Jennifer Carnahan, MD, MPH, MA

Jennifer Carnahan, MD, MPH, MA

Contact : jenncarn@iu.edu

We need to evaluate each patient's home environment to improve transitions of care.

Initiatives

Applied Aging Research

Research Scientist, Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Jennifer Carnahan’s research focuses on improving care for older adults in nursing homes, most recently focusing on transitions of care from the skilled nursing facility (SNF) setting to home for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This research interest has evolved from her medical training as a geriatrician. Dr. Carnahan completed a two-year research fellowship at the Center for Aging Research and then joined the faculty in 2016.

In 2024 Dr. Carnahan received funding for a demonstration project called Pride in Aging to support Regenstrief’s strategic goals of local discovery and serving as a national model to connect clinical care with social needs. She and her team will work with Eskenazi Health as well as community partners Elder Pride Indy Collaborative and Rainbow Connection LLC. They will adapt a previously successful Veterans Affairs’ Pride in All Who Served intervention for Eskenazi patients aged 50 and older who are part of sexual or gender minority groups, as described in the video below.

Featured Project

The Coming Home After Rehabilitation and Transition from a Skilled nursing facility with Dementia (CHARTS-D) Study

(K23 – NIA) (2020-2025)

Role: Principal Investigator

The CHARTS-D study is a career development award that uses a national secondary dataset to examine the relationship between cognitive impairment and outcomes of patients who undergo the complex set of transitions from hospital to skilled nursing facility and back to home.

Featured Publications

Nov 9, 2023

Postacute Care and Long-term Care for LGBTQ+ Older Adults

Publication: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cger.2023.10.005

Authors: Carnahan JL, Pickett A

May 2021

Complex Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-020-06332-w

Authors: Carnahan JL, Inger L, Rawl SM, Iloabuchi TC, Clark DO, Callahan CM, Torke AM

Mar 2016

Hospital Readmission Penalties: Coming Soon to a Nursing Home Near You! Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Publication: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14021

Authors: Carnahan JL, Unroe KT, Torke AM

Jun 2022

Home Health Aides in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07430-7

Authors: D'Cruz L, Denson KM, Carnahan JL

Oct 2022

"I Don't Want to Spend the Rest of my Life Only Going to a Gender Wellness Clinic": Healthcare Experiences of Patients of a Comprehensive Transgender Clinic

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07408-5

Authors: Lee JL, Huffman M, Rattray NA, Carnahan JL, Fortenberry JD, Fogel JM, Weiner M, Matthias MS

Jan 2022

Describing Transfers Originating Out-of-Facility for Nursing Home Residents

Publication: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.05.042

Authors: Webb HT, Lieb KM, Stump TE, Unroe KT, Carnahan JL

Apr 2019

Supporting caregivers of veterans with Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Publication: Trials

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-020-4199-1

Authors: Carnahan JL, Judge KS, Daggy JK, Slaven JE, Coleman N, Fortier EL, Suelzer C, Fowler NR

Dec 2017

Optimizing the Clinical Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults

Publication: JAMA Internal Medicine

DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.5324

Authors: Torke AM, Carnahan JL

Oct 1, 2017

Transitions From Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: The Relationship of Early Outpatient Care to Hospital Readmission

Publication: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.05.007

Authors: Carnahan JL, Slaven JE, Callahan CM, Tu W, Torke AM

Feb 2017

SGIM-AMDA-AGS Consensus Best Practice Recommendations for Transitioning Patients' Healthcare from Skilled Nursing Facilities to the Community

Publication: Journal of General Internal Medicine

DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3850-8

Authors: Lindquist LA, Miller RK, Saltsman WS, Carnahan J, Rowe TA, Arbaje AI, Werner N, Boockvar K, Steinberg K, Baharlou S

Aug 2018

Improving Nursing Facility Care Through an Innovative Payment Demonstration Project: Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care Phase 2

Publication: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15462

Authors: Unroe KT, Fowler NR, Carnahan JL, Holtz LR, Hickman SE, Effler S, Evans R, Frank KI, Ott ML, Sachs G

Sep 2021

COVID-19 disease trajectories among nursing home residents

Publication: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.17308

Authors: Carnahan JL, Lieb KM, Albert L, Wagle K, Kaehr E, Unroe KT

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