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Backer, Paul. "Interventional Research in Primary Health Care for the Eldery." Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 4, no. 1 (January 1986): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/02813438609013961.
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C.K. Tam, Derrick, Eilo W.Y. Yu, and Anise M.S. Wu. "A review on elder care and mistreatment in Macao." Journal of Adult Protection 16, no. 5 (October 7, 2014): 294–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-12-2013-0047.
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Purpose – Elder mistreatment is a neglected issue in the Macao elder policy. The purpose of this paper is to review the current elder policy as well as legislation on the prevention and management of elder mistreatment in Macao and providing practical suggestions to improve the situation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews government documents and statistics on elder services and policy of Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) government. The authors interviewed frontline social workers for the phenomenon of elder mistreatment in Macao as well as the issues and problems in handling abuse cases. Findings – This paper argues that the MSAR government has paid attention to financial aid to its senior citizens. In terms of elder care services, the government outsources various elder care services to nonprofit organizations and other private bodies. However, this public-private partnership approach cannot adequately coordinate service providers to prevent and manage elder mistreatment. Furthermore, Macao-mainland integration has encouraged more and more elders to stay in mainland China. Stronger government initiatives are needed to collaborate with Macao society, as well as mainland authorities, regarding the mistreatment of Macao elders. Research limitations/implications – It is only a review on elder mistreatment in Macao. Further research is needed to survey the extent of mistreatment of elder people in Macao (quantitatively and qualitatively). Besides, more effort has to be paid on the problem and difficulty of frontline social workers handling elder mistreatment. Practical implications – This paper suggests practical methods and measures to Macao government to manage and prevent elder mistreatment which is a neglect issue in the society. Social implications – There are very few studies on elder mistreatment in Macao. This paper aims to draw the attention of Macao government and public as well as academic to the issue. Originality/value – Many scholars and academics studying Macao elders have been directing to the government focus and keep their eye on the pension system and social security for the elderly. Very limited studies have examined the elder care and mistreatment. This paper is a breakthrough of Macao elder studies that serving as a pilot study of elder mistreatment and hence shifting public attention to the intangible need of Macao elder.
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Kim, Heekyoung, and John W. Traphagan. "Irony and the Sociocultural Construction of Old Age in South Korea: Perspectives From Government, the Medical Profession, and the Aged." Care Management Journals 11, no. 3 (September 2010): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1521-0987.11.3.183.
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This article explores the intersection between discourses with multiple meanings that relate to the cultural construction of elder identities in South Korea. The authors explore the experiences of elder patients at a free clinic to consider how government policy, attitudes among biomedical professionals, and elders themselves come into contact and influence the experiences of older Koreans within the national health care system. The study is ethnographic, using interview data to examine how the identities of elder Koreans are being shifted from “weak and in need of care” to “potentially problematic consumer” and how governmental policies both stimulate and respond to that shift. By focusing on the situational status of the elderly, this article is intended to represent the voices of some elderly, voices that can be submerged within the process of decision making related to public policy.
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Traphagan, John W. "Culture and Long-Term Care: The Bath as Social Service in Japan." Care Management Journals 5, no. 1 (March 2004): 53–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/cmaj.5.1.53.61263.
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A central feature of Japan’s approach to community-based care of the elderly, including long-term home health care, is the emphasis on providing bath facilities. For mobile elders, senior centers typically provide a public bathing facility in which people can enjoy a relaxing soak along with friends who also visit the centers. In terms of in-home long-term care, visiting bath services are provided to assist family care providers with the difficult task of bathing a frail or disabled elder—a task made more problematic as a result of the Japanese style of bathing. I argue that the bath, as social service, is a culturally shaped solution to a specific problem of elder care that arises in the Japanese context as a result of the importance of the bath in everyday life for Japanese. While the services may be considered specific to Japan, some aspects of bathing services, particularly the mobile bath service, may also have applicability in the United States.
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Woodward, Kathleen. "A public secret: assisted living, caregivers, globalization." International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 7, no. 2 (April 12, 2013): 17–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.1272a2.
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Frail elderly and their caregivers are virtually invisible in representational circuits (film, the novel, photography, television, the web, newspapers), with the elderly habitually dismissed as non-citizens and their caregivers often literally not citizens of the nation-states in which they work. How can we bring what is a scandalous public secret of everyday life into visibility as care of the elderly increasingly becomes a matter of the global market in our neoliberal economies? This essay explores the representation of caregivers and elders, together, in photographs, the memoir, news and feature stories, and documentary film, suggesting that one of the most effective modes of advocating for changes in public policy is engaging people’s understanding through stories and images. In this study, I consider stories of assisted living, which involve elders, who are white, and paid caregivers, who are people of color, gendered female, and part of global care chains; these stories include American writer Ted Conover’s New York Times Magazine feature story ’’The Last Best Friends Money Can Buy’’ (1997) and Israeli Tomer Heymann’s documentary film ’’Paper Dolls’’ (2006). Of key importance is a feeling of kinship as new forms of the family take shape.
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Zhao, Yutong, Wanxu Zeng, Yuhong Zhou, Rongyongzhong Luo, Zhihong Xu, and Xiaohong Tang. "Elderly-oriented Reconstruction Plans of Outer Public Space in Small Town Communities." E3S Web of Conferences 136 (2019): 04079. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201913604079.
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Along with accelerated “elderly-oriented” process, solving all kinds of social problems brought by elderly-oriented population has become our nation’s urgent task. At present, home-based care plays a significant role in old-age security model in China. Besides, the key step to promote harmonious development of society is to build a living environment suitable for the elders. In recent decades, we have built large numbers of residential communities. Environment quality of outer public space of some buildings is not suitable for elders to live. This thesis adopted some research methods such as document analysis, field research and questionnaire survey. The objects of thesis are residential communities built during 1910s to 1920s in Dujiangyan City. This thesis analysed the satisfaction and demands of elders for the communities’ outer space environment and communities’ public space environment. After considering elders’ characteristics and demands, this thesis put forward plans for elderly-oriented reconstruction of outer public space in small town communities from five aspects: community entrance and exit space, activity space, road system, lighting and marking system and public green, effectively optimized and improved the environment quality of outer public space of the communities.
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JARAEPRAPAL, Urai, and Puangrat JINPON. "Database System Development for the Care of Elders in the Community." Walailak Journal of Science and Technology (WJST) 17, no. 5 (July 22, 2018): 412–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.48048/wjst.2020.4052.
