Patricia Parmelee, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

Director, Center for Mental Health & Aging

Primary Concentration:
  Secondary Concentration:
gerontology   social psychology
     
Contact Information:
  Courses:
Office: 207 Osband Seminar in grant writing (Fall 2009)
Phone:

205 348 1499

CMHA Fax:  205 348 5720

FAX: (205)  348-8648  
E-Mail: pparmelee@ua.edu 
  Website: you're lookin' at it  

Research Interests: late life depression; quality of long-term care; family caregiving
 
Research Affiliations: Center for Mental Health & Aging
 
 
Recent Publications:

Parmelee, P. A., Bowen, S. E., Ross, A., Brown, H., & Huff, J. (in press).  “Sometimes people don’t fit in boxes”:  Attitudes toward the Minimum Data Set among clinical leadership in VA nursing homes.  Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

 

Wagner, L. M., Capezuti., L., Clark, P., Parmelee, P. A., & Ouslander, J. G. (2008).  Use of a falls incident reporting system to improve care process documentation in nursing homes.  Quality and Safety in Health Care, 17, 104-108.

 

Parmelee, P. A., Harralson, T.L. Smith, L.H. & Schumacher, H. R. (2007).  Necessary and discretionary activities in knee osteoarthritis: Do they mediate the pain – depression relationship?  Pain Medicine, 8(5), 449-461.

 

Parmelee, P. A. (2006).  Depression.  Encyclopedia of Gerontology, 2nd ed.  New York: Elsevier.

 

Parmelee, P. A.  (2005)  Measuring mood and psychosocial function associated with pain in late life.  In D. Weiner and S. J. Gibson (Eds.), Assessment of pain in the elderly (pp. 175-202). International Association for the Study of Pain.