The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) emphasizes decent work and the need to generate employment for vulnerable groups such as women, youth, and low-income rural and urban residents. Though extended retirement age policies to sustain workforce productivity are promulgated across OECD states, within SDG8 there is no evident…

An analysis of the 102 entries, dated from 1975 to 1986, in the section on Religion of "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?: An Annotated GSA Bibliography of Aging and the Humanities" reveals three principal characteristics. First, with the exception of some literature on spiritual well-being, the material cannot be…

To improve well-being of nursing home residents and ensure compliance with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, programs aimed at improving quality of life must strive to satisfy higher level needs of the elderly as identified in Maslow's hierarchy. (SK)

Responds to previous article by Fry (1992) on social theories of aging. Commends Fry on his detailed, factual retrospective look at gerontological literature, yet fears that article presents flat, linear, stereotypical picture of working with older adults. Reaction focuses on three specific areas of concern: language, demographics, and treatment…

Responds to previous article by Fry (1992) on social theories of aging. Expresses wish that Fry had not included so many marginally useful or discredited theories and had instead concentrated on more careful treatment of remaining theories, particularly disengagement theory, continuity theory, and socioenvironmental theory. Also wonders about…

Responds to previous article by Fry (1992) on social theories of aging. Commentary notes the value and some limits of Fry's purpose, elaborates on core themes from Fry's article, and provides references to additional readings for counselors who want to work with elderly clients. (NB)

Responds to previous article by Fry (1992) on social theories of aging. Notes that Fry provides gerocounselor with good overview of social gerontology theories of aging. Presents case study that provides anecdotal support that socioenvironmental framework can be flexible structuring for gerocounseling. Criticizes Fry for giving impression that…

Counseling older adults requires a focus on psychological well-being in the face of inevitable losses. An important factor is their perception of the ability to control their lives and to maintain and increase rewarding life events. (SK)

A more productive approach to providing appropriate long-term care is to separate physical from psychosocial needs when performing functional assessment and to rearrange them into a matrix. By examining each need separately, and where needs overlap in the matrix, more direct assessment can be performed, and specified interventions can be designed.…

The cycle of social breakdown, self-perpetuating stages of negative adjustment among older persons, can be halted by empowering people through prevention and wellness and by changing attitudes of the culture, care providers, and decision makers toward aging. (SK)

Presents findings on the work disincentives which are expected to be removed by the 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act. Summarizes evidence on labor market conditions which may encourage early retirement. Discusses implications of this evidence for public policy and for the economic well-being of older Americans. (Author/ABB)

This symposium includes three papers that provide new insights into the caregiving experience. Papers focus upon a group of caregivers who appear to be at special risk for negative outcomes, the family caregivers of older persons suffering from Alzheimer's Disease or a related disorder. (Author/ABB)

Elderly black farm women are neglected segment of elderly population. Their self-reliance, mutual support, and rurality have helped keep them isolated and underserved. Ten such women recalled their productive lifestyles in oral-history interviews and described problems faced because of their advancing age, poor health, caregiving responsibilities,…

Examines successful aging among Hong Kong Chinese old people (N=1,106) in three different cohorts (young-old, old-old, oldest-old). Modest associations were found between four dimensions of successful aging (physical, emotional, cognitive, productive involvement). Characteristics associated with successful aging include age, gender, education,…

This document presents the program agenda and highlights from the one-day Robert Lee Sutherland Seminar held to examine the current status and the future of the elderly population of Texas. Included is the speech, "The Longevity Revolution" by Robert N. Butler, in which is discussed the gain in life expectancy, the feminization of aging,…