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This participatory action research aimed to develop a database system for the care of elders in the community, Pak Poon sub-district, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand. The key informants were composed of public health officers, community leaders, representatives of the Local Administrative Organization, elders and their families, and lecturers and nursing students of Walailak University. Research instruments included interview questions, an elderly health assessment form, a developed elderly health database system as an experimental tool, and a usability evaluation form. Data collection was conducted by survey, interview, group discussion, and observation. Quantitative data analysis was conducted by frequency distribution and percentage; the validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed with experts for Cronbach’s alpha. The qualitative data revealed content analysis. The results show that the database system consists of, elder health assessment, comprising general information, prior illness and treatment, functionality, mental health risk, risk for fall, and environment, the required features to support achievement of the goal for well-being, consistent with their life style, social capital, and local wisdom. In addition, the database could be used to reduce early risk factors to protect from chronic illness, injury, and decline in physical and psychosocial function. The reporting requirement comprised frequency distribution in terms of capital, problems, and need. Perception of the system and its effectiveness were evaluated using a questionnaire after participants had had an approximately one month period of experience of using the system. The responses to the questionnaire were positive about the system features and system process. From executives and health officers and elders using the database system, it has been improved, based on feedback continuum.
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Pickens, Sabrina, and Carmel B. Dyer. "Elder Abuse in America." Open Medicine Journal 3, no. 1 (October 31, 2016): 188–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874220301603010188.
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Elder abuse is a serious social and public health issue with estimates of approximately five and a half million annual reports in the U.S. Identifying and treating abused elders is difficult due to unstandardized protocols and identification guidelines as well as a lack of public awareness to the problem. An interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with Adult Protective Services investigation is paramount to the assessment and care for mistreated elders. Educating healthcare professionals, other professions, and the lay public through social media, local news, and community education can increase awareness to this often overlooked problem.
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Ning, Manxiu, Weiping Liu, Jinquan Gong, and Xudong Liu. "Does the New Rural Pension Scheme crowd out private transfers from children to parents? Empirical evidence from China." China Agricultural Economic Review 11, no. 2 (May 7, 2019): 411–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/caer-02-2017-0019.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) on the private transfer behavior of the non-co-resident adult children to their elderly parents in rural China, and hence address the income redistribution effectiveness of public program for the elderly in rural China. Design/methodology/approach Pooled data from two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and the combination of regression discontinuity design and difference in difference method are used to perform the analysis. Findings No evidence is found that pension payment from NRPS program does significantly crowd out the economic support from the adult children to their elder parents. The heterogeneous effects at different income percentile indicate that pension payment significantly increases the probability of receiving gross transfers and likelihood of the net transfer being positive for those elderly individuals with low income; in particular, the distinctive “family binding” arrangement may dramatically contribute to increasing the probability of receiving private transfers for the pension recipients. Originality/value The empirical findings would have far-reaching implications for the efficacy of public transfer or re-distributive programs such as NRPS; for the rural elderly, in particular, the unique “family binding” mechanism under the NRPS program may have positive welfare effects on the intended beneficiaries. Furthermore, an understanding of the inter-linkage between informal arrangements of elderly support and social re-distributive program provides further insight into the design of social security systems targeted to the vulnerable group in developing countries.
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Yang, Jinwei. "The Comparative Study of Community-Based Elderly Care in China." World Journal of Social Science Research 4, no. 4 (October 20, 2017): 296. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v4n4p296.
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<p><em>The problem of elder care is becoming more and more severe in China. Community-based elderly care is being gradually valued by the government. This paper adopts the content analysis method to analyze and compare four types of community-based elderly care, </em><em>government-led community eldercare, quasi-public community eldercare, informal community eldercare, </em><em>private retirement community</em><em>. After careful analysis, it is found that</em><em> government-led and quasi-public community eldercare</em><em> are the principal types of community-based elderly care, and</em><em> </em><em>the quasi-public community eldercare receive much support by government, it is the consequence of pluralist governance in the grassroots and the innovation</em> <em>of community governance model. China will pay more attention to improve the quasi-public community eldercare system.</em><em></em></p>
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Caldera, Selena. "THE ROLE OF POLICY CONTEXT IN INDIVIDUAL LONG-TERM CARE DECISIONS IN OECD COUNTRIES." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.557.
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Abstract While family caregiving of the elderly has long been part of the cultural life of most OECD countries, longer life expectancy combined with low fertility rates has increased the share of the population dependent on current workers and minimized the available population of informal caregivers. The demand for expanded public provision of long-term care (LTC) resulting from this demographic shift prompted reforms in many OECD countries in the 1990s and 2000s. Differences in these reforms provide an opportunity to examine how individual choices between formal and informal care types are shaped by the policy context. I use longitudinal data on elders in three OECD countries, Sweden, Germany, and Japan, to examine LTC decisions under three varied approaches to population aging. The direction of LTC reforms in each country has been shaped by the existing model of care provision and financial constraints. In response to cost pressures, Sweden introduced need-based provision, financial devolution, and market-based approaches to its universal care model. Germany and Japan, in contrast, widely expanded restricted LTC coverage through public LTC insurance models. I use three multinomial logistic models of the LTC decision to test how differing policy schemes influence choices between formal and informal care. Using longitudinal Global Gateway to Aging data for each country, I model the LTC decision in each country as a factor of demographic and need characteristics of the elder experiencing limitations, characteristics of their family, and eligibility for publicly-provided LTC.
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Kanokthet, Thanach. "The Policy Development of Social Welfare for Elderly Health Care in the Community: A Case Study of Phitsanulok Municipality, Thailand." Asian Social Science 14, no. 7 (June 22, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v14n7p1.
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This research was aimed at developing a social welfare policy on elderly health care in the community through a case study of Phitsanulok Municipality. The objectives of the study were 1) to develop elements and indicators of social welfare for elderly health care, 2) to develop a model for developing social welfare for elderly health care and 3) to investigate the policy development of social welfare for elderly health care. Mixed Method was utilized using survey component analysis research method, content analysis, component confirmation, deep interview and group discussion. The sample groups in this research are 759 elders and 60 organization managers who are involved in social welfare policy for long term elderly health care. Results showed 1) social welfare for elderly health care is included in the existing policy in the area and is operational, but it lacks policy contents which are consistent with the needs of the elderly. Additionally, 2) 34 indicators and five elements were identified as components and parameters of social welfare for the elderly in Phitsanulok. Analysis showed the three elements and six indicators are important and two of the six relate to public health. Analysis by Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy found KMO value equal to 0.912 and structural reliability α= 0.83-0.97. Lastly, 3) the evaluation results revealed that social welfare policy for elderly health care in Phitsanulok is suitable at a high level.
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Leung, Mei-yung, Jingyu Yu, and Ming L. A. Chong. "Impact of facilities management on the quality of life for the elderly in care and attention homes – Cross-validation by quantitative and qualitative studies." Indoor and Built Environment 26, no. 8 (August 18, 2016): 1070–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326x16662697.
