2005-2006 Scholars

Pictured are de Tornyay Center Healthy Aging Scholars and their mentors
at our June 2006 Scholars Presentations and Reception event.

Below is a list of our scholarship recipients for the 2005-2006 academic year and their research topics. By clicking on the students' research topics, you will be linked to their brief Powerpoint slides that were presented at our Healthy Aging Scholars Presentations and Reception.

To view scholarship recipients from previous years or for more information about scholarship opportunities,
please click one of the links below:

Undergraduate Scholarships | Graduate Scholarships

Current Scholars
2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000

Program	Student	Topic	Faculty Mentor
2005-2006 BSN	Ellen Chong	Advance directives: when you can't decide, who will?	Karen Feldt
	Ashley Hapak	Effective discharge communication among elderly patients and their providers	Donna Berry
	Julie Hendricks	Risk factors for chronic illness in older American Indian adults	Doris Boutain
	Christine Roddy	An analysis of exercise programs at congregate meal sites: benefits and outcomes	Basia Belza
	Karol Stevens	Using diet to manage disease: elements of successful change	Basia Belza
	Julie Zoellner	Training intergenerationally competent clinicians: how to improve undergraduate nursing students' skills and confidence in assessing and working with older adults	Vicky Hertig
2005-2006 MN	Kuan-Chun Chiang & Leslie K. Seman	Older adults' experience with the lifetime fitness program at three different ethnic group settings and a Chinese Baptist church	Basia Belza
	Kimberley Garrison	Where professional healthcare services are provided: is there an impact on nursing home residents with dementia?	Maggie Baker
	Tawnya Horsley	Do nurse practitioners make recommendations for exercise? Current practice patterns, barriers and facilitators	Basia Belza
	Viet Nguyen	Characteristics of nursing home residents with suspected pneumonia who are treated in a nursing home or transferred to a hospital	Basia Belza
2005-2006 PhD	Chia-Yi Chiao	Using causal modeling to predict the impact of caregiving on depression among elderly Taiwanese	Karen Schepp
	Glenise McKenzie	Organization of work in assisted living: implications for the health and safety of direct care workers	Mary Salazar
	Elena Siegel	An ethnographic approach to understanding supervision of unlicensed assistive personnel in nursing homes	Pamela Mitchell