Michael J. Stones

TL;DR: Alternative models of caregiver burden were tested using an unusually large sample size of participants and after overcoming methodological limitations of past research, highlighting the importance of the effective management of disturbing behaviors, the provision of formal services for caregivers with highly impaired patients and no informal support, and the improvement of coping skills in burdened caregivers.

TL;DR: Data suggest that increasing seatbelt use, reducing speed, and reducing the number and severity of driver-side impacts may prevent fatalities, and the specific safety needs of older and female drivers may need to be addressed separately from those of men and younger drivers.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the new scale was a better predictor of "avowed happiness" in both validation and cross-validation samples than the existing scales used for comparison.

TL;DR: The RAI/MDS series of assessment instruments comprise an integrated health information system because they have consistent terminology, common core items, and a common conceptual basis in a clinical approach that emphasizes the identification of functional problems.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the GDS and the MDS are not interchangeable measures of depression, due to differences in the manifest symptom content and/or the self-report nature of the G DS versus the observer-rated MDS.