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| Susan E HardySummaryAffiliation: University of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Explaining the effect of gender on functional transitions in older personsSusan E Hardy
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Gerontology 54:79-86. 2008..Women live longer but experience greater disability than men. The reasons for this gender difference in disability are not well understood...- Fatigue and function over 3 years among older adultsSusan E Hardy
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:1389-92. 2008..Fatigue is a common complaint among older adults, but the association of fatigue with subsequent function is not well known... 
Improvement in usual gait speed predicts better survival in older adultsSusan E Hardy
Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1727-34. 2007..To estimate the relationship between 1-year improvement in measures of health and physical function and 8-year survival...- The effect of prior disability history on subsequent functional transitionsSusan E Hardy
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA 15213, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:272-7. 2006..Our objective was to determine the effect of prior disability on subsequent transitions between no disability, mild disability, severe disability, and death... - Missing data: a special challenge in aging researchSusan E Hardy
Division of Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:722-9. 2009.... - Biopsychosocial characteristics of community-dwelling older adults with limited ability to walk one-quarter of a mileSusan E Hardy
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:539-44. 2010.... - Qualities of fatigue and associated chronic conditions among older adultsSusan E Hardy
Division of Geriatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 39:1033-42. 2010..Although fatigue is a common and distressing symptom, a well-specified definition of fatigue is lacking. One of the least well-defined aspects of fatigue is its quality, which might reflect the underlying pathophysiology... - Fatigue predicts mortality in older adultsSusan E Hardy
Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1910-4. 2008..To determine the association between fatigue and survival over 10 years in a population of older community-dwelling primary care patients... - Resilience of community-dwelling older personsSusan E Hardy
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:257-62. 2004..To assess resilience of community-dwelling older persons using a new scale based on response to a stressful life event and to identify the demographic, clinical, functional, and psychosocial factors associated with high resilience... - Ability to walk 1/4 mile predicts subsequent disability, mortality, and health care costsSusan E Hardy
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:130-5. 2011..For mobility to be successfully integrated into clinical practice and health policy, an easily assessed marker that predicts subsequent health outcomes is required... - Estimates of active and disabled life expectancy based on different assessment intervalsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 60:1013-6. 2005..We performed a prospective cohort study to compare estimates of active and disabled life expectancy based on traditional assessment intervals of 1--2 years with those based on more frequent assessments at 1-month intervals... - The dynamic nature of mobility disability in older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Dprothy Adler Geriatric Assesment Center, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:248-54. 2006..To determine the rates of clinically meaningful transitions in mobility disability; evaluate how these transitions differ according to age, sex, and physical frailty; and depict the duration of the resulting episodes of mobility disability... - Arterial stiffness and cognitive decline in well-functioning older adultsNora L Watson
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3545, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66:1336-42. 2011..Few studies of older adults have evaluated the association of central arterial stiffness with longitudinal cognitive decline... - Early hospital readmission is a predictor of one-year mortality in community-dwelling older Medicare beneficiariesHillary D Lum
Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:1467-74. 2012..Hospital readmission within thirty days is common among Medicare beneficiaries, but the relationship between rehospitalization and subsequent mortality in older adults is not known... - Transitions between states of disability and independence among older personsSusan E Hardy
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 20 York Street, Tompkins Basement 15, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:575-84. 2005..To fully understand the disabling process, investigators and clinicians must consider the episodic and recurrent nature of disability... - Factors associated with recovery of independence among newly disabled older personsSusan E Hardy
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:106-12. 2005..The aims of this study were to identify independent predictors of time to and duration of recovery of independent ADL function among newly disabled community-dwelling older persons... - Recovery from disability among community-dwelling older personsSusan E Hardy
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, USA
JAMA 291:1596-602. 2004.... - Methylphenidate for the treatment of depressive symptoms, including fatigue and apathy, in medically ill older adults and terminally ill adultsSusan E Hardy
Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA hardysdom pitt edu
Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 7:34-59. 2009..Despite the long history of methylphenidate use for the treatment of depressive symptoms, fatigue, and apathy, there is little definitive evidence to support its use... - Stressful life events among community-living older personsSusan E Hardy
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06504, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:832-8. 2002.... - Arterial stiffness and gait speed in older adults with and without peripheral arterial diseaseNora L Watson
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Hypertens 24:90-5. 2011.... - Root growth and metal uptake in four grasses grown on zinc-contaminated soilsAntonio J Palazzo
U S Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 72 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
J Environ Qual 32:834-40. 2003..Thus, the best long-term survivors in high-Zn soils should be wheatgrass, due to its ability to root deeply into Zn-contaminated soils, and hard fescue, with its ability to effectively exclude toxic Zn uptake... - Underestimation of disability in community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1492-7. 2002..Our objective was to compare the rates of disability obtained from single follow-up assessments with those obtained from monthly assessments for intervals up to 24 months...