This collection contains non-thesis projects submitted by graduate students in the Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program to the faculty of The University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Master of Science in Gerontology.
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Support Group Participation and Its Relationship to Caregiver Burden and Quality of Sleep Among Caregivers | Ketcher, Linnea | The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the participation in an eight-week caregiver support group, level of caregiver burden, and quality of sleep among caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias. The main objective of this study was to analyz... |
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Assessing Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Among Racial and Ethnic Population Groups in Salt Lake City | Mugiraneza, Frederic | Alzheimer's disease (AD) is predicted to grow substantially over the next five decades. Based on these projections, it is imperative that individuals, families, and communities are aware of this disease in order to be able to successfully prepare for the associated psychosocial and financial challen... |
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Insomnia in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment of VA/DoD Clinical Guidelines | Applegate, Carla | Insomnia, the most commonly endorsed symptom of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), occurs in approximately 60 to 90% of patients with PTSD (Neylan et al., 1998). Of recent returning veterans, sleep disturbance is the second most common complaint (Bliese et al., 2005) and tends to persist after P... |
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Examining Healthy U's Dual Eligible Population as Part of an Accountable Care Organization | Jackson, Natalie A. | State Medicaid agencies are turning to Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) to manage care, reduce costs, and improve quality of care. As the University of Utah's Medicaid managed care ACO, Healthy U was tasked with accomplishing the goals of reducing costs and improving quality of care through iden... |
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Self-Efficacy of Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia | Newkirk, Amaris S. | In this paper I will describe the development and implementation of a dementia caregiver support group at the University of Utah, and my master's project in which I evaluated the impact of the support group on self-efficacy of caregivers. The number of people who will be burdened with dementia is in... |
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