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Verbal Fluency Performance Of Normal Elderly Subjects, Molly Secrest
Verbal Fluency Performance Of Normal Elderly Subjects, Molly Secrest
Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study was to measure the verbal fluency of normal gerontologic subjects and to determine the extent of association between verbal fluency score and level of education. Specifically, this investigation sought to determine means, ranges and standard deviations for three groups of subjects: those 61 to 69 years of age, those 70 to 79 years of age, and those 80 years of age and above. In addition, correlations between verbal fluency score, and age, sex, years of education, and order of stimulus presentation were computed.
Self-Concepts Of Institutionalized And Community Residing Elderly, Diana L. White
Self-Concepts Of Institutionalized And Community Residing Elderly, Diana L. White
Dissertations and Theses
This study explores the nature of the self-concept in old age. Specifically, the relationship between the self-concept and social relationships and self-concept and living situation (residence in a long term care or residence in one’s own home) are examined. The self-concept was measured by the Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) developed by William Fitts in 1965. Data was collected at two stages (over a two to three year period) from a study sample which consisted of twelve individuals who became institutionalized and twelve individuals who remained in their own homes.
Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods were used. Analysis …
Medical-Social Needs In A Sample Population Of Elderly Post-Hospital Patients, Rose N. Cooper
Medical-Social Needs In A Sample Population Of Elderly Post-Hospital Patients, Rose N. Cooper
Dissertations and Theses
The EPP Project was a descriptive and inferential study designed to determine the psychosocial and medical needs of elderly post-hospital dischargees.
The areas of need assessed were (1) living arrangements, (2) use of leisure time, (3) vocational adjustment, (4) financial functioning and (5) adjustment to illness.
The instrument adopted for the purpose of this study was an adaptation of a scheduled in the New York Study. The New York Study, described in The Elderly Ambulatory Patient: Nursing and Psychosocial Needs by Doris Schwartz, Barbara Henley and Leonard Zeitz was a long-range study of the needs of elderly clinic patients. The …