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The rapid increase in elderly population has increased demand on care services and care and attention homes in Hong Kong. Elderly residents in care and attention homes rely heavily on facilities to maintain their quality of life. However, many care and attention homes are not purpose-built for elderly people. This paper investigates the relationship between facilities management of care and attention homes and elderly quality of life using both quantitative and qualitative data. A questionnaire was distributed among elders of eight recruited care and attention homes with four categories (government-financed non-purpose-built, government-financed purpose-built, self-financed non-purpose-built and self-financed purpose-built) in Hong Kong. Selected care and attention homes were a good mixture of operating types, building age and building types. A total of 56 questionnaires were completed by both elderly residents and staff in care and attention homes (37.5% were male and 62.5% were female), followed by semi-structured interviews; 48.2% of respondents were over 80 years of age and 93% had lived in C&A homes for more than one year. The findings identified 19 indoor facilities factors and also measured elderly quality of life. The results showed that space identification, distance, ventilation, furniture, non-slip floors and recreation facilities were positively related to elderly quality of life. Based on these findings, several practical recommendations are proposed, including allocating larger spaces for bedrooms, designing ventilation, installation of non-slip flooring, family-like furniture and the arrangement of recreational facilities.
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Chaleekrua, Sarintip, Kanya Janpol, and Pattra Wattanapan. "Swallowing Problems among Community-Dwelling Elderly in Northeastern Thailand." Journal of Primary Care & Community Health 12 (January 2021): 215013272110195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211019596.
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Introduction/objectives Aging brings deterioration in many organs involving in swallowing, such as, oropharyngeal muscle weakness, decreased salivation, multiple teeth loss, decreased oral sensation, and delayed swallowing response. There are no official statistics and systematic records of swallowing problems in Thailand’s healthy elder populations. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence of swallowing problems among a Thai healthy elder population. Methods A survey of 874 elders was conducted at Community Hospitals in region 7 of the Thai National Health Security Office from September to November 2019. All participants were interviewed using a questionnaire focused on, screening for swallowing problems using a 10-item Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) and questions about participants’ physical and oral health behaviors. Results Sixty-six percent of the participants were women and 34% were males, with mean age 69.70 ± 6.79 years. Of these, 11.4% had swallowing problems. The most common swallowing problems were food sticking in the throat, effort on swallowing and choking. Age and having an underlying disease were found to be statistically significantly associated with dysphagia, whereas gender was not associated with dysphagia. Conclusions The prevalence of swallowing problems among Thai healthy community-dwelling elders was assessed as about 11%. Early identification and early intervention for swallowing problem is necessary for promoting health and quality of life of our growing elderly population.
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Pavlič, Danica Rotar, Alem Maksuti, Aleksandra Panić, and Klara Pavleković. "Informal care in the context of long-term health care for the elderly in Slovenia: A qualitative study." Slovenian Journal of Public Health 60, no. 3 (June 28, 2021): 167–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0024.
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Abstract Background Slovenia is an aging society. Social security expenditures for the elderly are rising steadily, and the majority of Slovenians are firmly convinced that the state must provide elder care. This situation means that informal caregivers face many challenges and problems in their altruistic mission. Objectives To explore the experiences and feelings of informal caregivers and to provide an understanding of how informal caregivers support the elderly and what challenges and difficulties they face in Slovenian society. Methods The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 10 caregivers. In addition to descriptive statistics, we conducted a qualitative study using the qualitative content analysis method. Results We identified four themes among health caregivers’ experiences with challenges and problems in providing long-term health care for the elderly. Caregivers pointed out that they are mostly left to themselves and their altruistic mission of giving informal long-term care to their elderly relatives and friends. Systemic regulation of the national public health care system is the source of many problems. Conclusion Other social systems determine and limit the position of informal caregivers in Slovenia. This qualitative study should be understood as useful stepping-stone to future research and real improvement in this area.
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Aurizki, Gading Ekapuja, Ferry Efendi, and Retno Indarwati. "Factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following natural disaster among Indonesian elderly." Working with Older People 24, no. 1 (October 24, 2019): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wwop-08-2019-0020.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among elderly who live in a post-earthquake area. Design/methodology/approach This was a cross-sectional study involving 152 elder people who survived the disaster and were selected conveniently. The study was conducted in two worst-affected districts of Lombok Utara regency. PTSD was diagnosed using a modified version of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale version 5 (CAPS-5). The demographic data were assessed using a self-developed questionnaire consisting of 13 items. All data were analyzed by descriptive analysis, χ2 test and binary logistic regression with p<0.05. Findings Out of the 152 elder people, 91 (59.9 percent) suffered PTSD. Intrusion symptoms were the most common symptoms experienced by the respondents (94.1 percent). The factors associated with the PTSD in the elderly after the earthquake were having chronic illnesses (OR=2.490; 95% CI=1.151–5.385), public health center utilization (OR=2.200; 95% CI=1.068–4.535) and occupational status before the disaster (OR=2.726; 95% CI=1.296–5.730). These findings highlight that individual factors and access to health care services remain an important aspect of stress identification among the elderly following the disaster event. Social implications Elder people constitute a vulnerable group that is often forgotten and neglected during post-disaster recovery, though they have potentially higher psychosocial distress than younger age groups. This study was conducted to raise awareness about mental health problems suffered by the elderly. Originality/value This is the first study to apply CAPS-5 to assess PTSD among Indonesian elderly people following a natural disaster. This paper also provides insights that can be used by governments and other relevant parties to address PTSD problems suffered by many elderly people in a post-disaster area.
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Heisler, Candace J. "ETHICAL DILEMMAS, VULNERABLE ELDERS, AND ELDER ABUSE." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S238—S239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.891.
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Abstract Elder abuse is a growing concern worldwide. It is described across multiple professional disciplines: as a social justice issue by social workers; as a medical syndrome and public health issue by health care providers; and as a violation of human rights and criminal laws by courts, legislators, and the justice system professionals. Elder abuse assumes different forms, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, financial exploitation, neglect, and abandonment. Forms often co-occur in a variety of settings. This presentation explores key ethical conundrums emerging when different professions address elder abuse. Specifically examined is how the ethical principles of autonomy and non-maleficence conflict with mandatory reporting laws, for example, if their purpose is to incarcerate older offenders who are ill and vulnerable serving lengthy mandated prison terms. The presentation also explores the rights of perpetrators, including how rights of crime victims are weighed against those of perpetrators in a just society.
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Silva, Mírian Dias Moreira e., Keidson Rodrigues de Brito, André Dias Moreira e. Silva, GINA ANDRADE ABDALA, and Maria Dyrce Dias Meira. "INTEGRALITY IN HEALTH CARE FOR THE ELDERLY: A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8, no. 11 (December 16, 2020): 311–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i11.2020.2470.
