Thomas Michael Gill, MD
Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine; Co–Director, Yale Program on Aging; Co–Director, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and Director, Research Career Development Core; Co–Director, Yale Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology; Director, Yale Center for Disability and Disabling Disorders
Selected Publications
1. Gill TM, Gahbauer EA, Han L, Allore HG. Trajectories of Disability in the Last Year of Life. N Engl J Med 2010; 362:1173-1180.
2. Gill TM, Allore HG, Holford TR, Guo Z. Hospitalization, Restricted Activity, and the Development of Disability Among Older Persons. JAMA 2004; 292:2115-2124.
3. Gill TM, Baker DI, Gottschalk M, Peduzzi PN, Allore H, Byers AL. A Program to Prevent Functional Decline in Physically Frail Elderly Persons Who Live at Home. N Engl J Med 2002; 347:1068-1074.
4. Hardy SE, Gill TM. Recovery from Disability Among Community-Dwelling Older Persons. JAMA 2004; 291:1596-1602.
5. Gill TM, Desai MM, Gahbauer E, Holford TR, Williams CS. Restricted Activity Among Community-living Older Persons: Incidence, Precipitants and Health Care Utilization. Ann Intern Med 2001; 135:313-321.
還有很OT的論文及研究計畫:
a. Gill TM, Gahbauer EA, Van Ness PH. Psychometric properties of a scale to assess the severity of bathing disability. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2009;90(6):987-93.
b. Gill TM, Han L, Allore HG. Bath aids and the subsequent development of bathing disability in community-living older persons. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55(11):1757-63.
研究計畫:
1. Yale PEP Study: Epidemiology of Disability and Recovery in Older Persons
2. Enhancing Independent Bathing in Community-Living Older Persons
好好看看 Dr. Gill 的著作後，應可啟發許多/國際級的 ADL 研究題材!!
非常感謝您提供這對我十分實用且具啟發性的訊息!Dr. Gill另有一篇著作Assessment of function and disability in longitudinal studies.J Am Geriatr Soc.201 Oct;58 Suppl 2:S308-12.大力肯定使用IRT和CAT在老人functional status(a sixth vital sign)& disability的長期追蹤研究喔!
回覆刪除OT好像比較容易在別人的研究當中，看到自己專業的影子，
回覆刪除藉以肯定OT的價值。
這反映出三件事：
1.OT在意的事別的專業也在意→如果不夠積極，沒人會認為這是OT的專長。
2.OT做的研究不夠多，因此從別的領域中找到有興趣的文獻的機率大於看到自己專業的研究。
3.OT的人對OT精神的情感已深入生活，因此俯拾皆是與OT相關的題材。
所以，OT目前還是「潛力股」......