Professor, Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine

Internal Medicine

Cathy Alessi works in the field of Internal Medicine. She went to University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Cathy A. Alessi is a published doctor and has 83 publications published. The lastest was: 'Sleep hygiene in physically dependent nursing home residents: behavioral and environmental intervention implications.'

Publications

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• Association Between Pain and Functional Independence in Older Adults During and After Admission to Rehabilitation After an Acute Illness or Injury.
• Sleep Problems in the Elderly.
• Human factors/usability barriers to home medical devices among individuals with disabling conditions: in-depth interviews with positive airway pressure device users.
• Patterns and Predictors of Sleep Quality Before, During, and After Hospitalization in Older Adults.
• Patterns of sleep quality during and after postacute rehabilitation in older adults: a latent class analysis approach.
• The association between difficulty using positive airway pressure equipment and adherence to therapy: a pilot study.
• Primary insomnia in older persons.
• A longitudinal study of poor sleep after inpatient post-acute rehabilitation: the role of depression and pre-illness sleep quality.
• Sleep Disturbance Among Older Adults in Assisted Living Facilities.
• Diurnal Cortisol and Functional Outcomes in Post-Acute Rehabilitation Patients.
• Poor Self-Reported Sleep Quality Predicts Mortality within One Year of Inpatient Post-Acute Rehabilitation among Older Adults.
• Sleep quality in residents of assisted living facilities: effect on quality of life, functional status, and depression.
• Clinical observation: hyponatremia associated with diuretic use and urinary retention in an older man.
• Evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and management of sleep disorders in older persons.
• Sleep in assisted living facility residents versus home-dwelling older adults.
• More daytime sleeping predicts less functional recovery among older people undergoing inpatient post-acute rehabilitation.
• Introducing a new incontinence management system for nursing home residents.
• A randomized trial of a screening, case finding, and referral system for older veterans in primary care.
• A multicomponent nonpharmacological intervention improves activity rhythms among nursing home residents with disrupted sleep/wake patterns.
• Limited validity of minimum data set items on sleep and hypnotic use in predicting falls and hip fracture in nursing home residents.
• Daytime sleeping, sleep disturbance, and circadian rhythms in the nursing home.
• Depression in older patients admitted for postacute nursing home rehabilitation.
• Randomized, controlled trial of a nonpharmacological intervention to improve abnormal sleep/wake patterns in nursing home residents.
• Practice parameters for the indications for polysomnography and related procedures: an update for 2005.
• Nighttime oxygen desaturation and symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing in long-stay nursing home residents.
• The Minimum Data Set bedfast quality indicator: differences among nursing homes.
• The effects of staffing on in-bed times of nursing home residents.
• The effects of an exercise and incontinence intervention on skin health outcomes in nursing home residents.
• Incidence and costs of acute medical conditions in long-stay incontinent nursing home residents.
• The yield, reliability, and validity of a postal survey for screening community-dwelling older people.
• Translating clinical research into practice: a randomized controlled trial of exercise and incontinence care with nursing home residents.
• Approach to sleep disorders in the nursing home setting. REVIEW ARTICLE.
• Predicting everyday functional abilities of dementia patients with the Mini-Mental State Examination.
• Patterns of deficits in daily functioning and cognitive performance of patients with Alzheimer disease.
• Can Standardized Sleep Questionnaires be Used to Identify Excessive Daytime Sleeping in Older Post-Acute Rehabilitation Patients?
• Insomnia (primary) in older people.
• Practice parameters for the medical therapy of obstructive sleep apnea.
• Practice parameters for behavioral treatment of bedtime problems and night wakings in infants and young children.
• Practice parameters for the psychological and behavioral treatment of insomnia: an update. An american academy of sleep medicine report.
• Practice parameters for the use of actigraphy in the assessment of sleep and sleep disorders: an update for 2007.
• Subepidermal moisture predicts erythema and stage 1 pressure ulcers in nursing home residents: a pilot study.
• Predicting caregiver burden from daily functional abilities of patients with mild dementia.
• Relationship between executive functioning and activities of daily living in patients with relatively mild dementia.
• Practice parameters for the clinical evaluation and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine report.
• Practice parameters for the use of autotitrating continuous positive airway pressure devices for titrating pressures and treating adult patients with obstructive sleep...
• Practice parameters for the treatment of narcolepsy and other hypersomnias of central origin.
• Practice parameters for the treatment of snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea with oral appliances: an update for 2005.
• Practice parameters for the use of continuous and bilevel positive airway pressure devices to treat adult patients with sleep-related breathing disorders.
• Response to Fetveit and Bjorvatn's Letter to the Editor.
• Evaluating the accuracy of minimum data set bed-mobility ratings against independent performance assessments: systematic error and directions for improvement.
• Sleep and aging.
• The role of actigraphy in the study of sleep and circadian rhythms.
• Does an exercise and incontinence intervention save healthcare costs in a nursing home population?
• Obstructive sleep apnea: asleep in our consciousness no more.
• An intervention to increase fluid intake in nursing home residents: prompting and preference compliance.
• Individualizing nighttime incontinence care in nursing home residents.
• Sleep hygiene in physically dependent nursing home residents: behavioral and environmental intervention implications.
• Effectiveness of preventive in-home geriatric assessment in well functioning, community-dwelling older people: secondary analysis of a randomized trial.
• The nursing home at night: effects of an intervention on noise, light, and sleep.
• A randomized trial of a combined physical activity and environmental intervention in nursing home residents: do sleep and agitation improve?
• Does physical activity improve sleep in impaired nursing home residents?
• Psychotropic medications in incontinent nursing home residents: association with sleep and bed mobility.
• Nighttime sleep and bed mobility among incontinent nursing home residents.
• The nighttime environment, incontinence care, and sleep disruption in nursing homes.
• The nighttime environment and incontinence care practices in nursing homes.
• Nighttime urinary incontinence and sleep disruption among nursing home residents.
• Development and testing of a five-item version of the Geriatric Depression Scale.
• A prospective study of acute illness in the nursing home.
• The process of care in preventive in-home comprehensive geriatric assessment.
• Community physicians' cooperation with a program of in-home comprehensive geriatric assessment.
• A home-based geriatric assessment, follow-up and health promotion program: design, methods, and baseline findings from a 3-year randomized clinical trial.
• A trial of annual in-home comprehensive geriatric assessments for elderly people living in the community.
• Reliability of screening for sensory impairment in depressed versus nondepressed older adults.
• The association between chronic illness and functional change among participants in a comprehensive geriatric assessment program.
• Managing the behavioral problems of dementia in the home.
• Constipation and fecal impaction in the long-term care patient.
• Detecting delirium among hospitalized older patients.
• Clarifying confusion: the confusion assessment method. A new method for detection of delirium.
• The clinical outcome of patients with stage Ia1 and Ia2 squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix: a Cooperation Task Force (CTF) study.
• Analysis of failures after negative second-look in patients with advanced ovarian cancer: an Italian multicenter study.
• Patterns of recurrence in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva. A multicenter CTF Study.
• Prevalence and Symptoms of Occult Sleep Disordered Breathing among Older Veterans with Insomnia.

Schools

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• University of Illinois At Chicago College of Medicine

• Michael Reese Hospital and Med Center

• University of Chicago

Doctors Specialties

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• Geriatric Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Illinois College of Medicine

Hospital

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• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

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