Theresa Allison, MD, PhD

Kotwal AA, Allison TA, Halim M, Garrett SB, Perissinotto CM, Ritchie CS, Smith AK, Harrison KL. "Relationships, Very Quickly, Turn to Nothing": Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Adaptation to Changing Social Lives Among Persons Living With Dementia and Care Partners. 2024. PMID: 38499400

Allison TA, Stephens CE, Kotwal AA. Supporting technology access for older adults through in-home, intergenerational involvement: The case for ethnographic methods and student service-learning courses. 2024. PMID: 38497805

Allison TA, Gubner JM, Harrison KL, Smith AK, Barnes DE, Covinsky KE, Yaffe K, Johnson JK. Music engagement as part of everyday life in dementia caregiving relationships at home. 2023. PMID: 38158775

Newmark RL, Allison TA, Smith AK, Perissinotto CM, Tha SH, Kotwal AA. The Role of Digital Technologies in Facilitating Psychosocial Resilience to Sudden Social Isolation Among Older Adults: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2023. PMID: 37536316

Stephens CE, Allison TA, Flint LA, David D, Wertz V, Halifax E, Barrientos P, Ritchie CS. Assessing Technical Feasibility and Acceptability of Telehealth Palliative Care in Nursing Homes. 2022. PMID: 36059909

Lee S, Allison T, O'Neill D, Punch P, Helitzer E, Moss H. Integrative review of singing and music interventions for family carers of people living with dementia. 2022. PMID: 35417003

Harrison KL, Garrett SB, Halim M, Bernstein Sideman A, Allison TA, Dohan D, Naasan G, Miller BL, Smith AK, Ritchie CS. "I Didn't Sign Up for This": Perspectives from Persons Living with Dementia and Care Partners on Challenges, Supports, and Opportunities to Add Geriatric Neuropalliative Care to Dementia Specialty Care. 2022. PMID: 36245375

Allison TA, Gubner JM, Oh A, Harrison KL, Pham K, Barnes DE, Johnson JK, Covinsky KE, Smith AK. Meaningful Activities and Sources of Meaning for Community-Dwelling People Living with Dementia. 2021. PMID: 34481793

Oh A, Allison TA, Mahoney K, Thompson N, Ritchie CS, Sudore RL, Harrison KL. Front-line Hospice Staff Perceptions of Barriers and Opportunities to Discussing Advance Care Planning With Hospice Patients and Their Families. 2021. PMID: 34391713

Oh A, Gan S, Boscardin WJ, Allison TA, Barnes DE, Covinsky KE, Smith AK. Engagement in Meaningful Activities Among Older Adults With Disability, Dementia, and Depression. 2021. PMID: 33492334

Cheng MKW, Allison TA, McSteen BW, Cattle CJ, Lo DT. The Adoption of Video Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic by VA Home Based Primary Care. 2020. PMID: 33284996

Allison TA, Oh A, Harrison KL. Extreme Vulnerability of Home Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Call to Action. 2020. PMID: 32749452

Allison TA, Nápoles AM, Johnson JK, Stewart AL, Rodriguez-Salazar M, Peringer J, Sherman S, Ortez-Alfaro J, Villero O, Portacolone E. Multi-cultural perspectives on group singing among diverse older adults. 2020. PMID: 32778434

Gubner J, Smith AK, Allison TA. Transforming Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Dementia through Music and Filmmaking. 2020. PMID: 32372442

Harrison KL, Allison TA, Garrett SB, Thompson N, Sudore RL, Ritchie CS. Hospice Staff Perspectives on Caring for People with Dementia: A Multisite, Multistakeholder Study. 2020. PMID: 32130076

Allison TA, Smith AK. "Now I write songs": Growth and Reciprocity After Long-Term Nursing Home Placement. 2019. PMID: 31112596

Oh A, Smith AK, Allison TA. Key Ingredients of an Ideal System for High-Quality Community Care for Persons With Dementia. 2019. PMID: 31868915

Allison TA, Balbino RT, Covinsky KE. Caring community and relationship centred care on an end-stage dementia special care unit. 2019. PMID: 31220199

Win AZ, Ceresa C, Arnold K, Allison TA. High Prevalence of Malnutrition among Elderly Veterans in Home Based Primary Care. Volume 21 of Issue 6. 2017. PMID: 28537323

Allison TA, Cohen JM, Reed DB. Journal of Folklore Research, guest-edited by TA Allison, JM Cohen and DB Reed 2017. PMID:

Romo RD, Allison TA, Smith AK, Wallhagen MI. Sense of Control in End-of-Life Decision-Making. Volume 65 of Issue 3. 2016. PMID: 28029695

Johnson JK, Nápoles AM, Stewart AL, Max WB, Santoyo-Olsson J, Freyre R, Allison TA, Gregorich SE. Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of the Community of Voices choir intervention to promote the health and well-being of diverse older adults. Volume 15. 2015. PMID: 26463176

Allison TA. This Thing Called Music. V Levine and P Bohlman (Eds.) 2015. PMID:

Allison TA. In Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Geriatrics. CS Landefeld, B Williams and A Chang (Eds.) 2014. PMID:

Allison TA, Sudore RL. Disregard of patients' preferences is a medical error: comment on "Failure to engage hospitalized elderly patients and their families in advance care planning". Volume 173 of Issue 9. 2013. PMID: 23545699

Allison TA. Ethnomusicology 2013. PMID:

. The nursing home as village: lessons from ethnomusicology 2010. PMID:

Allison TA. Transcending the Limitations of Institutionalized Aging Through Music: Ethnomusicology in the Nursing Home. PhD dissertation 2010. PMID:

Allison TA. The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology, Koen B, Barz G and Brummel-Smith K, Eds 2008. PMID: