Rebekah Perkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebekah Perkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebekah |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yoga for seniors
Yoga has been found to provide numerous health benefits to older adults including preventing or slowing physical frailty and subsequent functional limitations. The purpose of this study was to examine pre-frail or frail older adults’ beliefs about yoga as well as to identify barriers to participation. We recruited 37 older adults from a Faint, Fall, and Frailty Clinic at a medical center and asked them to complete questionnaires regarding their p…
Family Sense-Making After a Down Syndrome Diagnosis
The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child's Down syndrome diagnosis. To build a theory of the diagnostic experience and early family sense-making process, we interviewed 33 parents and nine grandparents living in the United States who learned prenatally or neonatally of their child's diagnosis. The core category of rescuing hope for the future encompassed the social process of sense-making over time as parents managed their…
Family Sense-Making After a Down Syndrome Diagnosis
The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child's Down syndrome diagnosis. To build a theory of the diagnostic experience and early family sense-making process, we interviewed 33 parents and nine grandparents living in the United States who learned prenatally or neonatally of their child's diagnosis. The core category of rescuing hope for the future encompassed the social process of sense-making over time as parents managed their…
Yoga for seniors
Yoga has been found to provide numerous health benefits to older adults including preventing or slowing physical frailty and subsequent functional limitations. The purpose of this study was to examine pre-frail or frail older adults’ beliefs about yoga as well as to identify barriers to participation. We recruited 37 older adults from a Faint, Fall, and Frailty Clinic at a medical center and asked them to complete questionnaires regarding their p…
Family Sense-Making After a Down Syndrome Diagnosis
The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child's Down syndrome diagnosis. To build a theory of the diagnostic experience and early family sense-making process, we interviewed 33 parents and nine grandparents living in the United States who learned prenatally or neonatally of their child's diagnosis. The core category of rescuing hope for the future encompassed the social process of sense-making over time as parents managed their…
Psychology (2 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Down syndrome and intellectual disability research (1 work) · Family and Disability Support Research (1 work) · Frailty in Older Adults (1 work) · Gerontology (1 work) · Grandparent (1 work) · Grief (1 work) · Medicine (1 work)