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Cytochalasins Useful In Providing Protection Against Nerve Cell Injury Associated With Neurodegenerative Disorders, Mark P. Mattson

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Patents

The present invention relates to novel therapeutic uses of certain compounds to protect nerve cells from injury and death. The compounds include cytochalasin D and related analogs, and cytochalasin E and related analogs.

Nursing Home Ownership And Public Policy: An Historical Analysis, K. R. Kaffenberger

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

In the early days of the United States, care of the disabled elderly outside the home meant the public almshouse. By the 1920s, private, nonprofit homes for the aged were prevalent. More recently, private, for-profit facilities have grown to dominate the field.

For-profit ownership has been controversial. Underlying the controversy is the concern that quality might be lowered in order to enhance profit.

This study asks why most nursing homes are privately owned and why most privately owned nursing homes are operated for profit. It does so with reference to The Nonprofit Economy, in which Burton Weisbrod describes a …

Sensitizing Students To Functional Limitations In The Elderly: An Aging Simulation, Sherry Allen, Viki Lorraine, Anne Lockett, Carolyn M. Rutledge

Nursing Faculty Publications

Background and Objectives: Using activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) as a focus, faculty at Eastern Virginia Medical School provide an aging simulation exercise for a mandatory fouth-year clerkship in geriatrics. The specific aims of the simulation are to 1) experience the physical frailties of aging, 2) develop creative problem-solving techniques, 3) identify feelings regarding the experience of functional loss, and 4) develop proactive clinical approaches to the care of the elderly.

Methods: Students are assigned one of four diagnoses (Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, advanced diabetes, or stroke) and are then impaired to simulate …

Preventing The Unnecessary Losses Of Alzheimer's Disease, Lin E. Noyes

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. To state the importance of early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

2. To describe common concerns of people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

3. To describe interventions to help people who have recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias.

Reducing Medication Mismanagement In Adult Care Residences, Mary Ann F. Kirkpatrick

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. Describe the prevalence of medication mismanagement in adult care facilities in Virginia.

2. Explain the significance of selected medication management errors.

3. Recommend practices to improve medication management task performance in adult care facilities.

State Regulation Of Assisted Living Facilities, Sonya A. Sterbenz

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives

1. To define the role of assisted living facilities in the continuum of long-term care options for older adults.

2. To present the various arguments concerning the regulation of the assisted living industry.

Medications And Falls, Patricia W. Slattum

Case Studies from Age in Action

Educational Objectives:

1. To describe potential causes of falls and ways to prevent them.

2. To illustrate how medications can contribute to an increased risk of falls and recommend strategies for reducing this risk.

Patient Dumping: Implications For The Elderly, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Before 1986, the Common Law provided that physicians and hospitals had no duty to admit or treat persons who sought their care except in limited circumstances. Congress enacted The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to curb this so-called patient-dumping problem. EMTALA provides, essentially, that Medicare-participating hospitals must treat all patients who arrive in emergency conditions.

This article first discusses the patient-dumping problem and how EMTALA has provoked many hospitals to curtail their emergency facilities in order to avoid treating indigent and uninsured patients. The Article then proceeds to analyze the specifics of EMTALA’s main statutory provision, Section …

Grandparents Today: A Demographic Profile, Maximiliane E. Szinovacz

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This article presents a demographic profile of grandparents, using the National Survey of Families and Households. Specific dimensions of grandparenthood addressed include grandparents' survival, the timing of grandparenthood, grandparents' involvement in other roles, surrogate parenting, and stepgrandparents. The data indicate considerable heterogeneity among grandparents of different genders and races or ethnicities. They also suggest modifications in previous descriptions of modern grandparenthood.

The Hidden Age Revolution: Emergent Integration Of All Ages, Matilda White Riley

Center for Policy Research

Over the past 30 years my colleagues and I have been focusing on conceptual and empirical work (the aging and society paradigm) that does not create policies, but can inform them. The most immediate phase of this long cumulative history is leading us now to hidden changes in people's lives and social institutions that herald a new phenomenon world-wide--a phenomenon that may have momentous implications for the policies of the future. We call it "age integration" because it *integrates* older people with others of every age. When I come to the end of my lecture, I hope you will see …