Duke University Center for the Study of
Aging and Human Development |
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Duke University Center for the Study of
Aging and Human Development |
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
508 Fulton St.
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 286-6932 or (919) 286-0411 ext. 6932
Fax: (919) 286-6823
Dr. Clipp's research over the past decade has focused on psychosocial factors in health and aging that are clinically relevant, with particular interest in longitudinal patterns of quality of life in the context of chronic illness. Examples of this work include the National Caregiving Study, a longitudinal, prospective study of 2300+ families caring for non-institutionalized elderly individuals with progressive dementia. In this study, informal costs and quality of life are examined as key factors related to caregivers' decisions to seek institutional placement for their demented family members. A second project uses longitudinal data from the Duke site of the NIA-funded EPESE study to examine trajectories of self-rated health, physical functioning, cognitive functioning, and depression among community-dwelling older men. Dr. Clipp also works in the area of gero-oncology with ongoing studies of social support in prostate cancer, and multi-risk factor intervention among elderly men and women newly diagnosed with colon polyps. She also is participating in a multidisciplinary effort to develop a comprehensive assessment approach to the older cancer patient.
Representative publications of her work:
Clipp EC and Moore MJ Caregiver Time Use: An Outcome Measure in Clinical Trial Research on Alzheimer's Disease. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 58, 228-236,1995.
Clipp EC, Moore MJ, and George LK The Content and Properties of the Caregiver Activities Time Survey (CATS): An Outcome Measure for Use in Clinical Trial Research on Alzheimer's Disease. The American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 11, 3-9, 1996.
Clipp EC, Elder GH, George LK and Pieper C Trajectories of Health in Aging Populations. Approaches to Rural Health and Aging Research: Theory, Methods and Practical Applications. W Gesler, D Rabiner, and G DeFriese (Eds.) Baywood Publishing Co., 1998
Sutton L, Clipp EC and Winer E. Managing Terminal Illness in the Elderly. Cancer in the Elderly. CP Hunter, KA Johnson and HB Musse (Eds.) New York: Marcel Dekker, forthcoming, 1999
Hoenig H, Duncan PW, Clipp EC, Horner RD, Hamilton BA, New Horizons in Stroke Rehabilitation Research. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 1999, in press.