Richard N Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4453092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard N Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard N |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew SeniorLife |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1049-218X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 43 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Assessing Cognitive Impairment in the Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project
BackgroundAccurate classification of cognitive impairment in population studies is challenging.ObjectiveTo compare the performance of a diagnostic algorithm with a clinical consensus panel.SampleIn 2016, the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) implemented the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project (HRS-HCAP) to streamline cognitive assessments for select HRS participants.MethodsThe Manly-Jones HCAP diagnostic classification was used to cl…
Recommended best practices for construct-centered adaptation of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
The HCAP neuropsychological assessment approach has unique considerations for adaptation that balance the needs of local validity with cross-national harmonization. Shared best practices for HCAP adaptation will improve the quality of cross-national HCAP data collection, data harmonization, analyses, and inferences. The HCAP is a useful model for cross-nationally harmonized data collection and research to improve our understanding of cognitive ag…
Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
We advocate for the HCAP as a structured yet adaptable framework that prioritizes measurement precision and cultural relevance, while retaining sufficient uniformity to conduct statistical harmonization across settings. What makes an HCAP an HCAP is not a strict checklist of tests, but a commitment to rigorous, culturally respectful measurement of cognitive health in older adults around the world
The Mediating Effects of Education and Occupational Complexity Between Race and Longitudinal Change in Late Life Cognition in Active
This study examined educational and occupational inequality as two aspects of social determinants of health that might mediate the longitudinal relationship between racialization and late life cognitive level and change. Participants were 2371 individuals racialized as Black and White from the ACTIVE study who provided occupational data. Data were analyzed from baseline and five assessments over 10-years using structural equation modeling. Black/…
Evolution of the assertive community engagement model for peer recovery coaching informed by the assertive community treatment model
Peer recovery support services for Substance Use Disorder (SUD) are becoming increasingly more prevalent to support individuals in initiating and maintaining recovery. However, models that operationalize service delivery are lacking. Here we describe the Assertive Community Engagement (ACE) model, a new model that emphasizes personalization and peer recovery support with a social determinants of health focus. This article defines the tenets of th…
The Effects of Occupational Complexity on Late Life Cognition in Active
Objectives: This article sought to determine (1) whether occupational complexity (OC) explains individual differences in cognition at baseline, (2) whether this relationship is differentially related to cognition by Black/White race, and (3) whether OC mediates some or all of the Black/White race-related variance in late life cognition. Methods: 2371 participants from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) stud…
Socio-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Latinx Adolescent with Suicidal Behaviors
Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Domains and Their Predictive Validity Within Black/African American and White Older Adults From the Active Trial
This investigation uses baseline data from individuals participating in the ACTIVE trial ( n = 2505) to reproduce the SDoH domains described in Healthy People 2030 (economic stability, health care, education, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context). Results: Results support using data from the ACTIVE trial to assess all five SDoH domains, and the ability of the composites to predict baseline performance on measures o…
Long-Term Effects of Cognitive Training on All-Cause Mortality in US Older Adults
Objectives: Cognitive abilities have been implicated as predictors of mortality in older adults. This study examines the effects of cognitive training on mortality 20 years post-intervention. Methods: Data come from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) randomized control trial (N = 2802). Participants were cognitively and physically healthy, community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older. Cox proportional hazard…
Shifting of Cognitive Assessments Between Face-to-Face and Telephone Administration
Differences by mode of administration are apparent in cognitive measurement in older adults, albeit to a small degree in our study, and most pronounced for tests of memory and attention. The importance of accounting for mode differences ultimately depends on one's research question and study sample: not all associations may be affected by mode differences, and such modification may only be apparent among those with lower cognitive functioning
You Say Tomato, I Say Radish
The cognitive assessments in the U.S. HRS and its International Partner Studies reflect comparable underlying cognitive constructs. We discuss the assumptions underlying our methods, present alternatives, and future directions for cross-national harmonization of cognitive aging data
Use of an expert panel to identify domains and indicators of delirium severity
What Gets Measured, Gets Done