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Introduction: the demands for goods and services aimed at the health needs of the elderly require a different perspective that considers the human being in all its dimensions: biopsychosocial and spiritual. Objective: to reflect on the assistance strategies that impact comprehensive care for the elderly, based on public health policies. Methodology: reflective essay that contextualizes comprehensive care for the elderly. Results: the content is presented in four sections: "Population aging in Brazil" "Public Health Policies: a brief historical recovery"; "Comprehensiveness in health care: practices and challenges" and, finally, "Training to work in the health of the elderly and communication strategies". Conclusion: it is clear that different care strategies, including verbal and non-verbal communication, contribute to greater comprehensiveness and humanization in the care of the elderly. It also appears that public health policies depend on intersectoral integration to provide care for the elderly in a holistic way.
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Ali, Suridah, Rahimah Abdul Aziz, and Mimi Hanida Abdul Mutalib. "THE PROBLEMS OF INFORMAL CAREGIVERS ON LONG-TERM CAREGIVING OF THE ELDERLIES." Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine 21, no. 1 (April 24, 2021): 121–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.37268/mjphm/vol.21/no.1/art.646.
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Malaysia is expected to become the elder country by the year 2035 and elderly caregiving is the main issue in the old population. Although the elderly are expected to live for a longer period, half of them are in an unhealthy condition, sick and suffering from the disease. Thus, they need to be taken care of for a longer period formally or informally. However, most of the family members have chosen to take care of the elderly informally. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to identify the problems that are faced by the caregivers on long-term caregiving of the elderly. Informal caregivers need to encounter a financial problem, affected health, difficulty in determining the caregiving rotation and lack of knowledge or information pertaining to elderly caregiving. Hence, the roles of caregiving in the long-term period could burden and affect the informal caregivers’ well-being.
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Murwani, Arita, Santoso Santoso, Eny Lestari, and Endang S. Sulaeman. "The Health Promotion Model of Public Health Program for Elderly." Global Journal of Health Science 11, no. 7 (June 17, 2019): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v11n7p119.
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OBJECTIVE: The society health care of elderly is integral part of service health by comprehensive through promotion, preventive, curative and rehabilitative, and resocialitative efforts. The aim of society health care is to improve the ability of society to live healthy until an optimal degree of health is achieved.
METHOD: This research was cross sectional research by using survey method. Sample of this research was 200 elderly that was divided into 25 clinics in Sleman regency of Special Region Yogyakarta. This research was done on March up to August 2018. The data was collected then processed by using PLS SEM program.
RESUTLS: The results of research show there is an influence between the health promotion and the health education with estimates = 0,753. The health education posses the elderly health behavior with value p = 0,00. The health behavior (p = 0,00), public policy (p = 0,07), the care function of elderly (p = 0,00), and elderly behavior (p = 0,020) posse the independence of elderly. The elderly independence possess the elderly health quality with estimates as big as 0, 312.
CONCLUSION: Based on the finding of the study, elderly health quality can be improved by increasing the elderly independence through the health education effort which takes effect to the health behavior and improving the facilities and infrastructure related to the health public policy, and improving the health care of society.
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Machado, Jacqueline de Sousa, Vanessa Vicente Souza, Shirlei de Oliveira Silva, Andréa Abdala Frank, and Eliane Abreu Soares. "Atenção primária à saúde: perfil nutricional e funcional de idosos." O Mundo da Saúde 31, no. 3 (September 4, 2007): 403–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15343/0104-7809.200731.3.10.
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Schatz, Enid J. "``Taking care of my own blood'': Older women's relationships to their households in rural South Africa." Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 35, no. 69_suppl (August 2007): 147–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14034950701355676.
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Aim: This paper examines financial, emotional, and physical responsibilities elderly women are being asked to take on due to the incapacity of their adult children to care for the next generation; such incapacity is likely to increase as the HIV/AIDS epidemic worsens. Methods: This paper combines quantitative and qualitative data. Census data from the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance system (AHDSS) describe the presence of the elderly (specifically women over the age of 60 and men over the age of 65) in households in the Agincourt study site. Semi-structured interviews with 30 female residents aged 60—75 complement the census data by exploring the roles that older women, in particular, are playing in their households. Results: An elderly man and/or woman lives in 27.6% of households; 86% of elders live with non-elders. Households with a woman over the age of 60 resident (as opposed to those without) are twice as likely to have a fostered child living in the household and three times as likely to have an orphaned child in the household. Elderly women face financial, physical, and emotional burdens related to the morbidity and mortality of their adult children, and to caring for grandchildren left behind due to adult children's mortality, migration, (re)marriage, and unemployment. Conclusions: Older women provide crucial financial, physical, and emotional support for ill adult children and fostered and orphaned grandchildren in their households. As more prime-aged adults suffer from HIV/AIDS-related morbidity and mortality, these obligations are likely to increase.
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Shobarina, Agiesta Sephya, Aat Sriati, and Iwan Shalahuddin. "HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG THE ELDERLY AT MAJALAYA PUBLIC HEALTH CENTERS (PUSKESMAS) WEST JAVA-INDONESIA." Malahayati International Journal of Nursing and Health Science 2, no. 1 (April 11, 2019): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33024/minh.v2i1.1164.
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ABSTRACT Background: Elderly Health problems can lead to decline in elderly body functions and become a factor that improves health problems. As a result, many elderly people come to public health services every day with the same complaints and different complaints.Purpose: to recognize the description of health problems among the elderly at Majalaya public health centers (Puskesmas) West Java-IndonesiaMethods: A descriptive research with documentation study. The object of research is medical records of elderly who went to public health center during the last 1 year from April 2017 until March 2018. The number of samples is 3899 elderly based on elderly visit number gained by total sampling technique. The technique of data collection is through elderly medical records at Majalaya Public Health Centre during the last 1 year. This research uses frequency distribution and proportion analysis.Results: Showed that almost all elderly came independently without being escorted by their families and hypertension was the highest-ranking health problems experienced by elderly (40,9%) others were rheumatoid atritis (14,9%), cough and flu (8.2%) , gastritis (7,9%) and chepalgia (7.6%) , they were the 5th highest health problems experienced by the elderly at Majalaya Public Health center during the last 1 year.Conclusion: Among 22 health problems that are experienced by elderly, hypertension is the most common problem complained by elderly. It is recommended that health care workers optimize services regarding the handling and treatment of chronic health problems among elderly.
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Vilar-Compte, Mireya, Liliana Giraldo-Rodríguez, Adriana Ochoa-Laginas, and Pablo Gaitan-Rossi. "Association Between Depression and Elder Abuse and the Mediation of Social Support: A Cross-Sectional Study of Elder Females in Mexico City." Journal of Aging and Health 30, no. 4 (January 6, 2017): 559–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0898264316686432.
