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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Is Incapacity A Permanent Thing?, Shirley M. Neitch
Is Incapacity A Permanent Thing?, Shirley M. Neitch
Internal Medicine
No abstract provided.
Health Promotion For Older Adults: What Is The Potential?, Linda P. Fried
Health Promotion For Older Adults: What Is The Potential?, Linda P. Fried
Center for Policy Research
As a greater number of people reach old age, medicine is challenged to develop new approaches to this population. Health promotion, not just treatment of disease but improving the quality of life for older persons, must play a role. What happens to individuals in terms of health status as they get older, and what are the implications for health care needs? Where should we focus to get the biggest benefits in terms of health promotion? Overall, we have learned a tremendous amount over the last 25 years about the components of health as people get older, and what modifies their …
Adult Daycare: Sharing The Caring, Having A Life, Lory Phillippo Osorio
Adult Daycare: Sharing The Caring, Having A Life, Lory Phillippo Osorio
Case Studies from Age in Action
Objectives
1. Demonstrate the role of adult daycare in community-based services for older adults.
2. Illustrate the diversity of services provided in adult daycare/day health care centers in Virginia.
3. Encourage public policy and funding to expand quality adult daycare in the Commonwealth.
The Aging Woman And Hiv/Aids: Increasing Risk And Incidence, Loretta Brush Normile
The Aging Woman And Hiv/Aids: Increasing Risk And Incidence, Loretta Brush Normile
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives
1. Discuss the increasing incidence of HIV in the aging population.
2. Describe the ways HIV affects the aging person.
3. Identify implications for HIV education and risk assessment of the older population.
Pace: Program Of All-Inclusive Care Of The Elderly, A. Leigh Peyton, Wendy Boggs, Bill Miller, Nancy Allan
Pace: Program Of All-Inclusive Care Of The Elderly, A. Leigh Peyton, Wendy Boggs, Bill Miller, Nancy Allan
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives
1. To describe the origin of PACE.
2. To identify essential services provided by the PACE model.
Aging With Cerebral Palsy: A Consumer’S Perspective, Bryan K. Lacy
Aging With Cerebral Palsy: A Consumer’S Perspective, Bryan K. Lacy
Case Studies from Age in Action
Educational Objectives
1. To illustrate the necessity of an holistic approach to addressing the changing health care needs of adults with Cerebral Palsy.
2. To show the necessity of dealing honestly and creatively with the intimacy/sexuality concerns of older adults with Cerebral Palsy.
Pharmaceuticals And The Elderly: A Comparative Analysis, Deborah A. Freund, Don Wilson, Grant D. Reeher, Bernie O'Brien
Pharmaceuticals And The Elderly: A Comparative Analysis, Deborah A. Freund, Don Wilson, Grant D. Reeher, Bernie O'Brien
Center for Policy Research
This paper compares and contrasts outpatient pharmaceutical policies for the elderly in seven OECD nations: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each country is facing an increasing financial burden due to rapidly growing numbers of elderly citizens, in number and as a percentage of population, and rising drug costs. As a result, they are struggling to balance varying levels of commitment to providing drugs for the elderly with the need to contain costs. Although each country's healthcare system is unique, the methods that each country is using to control rising pharmaceutical costs are …
Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, And Economic Growth, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mary E. Lovely, Mehmet Serkan Tosun
Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, And Economic Growth, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mary E. Lovely, Mehmet Serkan Tosun
Center for Policy Research
Worldwide, dependency ratios are forecast to increase dramatically in the next 50 years. A great deal of attention has been devoted to understanding the changes in fiscal policies that "must" take place to accommodate these changes. In contrast, less effort has been concentrated on studying the fiscal shifts that will endogenously result from demographic pressures. An example of particular interest is the degree to which a more elderly population will support public spending for education. We use an overlapping-generations model to investigate the effect of this demographic transition on the endogenous determination of public spending for education. A demographic transition …
Legal And Ethical Issues In Geriatric Medicine, Heather Macdonald, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer
Legal And Ethical Issues In Geriatric Medicine, Heather Macdonald, Charles Weijer, Peter Singer
Charles Weijer
No abstract provided.