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Sheryl Zimmerman is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and has an extensive research profile primarily focused on health professions and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, and demography.

The primary research topics they have contributed to include geriatric care and nursing homes, palliative care and end-of-life issues, dementia and cognitive impairment research, migration, aging, and tourism studies, health disparities and outcomes, frailty in older adults, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Zimmerman has authored numerous papers with notable recent publications such as:

  • The Need to Include Assisted Living in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)
  • The Imperative to Reimagine Assisted Living (2021, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)
  • Nontraditional Small House Nursing Homes Have Fewer COVID-19 Cases and Deaths (2021, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)
  • Addressing Systemic Racism in Nursing Homes: A Time for Action (2021, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)
  • What Is Really Needed to Provide Effective, Person-Centered Care for Behavioral Expressions of Dementia? Guidance from The Alzheimer's Association Dementia Care Provider Roundtable (2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)

Their frequent coauthors include Philip D. Sloane, Christopher J. Wretman, Paula Carder, Kali S. Thomas, and John S. Preisser.

Zimmerman's research has been published extensively in several venues, particularly:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Geriatric Nursing

In addition to journal publications, Zimmerman has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Springer International Publishing titled Retirement Migration from the U.S. to Latin American Colonial Cities (2020).

Best Publications

  • Recovery From Hip Fracture in Eight Areas of Function

    J. Magaziner;W. Hawkes;J. R. Hebel;S. I. Zimmerman

  • The influence of social-affective context on the formation of children's food preferences

    Leann Lipps Birch;Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman;Honey Hind

  • Dementia as a Risk Factor for Falls and Fall Injuries Among Nursing Home Residents

    Carol Van Doorn;Ann L. Gruber-Baldini;Sheryl Zimmerman;J. Richard Hebel

  • The Public Health Impact of Alzheimer's Disease, 2000–2050: Potential Implication of Treatment Advances

    Philip D. Sloane;Sheryl Zimmerman;Chirayath Suchindran;Peter Reed

  • Attitudes, Stress, and Satisfaction of Staff Who Care for Residents With Dementia

    Sheryl Zimmerman;Christianna S. Williams;Peter S. Reed;Malaz Boustani

  • The Prevalence of Dementia in a Statewide Sample of New Nursing Home Admissions Aged 65 and Older Diagnosis by Expert Panel

    Jay Magaziner;Pearl German;Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman;J. Richard Hebel

  • Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale Utility and Psychometrics

    Barbara Resnick;Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman;Denise Orwig;Anne-Linda Furstenberg

  • Nursing home facility risk factors for infection and hospitalization: importance of registered nurse turnover, administration, and social factors.

    Sheryl Zimmerman;Ann L. Gruber-Baldini;J. Richard Hebel;Philip D. Sloane

  • Changes in Functional Status Attributable to Hip Fracture: A Comparison of Hip Fracture Patients to Community-dwelling Aged

    Jay Magaziner;Lisa Fredman;William Hawkes;J. Richard Hebel

  • Delirium on Hospital Admission in Aged Hip Fracture Patients Prediction of Mortality and 2-Year Functional Outcomes

    M. M. Dolan;W. G. Hawkes;Sheryl I Zimmerman;R. S. Morrison

  • Excess mortality attributable to hip fracture in white women aged 70 years and older.

    J Magaziner;E Lydick;W Hawkes;K M Fox

  • Dementia Care and Quality of Life in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes

    Sheryl Zimmerman;Philip D. Sloane;Christianna S. Williams;Peter S. Reed

  • Assisted Living and Nursing Homes: Apples and Oranges?

    Sheryl Zimmerman;Ann L. Gruber-Baldini;Philip D. Sloane;J. Kevin Eckert

  • Cognitive Impairment in Hip Fracture Patients: Timing of Detection and Longitudinal Follow‐Up

    Ann L. Gruber-Baldini;Sheryl Zimmerman;R. Sean Morrison;Lynn M. Grattan

  • Gender differences in mortality after hip fracture: the role of infection.

    Lois E Wehren;William G Hawkes;Denise L Orwig;J Richard Hebel

  • Proxy Reporting in Five Areas of Functional Status Comparison with Self-Reports and Observations of Performance

    Jay Magaziner;Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman;Ann L. Gruber-Baldini;J.Richard Hebel

  • An Ethnographic Study of Stigma and Ageism in Residential Care or Assisted Living

    Debra Dobbs;J. Kevin Eckert;Bob Rubinstein;Lynn Keimig

  • The Economic Cost of Hip Fractures in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults: A Prospective Study

    Ada Brainsky;Henry Glick;Eva Lydick;Robert Epstein

  • Evidence-Based Nonpharmacological Practices to Address Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

    Kezia Scales;Sheryl Zimmerman;Stephanie J Miller

  • Dementia Prevalence And Care In Assisted Living

    Sheryl Zimmerman;Philip D. Sloane;David Reed

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip D. Sloane
Philip D. Sloane University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jay Magaziner
Jay Magaziner University of Maryland, Baltimore
Malaz Boustani
Malaz Boustani Indiana University
David J. Weber
David J. Weber University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bruce A. Barton
Bruce A. Barton University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Douglas P. Kiel
Douglas P. Kiel Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Patricia A. Ganz
Patricia A. Ganz University of California, Los Angeles
James I. Hudson
James I. Hudson Harvard University
Susan L. Mitchell
Susan L. Mitchell Harvard University
Bryce B. Reeve
Bryce B. Reeve Duke University

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