Catherine J Tompkins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4102153 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Catherine J Tompkins |
| PRENOMES | Catherine J |
| SOBRENOME | Tompkins |
| ASSINATURA | TOMPKINS C J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0476-9007 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
I Have Decided to Read Out Loud for the Rest of My Life! Cognitive Health and the StrongerMemory Program
The StrongerMemory program aims to improve cognitive health in older adults through three daily brain exercises stimulating the prefrontal cortex: reading aloud, writing, and math activities. The brain’s prefrontal cortex governs memory retrieval, decision-making, concentration, planning, insight, and judgment. This paper reports on focus groups conducted to understand participants’ perspectives of the StrongerMemory program and their continuatio…
Intergenerational learning strategies for addressing ageism among college and university students
Intergenerational (IG) learning strategies can increase social and emotional wellness, among both students and elders while challenging ageism. However, research on IG learning to address biases among college students is still emerging. A scoping review was conducted to explore what is known about IG learning, the potential relevance of IG learning to reduce ageism, and implications for education, policy, and research. Included were peer-reviewed…
Can brain exercises mitigate cognitive decline? A quasi-experimental evaluation of the StrongerMemory program
The StrongerMemory program, a structured intervention involving reading aloud, writing by hand, and completing simple math problems, is designed to stimulate the prefrontal cortex and enhance cognitive functioning. This study addresses a research gap by evaluating a multi-modal cognitive intervention compared to traditional single-domain approaches. It aligns with emerging frameworks emphasizing population-informed, personalized cognitive trainin…
Don’t Treat Us Like Fragile Babies
Ageism in health care is a serious and complex issue which can have deleterious consequences for an older person's health and well-being. Intergenerational mentoring programs that match medical students with non-familial, community-dwelling older adults provide an opportunity to cultivate more positive attitudes about aging. Intergenerational mentoring programs create prospects for reciprocal relationships that can enrich medical students' learni…
Community arts engagement supports perceptions of personal growth in older adults
Creating Interprofessional Readiness to Advance Age-Friendly U.S. Healthcare
A successful interprofessional faculty development program was transformed into a more clinically focused professional development opportunity for both faculty and clinicians. Discipline-specific geriatric competencies and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies were aligned to the 4Ms framework. The goal of the resulting program, Creating Interprofessional Readiness for Complex and Aging Adults (CIRCAA), was to advance …
A Novel Participant-Empowered Pedagogical Approach to Engage and Retain Control Group Participants in Arts-Based Randomized Controlled Trials
The overall purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to examine the effect of arts classes (ballroom dance and ukulele) on older adults’ well-being compared with a social conversation control group. This article describes a novel participant-empowered pedagogical approach to enhance control group retention and engagement. Sixty-four participants ( M = 71 years) participated twice weekly in a 10-week intervention that included ballroo…
Culturally Responsive Companion Program for a Japanese Woman with Dementia in a U.S. Nursing Home
Creating an Intergenerational-Friendly World
Creating age-friendly communities and an age-friendly world are initiatives of both AARP and the World Health Organization (WHO). “Age-friendly” denotes all ages—all ages living together and benefi
Grandchildren Caring for Grandparents
This study focuses on grandchildren (Generation 3 or G3) caring for grandparents (Generation 1 or G1) and uses agent-based modeling to conceptualize and test a model of two factors—capability and motivation—that may affect a G3's decision to provide care for a G1. We tested our conceptual model and found that the simulated proportion of G3 caregivers has concurrent validity with existing empirical data. In experiments conducted with the validated…
Culture and Familism
Increasingly, grandparents provide primary care for their grandchildren, but minimal research exists focusing on Asian and Pacific American grandparent caregivers. Using the conceptual framework of familism, this case study explores the context of a Korean American, interracial, two-grandparent household (age 72 and 73) raising their 12-year-old grandson. The interview of this family was analyzed using coding, memoing, and comparative analysis te…
Intergenerational Caregiving. Young Auxiliary Caregivers
In 2009, an estimated 737 million persons of the world population were older than 60. More than half of this older population, 54%, live in Asia, and one fifth, 21%, live in Europe. This number wil
Aging Societies and Intergenerational Solidarity
Due to an increased life expectancy—more people over 65 years old and never before seen numbers of older adults above 85—all countries around the world are nowadays facing rapid demographic changes
Custodial Grandparents
The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandpare
Forum Response
An Infusion Model or a Specialization Approach to Teaching Intergenerational Content
Committee Co-Chair's Comments
Are We Really Teaching Our Students an Aging Perspective When We Use the Term Intergenerational? Are We Encouraging the Stigmas Associated with Aging if We Use a “Backdoor Approach” in Recruiting Stud…
Grandchildren Caring for Grandparents
This study focuses on grandchildren (Generation 3 or G3) caring for grandparents (Generation 1 or G1) and uses agent-based modeling to conceptualize and test a model of two factors—capability and motivation—that may affect a G3's decision to provide care for a G1. We tested our conceptual model and found that the simulated proportion of G3 caregivers has concurrent validity with existing empirical data. In experiments conducted with the validated…
Custodial Grandparents
The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandpare
Culture and Familism
