Lewis A Lipsitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis A Lipsitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipsitz |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSITZ L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2344-1274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI): An interdisciplinary longitudinal cohort study to characterize and promote healthspan in senior housing
Objective: We present the rationale, design, and methods for the Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI), a prospective longitudinal cohort study of older adults primarily residing in senior housing, aimed to identify and characterize factors associated with a prolonged healthspan in this population. Methods: The HAI, developed with input from experts at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research and informed by a pilot study, includes a community engaged re…
World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: A global initiative
BACKGROUND: falls and fall-related injuries are common in older adults, have negative effects on functional independence and quality of life and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health related costs. Current guidelines are inconsistent, with no up-to-date, globally applicable ones present. OBJECTIVES: to create a set of evidence- and expert consensus-based falls prevention and management recommendations applicable to older a…
Feasibility of High-Frequency Monitoring of the Home Environment and Health in Older Adults: Proof of Concept
Technology provides new opportunities to understand and optimize the relationship between the home indoor environmental quality and health outcomes in older adults. We aimed to establish proof-of-concept and feasibility of remote, real-time, high-frequency, and simultaneous monitoring of select environmental variables and outcomes related to health and wellbeing in older adults. Thirty-four participants (27 were female) with an average age (SD) o…
GSA Journal Commitment to Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity: Editors Announce New Guidance
Utilitarian Walking, Neighborhood Environment, and Risk of Outdoor Falls Among Older Adults
Objectives. We examined the roles of utilitarian and recreational walking in relation to occurrence of outdoor falls in older adults. Methods. We analyzed data on walking habits, falls, and fall injuries among participants of MOBILIZE Boston, a prospective cohort study of 765 community-dwelling women and men, mainly aged 70 years or older, in Boston, Massachusetts. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) indicators were assessed at census block g…
Validity of Diagnostic and Drug Data in Standardized Nursing Home Resident Assessments: Potential for Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology
OBJECTIVES: The Health Care Financing Administration requires that patients admitted to certified nursing homes be assessed with the Minimum Data Set, a data collection instrument containing more than 300 demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment variables. Long-term care databases potentially may be used to assess the outcomes of specific treatments as well as drug effectiveness. The authors sought to ascertain reliability and validity of…
MDS Cognitive Performance Scale(C)
BACKGROUND: Chronic cognitive impairment is a major problem in U.S. nursing homes, yet traditional assessment systems in most facilities included only limited information on cognitive status. Following the Congressional mandate in the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA '87), U.S. nursing homes now complete the Minimum Data Set (MDS), a standardized, comprehensive assessment of each resident's functional, medical, psychosocial, and cognitive…
Antidepressants and falls among elderly people in long-term care
All eligible residents of a long-term care facility (488 women and 147 men with a 6-month minimum stay) were prospectively followed for 1 month for the development of falls. Use of psychotropic medications (excluding as needed prescriptions), functional status, and a history of falls were assessed at the start of the study month. Results of analyses using logistic modeling procedures suggest that institutionalized women on antidepressants may hav…
The Assault on Truth, Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory. Ralf Dahrendorf
Unconventional Approaches to Conflict Resolution: Erikson and Sharp on Nonviolence
We discuss various approaches to nonviolent conflict resolution and specifically the views of Gene Sharp and Erik Erikson as developed in their recent books on the subject. Both authors have in common a concern with the sources of obedience and the processes by which people come to question authority and the use of force. We explore the insights and limits of each approach and suggest aspects that need further clarification in the discussion of n…
Freedom and the Poor: Some Durham, N.C., Men Talk About Civil Liberties
Free Speech Questions Nobody has a to tell another person what he should and should not read.* 83 16 1 You can't really be sure whether an opinion is true or not unless people are free to argue against it.* 77 15 8 Freedom does not give anyone the to teach foreign ideas in our schools.* 28 60 12 Restriction As An Explicit Issue The people who speak against what the government is doing in Vietnam should be put in jail or forced to join the army.* …
Freedom and the Poor: Some Durham, N. C., Men Talk about Civil Liberties
Which End of Liberalism
