... predicted based on the
duration of life of one’s mother and father and
grandmothers and grandfathers. If someone’s
grandmothers and grandfathers had lived 80
years, it gives him the chance to ...
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PROBLEMS OF THE ELDERLY
Ljiljana Pesic
Gerontology, the study of ageing and the elderly, deals not only with the physical
p...
... therapy
skills, and general supervision of the elderly to prevent malnutrition, etc.
There are areas of research into the health care problems of the elderly which
need urgent attention. These areas ... discuss questions of policy
and
the administration of services forthe aged. These officers were generous with their
time, and provided statistics, annual
reporL...
... scale of the problem. Most of these studies were focused
on the prevalence and risk analyses of inappropriate drug
use in the U.S. elderly population.
12,15–17
A few studies also
addressed the ... that health condition variables are more
likely to control for the underlying confounding problem
and therefore help minimize the endogeneity. The full
Model F adds in t...
... provision.
In the context of health dis-
parities, social justice refers
to the minimization of social
and economic conditions that
adversely affect the health of
individuals and communities. ... in the physical eects of dementia and the use
and costs of health services.
Disparities in Access to Care
Access to health care, according to the Institu...
...
concerning a healthy lifestyle. Another criterion for
the evaluation of the intervention, and,
simultaneously, of the success of the project, is the
level of community participation in the social ... for the elderly to go
to the doctor because he can’t give them back their
health/ youth”).
A similarity between the Romanian and
Swedish groups of elde...
... Japanese).
488 Journal of Health Science, 56(5) 488–501 (2010)
— Review —
AReview of Indoor Air Pollution and Health Problems from
the Viewpoint of Environmental Hygiene: Focusing on the
Studies of Indoor ... regulation of chemical emission from furniture
and the education of residents are required.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND
REGIONAL HEALTH...
... status. The activities of the social welfare
and health sectors, as well as private business, are complementary in contributing to the health
and quality of life of elderly people in the former ...
ABSTRACT
Elderly people themselves are growing older, increasing the numbers and
proportions of the very old. The majority of elderly people are women,...
... (47.3)
2 (1.8)
Overall, 82% of the respondents reported their health
as positive and healthy.
Health status of the elderly in Taiwan
Information of the health status of the elderly in Taiwan
is summarized ... potential health issues; followed by 12.4%
of three potential health issues; 12.2% of two potential
problems; 10.4% of six health problems; a...
...
the role of age and deteriorating health. The empirical focus of our paper is (1) Documenting the labor
supply patterns of elderly Chinese; and (2) Estimating the extent to which failing health ... fixed-effects (FE) and random-effects (RE)
results. The fixed-effects specifications have the advantage of being robust to the problems just described.
On the...
... 2009
With the growing elderly population, an interest in
physical and psychosocial health of the elderly has
concomitantly increased.
Depression in the elderly is a widespread prob-
lem that is often ... of
the Korean elderly scored ≥ 6 on the GDS, which in-
dicates the need for further evaluation. This preva-
lence of depressive symptoms was higher than the
ra...