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Objective: We assessed the association between depression and elder abuse, and the mediation effect of social support among elder women in Mexico City. Method: A total of 526 noninstitutionalized elder women, residing in Mexico City and attending public community centers were selected. Logistic regressions and structural equation models (SEM) were estimated. Results: One fifth of the elderly women were at risk of depression, one third suffered some type of abuse in the past 12 months, and 82% reported low social support. Logistic models confirmed that depression was statistically associated with elder abuse and vice versa (odds ratio [OR] = 1.97 and 1.96, respectively). In both models, social support significantly reduced the association between these variables leading to study these associations through SEM. This approach highlighted that social support buffers the association between depression and elder abuse. Discussion: Findings underline the relevance of programs and strategies targeted at increasing social support among urban older adults.
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Gershen, J. A. "Geriatric Dentistry and Prevention: Research and Public Policy." Advances in Dental Research 5, no. 1 (December 1991): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08959374910050011101.
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Changing demographics, including the increase in life expectancy and the growing numbers of elderly, has focused attention on the need for dental research activities to be expanded for geriatric dentistry. The elderly are at greater risk for oral disease, since gains in longevity result in more medically compromising conditions or systemic disease with oral manifestations. Also, as edentulism decreases and as more teeth are retained by the elderly, the pattern of oral diseases and the treatment of dental conditions will be altered. Barriers to self-care and professional care must be removed, and prevention and early intervention strategies must be formulated to reduce the risk of oral diseases. Risk factors for oral diseases in the elderly can be reduced by personal home-care regimens, professionally provided preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic care, changes in high-risk behavior, and a supportive environment. Generating new information about the prevention of oral diseases and conditions that have an impact on the elderly requires a substantial research effort. A research agenda for the elderly should include: epidemiologic studies of relevant oral diseases and related risk factors; investigations of patient and provider attitudes and behavior related to oral health; studies of the relationship between general health and oral health; development and testing of preventive and treatment strategies for conditions such as xerostomia, root caries, secondary caries, and gingival recession; and studies for the evaluation of the impact of the aging population on the dental delivery system. Public policy options to support geriatric oral health care and research are limited by the Government's pre-occupation with cost containment and the lack of visibility for dental programs. Many of the national health proposals for universal coverage and for elimination of financial barriers to health care do not include disease prevention or health promotion programs; dentistry is not mentioned even in those proposals that do include prevention. NIDR is gathering support for geriatric oral health research with its new initiative, entitled the "Research and Action Program to Improve the Oral Health of Older Americans and Other Adults at High Risk". Funding for this program may depend in part on changing national priorities and the dental profession's ability to become more intimately involved in the public debate regarding the future of the nation's health care system.
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Laffrey, Shirley Cloutier, Andrea Renwanz-Boyle, Rhoda Slagle, Alene Guthmiller, and Barbara Carter. "Elderly Clients' Perceptions of Public Health Nursing Care." Public Health Nursing 7, no. 2 (June 1990): 111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1446.1990.tb00620.x.
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Alipour, Atefeh, Zahra Fotokian, Abbas Shamsalinia, Fatemeh Ghaffari, and Mahmoud Hajiahmadi. "The Relationship between Nurses’ Recognition Regarding Elder Abuse and their Attitudes and Performance in Dealing with Elder Abuse Induced by Iranian Family Caregivers." Open Nursing Journal 13, no. 1 (May 31, 2019): 116–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874434601913010116.
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Introduction: Knowledge of nurses regarding elder abuse can be helpful in decisions about on-time and appropriate interventions. Our aim was to assess the relationship between recognition of nursing staff toward elder abuse and their attitudes, and performance in dealing with elder abuse induced by Iranian family caregivers. Methods: In this descriptive study, 400 nurses were selected, using cluster sampling, from nurses working in public or private hospitals in Iran. Data collection was performed using questionnaires measuring elder abuse symptom recognition, attitudes, and performance. Results: There is a significant relationship between the total scores for recognition of symptoms and elder abuse potential risk factors (p=0.05) and the nurses’ attitudes and performance scores (p = 0.001). There was no significant difference between the nurses’ performance and recognition scores (p = 0.14). Conclusion: Interventions to promote nurses’ recognition via in-service educational programs can improve nurses’ performance in different levels of abuse prevention and the quality of nursing care for the elderly.
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Blomqvist, Paula, and Ulrika Winblad. "Why No Nonprofits? State, Market, and the Strive for Universalism in Swedish Elder Care." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 48, no. 3 (January 9, 2019): 513–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764018819870.
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Elder care is one of the sectors where nonprofit organizations are most active. One exception is the Scandinavian countries, where the nonprofit sector plays a marginal role in this area. In the article, we ask why this is the case. The findings show that in Sweden, nonprofit organizations have found it hard to compete with for-profits and that this inability to compete, in turn, reflects their relative organizational weakness. A main argument in the article is that this weakness must be understood in the context of the historical development of the modern elder care system in Sweden, where social democratic reformers in the 1940s chose to create a universal public system for providing services to the elderly, thereby making the nonprofit sector redundant. Universalism in this interpretation was seen as incompatible with service delivery by private organizations, a view that has come to change in recent years.
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Mihara, Yuko. "Relationship between Family Care and Public Care Services for the Elderly." Modern Economy 06, no. 09 (2015): 948–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/me.2015.69089.
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CONG, ZHEN, and MERRIL SILVERSTEIN. "Parents' preferred care-givers in rural China: gender, migration and intergenerational exchanges." Ageing and Society 34, no. 5 (December 20, 2012): 727–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x12001237.
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ABSTRACTThis study examines how intergenerational exchanges affect elders' choice of preferred care-givers in the case of sickness among adult children in rural China. The sample derived from a four-wave longitudinal study in Anhui Province, China, based on which we constructed three time intervals (i.e.2001–2003, 2003–2006 and 2006–2009) and stacked them. Our working sample included 10,181 observations from these three stacked intervals, representing 4,927 children with 1,170 elder parents. We used fixed-effects logistic regression to predict elders' favouritism among their children. Results show that those children who received more help with grandchild care from parents, who provided instrumental support to parents and whose spouses provided instrumental support to parents were more likely to be named the preferred care-givers. On average, parents favoured sons. For mothers, this favouritism was completely explained by proximity and intergenerational exchanges, and even reversed under certain circumstances. For fathers, this favouritism of sons was partially explained by proximity and intergenerational exchanges. Migrant children were less likely to be preferred care-givers. This effect was moderated by elder parents' help with caring for grandchildren. Particularly, mothers favoured daughters over sons if the above moderation effect was considered. We discuss these findings in the context of social changes including increased importance of daughters in elder parents' support networks and the large-scale rural to urban migration.
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McGill, Joan S., and Larry S. Kelley. "Elder Care." AAOHN Journal 38, no. 6 (June 1990): 278–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/216507999003800605.
