Gail L. Towsley

1.5k total citations
43 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Gail L. Towsley is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gail L. Towsley has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in General Health Professions, 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Gail L. Towsley's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (25 papers), Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (21 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (9 papers). Gail L. Towsley is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (25 papers), Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (21 papers) and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (9 papers). Gail L. Towsley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Gail L. Towsley's co-authors include Susan L. Beck, William N. Dudley, Andrea M. Barsevick, Anna L. Schwartz, Kimberly Curyto, Karen B. Hirschman, Kimberly S. Van Haitsma, Morton H. Kleban, Abby Spector and Patricia Berry and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Medical Care and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Gail L. Towsley

40 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gail L. Towsley United States 14 449 310 224 215 203 43 1.1k
Shijun Zhu United States 21 502 1.1× 212 0.7× 126 0.6× 189 0.9× 132 0.7× 109 1.3k
Robert K. Twillman United States 14 140 0.3× 312 1.0× 284 1.3× 82 0.4× 277 1.4× 28 1.5k
James Gerhart United States 20 238 0.5× 223 0.7× 108 0.5× 188 0.9× 139 0.7× 87 1.4k
Patricia A. Poulin Canada 18 400 0.9× 151 0.5× 95 0.4× 111 0.5× 144 0.7× 57 1.4k
Tamara A. Baker United States 16 349 0.8× 441 1.4× 140 0.6× 45 0.2× 470 2.3× 27 1.7k
Wendy L. Ward United States 20 327 0.7× 420 1.4× 326 1.5× 30 0.1× 298 1.5× 68 1.4k
Stephanie J. Sohl United States 23 243 0.5× 181 0.6× 630 2.8× 104 0.5× 331 1.6× 57 1.5k
Nuriye Kupeli United Kingdom 21 535 1.2× 756 2.4× 64 0.3× 125 0.6× 108 0.5× 63 1.5k
Eeeseung Byun United States 12 163 0.4× 206 0.7× 30 0.1× 158 0.7× 90 0.4× 26 932
Doris Penman United States 8 233 0.5× 335 1.1× 357 1.6× 75 0.3× 279 1.4× 9 1.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Utz, Rebecca, et al.. (2025). Redefining respite for family caregivers: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Health Services. 5. 1611360–1611360.
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Towsley, Gail L., et al.. (2025). Successful Care Conferences: Nursing Home Staff, Persons with Dementia, and Caregiver Perspectives. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 26(4). 105504–105504.
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Cloyes, Kristin G., et al.. (2023). Preparing for the Future While Living in the Present: Older Adults’ Experiences Creating a Legacy of Values. The Gerontologist. 63(9). 1488–1496. 4 indexed citations
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Towsley, Gail L., et al.. (2023). A multi-method co-design approach to develop CONTACT: A communication coaching tool for caregivers. Gerontechnology. 22(1). 1–7.
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Farrell, Timothy W., Jorie Butler, Gail L. Towsley, et al.. (2022). Communication Disparities between Nursing Home Team Members. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(10). 5975–5975. 1 indexed citations
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Dassel, Kara, Gail L. Towsley, Rebecca Utz, et al.. (2021). A Limited Opportunity: COVID-19 and Promotion of Advance Care Planning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 194–198. 7 indexed citations
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Towsley, Gail L., et al.. (2021). Me & My Wishes: Concordance of End-of-Life Preferences between Residents with Dementia, Family, and Staff. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 25(6). 880–887. 7 indexed citations
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Tay, Djin, Lee Ellington, Gail L. Towsley, Katherine Supiano, & Cynthia A. Berg. (2021). Emotional expression in conversations about advance care planning among older adult home health patients and their caregivers. Patient Education and Counseling. 104(9). 2232–2239. 4 indexed citations
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Tay, Djin, Lee Ellington, Gail L. Towsley, Katherine Supiano, & Cynthia A. Berg. (2020). Evaluation of a Collaborative Advance Care Planning Intervention among Older Adult Home Health Patients and Their Caregivers. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 23(9). 1214–1222. 9 indexed citations
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Gustavson, Allison M., Cynthia Drake, Jason R. Falvey, et al.. (2019). Conducting Clinical Research in Post-acute and Long-term Nursing Home Care Settings: Regulatory Challenges. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 20(7). 798–803. 13 indexed citations
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Towsley, Gail L. & Karen B. Hirschman. (2017). Talking about end-of-life care: Perspectives of nursing home residents. Geriatric Nursing. 39(1). 72–76. 8 indexed citations
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Clayton, Margaret F., et al.. (2017). Rules of performance in the nursing home: A grounded theory of nurse–CNA communication. Geriatric Nursing. 38(5). 378–384. 18 indexed citations
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Beck, Susan L., Jeannine M. Brant, Ellen M. Lavoie Smith, et al.. (2016). Oncology Nursing Certification: Relation to Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes About Pain, Patient-Reported Pain Care Quality, and Pain Outcomes. Oncology nursing forum. 43(1). 67–76. 28 indexed citations
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Curyto, Kimberly, Kimberly S. Van Haitsma, & Gail L. Towsley. (2015). Cognitive Interviewing: Revising the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory for Use In the Nursing Home. Research in Gerontological Nursing. 9(1). 24–34. 39 indexed citations
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Towsley, Gail L., Moni B. Neradilek, A. Lynn Snow, & Mary Ersek. (2012). Evaluating the Cornell scale for depression in dementia as a proxy measure in nursing home residents with and without dementia. Aging & Mental Health. 16(7). 892–901. 17 indexed citations
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Pett, Marjorie A., Susan L. Beck, Jia–Wen Guo, et al.. (2012). Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Pain Care Quality Surveys (PainCQ©). Health Services Research. 48(3). 1018–1038. 18 indexed citations
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Beck, Susan L., Gail L. Towsley, Marjorie A. Pett, et al.. (2010). Initial Psychometric Properties of the Pain Care Quality Survey (PainCQ). Journal of Pain. 11(12). 1311–1319. 13 indexed citations
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Beck, Susan L., et al.. (2009). Symptom Experiences and Quality of Life of Rural and Urban Older Adult Cancer Survivors. Cancer Nursing. 32(5). 359–369. 65 indexed citations
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Beck, Susan L., Anna L. Schwartz, Gail L. Towsley, William N. Dudley, & Andrea M. Barsevick. (2004). Psychometric evaluation of the Pittsburgh sleep quality index in cancer patients. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 27(2). 140–148. 359 indexed citations
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Towsley, Gail L., et al.. (2004). The genetic connections of Alzheimer's disease: An emerging source of caregiver stress. Journal of Aging Studies. 18(4). 429–443. 3 indexed citations

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