Selected Publications article Addressing the complexity of culture change in long-term care in research: an innovative new framework addressing system-level complexity.. The Gerontologist. 65. 2025 Alignment of Minimum Data Set 3.0 Ratings With Staff Care Partner Reports of Symptoms of Distress for Nursing Home Residents.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 26:-. 2025 The association of individual characteristics with count of important recreational preferences for nursing home residents.. The Gerontologist. 65. 2025 Feasibility of Implementing the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) Program in an Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial.. Clinical gerontologist. 1-13. 2025 To Opt-In or Opt-Out? The Choice Behind Financial Alignment for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries in Ohio.. Journal of aging & social policy. 1-14. 2025 Identifying Attributes of Groups of Nursing Home Residents by Recreational Activity Attendance Tendencies.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 45:-. 2025 An Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) Program.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 26:-. 2025 "Anybody who has a heart is going to think that it's a good idea": Pre-Implementation of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction.. The Gerontologist. 65. 2025 The Association of Nursing Home Residents' Preference-Based Recreational Activity Attendance With Pain Symptoms and Functional Impairment Over Time.. The Gerontologist. 65. 2025 The association of preference-based recreational activity attendance with nursing home residents' depressive symptoms over time.. Aging & mental health. 29:1-1588. 2025 It gives you a really great feeling, knowing that what you are doing is making somebody's day: Provider perspectives on implementing the individualized positive psychosocial interaction.. Psychological services. 22:727-735. 2024 Feasibility of Implementing Dementia Collaborative Coaching into Routine Care in Nursing Homes.. Clinical gerontologist. 48:1-13. 2024 "It's What Would Work for Her": An Analysis of Adaptations to the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction Program in U.S. Nursing Homes.. The Gerontologist. 64. 2024 "I think we just saw happier residents":. Aging & mental health. 29:1-513. 2024 Sustainability of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory Use in Ohio Nursing Homes Over Time.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 25:-. 2024 Staff Perceptions of Implementing a Person-Centered Communication Tool in the Nursing Home Setting: PAL Cards.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 50:5-10. 2024 How Do We Achieve Person-Centered Care across Health Care Settings? Expanding Ideological Perspectives into Practice to Advance Person-Centered Care.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 25:-. 2024 Exploration of the Content and Structure of Preferences for Leisure Activities of People Receiving Adult Day Services Using Concept Mapping.. The Gerontologist. 64. 2024 The PELI-D II Study: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Preferences for Leisure Activities Inventory (P-LAI) for Adult Day Services.. Clinical gerontologist. 48:1-14. 2024 Evaluating the Implementation of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) as a Quality Improvement Project in Nursing Homes.. Clinical gerontologist. 47:1-15. 2024 Can Implementing Person-Centered Care Tools Reduce Complaints? Evidence from the Implementation of PELI in Ohio Nursing Homes.. Journal of aging & social policy. 36:141-155. 2024 "This is Slowly Becoming my Interest…": The Understanding of Leisure and Preferences for Leisure Activities of People Receiving Adult Day Services.. Research on aging. 46:210-227. 2023 Associations between Complaints and Organizational Characteristics among Ohio Nursing Homes.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 25:585-590. 2023 Participatory development of a framework to actively involve people living with dementia and those from their social network, and healthcare professionals in conducting a systematic review: the DECIDE-SR protocol.. Research involvement and engagement. 9:-. 2023 Exploring the Relationship Between Extent of Person-Centered Care Implementation and Staffing Levels in Ohio Nursing Homes.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 42:2189-2197. 2023 Organizational and Resident Characteristics of Nursing Homes Associated With Partial and Complete Implementation of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory.. Innovation in aging. 7:-. 2023 Emotion-focused communication training online: Development and evaluation of acceptability.. Gerontology & geriatrics education. 45:618-631. 2022 Examining Face Validity of Visual Stimuli Used in Preference Assessments for Older Adults With Communication Impairments.. American journal of speech-language pathology. 31:1297-1318. 2022 Instruments for assessing the preferences for everyday living of older people with various care needs across different care settings: an evidence map.. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.). 18-28. 2022 Preference Importance Ratings among African American and White Nursing Home Residents.. Clinical gerontologist. 46:111-121. 2021 The One-Two Punch of High Wages and Empowerment on CNA Retention.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 41:312-321. 2021 Lessons Learned From Ohio's Statewide Implementation of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory as a Pay for Performance Initiative to Enhance Person-Centered Care.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 22:2074-2078. 2021 Evaluating the Implementation of a Pragmatic Person-Centered Communication Tool for the Nursing Home Setting: PAL Cards.. Clinical gerontologist. 45:634-646. 2021 "It's Been a Whole New World": Staff Perceptions of Implementing a Person-Centered Communication Intervention During the COVID-19 Pandemic.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 47:9-13. 2021 Pervasive Risk Avoidance: Nursing Staff Perceptions of Risk in Person-Centered Care Delivery.. The Gerontologist. 60:1424-1435. 