General Considerations

VanHaitsma, K. (2000). The Assessment and Integration of Preferences into Care Practices for Persons with Dementia Residing in the Nursing Home. In R. Rubinstein, M. Moss, & M. Kleban (Eds). The Many Dimensions of Aging. New York: Springer.

VanHaitsma, K. (2013). Resident choice made easier. Provider, 39(2), 37-39.

Towsley, G. L., Hirschman, K. B., Madden, C. (2015). Conversations about end of life: Perspectives of nursing home residents, family, and staff. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 18(5). doi: 10.1089/jpm.2014.0316

Towsley, G. L., Hirschman, K. B. (2017). Talking about end-of-life care: Perspectives of nursing home residents. Geriatric Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2017.07.002

Behrens, L., Van Haitsma, K. S., Brush, J., Boltz, M. P., Volpe, D. & Kolanowski, A. M. (2018). Negotiating risky preferences in nursing homes: A case study of the Rothschild person-centered care planning approach. Journal of Gerontological Nursing. 44(8), 11-17. doi: 10.3928/00989134-20171206-02

Molony, S. L., Kolanowski, A., Van Haitsma, K., & Rooney, K. E. (2018). Person-centered assessment and care planning. The Gerontologist, 58(1), S32-S47. doi:10.1093/geront/gnx173

Abbott, K. M., Klumpp, R., Leser, K. A., Straker, J. K., Gannod, G. C., & Van Haitsma, K. (2018). Delivering person-centered care: Important preferences for recipients of long-term services and supports. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 19(2), 169-173. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.10.005

Towsley, G. L., Beck, S. L., Ellington, L., Wong, B. (2018). Me & my wishes: Lessons learned from prototyping resident centered videos about care preferences. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 37(8) 1037–1049. DOI: 10.1177/0733464816657473

Gannod, G. C., Abbott, K. M., VanHaitsma, K., Martindale, N., & Heppner, A. (2019). A machine learning recommender system to tailor preference assessments to enhance person-centered care among nursing home residents. The Gerontologist, 59(1), 167-176. doi: 10.1093/geront/gny056.

Towsley, G. L., Wong, B., Tahereh M., Hull, W., Miller, S. C. (2019). Piloting me and my wishes videos of nursing home residents’ preferences. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.10.030

Towsley, G. L., Beck, S. L., Ellington, L., Wong, B. (2018). Me & my wishes: Lessons learned from prototyping resident centered videos about care preferences. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 37(8) 1037–1049. DOI: 10.1177/0733464816657473

Behrens, L., McGhan, G., Abbott, K., Fick, D., Kolanowski, A., Liu, Y., Buck, H., Rose, M., Heid, A., & VanHaitsma, K. (2019). Mapping Core Concepts of Person-Centered Care in Long-Term Services and Supports. Journal Gerontological Nursing, 45(2): 7-13. doi:10.3928/00989134-20190111-02.

Knollman-Porter, K. & Burshnic, V. (2020). Optimizing effective communication while wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic, 46(11), 7-11. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, doi: 10.3928/00989134-20201012-02.

Behrens, L. L., Boltz, M., Kolanowski, A., Sciegaj, M., Madrigal, C., Abbott, K., & Van Haitsma, K. (2020). Pervasive Risk Avoidance: Nursing Staff Perceptions of Risk in Person-Centered Care Delivery. The Gerontologist, 60(8), 1424–1435. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa099  

Towsley, G. L., Neller, S., Baier, R. R.., Wong, B. (2021). Me & my wishes:
Concordance of end-of-life preferences between residents with dementia, family, and staff. Journal of Palliative Medicine. DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0111

Wagner, L. M., Van Haitsma, K. , Kolanowski, A., & Spetz, J. (2021). Recommendations to Deliver Person-Centered Long-Term Care for Persons Living With Dementia. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 22(7), 1366–1370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.05.003 

Towsley, G. L., Wong, B., Baier, R. R., Neller, S. (2021). An efficacy trial of long-term care. Residents with Alzheimer’s disease using videos to communicate care preferences. Journal of American Medical Directors Association. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.032

Kunkel, M., Bowblis, J., Straker, J., VanHaitsma, K., & Abbott, K. (2023). Can implementing person-centered care tools reduce complaints? Evidence from the implementation of PELI in Ohio nursing homes, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1–15. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2023.2265775

Kunkel, M., Bowblis, J., Straker, J., VanHaitsma, K., & Abbott, K. (2023). Impact of implementing the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory on nursing home survey deficiencies. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 24, 1: 113-118, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2022.10.021.

Madrigal, C., Moore, R., Kunkel, M., Bowblis, J., Straker, J., VanHaitsma, K., & Abbott, K. (2023). Organizational and resident characteristics of nursing homes associated with partial and complete implementation of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI), Innovation in Aging, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad008

Kunkel, M. C., Bowblis, J., Straker, J., Van Haitsma, K., & Abbott, K. M. (2023). Exploring the relationship between extent of person-centered care implementation and staffing levels in Ohio nursing homes. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(11), 2189-2197. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648231185274

Cloyes, K. G. & Towsley, G. L. (2023) Engaging sexual and gender minority older adults to elicit concerns and recommendations for communicating care preferences in long-term care: Focus group findings. Clinical Gerontologist, DOI: 10.1080/07317115.2023.2213682

Boltz, M., Abbott, K., Berman, A., Fazio, S., Molony, S., Ratliff, K., VanHaitsma, K., & Zimmerman, S. (2024). Person and family centered care: Comprehensive care planning. In Practice and Leadership in Nursing homes: Building on Academic-Practice Partnerships. JoAnne Reifsnyder, Ann Kolanowski and Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob. (Eds). Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.