Richard Francoeur
Associate Professor
Social Work
Adelphi University
United States of America
Biography
Richard Francoeur completed study aging, comorbidity, and palliative care (e.g., vascular depression, pain and symptom clusters, financial burden). devised methods that 1) detect interactions better or interpret them easier in multiple regression (app in development) and 2) link multiple regression fully and without bias to confirmatory factor analysis by making it possible to estimate all causal paths to a latent construct and its observed items. These advances reveal co-occurring variables that are synergistic or form unique psychometric profiles in subgroups. My research, scholarship, and innovations increase our understanding of older, middle-aged, and underserved adults with chronic medical conditions: — detect and interpret symptom clusters (multiple symptoms of an illness in the same person) for insights into palliative care and related mental health care.
Research Interest
Co-occurring symptoms may behave independently and consistently in their effects on important outcomes, or as symptom pairs and clusters (hereafter "symptom clusters") with synergistic (interactive) effects that become magnified or minimized at specific symptom levels or ranges. Symptom clusters can vary across specific conditions, with illness progression, and as side effects from drugs and medical procedures. Different symptom clusters may occur across service settings and populations, such as outpatient care (e.g., disease-modifying treatments with palliative care), nursing/rehabilitative care, home-based hospice, and the community (e.g., post-treatment survivors).
Publications
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Francoeur, R. B., & Elkins, J. (2006). Social work practice with older adults with diabetes and complications. In B. Berkman (Eds.). Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging. (pp. 29-40). New York: Oxford University.
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Francoeur, R. B., Murty, S., & Sandowski, B. (2011). Chapter 13: Special considerations in rural and inner city areas. In Terry Altilio and Shirley Otis-Green (Eds.). Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work. (pp. 125-140). New York, NY: Oxford University.
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Francoeur, R. B. & Wilson, A. M. (2016). Social work practice with older adults to prevent and control diabetes and complications. In Daniel Kaplan and Barbara Berkman (Eds.). Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging (Second Edition). (pp. 353-362). New York, NY: Oxford University.