2020 A Preference-Based Model of Care: An Integrative Theoretical Model of the Role of Preferences in Person-Centered Care.. The Gerontologist. 60:376-384. 2020 Resident Preferences and CNA Empowerment: Testing Validity and Reliability of a Culture Change Survey Tool.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 39:1284-1291. 2019 "A Bone of Contention…": Perceived Barriers and Situational Dependencies to Food Preferences of Nursing Home Residents.. Journal of nutrition in gerontology and geriatrics. 38:277-296. 2019 Association of health related quality of life domains with daytime sleepiness among elderly recipients of long-term services and supports.. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.). 40:417-423. 2019 The impact of nursing home residents' characteristics on ratings of importance of autonomy preferences in daily care over time.. Aging & mental health. 24:1334-1341. 2019 Mapping Core Concepts of Person-Centered Care in Long-Term Services and Supports.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 45:7-13. 2019 A Machine Learning Recommender System to Tailor Preference Assessments to Enhance Person-Centered Care Among Nursing Home Residents.. The Gerontologist. 59:167-176. 2019 "It's important, but…": Perceived Barriers and Situational Dependencies to Social Contact Preferences of Nursing Home Residents.. The Gerontologist. 58:1126-1135. 2018 The Change in Nursing Home Residents' Preferences Over Time.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 19:1092-1098. 2018 Delivering Person-Centered Care: Important Preferences for Recipients of Long-term Services and Supports.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 19:169-173. 2017 "I Help Them Navigate the Organization": Recognizing the Contributions of Non-Clinical Professionals to Person-Centered Approaches in Assisted Living.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 44:9-13. 2017 Honoring the Everyday Preferences of Nursing Home Residents: Perceived Choice and Satisfaction With Care.. The Gerontologist. 57:479-486. 2017 Using spontaneous commentary of nursing home residents to develop resident-centered measurement tools: A case study.. Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.). 38:548-550. 2017 Measuring social integration among residents in a dementia special care unit versus traditional nursing home: A pilot study.. Dementia (London, England). 16:388-403. 2016 "We can't provide season tickets to the opera": Staff perceptions of providing preference based person centered care.. Clinical gerontologist. 39:190-209. 2016 Associations between social network characteristics, cognitive function, and quality of life among residents in a dementia special care unit: A pilot study.. Dementia (London, England). 16:1004-1019. 2016 Honoring Nursing Home Resident Preferences for Recreational Activities to Advance Person-Centered Care.. The annals of long-term care : the official journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 24:25-33. 2016 Multiple Chronic Conditions and Hospitalizations Among Recipients of Long-Term Services and Supports.. Nursing research. 65:425-434. 2016 Health Care Preferences Among Nursing Home Residents: Perceived Barriers and Situational Dependencies to Person-Centered Care.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 42:11-6. 2015 Examining Clinical Predictors of Change in Recreational Preference Congruence Among Nursing Home Residents Over Time.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 36:1351-1369. 2015 Factors Associated With Changes in Perceived Quality of Life Among Elderly Recipients of Long-Term Services and Supports.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 17:44-52. 2015 Do Family Proxies Get It Right? Concordance in Reports of Nursing Home Residents' Everyday Preferences.. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 36:667-691. 2015 "Make Me Feel at Ease and at Home": Differential Care Preferences of Nursing Home Residents.. The Gerontologist. 56:702-13. 2015 The consistency of self-reported preferences for everyday living: implications for person-centered care delivery.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 40:34-46. 2014 "It Depends": Reasons Why Nursing Home Residents Change Their Minds About Care Preferences.. The Gerontologist. 56:243-55. 2014 New toolkit to measure quality of person-centered care: development and pilot evaluation with nursing home communities.. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 15:671-80. 2014 A randomized controlled trial for an individualized positive psychosocial intervention for the affective and behavioral symptoms of dementia in nursing home residents.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 70:35-45. 2013 Sleepiness in elderly veterans.. Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung. 18:283-7. 2013 The feasibility of measuring social networks among older adults in assisted living and dementia special care units.. Dementia (London, England). 14:199-219. 2013 Transitions in care among older adults receiving long-term services and supports.. Journal of gerontological nursing. 38:40-7. 2012 Measuring nursing care time and tasks in long-term services and supports: one size does not fit all.. The journal of nursing research : JNR. 20:159-68. 2012 Health-related quality of life: expanding a conceptual framework to include older adults who receive long-term services and supports.. The Gerontologist. 53:205-10. 2012 Factors associated with health discussion network size and composition among elderly recipients of long-term services and supports.. Health communication. 27:784-93. 2012 Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure social integration among older adults in assisted living.. Family & community health. 35:322-33. 2012 What factors are associated with having an advance directive among older adults who are new to long term care services?. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 13:82.e7-11. 2011 The structure and function of frail male veterans' informal networks.. Journal of aging and health. 19:757-77. 2007 Caregiver objective burden and assessments of patient-centered, family-focused care for frail elderly veterans.. The Gerontologist. 47:21-33. 2007