The Wolfe Who Cried Caucus: Reform and the Political Science Profession
Political Culture and Political Systems
The student of government and politics is interested in structures and institutions in societies with and without the state, but he is also concerned with political attitudes. Attitudes towards authority and obedience, the state and rulers are all part of a political culture that has a direct bearing on how people behave as voters, legislators, civil servants or the ruled
Vulture, Mantis & Seal: Proposals for Political Scientists
The Night Before the Election, 1968
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If, as Verba Says, the State Functions as a Religion, What Are We to Do Then to Save our Souls
Sidney Verba has argued that the state in modern societies may function as a religion. He is certainly not the only one to adopt such a point of view. But his work is especially notable in that he has strengthened the argument by welding together a theoretical perspective that seems to be derived from structural-functional analysis and a good deal of varied and interesting, though not crystal-clear data. Verba's discussion of the functions of the…
Working-Class Authoritarianism: A Re-Evaluation
Work Life and Political Attitudes: A Study of Manual Workers
For centuries men have speculated about the human consequences of work. Slowly, a considerable body of information has begun to accumulate concerning the relationships between people's jobs and other aspects of their lives. Investigators have pointed out the connections between certain types of jobs and certain personality disorders, job satisfaction, productivity, attitudes toward union and management, social relations on the job, leisure activi…
Working-Class Authoritarianism: A Re-Evaluation
Work Life and Political Attitudes: A Study of Manual Workers
For centuries men have speculated about the human consequences of work. Slowly, a considerable body of information has begun to accumulate concerning the relationships between people's jobs and other aspects of their lives. Investigators have pointed out the connections between certain types of jobs and certain personality disorders, job satisfaction, productivity, attitudes toward union and management, social relations on the job, leisure activi…
If, as Verba Says, the State Functions as a Religion, What Are We to Do Then to Save our Souls
Sidney Verba has argued that the state in modern societies may function as a religion. He is certainly not the only one to adopt such a point of view. But his work is especially notable in that he has strengthened the argument by welding together a theoretical perspective that seems to be derived from structural-functional analysis and a good deal of varied and interesting, though not crystal-clear data. Verba's discussion of the functions of the…
Utilitarian Walking, Neighborhood Environment, and Risk of Outdoor Falls Among Older Adults
Objectives. We examined the roles of utilitarian and recreational walking in relation to occurrence of outdoor falls in older adults. Methods. We analyzed data on walking habits, falls, and fall injuries among participants of MOBILIZE Boston, a prospective cohort study of 765 community-dwelling women and men, mainly aged 70 years or older, in Boston, Massachusetts. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) indicators were assessed at census block g…
Unconventional Approaches to Conflict Resolution: Erikson and Sharp on Nonviolence
We discuss various approaches to nonviolent conflict resolution and specifically the views of Gene Sharp and Erik Erikson as developed in their recent books on the subject. Both authors have in common a concern with the sources of obedience and the processes by which people come to question authority and the use of force. We explore the insights and limits of each approach and suggest aspects that need further clarification in the discussion of n…
Vulture, Mantis & Seal: Proposals for Political Scientists
Freedom and the Poor: Some Durham, N. C., Men Talk about Civil Liberties
Work Life and Political Attitudes: A Study of Manual Workers
For centuries men have speculated about the human consequences of work. Slowly, a considerable body of information has begun to accumulate concerning the relationships between people's jobs and other aspects of their lives. Investigators have pointed out the connections between certain types of jobs and certain personality disorders, job satisfaction, productivity, attitudes toward union and management, social relations on the job, leisure activi…
Working-Class Authoritarianism: A Re-Evaluation
If, as Verba Says, the State Functions as a Religion, What Are We to Do Then to Save our Souls
Sidney Verba has argued that the state in modern societies may function as a religion. He is certainly not the only one to adopt such a point of view. But his work is especially notable in that he has strengthened the argument by welding together a theoretical perspective that seems to be derived from structural-functional analysis and a good deal of varied and interesting, though not crystal-clear data. Verba's discussion of the functions of the…
The Night Before the Election, 1968
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Culture and Political Systems
The student of government and politics is interested in structures and institutions in societies with and without the state, but he is also concerned with political attitudes. Attitudes towards authority and obedience, the state and rulers are all part of a political culture that has a direct bearing on how people behave as voters, legislators, civil servants or the ruled