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Bashar, Abu. "Hospital at Home, an innovative approach for Elderly care during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Clinical Research and Clinical Trials 3, no. 1 (March 17, 2021): 01–02. http://dx.doi.org/10.31579/2693-4779/020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the elderly people (those aged 60 years or above as per the definition by the World Health Organization) who are found to have higher rates of infection and poorer health outcomes in this pandemic compared to other age groups [1,2]. Nevertheless, elderly adults, despite having a wide range of chronic illnesses, are experiencing critically inadequate access to care as healthcare organizations are emphasizing more on patients primarily affected by COVID-19 [3,4]. Furthermore, Elderly people remain most vulnerable in this pandemic as most of the nations do not have adequate preparedness to ensure acute and chronic geriatric care in public health emergencies.
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Bendix Andersen, Anne, Kirsten Beedholm, Raymond Kolbæk, and Kirsten Frederiksen. "When Clock Time Governs Interaction: How Time Influences Health Professionals’ Intersectoral Collaboration." Qualitative Health Research 28, no. 13 (June 11, 2018): 2059–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732318779046.
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When setting up patient pathways that cross health care sectors, professionals in emergency units strive to fulfill system requirements by creating efficient patient pathways that comply with standards for length of stay. We conducted an ethnographic field study, focusing on health professionals’ collaboration, of 10 elderly patients with chronic illnesses, following them from discharge to their home or other places where they received health care services. We found that clock time not only governed the professionals’ ways of collaborating, but acceleration of patient pathways also became an overall goal in health care delivery. Professionals’ efforts to save time came to represent a “monetary value,” leading to speedier planning of patient pathways and consequent risks of disregarding important issues when treating and caring for elderly patients. We suggest that such issues are significant to the future planning and improvement of patient pathways that involve elderly citizens who are in need of intersectoral health care delivery.
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Bode, Ingo. "Social care going market." Journal of Comparative Social Work 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2010): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v5i1.52.
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Over the last two decades or so, major Western societies have remoulded the institutional set-up by which they are deailing with social risks related to frailty during old age. While the 20th century had brought a transnational tendency towards the establishment of elderly care ‘going public’, the proliferation of more market-based services brings confusion into the societal norm-set underlying the aforementioned tendency. Marketisation has placed the emphasis on economic values engrained in liberal worldviews, leading into a new welfare culture that devaluates universalism and reemphasises the sovereignty of the individual. However, the new cult of the individual produces contradictory signals. Drawing on an encompassing study on the ‘culture of welfare markets’ in elderly care provision, covering two (post-)liberal and two (post-corporatist) welfare regimes (Canada, Britain; France, Germany), the paper looks at these fuzzy developments in order to assess the cultural embeddedness of what can be referred to as the mixed economy of elderly care. The analysis, charting major patterns of both institutional change and public communication around it, elucidates that we currently are facing a permanent struggle between liberal values and (renewed) elements of the ‘going-public-agenda’ proliferating over the 1970s and 1980s, that is, a hybrid and ‘nervous’ cultural configuration in which senior social citizenship remains an issue, albeit on precarious foundations.
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Van Solinge, Hanna. "Living Arrangements of Non-Married Elderly People in the Netherlands in 1990." Ageing and Society 14, no. 2 (June 1994): 219–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00000325.
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ABSTRACTIn 1990, approximately one out of every three elderly persons in the Netherlands was living alone. This proportion has almost doubled since 1960. This sharp increase in living alone among the elderly has attracted attention in political circles and among policy makers. An understanding of living arrangements of elderly people is critical for a determination of the likely need for public care, such as home help and district nursing, and institutional care. Elderly persons who live alone require public care services sooner, whether or not as supplement to informal care from persons outside the household. This article examines the living arrangements of the elderly in the Netherlands. Special attention is paid to the household structure of unmarried and no longer married elderly persons, and why so many of then live alone. The data used in this study are taken from the 1989/90 Housing Demand Survey (WBO), which is a large-scale sample survey containing approximately 50,000 Dutch households.
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Prasad, Shivangi. "Measuring and Comparing Hospital Accessibility for Palm Beach County’s Elderly and Nonelderly Populations During a Hurricane." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 12, no. 3 (September 18, 2017): 296–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2017.89.
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AbstractObjectivesTo determine whether, during a hurricane, geographic accessibility to hospitals with emergency care is compromised disproportionately for the elderly than for the nonelderly.MethodsThe locations of hospitals with emergency health care and a subset of those hospitals functional during a hurricane were compared with the distribution of the elderly population at the block group level in Palm Beach County, Florida. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) proximity analysis (minimum distance to closest hospital) and cumulative distribution functions were used to measure and compare hospital accessibility during normal and hurricane conditions for the elderly and nonelderly populations.ResultsAccessibility to closest functional hospital during a hurricane was compromised disproportionately for the elderly.ConclusionGeographic accessibility to emergency health care is compromised disproportionately for the elderly in Palm Beach County. Compounding the risk is the likelihood of the elderly experiencing a greater health care need during a hurricane. This poses a community public health crisis and calls for effective and collaborative planning between health professionals and disaster planners to address the health care needs of the elderly. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018; 12: 296–300)
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Kuhlmann, Robynn, and Rick Ruddell. "Elderly Jail Inmates." Californian Journal of Health Promotion 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2005): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.32398/cjhp.v3i2.1763.
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Increases in the size of the elderly population in jails and prisons have created considerable challenges for health-care practitioners within correctional systems and public health agencies. This study examined the prevalence of elderly inmates in 134 county jails and some of the challenges that these older inmates confront. Our findings indicate that the prevalence of elderly inmates in county jails is higher than reported in recent national studies. Further, these populations were thought to be at high-risk for selfharm, suicide, and victimization by other inmates. Implications for health care within county jails as well as public health approaches to solving challenges associated with elderly jail inmates are addressed.
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Krall, Eva, Jacqueline Close, Joseph Parker, Maria Sudak, Susan Lampert, and Kim Colonnelli. "Innovation Pilot Study: Acute Care for Elderly (ACE) Unit—Promoting Patient-Centric Care." HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 5, no. 3 (April 2012): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/193758671200500309.
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Purpose: Older patients, defined as age 65 years or older, comprise more than 40% of admissions to the acute care environment. These patients' needs are different; cognitive impairment, chronic health issues, caregiver burden, and maintenance of functional level present challenges to healthcare organizations when caring for this population on a general medical-surgical unit. Background: A pilot project, the creation of a six-bed Acute Care for Elderly (ACE) unit situated within a 33-bed medical-surgical unit, was established to meet the unique needs of this older patient population. Conclusions: Outcomes including falls, pressure ulcers, functional level (the latter as measured by the KATZ), and length of stay were examined and demonstrated marked improvement compared to similar patients outside the ACE unit. Older patients need individualized care planning by staff competent in elder care and a specialty unit to address their specific needs
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Eustis, Nancy N., Charlene Harrington, Robert J. Newcomer, and Carroll L. Estes. "Long-Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues." Contemporary Sociology 15, no. 2 (March 1986): 306. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2071756.
