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Geriatric Home Makeover, Edward F. Ansello
Geriatric Home Makeover, Edward F. Ansello
Director's Editorials from Age in Action
Houses pose substantial risks for falling. Over half of all falls by older adults happen in their homes. Reducing hazards in the home addresses just one set of contributing risk factors involved in older adults falling.
Is Aging A Disability?, Edward F. Ansello
Is Aging A Disability?, Edward F. Ansello
Director's Editorials from Age in Action
Growing older is not predictable decline, and the overwhelming majority age without acquiring disabilities. Because age does not equal disability, the Virginia Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring should not fold the Virginia Department of the Aging, the Department of Rehabilitative Services, and the Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing into one agency.
All The World's A Stage, Edward F. Ansello
All The World's A Stage, Edward F. Ansello
Director's Editorials from Age in Action
Population aging is occurring worldwide because of success in attacking causes of infant mortality, improved public hygiene, and falling fertility rates; health care in later life itself has had only marginal impact in the numbers. Societies should appreciate the differences associated with being older but also deem to later life the value and protections given to other ages.
Walkability, Edward F. Ansello
Walkability, Edward F. Ansello
Director's Editorials from Age in Action
A starting point for assessing how friendly or livable a community is, is to consider its walkability. Walkability has different dimensions, for it implies not only that there be amenities in the community to which one would want to go, but also that one can move about safely; that the person motivated would have the health status or needed support to move about; that there would be means of transportation within and outside of the community, such as public transportation and taxis.