عنوان

Aging 2000:

(Number (ISBN

1461250587

(Number (ISBN

1461250625

(Number (ISBN

9781461250586

(Number (ISBN

9781461250623

Number

b559919

Title Proper

Aging 2000:

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Our Health Care Destiny : Volume II: Psychosocial and Policy Issues

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, Nancy L. Wilson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1985

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(395 pages)

Text of Note

For Volume II --;I. Overview --;1. Health Care of the Aging: Trends, Dilemmas, and Prospects for the Year 2000 --;2. Future Society's Outlook Toward Aging, Illness, and Health Care of the Aged --;3. Morbidity, Disability, and Mortality: The Aging Connection --;II. Health and Changing Concepts of the Life Cycle --;4. The Aged as Pioneers in Time: On Temporal Discontinuities, Biographical Closure, and the Medicalization of Old Age --;5. Loss and the Social Psychology of Aging --;6. Longitudinal Stability of Personality and Its Relation to Health Perceptions --;III. Working and Health: Emerging Trends --;7. A Developmental Perspective on Career-Change Options for Older Workers --;8. Trends in Assessing and Accommodating the Health of Older Workers --;9. Retirement and Work: Now and the Future --;IV. Future Directions in Cognitive Assessments of the Aged --;10. Cognitive Assessment in the Year 2000 --;11. Dual-Task Assessment of Attentional Capacities in Aging and Dementia --;V. Health Care and Physical Environments of the Aged --;12. The Social and Physical Aspects of Housing and Aging: A U.S. Perspective --;13. Emerging Technologies Supporting Independence Among Infirm Elderly --;14. A Theoretical View of the Person in a Health-Care Environment --;VI. Social Supports and the Health of the Future Aged --;15. The Informal Support System and Health of the Future Aged --;16. The Function, Form, and Future of Formal Services --;VII. Delivery of Care for the Aged in a State Mental Health and Mental Retardation System --;17. Caring for the Aged in a State Mental Health and Mental Retardation System --;18. The Impact of Technology on the Delivery of Mental Retardation Services in the Year 2000: A Research Perspective --;19. A Behavioral-Programming Approach to Treatment of the Institutionalized Aged --;20. The Impact of a Dementing Illness on Relatives: The Need for Family Support Groups --;VIII. Rehabilitation with the Future Aged --;21. Is Rehabilitation a Legitimate Intervention for the Elderly? Goals and Expectations --;22. Medical Rehabilitation: Predicting Needs and Measuring Outcomes for Quality of Life --;IX. Long-Term-Care System for Future Elders --;23. Meeting Long-Term-Care Needs: Efficacy, Efficiency, and Affordability --;24. Needs, Wants, and Preferences: Can a Long-Term-Care System Respond? --;25. Beyond Institutional Long-Term Care: The Community Care System --;26. Facility-Based Services: Strengthening Used and Useful Capacity --;X. Future Financing of Health Care --;27. The Economics of Aging: Doomsday or Shangri-La? --;28. Financing Health Care for the Elderly in 2000: Issues, Mechanisms, and Directions --;29. The Future Financing of Long-Term Care for Older Persons --;XI. Legal and Ethical Concerns in Care of the Aged --;30. The Interaction Between Ethics and Economics in Planning Health Care for the Aged --;31. Evolutionary Changes in Legal Remedies for the Impaired Elderly --;32. Micro- and Macroethical Aspects of Caring for the Aged --;XII. Concluding Visions --;33. Aging, Meaning, and Well-Being: Musings of a Cultural Historian --;34. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Toward Squaring the Suffering Curve --;35. Health Care in the 21st Century: The Social and Ethical Context.

Text of Note

We believe that having a core of more qualified and better trained practitioners will help the population of aged persons achieve a higher level of physical and mental health, life satisfaction and happiness, find better coping techniques and control of environmental stresses, and attain personal and social goals.

Internal medicine.

Medicine.

Psychiatry.

edited by Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, Nancy L. Wilson.

Charles M Gaitz

George Niederehe

Nancy L Wilson

Electronic name

[Book]

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