Distance learning has the capacity to make a significant impact on gerontological education. Possibilities range from the education of professionals to the teaching of gerontology to the education of caregivers of today's aging population. (JOW)

Illustrates how self-care can be seen by health care professionals as an important adjunct to the care they give older adults. Suggests the importance of health care professionals knowing the self-care responses to acute illness symptoms and management. (JOW)

Includes "The Foibles and Follies of Gerontological Imperialists" (Johnson); "The Time for Accreditation Has Come" (Connelly); "Professionals in the Field of Aging Should Be Credentialed" (Peterson); and "A Reaction to the Debate" (Lubben). (JOW)

The language of geriatrics and gerontology reflects the generally held belief that potential for growth and development disappears when the elderly are severely disabled. To counter this mystique, the right to flourish must be advocated through policy, behavior, and attitude change. (SK)

This issue on preventive health care and health promotion for older adults includes 14 articles on history and definition, development of guidelines, responsibility, implementation of programs for the elderly and how it differs from that for other populations, programs for minorities, access to health care information, and a description of a…

Special issue includes 20 articles in 3 categories: personal and individual perceptions of aging, varieties of images and perceptions (social, historical, cross-cultural), and institutional responses over time (ageism, federal responses, literature, mass media). (SK)