Middle‐class families face a range of challenges, including uneven income growth, imposing child care costs, and affordability gaps for higher education. The ideal policies by which policy makers and public administrators can aid the middle class are far from obvious. Policy solutions are likely to mirror our government and population, meaning that they will be decentralized and varied. Achieving a “growing and thriving middle class” requires und…
Children’s and Parents’ Ability to Tolerate Child Distress
Gender Differences in the Effect of Depressive Symptoms on Prospective Alcohol Expectancies, Coping Motives, and Alcohol Outcomes in the First Year of College
Ten‐Year Effects of the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly Cognitive Training Trial on Cognition and Everyday Functioning in Older Adults
OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of cognitive training on cognitive abilities and everyday function over 10 years. DESIGN: Ten-year follow-up of a randomized, controlled single-blind trial (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE)) with three intervention groups and a no-contact control group. SETTING: Six U.S. cities. PARTICIPANTS: A volunteer sample of 2,832 persons (mean baseline age 73.6; 26% African American…
Development of the Primary Care Quality-Homeless (PCQ-H) Instrument
BACKGROUND: Homeless patients face unique challenges in obtaining primary care responsive to their needs and context. Patient experience questionnaires could permit assessment of patient-centered medical homes for this population, but standard instruments may not reflect homeless patients' priorities and concerns. OBJECTIVES: This report describes (a) the content and psychometric properties of a new primary care questionnaire for homeless patient…
Relationship of Demographic and Health Factors to Cognition in Older Adults in the Active Study
Age, education, and race are consistently associated with cognitive performance in this sample of older community-dwelling adults. Diabetes, stroke, and suspected clinical depression had independent but weaker effects on cognition
Race-Related Disparities in 5-Year Cognitive Level and Change in Untrained Active Participants
Race-related results in the current study are consistent with previous research suggesting that social advantage factors such as education have a stronger influence on the level of performance than the rate of change. The small remaining effects of being African American on performance levels likely reflect uncontrolled variation in factors like literacy and financial advantage
Comparing Homeless Persons’ Care Experiences in Tailored Versus Nontailored Primary Care Programs
Objectives. We compared homeless patients’ experiences of care in health care organizations that differed in their degree of primary care design service tailoring. Methods. We surveyed homeless-experienced patients (either recently or currently homeless) at 3 Veterans Affairs (VA) mainstream primary care settings in Pennsylvania and Alabama, a homeless-tailored VA clinic in California, and a highly tailored non-VA Health Care for the Homeless Pro…
Modifying Measures Based on Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Impact Analyses
OBJECTIVE: Measure modification can impact comparability of scores across groups and settings. Changes in items can affect the percent admitting to a symptom. METHODS: Using item response theory (IRT) methods, well-calibrated items can be used interchangeably, and the exact same item does not have to be administered to each respondent, theoretically permitting wider latitude in terms of modification. RESULTS: Recommendations regarding modificatio…
The Active Cognitive Training Interventions and Trajectories of Performance Among Older Adults
Training can appear to accelerate age-related change, because change over time is coupled with loss of training gains. Our analysis is limited by follow-up that is short for precisely characterizing aging-related change
Memory Training in the Active Study
These findings confirm that memory training can aid in maintaining long-term improvements in memory performance. Booster training and adherence to training do not appear to attenuate rates of normal age-related memory decline
Modeling Learning and Memory Using Verbal Learning Tests
This study contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms by which training benefits memory and expands current knowledge by reporting long-term changes in initial recall and learning, as measured from growth models and by characterization of the impact of memory training on these components. Results reveal that memory training delays the worsening of memory span and boosts learning
Thinking Through the Manorial Affix
The Persistence of Depressive Symptoms in Older Workers Who Experience Involuntary Job Loss
Our findings identify older workers with limited wealth as an important group for which the potential effect of involuntary job separation in the years preceding retirement is ongoing (enduring) adverse mental health
The cognitive reserve hypothesis
The term cognitive reserve is frequently used to refer to the ubiquitous finding that, during later life, those higher in experiential resources (e.g., education, knowledge) exhibit higher levels of cognitive function. This observation may be the result of either experiential resources playing protective roles with respect to the cognitive declines associated with aging or the persistence of differences in functioning that have existed since earl…
Physical Health and Depression
This study examined the associations among chronic health conditions, sociodemographic factors, and depressive symptomatology in older married couples. Data from the 2004 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (n = 2,184 couples) were analyzed. Results indicated a reciprocal relationship in depressive symptoms between spouses. Additionally, post hoc analyses indicated that husbands' stroke and high blood pressure were related to increased depres…
