Miami University

Anna Rahman, MSW   rahmananna@yahoo.com

Education:

B.A., American Studies, Yale University

M.S.W., UCLA School of Social Welfare

Doctoral Candidate, Social Gerontology, Miami University

Research Interests:

Nursing home and long-term care; translating research into practice

Annie’s research, and the topic of her recent publications, relates to identifying and evaluating effective methods for translating nursing home research into practice. She is co-Principal Investigator of a distance learning project, funded by the Retirement Research Foundation, on improving incontinence management and nutritional care in nursing homes.  Her work has been reported in The Gerontologist, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, among other journals.   She is a peer reviewer for The Gerontologist and Health Affairs, and is active in professional membership associations. 

 

Selected Publications:

Rahman A., Schnelle JF, Yamashita T., Patry G., Prasauskas R. Distance Learning: A Strategy for Improving Incontinence Care in Nursing Homes. The Gerontologist (accepted for publication in 2011).

Rahman A., Applebaum, R. 2009. The Nursing Home Minimum Data Set Assessment Instrument: Manifest Functions and Unintended Consequences—Past, Present, and Future Directions. The Gerontologist (accepted for publication in December).

Rahman A., Straker J., Manning L. 2009. Staff Assignment Practices in Nursing Homes: Review of the Literature. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 10(1): 4-10.

Rahman A., Schnelle J. 2008. The Nursing Home Culture Change Movement: Recent Past, Present, and Recommendation for Future Research. The Gerontologist, 48(2):142-148.

Simmons S, Rahman A. Quality of Care and Feeding. (2008). In Food for the Ageing Population, Cambridge, England: Woodhead Publishing, Ltd.