Vulture, Mantis & Seal: Proposals for Political Scientists
The Wolfe Who Cried Caucus: Reform and the Political Science Profession
Freedom and the Poor: Some Durham, N.C., Men Talk About Civil Liberties
Free Speech Questions Nobody has a to tell another person what he should and should not read.* 83 16 1 You can't really be sure whether an opinion is true or not unless people are free to argue against it.* 77 15 8 Freedom does not give anyone the to teach foreign ideas in our schools.* 28 60 12 Restriction As An Explicit Issue The people who speak against what the government is doing in Vietnam should be put in jail or forced to join the army.* …
Freedom and the Poor: Some Durham, N. C., Men Talk about Civil Liberties
Which End of Liberalism
Unconventional Approaches to Conflict Resolution: Erikson and Sharp on Nonviolence
We discuss various approaches to nonviolent conflict resolution and specifically the views of Gene Sharp and Erik Erikson as developed in their recent books on the subject. Both authors have in common a concern with the sources of obedience and the processes by which people come to question authority and the use of force. We explore the insights and limits of each approach and suggest aspects that need further clarification in the discussion of n…
Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory. Ralf Dahrendorf
The Assault on Truth, Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
Antidepressants and falls among elderly people in long-term care
All eligible residents of a long-term care facility (488 women and 147 men with a 6-month minimum stay) were prospectively followed for 1 month for the development of falls. Use of psychotropic medications (excluding as needed prescriptions), functional status, and a history of falls were assessed at the start of the study month. Results of analyses using logistic modeling procedures suggest that institutionalized women on antidepressants may hav…
MDS Cognitive Performance Scale(C)
BACKGROUND: Chronic cognitive impairment is a major problem in U.S. nursing homes, yet traditional assessment systems in most facilities included only limited information on cognitive status. Following the Congressional mandate in the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA '87), U.S. nursing homes now complete the Minimum Data Set (MDS), a standardized, comprehensive assessment of each resident's functional, medical, psychosocial, and cognitive…
Validity of Diagnostic and Drug Data in Standardized Nursing Home Resident Assessments: Potential for Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology
OBJECTIVES: The Health Care Financing Administration requires that patients admitted to certified nursing homes be assessed with the Minimum Data Set, a data collection instrument containing more than 300 demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment variables. Long-term care databases potentially may be used to assess the outcomes of specific treatments as well as drug effectiveness. The authors sought to ascertain reliability and validity of…
Utilitarian Walking, Neighborhood Environment, and Risk of Outdoor Falls Among Older Adults
Objectives. We examined the roles of utilitarian and recreational walking in relation to occurrence of outdoor falls in older adults. Methods. We analyzed data on walking habits, falls, and fall injuries among participants of MOBILIZE Boston, a prospective cohort study of 765 community-dwelling women and men, mainly aged 70 years or older, in Boston, Massachusetts. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) indicators were assessed at census block g…
GSA Journal Commitment to Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity: Editors Announce New Guidance
World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: A global initiative
BACKGROUND: falls and fall-related injuries are common in older adults, have negative effects on functional independence and quality of life and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health related costs. Current guidelines are inconsistent, with no up-to-date, globally applicable ones present. OBJECTIVES: to create a set of evidence- and expert consensus-based falls prevention and management recommendations applicable to older a…
Feasibility of High-Frequency Monitoring of the Home Environment and Health in Older Adults: Proof of Concept
Technology provides new opportunities to understand and optimize the relationship between the home indoor environmental quality and health outcomes in older adults. We aimed to establish proof-of-concept and feasibility of remote, real-time, high-frequency, and simultaneous monitoring of select environmental variables and outcomes related to health and wellbeing in older adults. Thirty-four participants (27 were female) with an average age (SD) o…
The Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI): An interdisciplinary longitudinal cohort study to characterize and promote healthspan in senior housing
Objective: We present the rationale, design, and methods for the Healthy Aging Initiative (HAI), a prospective longitudinal cohort study of older adults primarily residing in senior housing, aimed to identify and characterize factors associated with a prolonged healthspan in this population. Methods: The HAI, developed with input from experts at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research and informed by a pilot study, includes a community engaged re…
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