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Physiotherapy To Enhance Active Ageing, Yee Hung, Priscilla Poon

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Transforming Ageing In Place: An Innovation In Community Elderly Care, Kok Long, Joseph Lee

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Nutrition Issues For The Older Population, Sandra Capra

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

The Interplay Between Child And Maternal Health: Reciprocal Relationships And Cumulative Disadvantage During Childhood And Adolescence, Dana Garbarski

Sociology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

While many studies use parental socioeconomic status and health to predict children’s health, this study examines the interplay over time between child and maternal health across childhood and adolescence. Using data from women in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 cohort and their children (N = 2,225), autoregressive cross-lagged models demonstrate a reciprocal relationship between child activity limitations and maternal health limitations in direct effects of child activity limitations on maternal health limitations two years later and vice versa—net of a range of health-relevant time-varying and time-invariant covariates. Furthermore, there are indirect effects of child activity limitations on …

Financial Security Scorecard: A State-By-State Analysis Of Economic Pressures Facing Future Retirees, Christian Weller, Nari Rhee, Carolyn Arcand

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

As Americans increasingly worry about their retirement prospects, states play an important and growing role in retirement security policy. States already manage long-term care programs for the elderly through Medicaid. Concerned about the impact of future elder poverty on state and local budgets and their local economies, a number of states are exploring the creation of low-cost and low-risk retirement savings plans for private sector workers who lack access to pensions or 401(k)s on the job. Some states have developed programs to help older workers find work.

This report presents the Financial Security Scorecard, designed to inform state-level stakeholders and …

Healthy Eating And Savvy Saving: An Evaluation Of Action For Boston Community Development’S Food Dollars Program For Low-Income Elders, Ann Bookman, Susan M. Phillips

Gerontology Institute Publications

This report is an evaluation of an innovative community-based intervention – the Food Dollars Program. Funded by the AARP Foundation, this program was designed and delivered by Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) and their Elder Services staff in order to promote healthy eating and reduce food and economic insecurity among low-income elders in Boston. The impetus for creating this program arose from the challenges many low-income individuals face in purchasing and consuming healthy foods from the five food groups as recommended by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in their ChooseMyPlate model of healthy eating. The Food Dollars curriculum …

Elderly Mental Health: Challenges And Promotion Strategies, Chak Yan, Isaac Kwok

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Life Course Approach To Successful Ageing, Lok Kwan, David Dai

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Ageing In Place, Man Fuk, Edward Leung

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Vocational Education And Training For Serving The Elderly, Carrie Yau

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Technology And Elderly: Embracing Technology To Improve Life Of The Elderly, Wing Chen, Janet Wong

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

The Development Of Active Aging Learning Center In Taiwan: Meeting Today's Challenges, Ai Tzu, Iris Li

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Present And Future Needs Of The Elderly Community, Ching Choi Lam

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Opening Speech, Kin Chung, Matthew Cheung

International Conference: Overcoming Challenges in Active Ageing

No abstract provided.

Resources On Aging, Sociological Practice Editors

Sociological Practice

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The Older Person As Mediator Between Technology And Environment: Toward The Role Of "Technoguide, Arthur B. Shostak

Sociological Practice

No abstract provided.

Footprints On The Sands Of Time: A Student-Senior Citizen Community Project, Edwin Rosenberg

Sociological Practice

The indisputable growth which will take place in the older American population over the next four decades and the predictable changes in the characteristics of that population allow occupational forecasts of an increase in jobs which directly or indirectly serve the aged. This is one reason for the persistence of gerontology training programs in higher education.

While such programs obviously develop a solid academic foundation in gerontology, it is equally important that prospective gerontologists or gerontological human service professionals gain first-hand experience in working with the elderly. Such an experience, and the student's reaction to it, achieves several goals, including …

Section: Educational Issues, Sociological Practice Editors, Edwin Rosenberg, Arthur B. Shostak

Sociological Practice

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Physicians' Treatment Of Elderly Alcoholics, Sylvia I. Mignon

Sociological Practice

A review of the literature on physicians' perceptions of alcoholics and the elderly shows that scant professional or research attention has been given to the elderly alcoholic. Medical schools offer little training on alcoholism, fostering the impression that physicians do not have responsibility for treating alcoholic patients. An exploratory study of 26 physicians reaffirmed physicians' limited knowledge of, or interest in, addressing older patients' drinking problems, as assessed by physicians' responses to vignettes. These findings challenge the existing health care system, especially in light of the current demographic predictions that the proportion of the elderly population wilt increase substantially and …

The Medical Sociologists' Contribution To The Interdisciplinary Geriatric Assessment Unit: A Sociology "With" Medicine, Jeffrey Michael Clair

Sociological Practice

Observations are drawn from field experience to explicate the role of the medical sociologist within geriatric clinical practice—a case presentation of a sociology "with" medicine. A sociology "with" medicine is presented as promoting the institutionalization of medical sociology as a special field within, yet independent of, medicine. The aim is to promote initiatives which generate and lest social theory while expanding collaboration with medical clinicians, researchers, and educators to maximize the application of social scientific data to patient care. The goals of specialized geriatric practice are then described. Next, the substantive functions and activities of the medical sociologist in a …

