Browsing by Subject "transitions"

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    Examinining Transitions along the Continuum of Care for Older Adults in Retirement Communities: Opportunities for Occupational Therapy
    (2025-05-05) Harrison, Stephanie; Breeden, Lori; Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Human Sciences; Hoggard, Tiffany
    A better understanding is needed of the transitions that older adults experience when moving to new environments and across levels of care. This doctoral capstone project aimed to create opportunities for occupational therapy practitioners to address older adult transitions in future practice. In preparation a needs assessment and literature review were completed to inform the development of project goals. Residents were interviewed using the Quality of Life and Well-Being through Transition Questionnaire, adapted from established tools. Analysis of the interviews guided the design and implementation of interventions with a focus on evidence-informed practice. Informed by existing literature, this project further explored older adults’ experiences as they required additional care within a retirement community, offering insights into how transitions impact quality of life and well-being. The high socioeconomic status of residents at the site may have influenced their perceptions of quality of life, limiting generalizability to other retirement communities. Therefore, future studies would benefit from applying similar assessment tools across diverse retirement communities to further examine older adults’ perceptions of quality of life, well-being, and their experiences during transitions to new settings.
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    Sublattice signatures of transitions in a PT -symmetric dimer lattice
    (Springer, 2016) Harter, Andrew K.; Joglekar, Yogesh N.; Department of Physics, School of Science
    Lattice models with non-hermitian, parity and time-reversal (PTPT) symmetric Hamiltonians, realized most readily in coupled optical systems, have been intensely studied in the past few years. A PTPT-symmetric dimer lattice consists of dimers with intra-dimer coupling νν, inter-dimer coupling ν′ν′, and balanced gain and loss potentials ±iγ±iγ within each dimer. This model undergoes two independent transitions, namely a PTPT-breaking transition and a topological transition. We numerically and analytically investigate the signatures of these transitions in the time-evolution of states that are initially localized on the gain-site or the loss-site.