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Phillips, Harry T., Charlene Harrington, Robert J. Newcomer, and Carroll L. Estes. "Long Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues." Journal of Public Health Policy 7, no. 4 (1986): 554. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3342244.
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Tuisku, Outi, Satu Pekkarinen, Lea Hennala, and Helinä Melkas. "“Robots do not replace a nurse with a beating heart”." Information Technology & People 32, no. 1 (February 4, 2019): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-06-2018-0277.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the publicity around the implementation of the Zora robot in elderly-care services in Lahti, Finland. The aim is to discover opinions concerning the use of robots in elderly care as well as the arguments and justifications behind those opinions. Zora is a humanoid robot intended to promote mobility and rehabilitation. The Lahti pilot was the first Zora pilot in Finland in public elderly-care services. It received much publicity, both regionally and nationally. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on an empirical case study on the implementation of the Zora robot in elderly-care services. The data consist of interviews with personnel who operated Zora and comments from the general public about the “Zora” robot. Two data sources were used: 107 comments were collected from online and print media, and the personnel (n=39) who worked with Zora were interviewed. The data were analysed by means of interpretative content analysis. Findings The results show that public opinion is mainly negative, but that the commentators apparently have little information about the robot and its tasks. The personnel had more positive views; they saw it as a recreational tool, not as a replacement for their own roles. Originality/value There is clearly a need for more information, for a better informed discussion on how robots can be used in elderly care and how to involve the general public in this discussion in a constructive way.
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Ellen Barnes, Lou, Kiyomi Asahara, Anne J. Davis, and Emiko Konishi. "Questions of Distributive Justice: public health nurses’ perceptions of long-term care insurance for elderly japanese people." Nursing Ethics 9, no. 1 (January 2002): 67–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0969733002ne482oa.
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This study examines public health nurses’ perceptions and concerns about the implications of Japan’s new long-term care insurance law concerning care provision for elderly people and their families. Respondents voiced their primary concern about this law as access to services for all elderly people needing care, and defined their major responsibility as strengthening health promotion and illness prevention programmes. Although wanting to expand their roles to meet the health care, social and public policy advocacy needs of elderly persons and their families, respondents also stated their concern for the possible lack of enough resources for this expansion to support family caregivers adequately. They viewed their first function as developing collaborative relationships with local government officials to help to assure sufficient resources to provide the necessary foundation for long-term care programmes to deliver services to all those in need. These concerns fall within the larger ethical issue of distributive justice in a society based on the obligations of the state to citizens and the family to its members, especially elderly relatives, who, according to traditional Japanese values, retain respect.
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Endriulaitiene, Aukse, Aurelija Stelmokiene, Giedre Geneviciute-Janoniene, Loreta Gustainiene, Gabija Jarasiunaite, and Loreta Buksnyte-Marmiene. "Attitudes of staff members towards development of elder care organizations." International Journal of Public Leadership 13, no. 1 (February 13, 2017): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpl-04-2016-0012.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how perceived leadership effectiveness is related to staff members’ attitudes towards development of elderly care organizations in private and public institutions. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted using self-report questionnaire that contained Modified Leadership Effectiveness Questionnaire (Heck et al., 2000), the scale of attitude towards change from Preziosi’s Organizational Diagnosis Model (1980) and organizational development intentions measure developed for the study. The respondents were 510 Lithuanian social workers and other staff members employed in different public and private elderly care organizations. Findings The results revealed that perceived higher leadership effectiveness was associated with more positive employees’ judgements on organization’s readiness to change both in private and public sector elderly care organizations. But perceived leadership effectiveness was not associated with staff members’ intentions to change. Also it was found that different models for private and public sector that explained the importance of particular leadership behaviours in the prediction of employees’ judgements on organizational change and intentions to change were valid. Originality/value This study may add to further broaden knowledge on attitudes of staff members towards development of elderly care organization and the role of leadership effectiveness taking into account the type of organization.
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BLACK, B. S., P. V. RABINS, P. GERMAN, R. ROCA, M. McGUIRE, and L. J. BRANT. "Use of formal and informal sources of mental health care among older African-American public-housing residents." Psychological Medicine 28, no. 3 (May 1998): 519–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291798006631.
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Background. Elderly residents of public housing have high rates of psychiatric disorders, but most of those in need of care do not use any mental health service. This study examines the use of formal and alternative informal sources of mental health care in a sample of elderly African-American public-housing residents.Method. Data from an epidemiological survey of six Baltimore public-housing developments for the elderly (weighted N=818) were analysed to examine the utilization of mental health services by older African-American residents. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine correlates of using formal and informal sources by those needing mental health care.Results. Thirty-five per cent of subjects needed mental health care. Less than half (47%) of those in need received any mental health care in the previous 6 months. Residents in need were more likely to use formal (38·5%) than informal sources (18·6%) for care. The strongest correlates of using formal providers were substance use disorder (OR=15·62), Medicare insurance (OR=10·31) and psychological distress (OR=10·27). The strongest correlates of using informal sources were perceiving little or no support from religious/spiritual beliefs (OR=21·65), cognitive disorder (OR=19·71) and having a confidant (OR=15·07).Conclusions. Contrary to elderly African-Americans in general, those in public housing rely more on formal than informal sources for mental health problems. Nevertheless, both sources fail to fill the gap between need and met need. Interventions to increase identification, referral and treatment of elderly public-housing residents in need should target general medical providers and clergy and include assertive outreach by mental health specialists.
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Jing, Yijia, René Torenvlied, Minna van Gerven, and Jia Cao. "Nonprofit contracting and partnership in elderly care: a comparison between china and the Netherlands." Global Public Policy and Governance 1, no. 2 (March 29, 2021): 136–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43508-021-00009-8.
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AbstractThis paper offers an empirical account of the engagement and success of nonprofits in contracting for elderly care in China and the Netherlands as two contrasting contexts. While contracting as an innovation demonstrates a state-centered approach in China, its Dutch counterpart has sought a balance between state and professional influences. The paper argues that public sector reforms, civil society development and social regulation support schemes contextualize the engagement and success of nonprofits in contracting for elderly care. Surveys among the managers of 176 elderly care organizations in Shanghai and 70 elderly care organizations in the Netherlands shows that the fundamental elements of nonprofit contracting in elderly care are strikingly similar between both contexts, although their manifestation is shaped by each specific institutional context.
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Almeida Magalhães, Everson Mateus, Joice Amorim Santos, Priscila Santos Brito, Isabely Fróes Correia, José William Sousa Reis, Tatiane Dias Casimiro Valença, and Pollyanna Viana Lima. "Alterações emocionais em idosos com Diabetes Mellitus cadastrados na atenção básica à saúde." O Mundo da Saúde 43, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): 265–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.15343/0104-7809.20194301265278.
