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This study examines piano training as a cognitive intervention for older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-heb-10.1177_10901981221101355 for Who Volunteers? Results From an Internet-Based Cognitive Monitoring Study of Community-Based Older Adults by Britney Veal, Nasreen A. Sadeq, Taylor J. Atkinson and Ross Andel in Health Education & Behavior

Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-asm-10.1177_10731911211069676 for Memory Binding Test and Its Associations With Hippocampal Volume Across the Cognitive Continuum Preceding Dementia by Hana Markova, Adela Fendrych Mazancova, Dylan J. Jester, Katerina Cechova, Veronika Matuskova, Tomas Nikolai, Zuzana Nedelska, Miroslav Uller, Ross Andel, Jan Lacz��, Jakub Hort and Martin Vyhnalek in Assessment

Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-asm-10.1177_10731911211069676 for Memory Binding Test and Its Associations With Hippocampal Volume Across the Cognitive Continuum Preceding Dementia by Hana Markova, Adela Fendrych Mazancova, Dylan J. Jester, Katerina Cechova, Veronika Matuskova, Tomas Nikolai, Zuzana Nedelska, Miroslav Uller, Ross Andel, Jan Lacz��, Jakub Hort and Martin Vyhnalek in Assessment

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-asm-10.1177_10731911211069676 for Memory Binding Test and Its Associations With Hippocampal Volume Across the Cognitive Continuum Preceding Dementia by Hana Markova, Adela Fendrych Mazancova, Dylan J. Jester, Katerina Cechova, Veronika Matuskova, Tomas Nikolai, Zuzana Nedelska, Miroslav Uller, Ross Andel, Jan Lacz��, Jakub Hort and Martin Vyhnalek in Assessment

Supplemental Material for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity-Related State-Level Policies and Perceived Health Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Older Adults in the United States by Christi L. Nelson, Britney M. Wardecker, and Ross Andel in Journal of Aging and Health

Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-asm-10.1177_10731911211069676 for Memory Binding Test and Its Associations With Hippocampal Volume Across the Cognitive Continuum Preceding Dementia by Hana Markova, Adela Fendrych Mazancova, Dylan J. Jester, Katerina Cechova, Veronika Matuskova, Tomas Nikolai, Zuzana Nedelska, Miroslav Uller, Ross Andel, Jan Lacz��, Jakub Hort and Martin Vyhnalek in Assessment

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-heb-10.1177_10901981221101355 for Who Volunteers? Results From an Internet-Based Cognitive Monitoring Study of Community-Based Older Adults by Britney Veal, Nasreen A. Sadeq, Taylor J. Atkinson and Ross Andel in Health Education & Behavior

Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-asm-10.1177_10731911211069676 for Memory Binding Test and Its Associations With Hippocampal Volume Across the Cognitive Continuum Preceding Dementia by Hana Markova, Adela Fendrych Mazancova, Dylan J. Jester, Katerina Cechova, Veronika Matuskova, Tomas Nikolai, Zuzana Nedelska, Miroslav Uller, Ross Andel, Jan Lacz��, Jakub Hort and Martin Vyhnalek in Assessment

Preparedness of residents in long-term care (LTC) exposed to disasters continues to warrant concern. Prior work by our research team highlights explicit evidence of the profound vulnerability of Florida nursing home (NH) residents exposed to Hurricane Irma in 2017. This research adds to our knowledge of the profound effect of disasters on long term care residents. This symposium will utilize mixed methodologies to discuss the varied effects of Hurricane Irma on vulnerable older adults residing in Florida NHs and Assisted Living communities (ALCs). Using a novel methodology for identifying a cohort of ALC residents, the first presentation will present the morbidity and mortality effects of Hurricane Irma on Florida ALC residents and identify high risk groups by health condition. The second presentation will document the effect of Hurricane Irma on NH Residents previously enrolled in Hospice and expound on the effect of the disaster on hospice enrollment after the storm. The third presentation will present qualitative results of interviews with ALC administrators highlighting the effect of the storm on both large and small (

Supplemental material, SJP901404_Supplemental_table for Association between psychosocial working conditions in mid-life and leisure activity in old age by Charlotta Nilsen, Ross Andel, Neda Agahi, Johan Fritzell and Ingemar Kåreholt in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Certain consonant sounds called fricatives (e.g, “s” and “f”) are difficult to hear over the telephone; phones exclude high-frequency sounds that affect their intelligibility. This may be problematic for older adults responding to phone-based memory tests. Many older adults have some degree of hearing loss, and older men have it more in the high-frequency range. Hearing loss, in combination with phone bandwidth restrictions, may reduce older adults’ recall of fricative words. Participants (n=3,612, mean age=64.2, 60% women) in the 1998 wave of the Health and Retirement study (HRS) completed a word list immediate recall task over the phone. List 4 recall was examined because it was evenly split (5 each) between words with and without fricative consonant sounds. Subjective ratings of hearing and health, age, depression, and education were also measured. A Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed participants recalled fewer fricative (M=2.8) than nonfricative (M=3.0) words, Z=-8.47, p

We examined the differences in physical health outcomes over a 20-year period between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual middle-aged and older adults. We also examined whether the associations were moderated by social support and affect. The analytical sample included 168 LGB adults and 336 propensity-matched heterosexual adults from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, ranging in age from 25 to 74 years (mean age=42.83) at baseline. Using negative binomial generalized estimating equations and mixed-effects analyses, data from three waves of MIDUS, spanning approximately 20 years from 1995 to 2014, were used to examine the associations between sexual orientation and the health outcomes (number of chronic conditions and functional limitations). Social support and affect were added to the models to test for moderation. The results found that LGB participants reported one more chronic condition at baseline and scored significantly higher for functional limitations. However, LGB participants increased less over time for number of chronic conditions than heterosexual participants, and there were no significant differences in terms of changes in functional limitation over time. Positive affect reduced the strength of the relationship between sexual orientation and functional limitations for LGB participants. No other moderating effects were significant. The results of this study suggest that LGB individuals may become resilient to the negative health effects of minority stressors over time. Interventions should focus on improving the health of LGB individuals when they are younger and more at risk of negative health outcomes.