Heidi H. Ewen

Education

Research

My combined research and teaching agenda reflects a commitment to the biopsychosocial aspects of aging, stress & adaptation, housing, and relocation decision-making.  I frame my teaching and research primarily from an interdisciplinary perspective largely built upon social psychology experimental paradigms. The majority of my scholarly work is on aging and environment, particularly aging-in-place and relocation decision-making, stress, and adaptation among older adults using a mixed methods research designs.  I have analyzed data with basic univariate statistics, advanced multivariate statistics, and case study approaches.  

Publications

• Ewen, H.H. (2020). Assessing stress in relocation using biopsychosocial methods. SAGE Research Methods Cases in Medicine and Health. DOI: 10.4135/978159707274.
• Ewen.H.H. & Carswell, A.T. (2019). Differences in conventional and seniors-oriented apartment management. Facilities, 37 (3-4), 157-167.
• Ewen, H.H., Emerson, K.G., Washington, T., Carswell, A.T., and Smith, M.L. (2017). Characteristics of HCBS users living in service-rich, service-poor senior housing. Housing and Society.
• Ewen, H.H., Washington, T., Emerson, K.G., Carswell, A.T., and Smith, M.L. (2017). Variation in older adult characteristics by residence type and use of home- and community- based services. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14 (3), 330.
• Kaskie, B., Carr, D.C., and Ewen, H.H. (2017). What does the emergence of a critical mass of doctoral gerontologists mean to the field? Gerontology and Geriatrics Education. DOI: 10.1080/02701960.2017.1311880.
• Ewen, H.H., Lewis, D.C., Carswell, A.T., Emerson, K.G., Washington,T., and Smith, M.L. (2017). A Model for Aging in Place for in Senior Housing Communities. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 31 (1), 1-13.
• Ewen, H.H., Nikzad-Terhune, K.A., and ^Chahal, J.K. (2016). The Rote Administrative Approach to Death in Senior Housing: Using the Other Door. Geriatric Nursing, 37(5), 360-365.
• ^Chahal, J.K., Ewen, H.H., Anderson, K.A., and Miles, T. (2015). Institutional Bereavement Care for Fictive Kin: Staff Grief in CCRCs. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 16(10), 892-895.
• Ewen, H.H., ^Chahal, J., & ^Fenster, E. (2015).  A Portrait of Resilience in Caregiving. Research in Gerontological Nursing.
• Ewen, H.H., ^Hahn, S.J., Erickson, M.A. & Krout, J.A. (2014).  Aging in Place or Relocation?  Plans of Community Dwelling Older Adults. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 28, 1-22.  DOI: 10.1080/07263893.2014.930366.
• Ewen, H.H. & Kinney, J.M. (2014).  Application of the Model of Allostasis to Older Women’s Relocation to Senior Housing.  Biological Research in Nursing, 16 (2): 198-209. DOI:10.1177/1099800412474682.
• Ewen, H.H. & ^Chahal, J.K. (2013). Influence of Late-Life Stressors on the Decisions of Older Women to Relocate into Congregate Senior Housing.  Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 27 (3): 392-408. DOI:10.1080/02763893.2013.813428.
• Anderson, K.A. & Ewen, H.H. (2011). Death in the nursing home: An examination of grief and well-being in nursing assistants.  Research in Gerontological Nursing, 4(2): 87-94.
• Anderson, K.A., Ewen, H.H., & Miles, E.A. (2010).  The Grief Support in Health Care Scale (GSHCS): Development and Testing.  Nursing Research, 59(6):  372-379.
• Erickson, M.A., Robison, J., Ewen, H.H., and Krout, J.A. (2006).  Should I stay or should I go?  Moving plans of older adults.  Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 20 (3): 5-22.
• Gaugler, J.E. and Ewen, H.H. (2005).  Building relationships in residential long-term care:  Determinants of staff attitudes toward family members in residential long-term care.  Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 31(9): 19-25.
• Gaugler, J. E., Anderson, K. A., & Holmes, H. H. (2005).  Family-based intervention in residential long-term care.  Marriage & Family Review, 37: 45-62. Simultaneously published in Caputo, R. K. (Ed.,) Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families.  Haworth Press.
• Gaugler, J. E. and Holmes, H. H. (2003). Families and the institutionalization experience: Adaptation and intervention.  The Clinical Psychologist, 7 (1): 32-43.
• Krout, J., Moen, P., Holmes, H., Oggins, J., and Bowen, N. (June, 2002).  Reasons for relocation to a continuing care retirement community.  Journal of Applied Gerontology, 21 (2): 236-256.
• Beissner, K., Collins, J., and Holmes, H. (2000).  Extremity strength and range of motion as predictors of function in older adults. Physical Therapy, 80 (6): 556-563.
• Krout, J., Oggins, J. & Holmes, H.  (2000). Patterns of service use in a continuing care retirement community.  The Gerontologist, 40 (6): 698-705.