Education and Sex Differences in the Mini-Mental State Examination
Years of completed education is a powerful correlate of performance on mental status assessment. This analysis evaluates differences in cognitive performance attributable to level of education and sex. We analyzed Mini-Mental State Examination responses from a large community sample (Epidemiologic Catchment Area study, N = 8,556), using a structural equation analytic framework grounded in item response theory. Significant sex and education group …
Comparing Homeless Persons’ Care Experiences in Tailored Versus Nontailored Primary Care Programs
Objectives. We compared homeless patients’ experiences of care in health care organizations that differed in their degree of primary care design service tailoring. Methods. We surveyed homeless-experienced patients (either recently or currently homeless) at 3 Veterans Affairs (VA) mainstream primary care settings in Pennsylvania and Alabama, a homeless-tailored VA clinic in California, and a highly tailored non-VA Health Care for the Homeless Pro…
The Active Cognitive Training Interventions and the Onset of and Recovery from Suspected Clinical Depression
We evaluated the effects of the 3 cognitive interventions fielded in the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly study on 2 subsets of participants-1,606 without and 424 with suspected clinical depression at baseline. In the former group, only the speed of processing (vs. no-contact control) intervention had a significant effect, with its participants being 38% less likely to develop suspected clinical depression at 1 year (…
The Effects of the Active Cognitive Training Trial on Clinically Relevant Declines in Health-Related Quality of Life
Although all three intervention arms improved cognitive ability, only the speed-of-processing arm protected against extensive clinically relevant decline in HRQoL
Shifting of Cognitive Assessments Between Face-to-Face and Telephone Administration
Differences by mode of administration are apparent in cognitive measurement in older adults, albeit to a small degree in our study, and most pronounced for tests of memory and attention. The importance of accounting for mode differences ultimately depends on one's research question and study sample: not all associations may be affected by mode differences, and such modification may only be apparent among those with lower cognitive functioning
Memory Training in the Active Study
These findings confirm that memory training can aid in maintaining long-term improvements in memory performance. Booster training and adherence to training do not appear to attenuate rates of normal age-related memory decline
Within-Group Differences in Depression Among Older Hispanics Living in the United States
Using the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the prevalence of depression in different groups of Hispanic older adults. Respondents (n = 759) were aged 59 and older and identified themselves as Mexican American (56%), Cuban American (13%), Puerto Rican (8%), other (8%), or not specified (15%). We used a modified version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview to assess dep…
Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
We advocate for the HCAP as a structured yet adaptable framework that prioritizes measurement precision and cultural relevance, while retaining sufficient uniformity to conduct statistical harmonization across settings. What makes an HCAP an HCAP is not a strict checklist of tests, but a commitment to rigorous, culturally respectful measurement of cognitive health in older adults around the world
What Gets Measured, Gets Done
Middle‐class families face a range of challenges, including uneven income growth, imposing child care costs, and affordability gaps for higher education. The ideal policies by which policy makers and public administrators can aid the middle class are far from obvious. Policy solutions are likely to mirror our government and population, meaning that they will be decentralized and varied. Achieving a “growing and thriving middle class” requires und…
The Effects of Occupational Complexity on Late Life Cognition in Active
Objectives: This article sought to determine (1) whether occupational complexity (OC) explains individual differences in cognition at baseline, (2) whether this relationship is differentially related to cognition by Black/White race, and (3) whether OC mediates some or all of the Black/White race-related variance in late life cognition. Methods: 2371 participants from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) stud…
You Say Tomato, I Say Radish
The cognitive assessments in the U.S. HRS and its International Partner Studies reflect comparable underlying cognitive constructs. We discuss the assumptions underlying our methods, present alternatives, and future directions for cross-national harmonization of cognitive aging data
Race-Related Disparities in 5-Year Cognitive Level and Change in Untrained Active Participants
Race-related results in the current study are consistent with previous research suggesting that social advantage factors such as education have a stronger influence on the level of performance than the rate of change. The small remaining effects of being African American on performance levels likely reflect uncontrolled variation in factors like literacy and financial advantage
Modeling Learning and Memory Using Verbal Learning Tests
This study contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms by which training benefits memory and expands current knowledge by reporting long-term changes in initial recall and learning, as measured from growth models and by characterization of the impact of memory training on these components. Results reveal that memory training delays the worsening of memory span and boosts learning
Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Domains and Their Predictive Validity Within Black/African American and White Older Adults From the Active Trial
This investigation uses baseline data from individuals participating in the ACTIVE trial ( n = 2505) to reproduce the SDoH domains described in Healthy People 2030 (economic stability, health care, education, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context). Results: Results support using data from the ACTIVE trial to assess all five SDoH domains, and the ability of the composites to predict baseline performance on measures o…
Long-Term Effects of Cognitive Training on All-Cause Mortality in US Older Adults
Objectives: Cognitive abilities have been implicated as predictors of mortality in older adults. This study examines the effects of cognitive training on mortality 20 years post-intervention. Methods: Data come from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) randomized control trial (N = 2802). Participants were cognitively and physically healthy, community-dwelling adults aged 65 and older. Cox proportional hazard…
Gender Differences in the Effect of Depressive Symptoms on Prospective Alcohol Expectancies, Coping Motives, and Alcohol Outcomes in the First Year of College
A Religio-Legal Nabataean Inscription from the Atargatis/Al-ʿUzza Temple at Petra
During the 1981 excavations at Petra a marble worker's workshop was found, which included an inscribed slab dated to the 37th year of Aretas IV. The four broken lines of text clearly show the religio-legal nature of the original full text and add to the current picture of Nabataean religious background. Script and vocabulary phenomena in the text are also of interest
A Second Nabataean Inscription from Tell esh-Shuqafiya, Egypt
A second early Nabataean inscription from Tell esh-Shuqafiya, Egypt, is part of the established collection of the Matḥaf Hariyyat Raznah, Zagazig. Other information concerning the provenance of the inscription is vague or lacking. The inscription was written in Nisan, 36 B. C., and dated to the reigns of Cleopatra VII, Malichus I King of the Nabataeans, and a certain ʾṭlh, apparently a local priest. This unique triple dating also fixes the date o…
A yellow‐stained human femur from tell esh‐Shuqafiya, Egypt
Excavation at Tell esh‐Shuqafiya, Egypt, during the 1982 season exposed several Ptolemaic Period burials. One of these, a young adult male, showed a bright yellow stain on the right femur. Analysis of the stain demonstrated it to be hematoidin, a degradation compound derived from hemoglobin associated with old hemorrhage. The specific location of the stain on the skeleton suggests death a few weeks after a severe injury to the thigh
A New Reading of the Petra Temple Inscription
The important fragmentary Nabataean inscription from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra was edited previously by Hammond, Johnson, and Jones (1986: 77-80). The present paper provides a corrected reading of the Nabataean text with a new translation and notes. A line drawing of the inscription and corrected chart of letters is also included. These improvements clarify our understanding of the text, which deals with the misappropriation of temp…
The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami
Embalming
The various methods of preserving dead human and animal corpses from organic putrefaction and decay. The Hebrew ḥānaṭ, “to embalm,” is found twice in the OT (Gen 50:2, 26), where it is used with reference to the bodies of Jacob and Joseph in Egypt. The verb ḥānaṭ in Song of Solomon 2:13a (“the fig r
Discharge
An emission or secretion of semen, pus, or blood from the genitalia which is considered ritually impure. The main discussion of these conditions is in the Priestly legislation (= P) of the Pentateuch (Leviticus 12, 15). The cases may be classified into normal discharges (seminal emission, menstruati
Fiction Reviews
Bones. by Chenjerai Hove, London: Heinemann. 1990. 113pp. £4.95pb The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories. by Amos Tutuola, London: Faber. 1990. 90pp. £3.99pb Ups and downs Traveller Without a Map. by Hsiao Ch'ien Translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey C Kinkley, London: Hutchinson. 1990. 276pp. £17.95hb Sensibility of recognition A Passage to England. by Nirad C Chaudhuri, London: Hogarth Press. 1989. 229pp. £6.95pb Thy Hand Great Anarch: Ind…
Education and Sex Differences in the Mini-Mental State Examination
Years of completed education is a powerful correlate of performance on mental status assessment. This analysis evaluates differences in cognitive performance attributable to level of education and sex. We analyzed Mini-Mental State Examination responses from a large community sample (Epidemiologic Catchment Area study, N = 8,556), using a structural equation analytic framework grounded in item response theory. Significant sex and education group …
The Effects of the Active Cognitive Training Trial on Clinically Relevant Declines in Health-Related Quality of Life
Although all three intervention arms improved cognitive ability, only the speed-of-processing arm protected against extensive clinically relevant decline in HRQoL
The Persistence of Depressive Symptoms in Older Workers Who Experience Involuntary Job Loss
Our findings identify older workers with limited wealth as an important group for which the potential effect of involuntary job separation in the years preceding retirement is ongoing (enduring) adverse mental health
Identification of Measurement Differences Between English and Spanish Language Versions of the Mini-Mental State Examination
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of the extent to which measurement of adult cognitive functioning differs between Spanish and English language administrations of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is critical for inclusive, representative, and valid research of older adults in the United States. OBJECTIVES: We sought to demonstrate the use of an item response theory (IRT) based structural equation model, that is, the MIMIC model (multiple indicators,…
