of the current literature is located in chapter two of this paper, the paper will also identify the best practice recommendations, a proposed plan of implementation, and a proposed evaluation of the implementation plan

Piano Studio Recital, March 19, 2019

Brooke Ward, from the studio of Professor Raydo Beth Baker, from the studio of Professor Forman Robert Stahl, from the studio of Professor Raydo Joel Sanford, from the studio of Professor Toomey Nicole Dorobanov, from the studio of Professor Kasparo

Piano Studio Recital, February 19, 2019

Elizabeth Baker, from the studio of Professor Forman Halsey Lawrence, from the studio of Professor Forman Joel Sanford, from the studio of Professor Toomey Brooke Ward, from the studio of Professor Raydo Robert Stahl, from the studio of Professor Raydo Nicole Dorobanov, from the studio of Professor Kasparo

Restrictive ID policies: implications for health equity

We wish to thank Synod Community Services for their critical work to develop, support, and implement a local government-issued ID in Washtenaw County, MI. We also thank Yousef Rabhi of the Michigan House of Representatives and Janelle Fa'aola of the Washtenaw ID Task Force, Lawrence Kestenbaum of the Washtenaw County Clerk's Office, Sherriff Jerry Clayton of the Washtenaw County Sherriff's Office, and the Washtenaw ID Task Force for their tireless commitment to developing and supporting the successful implementation of the Washtenaw ID. Additionally, we thank Vicenta Vargas and Skye Hillier for their contributions to the Washtenaw ID evaluation. We thank the Curtis Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan, and the University of California-Irvine Department of Chicano/Latino Studies and Program in Public Health for their support of the Washtenaw ID community-academic research partnership. Finally, we thank the reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. (Curtis Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work; National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan; University of California-Irvine Department of Chicano/Latino Studies; Program in Public Health)https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10903-017-0579-3.pdfPublished versio

Historically unprecedented Northern Gulf of Mexico hurricane activity from 650 to 1250 CE

© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Rodysill, J. R., Donnelly, J. P., Sullivan, R., Lane, P. D., Toomey, M., Woodruff, J. D., Hawkes, A. D., MacDonald, D., d'Entremont, N., McKeon, K., Wallace, E., & van Hengstum, P. J. Historically unprecedented Northern Gulf of Mexico hurricane activity from 650 to 1250 CE. Scientific Reports, 10(1), (2020): 19092. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75874-0.Hurricane Michael (2018) was the first Category 5 storm on record to make landfall on the Florida panhandle since at least 1851 CE (Common Era), and it resulted in the loss of 59 lives and $25 billion in damages across the southeastern U.S. This event placed a spotlight on recent intense (exceeding Category 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) hurricane landfalls, prompting questions about the natural range in variability of hurricane activity that the instrumental record is too short to address. Of particular interest is determining whether the frequency of recent intense hurricane landfalls in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is within or outside the natural range of intense hurricane activity prior to 1851 CE. In this study, we identify intense hurricane landfalls in northwest Florida during the past 2000 years based on coarse anomaly event detection from two coastal lacustrine sediment archives. We identified a historically unprecedented period of heightened storm activity common to four Florida panhandle localities from 650 to 1250 CE and a shift to a relatively quiescent storm climate in the GOM spanning the past six centuries. Our study provides long-term context for events like Hurricane Michael and suggests that the observational period 1851 CE to present may underrepresent the natural range in landfalling hurricane activity.Funding for this project was provided by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) grant and NSF awards 0903020, 1902463, and 1854980 awarded to Jeffrey Donnelly, and the USGS Land Change Science Program

Piano Studio Recital, April 23, 2019

Robert Stahl, from the studio of Professor Raydo Lawrence Halsey, from the studio of Professor Forman Jerry Davis, from the studio of Professor Lutsyshyn Joel Sanford, from the studio of Professor Toomey Jashkal Germelus, from the studio of Professor Lutsyshyn Andrei S Johnson, from the studio of Professor Lutsyshyn Nicole Dorobanov, from the studio of Professor Kasparo

Risk factors common to leading eye health conditions and major non-communicable diseases: a rapid review and commentary

