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| THOMAS MICHAEL GILLSummaryAffiliation: Yale University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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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...
Bath aids and the subsequent development of bathing disability in community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1757-63. 2007..To determine whether the availability of bath aids may forestall the subsequent development of bathing disability...- The deleterious effects of bed rest among community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 59:755-61. 2004..In this prospective cohort study, the association between episodes of bed rest and functional decline was evaluated during an 18-month period... - The development of insidious disability in activities of daily living among community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Am J Med 117:484-91. 2004..To determine how often disability in essential activities of daily living develops insidiously, and to evaluate whether the likelihood of insidious disability differs on the basis of physical frailty... - Hospitalization, restricted activity, and the development of disability among older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, New Haven, Conn 06504, USA
JAMA 292:2115-24. 2004..Preventing the development of disability in activities of daily living is an important goal in older adults, yet relatively little is known about the disabling process... - 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... - Overestimation of chronic disability among elderly personsThomas M Gill
Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:2625-30. 2005..We evaluated the validity of the established protocol and determined the accuracy of prevalence estimates of chronic disability among elderly persons in the United States... - Transitions between frailty states among community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06504, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:418-23. 2006..Little is known about the natural course of frailty. We performed a prospective study to determine the transition rates between frailty states and to evaluate the effect of the preceding frailty state on subsequent frailty transitions... - The epidemiology of bathing disability in older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1524-30. 2006.... - Predisposing factors and precipitants for bathing disability in older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:534-40. 2007..To identify potential predisposing factors and precipitants for bathing disability... - Getting funded. Career development awards for aspiring clinical investigatorsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale, University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06504, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:472-8. 2004..The target audience includes junior faculty and fellows who are pursuing or considering a research career in academic medicine, as well as their mentors and program directors... - Restricted activity and functional decline among community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:1317-22. 2003..We performed a prospective cohort study to evaluate the association between the occurrence of restricted activity and functional decline over an 18-month period... - A prehabilitation program for the prevention of functional decline: effect on higher-level physical functionThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, Yale University School of Medicine, 20 York Street, 17B TMP, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 85:1043-9. 2004..To determine whether a home-based physical therapy (PT) program prevented decline in several higher-level measures of physical function among physically frail, community-living older persons... - A prehabilitation program for physically frail community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 84:394-404. 2003..To describe the development and implementation of a preventive, home-based physical therapy program (PREHAB) and to provide evidence for the safety and interrater reliability of the PREHAB protocol... - A program to prevent functional decline in physically frail, elderly persons who live at homeThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, New Haven, Conn 06504, USA
N Engl J Med 347:1068-74. 2002..Functional decline in physically frail, elderly persons is associated with substantial morbidity. It is uncertain whether such functional decline can be prevented... - The burden and patterns of disability in activities of daily living among community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 58:70-5. 2003..We performed a longitudinal study to determine the burden and patterns of ADL disability among previously nondisabled, community-living older persons... - Prognostic effect of prior disability episodes among nondisabled community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:1090-6. 2003..More frequent assessments of functional status may be warranted in epidemiologic studies and clinical trials when disability is a primary focus... - Longitudinal association between depressive symptoms and disability burden among older personsLisa C Barry
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Geriatrics, 367 Cedar Street, PO Box 208025, New Haven, CT 06520 8025, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:1325-32. 2009..The authors evaluated the association between level of depressive symptoms and severity of subsequent disability over time and determined whether this relationship differed by sex... - Higher burden of depression among older women: the effect of onset, persistence, and mortality over timeLisa C Barry
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:172-8. 2008..The prevalence of depression is disproportionately higher in older women than men, yet the reasons for this sex difference are not clear... - Sleep-wake disturbances and frailty in community-living older personsCarlos A Vaz Fragoso
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:2094-100. 2009..To evaluate the association between sleep-wake disturbances and frailty... - Factors associated with recovery of prehospital function among older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalizationThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:1296-303. 2009..The objective of this study was to identify the factors associated with recovery of prehospital function among older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalization... - 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... - A semiparametric transition model with latent traits for longitudinal multistate dataHaiqun Lin
Division of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Biometrics 64:1032-42. 2008..The performance of the estimation procedure is assessed by simulation studies... - 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... - Subtypes of disability in older persons over the course of nearly 8 yearsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:436-43. 2008.... - Bathing disability and the risk of long-term admission to a nursing homeThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:821-5. 2006.... - Psychometric properties of a scale to assess the severity of bathing disabilityThomas M Gill
Yale Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 90:987-93. 2009..To develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a new bathing disability scale... - Reporting peak expiratory flow in older personsCarlos A Vaz Fragoso
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, P O Box 208025, New Haven, CT 06250 8025, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 62:1147-51. 2007.... - Sleep complaints in community-living older persons: a multifactorial geriatric syndromeCarlos A Vaz Fragoso
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1853-66. 2007.... - Change in disability after hospitalization or restricted activity in older personsThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
JAMA 304:1919-28. 2010..The role of intervening illnesses and injuries (ie, events) on these transitions is uncertain... - Perspectives of older persons on bathing and bathing disability: a qualitative studySangeeta C Ahluwalia
Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:450-6. 2010..To understand the bathing experiences, attitudes, and preferences of older persons in order to inform the development of effective patient-centered interventions... - Improved self-confidence was a mechanism of action in two geriatric trials evaluating physical interventionsPeter Peduzzi
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 60:94-102. 2007.... - Trajectories of disability in the last year of lifeThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
N Engl J Med 362:1173-80. 2010..Despite the importance of functional status to older persons and their families, little is known about the course of disability at the end of life... - Experimental designs for multicomponent interventions among persons with multifactorial geriatric syndromesHeather G Allore
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Clin Trials 2:13-21. 2005..We also propose elements of multicomponent interventions for multifactorial health conditions that should be reported in publications and areas where future research is needed... - 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... - 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.... - Peak expiratory flow as a predictor of subsequent disability and death in community-living older personsCarlos A Vaz Fragoso
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1014-20. 2008..To determine whether peak expiratory flow (PEF), when expressed by a validated method using standardized residual (SR) percentile, is associated with subsequent disability and death in older persons... - Geriatric impairments and disability: the cardiovascular health studySarwat I Chaudhry
Section of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1686-92. 2010.... - The ratio of FEV1 to FVC as a basis for establishing chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseCarlos A Vaz Fragoso
Yale Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 181:446-51. 2010..The clinical validity of this threshold as a basis for establishing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is unknown... - Assessment of function and disability in longitudinal studiesThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:S308-12. 2010..Another high priority for future research is to validate and further refine strategies to more completely and accurately ascertain the occurrence of disability in older persons... - Functional trajectories in older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalizationThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:195-201. 2009..To characterize the functional trajectories of older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalization... - 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... - 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... - Underutilization of environmental adaptations for bathing in community-living older personsAanand D Naik
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1497-503. 2005..To determine the prevalence and utilization of environmental adaptations (home modifications and assistive devices) for bathing in community-living older persons with and without bathing disability... - 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... - Application of negative binomial modeling for discrete outcomes: a case study in aging researchAmy L Byers
Program on Aging, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 1 Church Street 7th Floor, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:559-64. 2003..The negative binomial model provides an alternative approach for the analysis of discrete data where overdispersion is a problem, provided that the model is correctly specified and adequately fits the data... - Factors associated with accurate recall of prior disability in older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1897-901. 2009..To identify the factors associated with accurate recall of prior disability... - 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.... - The relationship between psychological factors and disabling musculoskeletal pain in community-dwelling older personsM Carrington Reid
Clinical Epidemiology Unit, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1092-8. 2003..To determine the relationship between two psychological factors (depressive symptoms and low functional self-efficacy) and the occurrence of disabling musculoskeletal pain in community-dwelling older persons... - Geriatric medicine: it's more than caring for old peopleThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Med 113:85-90. 2002 - Characteristics associated with fear of falling and activity restriction in community-living older personsSusan L Murphy
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:516-20. 2002.... - Identification of pain-reduction strategies used by community-dwelling older personsLisa C Barry
Department of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 60:1569-75. 2005..Research of older persons with chronic pain is warranted to determine whether changes in the way existing pain-reduction strategies are administered can improve the management of pain or if more efficacious strategies are needed... - Health behaviors associated with better quality of life for older bereaved personsJoyce H Chen
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Palliat Med 8:96-106. 2005..001), and greater energy (p < .01). CONCLUSIONS: Should future research confirm these results, clinicians would be advised to recommend the identified preventive and protective health behaviors to recently bereaved older patients... - Evaluating disability over discrete periods of timeThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:588-94. 2008..To advance the field of disability assessment, additional developmental work is needed. The objective of this study was to determine the potential value of participant recall when evaluating disability over discrete periods of time... - Everyday decision-making ability in older persons with cognitive impairmentJames M Lai
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:693-6. 2008..To demonstrate the reliability and validity of the Assessment of Capacity for Everyday Decision-Making (ACED), an instrument to evaluate everyday decision-making... - Prognostic significance of potential frailty criteriaMarc D Rothman
Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:2211-116. 2008..To determine the independent prognostic effect of seven potential frailty criteria, including five from the Fried phenotype, on several adverse outcomes... - Defining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in older personsCarlos A Vaz Fragoso
Claude D Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Respir Med 103:1468-76. 2009..To develop a more age-appropriate spirometric definition of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among older persons... - Geriatric conditions and subsequent mortality in older patients with heart failureSarwat I Chaudhry
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of General Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8093, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 55:309-16. 2010.... - Access to primary care for Medicare beneficiariesWilliam C Chou
Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:763-8. 2007..Among primary care physicians accepting new patients, to determine whether demographic and geographic factors are associated with the likelihood of accepting new Medicare patients... - Patterns of weight change preceding hospitalization for heart failureSarwat I Chaudhry
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of General Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Circulation 116:1549-54. 2007.... - Hearing decline predicted by elders' stereotypesBecca R Levy
Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:P82-7. 2006..These findings suggest that age stereotypes influence older individuals' sensory perception... - Risk factors for disability subtypes in older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:1850-5. 2009..To identify risk factors for five different subtypes of disability...
Research Grants
- Research Training in Disability & Disabling DisordersThomas Gill; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Research Training in Geriatric Clinical EpidemiologyThomas Gill; Fiscal Year: 2007..We request continued funding for five postdoctoral positions per year for the next five years. ..
- Epidemiology of Disability and Recovery in Older PersonsThomas Gill; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..