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Aging Gracefully in Place: An Evaluation of the Capability of the CAPABLE Approach. Journal of Applied Gerontology. Jill Breysse, Sherry Dixon, Jonathan Wilson, Sarah Szanton (2021).
Slowing Medicare Spending by Optimizing Late-Life Needs. Innovations in Care Delivery. F. Rinaldo, M. Altman, K. Cannon, T. Platchek, N. R. Shah, R. M. Kaplan, A. Milstein (2020)
Integrating Medical and Nonmedical Services: The Promise and Pitfalls of the CHRONIC Care Act. The New England Journal of Medicine. Amber Willink, Ph.D., and Eva H. DuGoff, Ph.D. (2018)
Medicaid Cost Savings of a Preventive Home Visit Program for Disabled Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Szanton, S.L., Alfonso, Y.N., Leff, B., Guralnik, J., Wolff, J.L., Stockwell, I., Gitlin, L.N., Bishai, D. (2017)
Innovative Home Visit Models Associated With Reductions In Costs, Hospitalizations, And Emergency Department Use, Health Affairs, Ruiz S., Snyder L., Rotondo C., Cross-Barnet C., Murphy Colligan E., and Giuriceo K. (2017)
Meeting the demographic and health care financing imperatives through focusing on function: the CAPABLE studies Public Policy and Aging Report. Szanton, S.L., Gitlin, L.N. (2016)
CAPABLE trial: a randomized controlled trial of nurse, occupational therapist and handyman to reduce disability among older adults: rationale and design. Contemporary Clinical Trials. Szanton, S.L., Wolff, J.W., Leff, B.L., Thorpe, R.J., Tanner, E.K., Boyd, C., Xue, Q., Guralnik, J., Bishai, D., Gitlin, L.N. (2014).
Implementation of the CAPABLE Program With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic Selena E. Washington , Emma Edwards, Dana L. Stiles, and Stacy West Bruce (2023)
Public Health Nursing and Older Adults: The CAPABLE Model, American Journal of Public Health, Sarah Szanton and Alice Bonner (June 2022)
Do Interventions Reducing Social Vulnerability Improve Health in Community Dwelling Older Adults? A Systematic Review, Clinical Interventions in Aging, Jasmine Mah, Kenneth Rockwood, Susan Stevens, Janice Keefe, Melissa K Andrew (April 2022)
The Behavioral Factors That Influence Person-Centered Social Care: A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Eugene Tay, Ivo Vlaev, and Sebastiano Massaro (April 2022)
CAPABLE program improves disability in multiple randomized trials. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Sarah L. Szanton, Bruce Leff, Qiwei Li, Jill Breysse, Sandra Spoelstra, Judith Kell, James Purvis, Qian-Li Xue, Jonathan Wilson, Laura N. Gitlin (2021).
Aging Gracefully in Place: An Evaluation of the Capability of the CAPABLE Approach. Journal of Applied Gerontology. Jill Breysse, Sherry Dixon, Jonathan Wilson, Sarah Szanton (2021).
Disability Trends Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Related Determinants of Disability, Innovation in Aging, Sarah Szanton Qiwei Li. (2021)
Disability prevention program improves life-space and falls efficacy: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Liu, M., Xue, Q., Gitlin, L.N., Wolff, J., Guralnik, J., Leff, B., & Szanton, S.L. (2020).
Home Modifications to Reduce Disability in Older Adults With Functional Disability. JAMA Internal Medicine. Marlon J. R. Aliberti, Kenneth E. Covinsky (2019)
Addressing the Need for New Models of Care for Older Adults Receiving Long-term Dialysis. Kidney Medicine. C. Barrett Bowling (2019)
Pilot Intervention Addressing Social Support and Functioning of Low Socioeconomic Status Older Adults With ESRD: The Seniors Optimizing Community Integration to Advance Better Living with ESRD (SOCIABLE) Study. Kidney Medicine. Deidra C. Crews, Alice M. Delaney, Janiece L. Walker Taylor, Thomas K.M. Cudjoe, Manka Nkimbeng, Laken Roberts, JessicaSavage, Allyson Evelyn-Gustave, Jill Roth, Dingfen Han, LaPricia Lewis Boyér, Roland J. Thorpe Jr., David L. Roth, Laura N. Gitlin, Sarah L. Szanton (2019)
Achieving self-management goals among low income older adults with functional limitations. Geriatric Nursing. Janiece Taylor, Laken Roberts, Melissa Hladek, Minhui Liu, Cynthia M.Boyd, Sarah L.Szanton (2019)
Innovative Home Visit Models Associated With Reductions In Costs, Hospitalizations, And Emergency Department Use, Health Affairs, Ruiz S., Snyder L., Rotondo C., Cross-Barnet C., Murphy Colligan E., and Giuriceo K. (2017)
Meeting the demographic and health care financing imperatives through focusing on function: the CAPABLE studies Public Policy and Aging Report. Szanton, S.L., Gitlin, L.N. (2016)
Innovative home-based care model reduces disability and promotes aging in place.Health Affairs. Szanton, S.L., Leff, B.L., Wolff, J.L., Roberts, L. Gitlin, L.N. (2016)
Preliminary data from CAPABLE, a patient directed, team-based intervention to improve physical function and decrease nursing home utilization: the first 100 completers of a CMS Innovations Project. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Szanton, S.L., Wolff, J.W., Roberts, L., Leff, B.L., Thorpe, R.J., Tanner, E.K., Boyd, C., Xue, Q., Guralnik, J., Bishai, D., Gitlin, L.N. (2015).