Measurement Differences in Depression
Objective: To evaluate the influence of five chronic health conditions (high blood pressure, heart conditions, stroke, diabetes, and lung diseases) and four sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, education, and race/ethnicity) on the endorsement patterns of depressive symptoms in a sample of community-dwelling older adults. Method: Participants were adults aged ≥65 years from the 2004 Health and Retirement Study (n = 9448). Depressive sym…
Within-Group Differences in Depression Among Older Hispanics Living in the United States
Using the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the prevalence of depression in different groups of Hispanic older adults. Respondents (n = 759) were aged 59 and older and identified themselves as Mexican American (56%), Cuban American (13%), Puerto Rican (8%), other (8%), or not specified (15%). We used a modified version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview to assess dep…
Risk Factors for Hospitalization Among Community-Dwelling Primary Care Older Patients
BACKGROUND: Unplanned hospitalization often represents a costly and hazardous event for the older population. OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a predictive model for unplanned medical hospitalization from administrative data. RESEARCH DESIGN: Model development and validation. SUBJECTS: A total of 3919 patients aged > or =70 years who were followed for at least 1 year in primary care clinics of an academic medical center. MEASURES: Risk factor …
The Active Cognitive Training Interventions and the Onset of and Recovery from Suspected Clinical Depression
We evaluated the effects of the 3 cognitive interventions fielded in the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly study on 2 subsets of participants-1,606 without and 424 with suspected clinical depression at baseline. In the former group, only the speed of processing (vs. no-contact control) intervention had a significant effect, with its participants being 38% less likely to develop suspected clinical depression at 1 year (…
The cognitive reserve hypothesis
The term cognitive reserve is frequently used to refer to the ubiquitous finding that, during later life, those higher in experiential resources (e.g., education, knowledge) exhibit higher levels of cognitive function. This observation may be the result of either experiential resources playing protective roles with respect to the cognitive declines associated with aging or the persistence of differences in functioning that have existed since earl…
Physical Health and Depression
This study examined the associations among chronic health conditions, sociodemographic factors, and depressive symptomatology in older married couples. Data from the 2004 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (n = 2,184 couples) were analyzed. Results indicated a reciprocal relationship in depressive symptoms between spouses. Additionally, post hoc analyses indicated that husbands' stroke and high blood pressure were related to increased depres…
Thinking Through the Manorial Affix
Modifying Measures Based on Differential Item Functioning (DIF) Impact Analyses
OBJECTIVE: Measure modification can impact comparability of scores across groups and settings. Changes in items can affect the percent admitting to a symptom. METHODS: Using item response theory (IRT) methods, well-calibrated items can be used interchangeably, and the exact same item does not have to be administered to each respondent, theoretically permitting wider latitude in terms of modification. RESULTS: Recommendations regarding modificatio…
The Active Cognitive Training Interventions and Trajectories of Performance Among Older Adults
Training can appear to accelerate age-related change, because change over time is coupled with loss of training gains. Our analysis is limited by follow-up that is short for precisely characterizing aging-related change
Memory Training in the Active Study
These findings confirm that memory training can aid in maintaining long-term improvements in memory performance. Booster training and adherence to training do not appear to attenuate rates of normal age-related memory decline
Modeling Learning and Memory Using Verbal Learning Tests
This study contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms by which training benefits memory and expands current knowledge by reporting long-term changes in initial recall and learning, as measured from growth models and by characterization of the impact of memory training on these components. Results reveal that memory training delays the worsening of memory span and boosts learning
Relationship of Demographic and Health Factors to Cognition in Older Adults in the Active Study
Age, education, and race are consistently associated with cognitive performance in this sample of older community-dwelling adults. Diabetes, stroke, and suspected clinical depression had independent but weaker effects on cognition
Race-Related Disparities in 5-Year Cognitive Level and Change in Untrained Active Participants
Race-related results in the current study are consistent with previous research suggesting that social advantage factors such as education have a stronger influence on the level of performance than the rate of change. The small remaining effects of being African American on performance levels likely reflect uncontrolled variation in factors like literacy and financial advantage
Medicine (28 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Cognition (23 works) · Psychiatry (23 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (16 works) · Gerontology (13 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works)