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Batista, Virna De Vasconcelos, Elaine Guedes Fontoura, and Darci De Oliveira Santa Rosa. "The meaning of the care provided by the nursing staff in the vision of hospitalized elderly in a public hospital." Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line 5, no. 5 (June 26, 2011): 1223. http://dx.doi.org/10.5205/reuol.1302-9310-2-le.0505201119.
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ABSTRACTObjective: to get to know the meaning of the care provided by nursing staff in the vision of hospitalized elderly patients at the clinic of a public hospital. Methodology: qualitative research, conducted from January to March of 2009 with ten elders of both sexes hospitalized in the medical clinic at a public hospital in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia. The data collection instrument was a semi-structured recorded interview. Data analysis was made by the method of thematic content analysis. The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências, resolution no. 0589-2008. Results: two themes emerged from the testimonies: the meaning of care in the vision of elderly and the positive and negative aspects of care received by nursing staff. The elderly have a positive view of care received by nursing staff relating to dedication, love and humanization. Regarding the negative aspects of care received, they relate: lack of communication and information about their health state. Conclusion: because it is a fragile stage of life, elderly people require special attention, sensitive care by the nursing staff. Descriptors: care; elderly; hospital; medical clinic; nursing.RESUMOObjetivo: conhecer o significado do cuidado prestado pela equipe de enfermagem na visão dos idosos internados na clínica médica de um hospital público. Metodologia: pesquisa qualitativa, realizada de janeiro a março de 2009 com dez idosos de ambos os sexos internados na clínica médica de um hospital público da cidade de Feira de Santana, Bahia. O instrumento de coleta de dados foi uma entrevista semi-estruturada, gravada. A análise dos dados foi realizada pelo método de análise de conteúdo temática. O estudo foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética da Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências pelo parecer nº 0589-2008. Resultados: dos depoimentos emergiram duas categorias temáticas: o significado do cuidado na visão dos idosos e os aspectos positivos e negativos do cuidado recebido pela equipe de enfermagem. Os idosos têm visão positiva do cuidado recebido pela equipe de enfermagem relacionando a dedicação, humanização e amor. Quanto aos aspectos negativos do cuidado recebido referem: falta de comunicação e informações sobre o seu estado de saúde. Conclusão: por se tratar de uma fase de fragilidade da vida a pessoa idosa requer uma atenção especial, um cuidado sensível pela equipe de enfermagem. Descriptores: cuidado; idosos; hospital; clínica médica; enfermagem.RESUMENObjetivo: conocer el significado del cuidado ofrecido por el equipo de enfermería en la visión de mayores internados en clínica médica de un hospital público. Metodología: investigación cualitativa, realizada de enero a marzo de 2009 con diez mayores de ambos sexos internados en clínica médica de un hospital público de la ciudad de Feira de Santana, Bahia. La recolecta de datos fue através de entrevista semiestructurada y grabada. El análisis de datos fue realizado por el método de análisis de contenido temático. El estudio fue aprobado Comité Ética Facultad de Tecnología y Ciencias con el parecer nº 0589-2008. Resultados: de los testimonios emergieron dos categorias temáticas: significado del cuidado en la visión de los mayores y los aspectos positivos y negativos del cuidado recibido por el equipo de enfermería. Los mayores tienen una visión positiva del cuidado recibido por el equipo de enfermería relacionando dedicación, humanización y amor. Cuanto a los aspectos negativos del mismo refieren: falta de comunicación e informaciones sobre su estado de salud. Conclusión: tratándose de una fase de fragilidad de la vida, la persona mayor requiere una atención especial y cuidado sensible por el equipo de enfermería. Descriptores: cuidado; mayores; hospital; clínica médica; enfermería.
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Pascual-Saez, Marta, David Cantarero-Prieto, and Daniela Castañeda. "Public health expenditure, GDP and the elderly population: a comparative study." International Journal of Social Economics 44, no. 10 (October 9, 2017): 1390–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-03-2016-0106.
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Purpose The correlation between health care expenditure, gross domestic product (GDP) and population over 65 years (understood as share of the elderly) is a key question for health economics and demographic impact. The purpose of this paper is to study the role of ageing society to curb rising health care expenditures along the Spanish regions over the period 2002-2013, identifying their geographic differences and explain them based on GDP differences. Design/methodology/approach Cointegration technique is used in order to test if there is a statistically significant connection between variables. Findings They are similar to some obtained when using unit root test. In particular, the authors find how the elderly positively affects health care expenditure per capita. Practical implications The findings suggest that any cooperation policies should aim at improving the access of people to health care services based on public health care expenditures. Originality/value To the best of the knowledge this is one of the first studies which suggest different results by Spanish regions due to mature decentralized system in recent years.
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Kirova, A. G., M. M. Krylasova, and N. I. Sheina. "GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS: SAFETY AND PUBLIC OPINION." Toxicological Review, no. 2 (April 28, 2018): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.36946/0869-7922-2018-2-28-33.
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Safety in the use of GMO for food purposes and public opinion on the problem are discussed. It is shown that the awareness of respondents on GMO has increased since 2011 to 2016. However, middle-aged and elderly respondents treat with care their contents in food.
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Meyerowitz, C. "Geriatric Dentistry and Prevention: Research and Public Policy (Reaction Paper)." Advances in Dental Research 5, no. 1 (December 1991): 74–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08959374910050011201.
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The population of older adults is heterogeneous and can be divided into many subgroups: the young-old, the old-old, the healthy, the sick, the frail, the mentally and physically handicapped, the ambulatory, the chair-bound, house-bound or institution-bound, and the economically advantaged and disadvantaged. This diversity is extremely important to the discussion of the oral health needs, preventive health strategies, and research agenda for the elderly. As life expectancy increases, more attention is being paid to disease prevention so that the quality of life in old age can be improved. However, the link among oral health, systemic disease, and quality of life in the elderly needs to be better-defined. There is some evidence in the literature that indicates that coronal and root caries appear to be major health problems for the elderly. This needs to be corroborated in longitudinal studies. Although periodontal disease prevalence and severity are high in some subgroups of the elderly, these appear to be in decline in the general population. Dental health-care workers must be cognizant of the oral conditions associated with systemic disease and the use of medication, a major concern in older adults. Prevention of oral disease in the elderly requires early intervention, education of the dental health team, and innovative uses of well-established preventive agents such as fluoride. An extensive research effort is needed to answer basic and applied questions regarding the oral health needs of the elderly. Federal and private funding will be necessary. The dental profession will have to demonstrate and be persuasive that money spent on research and care for the elderly is money well spent.