Background: To gain an understanding of the intersection of risk factors between the most prevalent eye health conditions that are associated with vision impairment and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Methods: A series of rapid reviews of reviews reporting on non-modifiable risk factors, age and sex, and modifiable risk factors, including social determinants, were conducted for five common eye health conditions that are the leading causes of vision impairment globally (refractive error including uncorrected refractive error, cataract, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy) and five prevalent NCDs (cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, dementia, and depressive disorders). Articles published within approximately 5 years to the end of 2019 were identified through expert recommendation, PubMED, Ovid Medline, the Lancet Global Burden of Disease series, the International Agency for Research on Cancer and World Cancer Research Fund.    Results: Of 9,213 records identified, 320 records were eligible. Eye health conditions and NCDs share many risk factors. Increased age was found to be the most common shared risk factor, associated with increased risks of AMD, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, refractive error, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and dementia. Other shared risk factors included smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption (mixed results), and physical activity was protective, though limited evidence was found for eye conditions. Social determinants are well documented as risk factors for NCDs. Conclusion: There is substantial overlap in common established risk factors for the most frequent vision impairing eye conditions and leading NCDs. Increasing efforts should be made to integrate preventative and risk reduction interventions to improve health, with greatest shared benefits for initiatives which aim to reduce smoking, improve diet, and promote physical activity.</ns4:p

Risk factors common to leading eye health conditions and major non-communicable diseases: a rapid review and commentary

Background: To gain an understanding of the intersection of risk factors between the most prevalent eye health conditions that are associated with vision impairment and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Methods: A series of rapid reviews of reviews reporting on non-modifiable risk factors, age and sex, and modifiable risk factors, including social determinants, were conducted for five common eye health conditions that are the leading causes of vision impairment globally (refractive error including uncorrected refractive error, cataract, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy) and five prevalent NCDs (cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, dementia, and depressive disorders). Articles published within approximately 5 years to the end of 2019 were identified through expert recommendation, PubMED, Ovid Medline, the Lancet Global Burden of Disease series, the International Agency for Research on Cancer and World Cancer Research Fund.    Results: Of 9,213 records identified, 320 records were eligible. Eye health conditions and NCDs share many risk factors. Increased age was found to be the most common shared risk factor, associated with increased risks of AMD, cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, refractive error, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and dementia. Other shared risk factors included smoking, obesity, alcohol consumption (mixed results), and physical activity was protective, though limited evidence was found for eye conditions. Social determinants are well documented as risk factors for NCDs. Conclusion: There is substantial overlap in common established risk factors for the most frequent vision impairing eye conditions and leading NCDs. Increasing efforts should be made to integrate preventative and risk reduction interventions to improve health, with greatest shared benefits for initiatives which aim to reduce smoking, improve diet, and promote physical activity.</ns3:p

Determinants of Treatment Seeking Behavior Following Injury in Maringá, Brazil

<p>Background: Injury currently accounts for 6% of all disability adjusted life years (DALYS) lost. As the global incidence of injuries increases, so does the need for care. Current research on access to care and injury does not always account for injury severity or focus on the overall effects of injury. Our project focused on a medium-sized city in Brazil to determine what barriers to care after injury arise in Brazil’s universal health care system. </p><p>Methods: Households were randomly selected for survey in the 561 populated districts of the city of Maringa between May 2015 and September 2015. Demographic information was collected for the entire household; one individual from the household was then randomly selected to provide injury history. A chi-square analysis was used to determine the association between care seeking and demographics. A preliminary significance level of α = 0.20 was selected for inclusion of variables into the multivariate logistic regression. A full multivariate logistic regression model using injury as the primary exposure and seeking care as the outcome was run. Thirty reduced models were run; mean squared estimate (MSE) and Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) were calculated to find the best predictive model.</p><p>Results: 2678 households and individuals participated, 30.3% individuals reported an injury in their lifetime. The bivariate analysis found that gender (p = 0.034), cause of injury (p = 0.000), race (p = 0.051), severity (p = 0.103) and insurance status (p = 0.026) were potential predictors of seeking care. Education (p = 0.62), income (p = 0.343) and age (p = 0.838) were included in the multivariate model due to past significance in the literature. The reduced multivariate model that eliminated education level and race (MSE = 0.0274, AIC = 0.7689) was chosen as the best representative model and showed gender, age, socioeconomic status, and cause of injury as all strong predictors of care seeking.</p><p>Conclusions: Cause of injury is a major predictor for seeking care, as are factors related to socioeconomic status such as insurance and income. Injury cause potentially masked the effects of gender on care seeking. More research needs to be done on specific causes of injuries, the role of gender, and why socioeconomic status is still a barrier to care in a universal access system.</p>Thesi