The 2005 Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars are:

Dr. Margaret Wooding-Baker, PhD, RN, University of Washington, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems: Physiological and psychological measures of stress in elders reported to adult protective services

Alicia Curtin, PhD, GNP, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, College of Nursing: Developing and implementing effective interventions to improve the functional status of clients with Alzheimer's disease with the goal of developing a home-based program that can be empirically tested

Deborah D’Avolio, PhD, ACNP, ANP, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions: Delivery of health care to vulnerable populations and accessing non-emergency care

Elizabeth Howard, PhD, MSN, BSN, Northeastern University: Reduction of cardiovascular risk factors and improvement of overall health status of older women

Ruth Palan Lopez, PhD, APRN, BC, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions: Identification of strategies and interventions for supporting eating habits in people with dementia

Sheila Molony, PhD, RN, Yale School of Nursing: How the meaning of home may be used to create individualized interventions to foster quality of life in long-term-care settings

Celeste Shawler, PhD, RN, CS, University of Louisville, School of Nursing: Transitions of older women and their adult daughters as health needs arise

Nelma Shearer, PhD, MEd, MS, RN, Arizona State University, College of Nursing: Health empowerment in older Americans beginning with homebound older women

Lori A. Thomas, PhD, ARNP, BC, University of Florida, College of Nursing: Dyspnea and related symptom management in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Dorothy Tullmann, PhD, RN, University of Virginia, School of Nursing: Effective management in critical care of delirium associated with underlying pathology

Ernest Lapierre, DSN, MS, BSN, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey: Lack of resilience as a contributing factor in self-neglect and elder abuse