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Research Interests:
  • Aging/Gerontological Nursing
  • Nurse Practitioner Role
  • Health Promotion of Older Adults

Previous Research:

  • Evaluation of the Nursing Process and outcomes of Care Utilizing Nurse Practitioners to Provide Health Care for Elderly Patients in Massachusetts Nursing Homes
  • Needs Assessment of MerrimackValley Area Nursing Home Administrators Regarding Nursing Staff Educational Needs Related to Care of the Patient with Alzheimer's Disease
  • Utilization of the Gerontological Nurse Practitioner in a Long-Term Chronic Care Setting
  • Informal Activity Involvement and the Perceived Rate of Time Passage for an Older Institutionalized Population Minority Elderly in Northeast Mass.
  • Functional Health Patterns and Nursing Diagnoses of Community-Based Elders
  • Evaluation of the Effect of Alzheimer Support Groups in Assisting Caregivers to cope
  • Multidisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Issues and Mismedication Among the Elderly
  • Caregiving Responsibilities for Elderly Individuals Rendered by University Employees

Current Research:

  • Psychometric testing of a self-assessment tool to measure physical fitness and exercise activity levels among older adults
  • Utilization of Community Based Long Term Care Services by Hispanic and Non-Hispanic older adults
  • Evaluation of an Innovative Model of Academic & Service Collaboration: Impact on Gerontological Nursing
  • Patterns of social support and stress among graduate NP students
  • Feasibility of a low cost patient location unit for geriatric wandering
  • Evaluation of an innovative model of academia and service
  • Collaboration: Impact on Gerontological Nursing and Institutionalized Older Adult Health Care Needs
  • Self-efficacy in parenting among mothers and fathers
  • Healthcare issues of perimenopausal women

  

 

Karen D. Melillo

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