Section: Medical System And The Elderly, Sociological Practice Editors, Jeffrey Michael Clair

Sociological Practice

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Predictors Of The Use Of Respite Services By Caregivers Of Alzheimer's Patients: Racial And Generational Differences, Gary T. Deimling, Wendy J. Looman

Sociological Practice

This research applies one prominent model of service utilization (the Andersen- Newman Model) to better understand the way in which family care givers utilize respite services when caring for older relatives. Specifically, this research examines racial (black and white) and generational (spouse and adult-child) differences between caregivers of Alzheimer's patients and the volume and type of respite services used. The sample (N= 359) is drawn from six Northeast Ohio programs in a consortium that uses a personal computer-based information system to collect intake, assessment, service use, and program satisfaction data from respite clients. Racial differences are found in client attrition …

Satisfaction With Medical Encounters Among Caregivers Of Geriatric Outpatients, Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ferris J. Ritchey, Richard M. Allman

Sociological Practice

Caregivers' experiences and satisfaction with physicians and medical services provided to geriatric patients are reported. An outstanding predictor of satisfaction with physician communication and overall patient care was the extent to which caregivers were experiencing role strain. Other significant predictors included caregiver knowledge of clinic and social support services provided to patients. The data suggest that, irrespective of the quality of clinic services and physician communication style, some caregivers will be dissatisfied because their encounter is mediated by the stress of activities separate from the medical encounter. We assert the importance of specialized geriatric services and argue that if these …

Pennsylvania's Family Caregiver Support Program: A Demonstration Project, Elizabeth K. Keech, Robert A. Harris, John M. Kelley, Lori F. Gerring, Christopher P. Peters

Sociological Practice

The physical, emotional, and economic burdens of family caregiving can present a serious threat to the stability and continuity of a caregiving situation. Public policymakers, aware of the high costs of replacing such voluntary efforts with publicly funded institutional care, are becoming more and more concerned about the needs of caregivers and possible intervention strategies to meet those needs.

This article begins with a description of Pennsylvania's new policy initiative for caregivers, the Family Caregiver Support Program (FCSP). Following is a discussion of the evaluation of the program's demonstration phase by the Human Organization Science Institute of Villanova University. The …

Section: Caregivers Of The Elderly, Sociological Practice Editors, Elizabeth K. Keech, Robert A. Harris, John M. Kelley, Lori F. Gerring, Christopher P. Peters, Jeffrey Michael Clair, Ferris J. Ritchey, Richard M. Allman, Gary T. Deimling, Wendy J. Looman

Sociological Practice

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The Rural Elderly: Providers' Perceptions Of Barriers To Service Delivery: Providers' Perceptions Of Barriers To Service Delivery, C. Neil Bull, Share Decroix Bane

Sociological Practice

A 1989 survey of the State Units on Aging (SUAs) produced five themes that seem to underlie the many barriers to the delivery of services to the rural elderly. A systematic review of these five themes led to the identification of 34 specific challenges or barriers, which were then placed under the appropriate theme. Such a schema has been outlined in order to aid social service providers, researchers, and students in making sense of the problems faced by the increasing number of rural elderly. In addition, in order to assess the relative importance of these barriers, a second survey of …

Everyday Lives Of The Elderly: A Dimensional Analysis, David Kowalewski, Steven Peterson

Sociological Practice

Considerable dissension surrounds the number and composition of the domains comprising the daily lives of the elderly. The present study employs an array of biological, economic, political, social, and psychological data obtained from a house-to-house survey of elderly citizens to derive a mapping of dimensionality. Factor analysis of the data isolated eight domains: Poor Health, Disengagement, Self-Sufficiency, Female Aging, Meaningful Employment, Political Faith, Self-Starting, and Stoicism. External validation supported the factor solution and highlighted the impact of dietary and economic deficits on the problems of the aged.

Economic Diversity And Informed Old Age Social Policy, Charles F. Longino Jr.

Sociological Practice

The issue explored here is an example of the interface between social research and social policy in the United States. The aging policy debate concerning the economic status of the elderly has tended to focus upon the disadvantaged; it is informed by a relatively selective view of the financial resources of older persons. The result has been policy that is vulnerable to the market attention given to the advantaged elderly by business as the economic status of the elderly improves. Sociological practitioners whose work focuses upon older Americans are in a unique position to understand this policy problem and to …

Section: General Policy Issues, Sociological Practice Editors, Charles F. Longino Jr., Thomas R. Prohaska, Hansi K. Trites, Karen L. Scott, David Kowalewski, Steven Peterson, C. Neil Bull, Share Decroix Bane

Sociological Practice

No abstract provided.

Aging In The Twenty-First Century, Matilda White Riley

Sociological Practice

No abstract provided.