Minnesota Nursing magazine (Fall/Winter 2011) - School of Nursing ...

center news
center director:
Jean Wyman, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, FAAN
mission:
To develop and test innovative
interventions that help individuals
and families create optimal pathways
to health.
for more information:
Jean Wyman, professor
Phone: 612-626-9443
E-mail: chtr@umn.edu
www.nursing.umn.edu/CHTR
center for
gerontological nursing
Center Faculty Receive
Research Awards
Hadidi Receives GAPNA Excellence in Research Award
Depression affects almost 20 percent of stroke survivors in acute
rehabilitation settings leading to greater disability, impaired
quality of life, and worse health outcomes. Niloufar Hadidi, PhD,
CNS, APRN, BC, assistant professor and Claire M. Fagin Scholar,
has been studying the effect of problem-solving therapy to
reduce depression in older stroke survivors. According to Hadidi,
this innovative therapy shows much promise to improve health
outcomes of older stroke patients. Since the start of her study,
supported with funds from the University of Minnesota’s Grant-In-
Aid Program and the John A. Hartford Foundation, she has received
positive reports from patients and clinicians about how helpful
the therapy has been in improving patients’ depressive symptoms.
Based on her pioneering work and commitment to nursing research
that benefits older adults, Hadidi was awarded the Gerontological
Advanced Practice Nursing Association’s (GAPNA) Excellence in
Research Award on September 16, 2011 during their annual meeting
held in Washington D.C.
Talley Named 2011
BIRCWH Scholar
The University of Minnesota’s
Deborah E. Powell Center
for Women’s Health named
Kristine Talley, PhD, GNP-BC,
assistant professor, a 2011
Building Interdisciplinary
Research Career in Women’s
Health (BIRCWH) Scholar. Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and
Office of Research on Women’s Health, this faculty-mentored
development program supports Talley’s research focused on
preventing and delaying disability in older women. According to Dr.
Talley, “Many people do not realize that disability is a costly health
concern for older women, as they account for the majority of people
living with disabilities and for the majority of Medicaid costs when
their disability triggers nursing home placement.”
One of the greatest risk factors for nursing home placement is
the inability to self-manage toileting. Toileting disabilities result
when difficulties with walking, transferring, and dressing occur
with urinary incontinence. Talley is working with multidisciplinary
gerontological experts to design a program that combines
physical activity, non-pharmacological continence strategies, and
environmental modification to prevent or delay toileting disabilities
in frail older women living in assisted living facilities. The ultimate
goal is to prevent or delay nursing home placements and allow
older women to live as independently as possible. She recently
received a highly competitive Academic Health Science Center
Seed Grant to support the development of her intervention. Tally
is mentored by School of Nursing Professor Jean Wyman, PhD, RN,
FAAN and James Neaton, PhD, from the U of M Biostatistics, School
of Public Health.
Dr. Niloufar Hadidi and with stroke survivor Susan B. Bardill.
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