Presentations – Page 3 – Karen Zgoda, LMSW

September 10, 2007September 10, 2010

September 2007

Published When the white cane comes in handy: Helping older adults navigate the health care system chapter in the book Days in the Lives of Gerontological Social Workers. Published Book Review: Age matters: Realigning feminist thinking in The New Social Worker. Presented Internet-Based Health Information Use by Persons aged 50 and Older: An Exploration of …

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July 10, 2007September 10, 2010

July 2007

I'm going to CSWE in October - my paper was accepted for presentation! Hope to see you there! New Fussy Eater post, Time to Eat the Doughnuts, Part II. Reminder to check out the Fussy Eater Dessert Crawl and Baked Goods News Reel.

June 10, 2007September 10, 2010

June 2007

Presented Internet-Based Health Information at Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology conference (FICCDAT) in Toronto.

Being ‘socially frail’ comes with health risks for older adults
Social frailty is a corollary to physical frailty, a set of vulnerabilities (including weakness, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, slowness, and low physical activity) shown to increase the risk of falls, disability, hospitalization, poor surgical outcomes, admission to a nursing home, and earlier death in older adults. The post Being ‘socially frail’ c […]
Frequency of Physical Activity Done with a Companion: Changes Over Seven Years in Adults Aged 60+ Living in an Australian Capital City
Journal of Aging and Health, Ahead of Print. Objectives:This study examined how often adults 60+ years were physically active with a partner, close family, friends, and neighbors, over 7 years. Methods: Data from 2062 adults living in an Australian capital city were collected using a mail survey at four time points and analyzed using multinomial logistic […] […]
A pragmatic trial evaluating the effectiveness of web versus live training in functional behavior assessment and interventions among special educators
Abstract This study adopted a pragmatic trial with randomization to investigate the relative effectiveness of web versus live training on special educators’ competence and perceived skills in functional behavior assessments (FBA) and behavior interventions. Pragmatic trials seek to determine the effectiveness of an intervention in a real-world setting to ens […]
Evaluating caregivers arrangement of infant sleeping environments in the home
Abstract Sleep-related infant deaths are one of the top causes of infant mortality in the United States. A few behavior analytic studies have examined behavioral skills training to teach adults to arrange safe infant sleeping environments. These studies were conducted in an analogue environment, and no data were collected outside the training setting. The pu […]

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