Deirdre Johnston
Johns Hopkins University
33 Papers
160 Citations
Deirdre Johnston is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications. Previous affiliations of Deirdre Johnston include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Wake Forest University.
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Papers
Unmet needs in community-living persons with dementia are common, often non-medical and related to patient and caregiver characteristics.
Betty S. Black,Deirdre Johnston,Jeannie Leoutsakos,Melissa Reuland,Jill Kelly,Halima Amjad,Karen D. Davis,Amber Willink,Danetta H. Sloan,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Quincy M. Samus +10 more
TL;DR: Higher unmet needs were significantly related to non-white race, lower education, higher cognitive function, more neuropsychiatric symptoms, lower quality of life in PWD, and having caregivers with lower education or who spent fewer hours/week with the PWD.
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Home is where the future is: The BrightFocus Foundation consensus panel on dementia care.
Quincy M. Samus,Betty S. Black,Diane E. Bovenkamp,Michael Buckley,Christopher M. Callahan,Karen D. Davis,Laura N. Gitlin,Nancy A. Hodgson,Deirdre Johnston,Helen C. Kales,Helen C. Kales,Michele J. Karel,John Jay Kenney,Shari M. Ling,Maï Panchal,Melissa Reuland,Amber Willink,Constantine G. Lyketsos +17 more
TL;DR: A national consensus panel was convened to develop recommendations on future directions for home‐based dementia care (HBDC).
Quality of life of community-residing persons with dementia based on self-rated and caregiver-rated measures.
Betty S. Black,Deirdre Johnston,Ann Morrison,Peter V. Rabins,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Quincy M. Samus +5 more
TL;DR: Correlates of QOL in community-residing PWD depend on who rates the PWD’s QOL and which measure is used, and addressing health problems, medication use, and dementia-related unmet needs, reducing functional dependency, and treating neuropsychiatric symptoms in PWD, while reducing caregiver burden and depression, may maximize QOL.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-Based Dementia Care Coordination Intervention: Effects of MIND at Home on Caregiver Outcomes
Jeremy A. Tanner,Betty S. Black,Deirdre Johnston,Edward Hess,Jeannie Marie S. Leoutsakos,Laura N. Gitlin,Peter V. Rabins,Constantine G. Lyketsos,Quincy M. Samus +8 more
TL;DR: MIND at Home appeared to have had a modest and clinically meaningful impact on informal caregiver time spent with CRs, and no statistically significant impacts on caregiver outcomes were found after multiple comparison adjustments.
Telepsychiatry consultations to a rural nursing facility: a 2-year experience.
TL;DR: The operation of a telepsychiatry consultation service provided from an academic medical center to a skilled nursing facility in a rural setting is described, an example of how telePsychiatry can successfully expand access to mental health services to residents of long-term care facilities.
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