Increasingly, grandparents provide primary care for their grandchildren, but minimal research exists focusing on Asian and Pacific American grandparent caregivers. Using the conceptual framework of familism, this case study explores the context of a Korean American, interracial, two-grandparent household (age 72 and 73) raising their 12-year-old grandson. The interview of this family was analyzed using coding, memoing, and comparative analysis te…
Intergenerational Caregiving. Young Auxiliary Caregivers
In 2009, an estimated 737 million persons of the world population were older than 60. More than half of this older population, 54%, live in Asia, and one fifth, 21%, live in Europe. This number wil
An Infusion Model or a Specialization Approach to Teaching Intergenerational Content
Are We Really Teaching Our Students an Aging Perspective When We Use the Term Intergenerational? Are We Encouraging the Stigmas Associated with Aging if We Use a “Backdoor Approach” in Recruiting Stud…
Committee Co-Chair's Comments
Are We Really Teaching Our Students an Aging Perspective When We Use the Term Intergenerational? Are We Encouraging the Stigmas Associated with Aging if We Use a “Backdoor Approach” in Recruiting Stud…
Forum Response
An Infusion Model or a Specialization Approach to Teaching Intergenerational Content
Custodial Grandparents
The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandpare
Intergenerational Caregiving. Young Auxiliary Caregivers
In 2009, an estimated 737 million persons of the world population were older than 60. More than half of this older population, 54%, live in Asia, and one fifth, 21%, live in Europe. This number wil
Aging Societies and Intergenerational Solidarity
Due to an increased life expectancy—more people over 65 years old and never before seen numbers of older adults above 85—all countries around the world are nowadays facing rapid demographic changes
Grandchildren Caring for Grandparents
This study focuses on grandchildren (Generation 3 or G3) caring for grandparents (Generation 1 or G1) and uses agent-based modeling to conceptualize and test a model of two factors—capability and motivation—that may affect a G3's decision to provide care for a G1. We tested our conceptual model and found that the simulated proportion of G3 caregivers has concurrent validity with existing empirical data. In experiments conducted with the validated…
Culture and Familism
Increasingly, grandparents provide primary care for their grandchildren, but minimal research exists focusing on Asian and Pacific American grandparent caregivers. Using the conceptual framework of familism, this case study explores the context of a Korean American, interracial, two-grandparent household (age 72 and 73) raising their 12-year-old grandson. The interview of this family was analyzed using coding, memoing, and comparative analysis te…
Creating an Intergenerational-Friendly World
Creating age-friendly communities and an age-friendly world are initiatives of both AARP and the World Health Organization (WHO). “Age-friendly” denotes all ages—all ages living together and benefi
A Novel Participant-Empowered Pedagogical Approach to Engage and Retain Control Group Participants in Arts-Based Randomized Controlled Trials
The overall purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to examine the effect of arts classes (ballroom dance and ukulele) on older adults’ well-being compared with a social conversation control group. This article describes a novel participant-empowered pedagogical approach to enhance control group retention and engagement. Sixty-four participants ( M = 71 years) participated twice weekly in a 10-week intervention that included ballroo…
Culturally Responsive Companion Program for a Japanese Woman with Dementia in a U.S. Nursing Home
Creating Interprofessional Readiness to Advance Age-Friendly U.S. Healthcare
A successful interprofessional faculty development program was transformed into a more clinically focused professional development opportunity for both faculty and clinicians. Discipline-specific geriatric competencies and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies were aligned to the 4Ms framework. The goal of the resulting program, Creating Interprofessional Readiness for Complex and Aging Adults (CIRCAA), was to advance …
Community arts engagement supports perceptions of personal growth in older adults
Intergenerational learning strategies for addressing ageism among college and university students
Intergenerational (IG) learning strategies can increase social and emotional wellness, among both students and elders while challenging ageism. However, research on IG learning to address biases among college students is still emerging. A scoping review was conducted to explore what is known about IG learning, the potential relevance of IG learning to reduce ageism, and implications for education, policy, and research. Included were peer-reviewed…
Can brain exercises mitigate cognitive decline? A quasi-experimental evaluation of the StrongerMemory program
The StrongerMemory program, a structured intervention involving reading aloud, writing by hand, and completing simple math problems, is designed to stimulate the prefrontal cortex and enhance cognitive functioning. This study addresses a research gap by evaluating a multi-modal cognitive intervention compared to traditional single-domain approaches. It aligns with emerging frameworks emphasizing population-informed, personalized cognitive trainin…
Don’t Treat Us Like Fragile Babies
Ageism in health care is a serious and complex issue which can have deleterious consequences for an older person's health and well-being. Intergenerational mentoring programs that match medical students with non-familial, community-dwelling older adults provide an opportunity to cultivate more positive attitudes about aging. Intergenerational mentoring programs create prospects for reciprocal relationships that can enrich medical students' learni…
I Have Decided to Read Out Loud for the Rest of My Life! Cognitive Health and the StrongerMemory Program
The StrongerMemory program aims to improve cognitive health in older adults through three daily brain exercises stimulating the prefrontal cortex: reading aloud, writing, and math activities. The brain’s prefrontal cortex governs memory retrieval, decision-making, concentration, planning, insight, and judgment. This paper reports on focus groups conducted to understand participants’ perspectives of the StrongerMemory program and their continuatio…
Psychology (17 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Developmental psychology (5 obras) · Gerontology (5 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (5 obras) · Medical education (5 obras) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (4 obras)