It’s Complicated – But Doable: The Right Supports Can Enable Elders With Complex Conditions To Successfully Age In Community. Generations. Gitlin, L.N., Szanton, S.L., Hodgson, N. (2014).
CAPABLE trial: a randomized controlled trial of nurse, occupational therapist and handyman to reduce disability among older adults: rationale and design. Contemporary Clinical Trials. Szanton, S.L., Wolff, J.W., Leff, B.L., Thorpe, R.J., Tanner, E.K., Boyd, C., Xue, Q., Guralnik, J., Bishai, D., Gitlin, L.N. (2014).
Improving unsafe environments to support aging independence with limited resources.Szanton, S.L., Klimmek, R., Roth, J., Savage, J., Nkimbeng, M., (2014). Invited manuscript for Nursing Clinics of North America. Issue: Facilitating Aging in Place: Safe, Sound, and Socially Secure. 49(2), 133-145. PMCID: PMC4074077
Home Sweet Home: Interprofessional Team Helps Older Adults Age in Place Safely. OT Practice. Bridges, A., Szanton, S.L., Evelyn-Gustave, A., Smith, F. Gitlin, L. (2013).
Nursing Strategies for Promoting and Maintaining Function among Community-Living Older Adults: The CAPABLE Intervention. Geriatric Nursing. Pho, A. Tanner. E.K., Roth, J., Greeley, M., Dorsey, C., Szanton, S.L. (2012).
Supporting Individuals with Disability Across the Lifespan at Home: Social Services, Technologies, and the Built Environment. Gitlin, L.N., Szanton, S.L., DuGoff, E.H. (2011). “White paper” commissioned by the SCAN Foundation.
CAPABLE: A bio-behavioral-environmental intervention to improve function and health-related quality of life of disabled, older adults. Szanton, S.L., Thorpe, R.J., Boyd, C., Tanner, E.K., Leff, B., Agree, E., Xue, Q.L., Allen, J.K., Weiss, C., Seplaki, C.L., Guralnik, J.M., Gitlin, L.N. (2011). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 59 (12), 2314-2320. PMCID: PMC3245364
Public Health Nursing and Older Adults: The CAPABLE Model, American Journal of Public Health, Sarah Szanton and Alice Bonner (June 2022)
The Behavioral Factors That Influence Person-Centered Social Care: A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Eugene Tay, Ivo Vlaev, and Sebastiano Massaro (April 2022)
Disability Trends Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults and Related Determinants of Disability, Innovation in Aging, Sarah Szanton Qiwei Li. (2021)
Integrating Medical and Nonmedical Services: The Promise and Pitfalls of the CHRONIC Care Act. The New England Journal of Medicine. Amber Willink, Ph.D., and Eva H. DuGoff, Ph.D. (2018)
Medicaid Cost Savings of a Preventive Home Visit Program for Disabled Older Adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Szanton, S.L., Alfonso, Y.N., Leff, B., Guralnik, J., Wolff, J.L., Stockwell, I., Gitlin, L.N., Bishai, D. (2017)
Using Nursing Research to Shape Health Policy. Aging in Place: Innovative Teams. (pp 227-240). Szanton, S.L., P. Grady and A.S. Hinshaw (2017)
CAPABLE trial: a randomized controlled trial of nurse, occupational therapist and handyman to reduce disability among older adults: rationale and design. Contemporary Clinical Trials. Szanton, S.L., Wolff, J.W., Leff, B.L., Thorpe, R.J., Tanner, E.K., Boyd, C., Xue, Q., Guralnik, J., Bishai, D., Gitlin, L.N. (2014).
Supporting Individuals with Disability Across the Lifespan at Home: Social Services, Technologies, and the Built Environment. Gitlin, L.N., Szanton, S.L., DuGoff, E.H. (2011). “White paper” commissioned by the SCAN Foundation.
Implementation of the CAPABLE Program With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic Selena E. Washington , Emma Edwards, Dana L. Stiles, and Stacy West Bruce (2023)
Drivers and restrainers to adoption and spread of evidence-based health service delivery interventions: The case of CAPABLE, Geriatric Nursing, Sarah L. Szanton, Alice Bonner, Deborah Paone, Mark Atalla, Erika Hornstein, Dawn Alley, Bruce Leff, Laura N. Gitlin (April 2022)
Communication between primary care providers and nurses within the home: an analysis of process data from CAPABLE.Journal of Clinical Nursing. Smith, P.D., Boyd, C., Bellantoni, J., Roth, J., Becker, K., Savage, J., Nkimbeng, M. Szanton, S.L., (2016).
Meeting the demographic and health care financing imperatives through focusing on function: the CAPABLE studies Public Policy and Aging Report. Szanton, S.L., Gitlin, L.N. (2016)
Humankind public radio produced a documentary on aging in community, highlighting stories of leaders who are making a difference. Dr. Sarah Szanton was featured to discuss CAPABLE and alternatives to nursing homes. Szanton’s interview begins at 8:28.
A discussion featuring Drs. Szanton and Keri Althoff examining how CAPABLE is helping provide support for our aging population around the country in reclaiming their abilities to care for themselves and participate in their communities.
Dr Sarah L. Szanton discusses CAPABLE's multi-disciplinary model to help older adults stay at home
This in-depth conversation explores efforts to create more resilient, equitable, and age-friendly communities, including the evidence-based CAPABLE model. Featured speakers included Dr. Szanton and Andrew Levack, Senior Program Officer at St. David’s Foundation.
The podcast Tradeoffs, which reports on complex health policy issues, discussed the implications of such an investment in the future of senior care, highlighting the CAPABLE program