Neighborhood context matters for quality of care for nursing home residents, especially at understaffed facilities!

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NEW: NIH designates people with disabilities as a population with health disparities nih.gov/news-events/ne…

#Dementia is not a death sentence after hip fracture! 66% recover robustly-yet many are not considered good #rehabilitation candidates.

We have to seriously reconsider risk prediction within populations living with dementia

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APTA's landmark report confirms that physical therapy can help Americans live better lives while saving the health care system millions of dollars annually. Learn more at valueofpt.com.

New age-friendly community mobility work led by Erica Twardzik, PhD out in BMC Geriatrics!

When there are more public transit stops in a neighborhood, older adults have 32% higher odds of walking for exercise, especially if they already use transit

Read here:
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Great opportunity to work with our ENRICH Lab: University of Maryland SOM team!

Looking for a research assistant to be part of several NIH funded initiatives. My lab is looking for someone interested in qualitative or community engaged research efforts in Baltimore

Apply here:
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Read and learn #PTfam !!

This slide of ChatDPT -- included as part of my talk for Hopkins ICU Rehab conference -- may be one of my favorite scientific slides

Fun night at the Baltimore Orioles game with current Epidemiology of Aging T32 faculty, staff, and trainees from UMSOM Department of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Maryland School of Medicine !

Climate change impacts older adults!

Older public transit users (often from minoritized communities) have to walk 3+ blocks in extreme heat to a bus stop to seek medical care

Uncomfortable for younger populations, potentially deadly for older adults

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Important work led by Cheryl K. Zogg, PhD, MSPH, MHS!

30-day mortality is not the only quality metric we should care about for older adults recovering from traumatic injuries!

Days at home may measure different quality domains of high priority to patients!

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New #OpenAccess paper in JAGS from our ENRICH Lab: University of Maryland SOM lab, led by post-doc Heather Mutchie!

We looked at how days alive and at home after hip fracture, an important patient centered outcome, differed by sex and ADRD status

What did we find?

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New paper from our team!

Using Medicare data, we assessed trajectories of days at home before and after a fracture among older adults w/ dementia--with idea that we could better identify high risk groups using only pre-fracture claims data

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New work from our team at University of Maryland School of Medicine UMSOM Department of Epidemiology and Public Health UM SOM Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science!

Getting people back into community snd engaging with friends and family may accelerate functional recovery! Big opportunity for PT!

When exercises fail to translate to participation improvements, consider the contextual barriers...

Squats do not address social determinants of health

Transit access may also reduce social isolation, a major concern recently raised by the Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General

Look at this wildly underrated National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) study led by Kenzie Latham-Mintus that shows adopting transit can improve social connections!

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10% of older adults in cities rely on public transit.

Because Black and Hispanic older adults rely more on transit, poor transit infrastructure may contribute to disparities in access to care.

Investments in transit are critical to health equity!

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Cool new #HomePT study being conducted by my colleagues at University of South Dakota funded by Parkinson's Foundation

If you are a home care PT (cc: APTA Home Health) and treat patients living with Parkinson disease they are looking for you!

New work from our team UMSOM Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ENRICH Lab: University of Maryland SOM and collaboration with Amit Kumar -led by Dr. Albrecht

We studied utilization of home and community based rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury in older adults, and disparities within use patterns

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Excited to see University of Maryland School of Medicine student Afnan Gimie present her work from ENRICH Lab: University of Maryland SOM on public transportation use among older adults at #GSA2022 #GSA22 !

Read this work published in JAGS earlier this year here:

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