Beth Fields
· Associate Professor, Occupational TherapyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison · Kinesiology
Active 1956–2026
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About
Beth Fields is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a board-certified occupational therapist. Her research focuses on developing, testing, and implementing person and family-centered assessments and interventions in hospital and home settings. She is passionate about improving the quality of care and life for aging adults and their family or friend care partners. Fields has a background in occupational therapy from Colorado State University and the University of Pittsburgh, including postdoctoral training. Her work includes advancing the science and practice of community-based services, caregiving, and aging-in-place, with a particular interest in geriatric health services and caregiving research.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Family medicine
- Gerontology
- Psychology
- Psychotherapist
- Nursing
- Clinical psychology
- Psychiatry
Selected publications
A scoping review of interventions for older adults transitioning from hospital to home
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021 · 93 citations
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Older adults are at high risk for adverse outcomes as they transition from hospital to home. Transitional care interventions primarily focus on care coordination and medication management and may miss key components. The objective of this study is to examine the current scope of hospital-to-home transitional care interventions that impact health-related outcomes and to examine other key components including engagement by older adults and their caregivers. DESIGN: Scoping r…
American Journal of Occupational Therapy · 2021 · 24 citations
IMPORTANCE: Caregivers are pivotal in supporting the growing population of people with chronic conditions. Yet, engaging in the caregiver role involves the risk of poor outcomes. Caregiver interventions are needed that address poor outcomes while fostering engagement in role-related activities. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the evidence for interventions to support caregivers of adults with chronic conditions. DATA SOURCES: Five databases were searched for studies of interventions for caregivers and pa…
Chronic Illness · 2020 · 17 citations
1st authorCorrespondingOBJECTIVE: Support for chronic conditions such as diabetes from friends and family positively influences health management and outcomes, but limited data exist on how and why caregivers assume specific support roles for otherwise independent aging adults. We conducted a qualitative study to examine the nature of caregivers' roles in supporting Veterans' management of a chronic condition and caregivers' reasons for assuming those roles, using Type 2 diabetes as an example. METHODS: Thirty-two int…
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025-10-15 · 2 citations
articleArchives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · 2025-04-14 · 2 citations
articleSenior author
Frequent coauthors
- 20 shared
Juleen Rodakowski
University of Pittsburgh
- 16 shared
Nicole E. Werner
Indiana University Bloomington
- 13 shared
Ross Tredinnick
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
- 13 shared
A. Everette James
- 12 shared
Kevin Ponto
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
- 10 shared
Pamela Toto
University of Pittsburgh
- 10 shared
Ann‐Marie Rosland
- 9 shared
Catherine Still
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Education
- 2005
Ph.D., Kinesiology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 1999
M.S., Kinesiology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 1997
B.S., Kinesiology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Awards & honors
- Clinical Research Award, Division of Loan Repayment, Nationa…
- Clinical Research Award, Division of Loan Repayment, Nationa…
- Golden Quill Best Paper Award, Canadian Association of Occup…
- Summer Institute on Demography, Economics, Psychology, and E…
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