Advance directives/Autonomy  

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Rabinovich, B. A., Lipson, S., Fein, A., Gerber, B., Weisman, S.,
    Pawlson, L. G. (1991).  The decision to execute a durable power of attorney for health 
    care and preferences regarding the utilization of life-sustaining treatments in nursing home
    residents.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 151, 289-294.  Also abstracted in Research
    Activities  (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research), June 1991, No. 142, p. 6.

Preferences concerning end of life treatments

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Drooge, J. A., & Billig, N. (1992).  Factors influencing hospital patients'
preferences in the utilization of life-sustaining treatments.  The Gerontologist, 32(1), 89-95.   

End of life

Marx, M.S., Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J. (1990).  Last days of life of two agitated
nursing home residents suffering from dementia.  Monographs of the Research
Institute of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, 80.  Rockville, MD.

Cohen-Mansfield, J., & Lipson, S. (2003-2004) Medical decision-making around the time 
of death of cognitively impaired nursing home residents: An exploratory study.OMEGA:
 Journal of Death and Dying, 48(2), 103-114.

Utilization of advance directives

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Droge, J. A., & Billig, N. (1991).  The utilization of the
durable power of attorney for health care among hospitalized elderly patients.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 39, 1174-1178.

Cohen-Mansfield, J.  (2002).  Development of a framework to encourage addressing advance directives when resources are limited.  Journal of Aging and Health, 14(1), 24-41.

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Libin, A., & Lipson, S. (2003).  Differences in presenting advanced directives in the chart
Minimum Data Set,and through staff’s perceptions: Which directive is it? The Gerontologist, 43(3), 302-308.

Autonomy of nursing home residents

Hubbard, P., Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J., & Shusterman, R. (1992).
Seniors for justice: A political and social action group for nursing home
residents. The Gerontologist, 32 (6), 856-858.

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Werner, P., Weinfield, M., Braun, J., Kraft, G., Gerber,
B., and Willens, S. (1995). Autonomy for Nursing Home Residents: The
role of regulations. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 13(3), 415-423.

Medical decision-making 

Cohen-Mansfield J., & Lipson S.  (2002).  Medical decisions for troubled breathing in nursing home residents.   International Journal of Nursing Studies, 39, 557-561.  Also abstracted as a Research Brief in 2002 AHRQ Research Activities, 263, 22.

Cohen-Mansfield, J., & Lipson, S. (2003).  Medical staff’s decision-making process in the nursing home.  Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 58A(3), 271-278.  

Cohen-Mansfield J., Lipson S., & Horton D.  (2003).  Which signs and symptoms warrant involvement of medical staff?  The definition and identification of status-change events in the nursing home.  Behavioral Medicine, 29(3), 115-120.

Cohen-Mansfield J, Lipson S. (2006). To hospitalize or not to hospitalize? That is the question: an analysis of decision making in the nursing home.  Behav Med;32(2):64-70.

Use of physical restraints in the nursing home

Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Braun, J., & Marx, M. S. (1989).  Physical
     restraints and agitation in nursing home residents.  Journal of the American
     Geriatrics Society, 37(12), 1122-1126. Also published in Restraints and the
     Frail Elderly Patient: Practical Considerations for Hospitals and Nursing
     Homes 155-159, June 1990.  Hospital Association of New York State.  Also
     published in the accompanying printed material for the educational video
     entitled "Developing Alternatives to Restraints." Medcom, Inc. Garden
     Grove, CA, 1992.

Werner, P., & Cohen-Mansfield, J. (1993).  Outcomes of removal of physical
restraints.  In J. Braun & S. Lipson (Eds.), Toward a Restraint-Free Environment
Health Professions Press: Baltimore, MD.  pp. 147-156.

Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Green, P. M., Pasis, S., & Gerber, B. (1993)
Families' perceptions of the use of physical restraints in the nursing home. Clinical
Gerontologist, 13(3), 45-57.

Cohen-Mansfield, J., Marx, M. S., & Werner, P. (1993).  Restraining cognitively
impaired nursing home residents.  Nursing Management, 24(9), 112Q-112W.

Werner, P., Koroknay, V., Braun, J., & Cohen-Mansfield, J. (1994).  Individualized 
care alternatives used in the process of removing physical restraints in the nursing home.  
Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 42(3), 321-325.

Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Koroknay, V., & Braun J. (1994).  The impact of 
a restraint-reduction program on nursing home residents.  Geriatric Nursing, 15(3),142-146.

Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Farley, J., Segal, G., & Lipson, S. (1994).  Effects 
of removal of physical restraints on psychotropic medication in the nursing home. 
 Journal of Geriatric Drug Therapy, 8(4), 59-71.

Werner, P., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Koroknay, V., & Braun, J. (1994).  Reducing restraints: 
Impact on staff attitudes.  Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 20(12), 19-24.

Werner, P., Koroknay, V., & Cohen-Mansfield, J. (1997). To use physical restraints or not? 
(letter to editor). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 45(2), 253.

Werner, P. & Cohen-Mansfield, J. (1998).  (Letter to the Editor)  Restraint reduction 
and psychoactive drugs. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 46(7), 930.

Cohen-Mansfield, J. (Winter 2005).  Physical restraints: Why and how they should be removed.  The Quarterly Newsletter of the Alzheimer’s Australia NSW, Issue 53, Page 4.