Purpose: The subjective psychological experience of people with moderate to severe dementia living in residential care is insufficiently understood. In the present study we aimed to explore the subjective experience of life with dementia in residential care from the perspective of the person with dementia, and to understand the psychological…

Decades of conservative attempts to scale back Social Security and Medicare, by limiting the program's universality through means testing and drastic benefit cuts, have failed. Thus, after numerous unsuccessful attempts at dismantling the U.S.'s universal old-age welfare state, or even meaningfully restraining its growth, conservative critics have…

Contributions to affective quality of "good" family relationships were examined in a sample of Italian, older, singled mothers and daughters. Using path analysis, contributions of health satisfaction, living environment, finances, and attitude toward aging were evaluated. Only living environment and attitude toward aging had large direct effects…

These interviews, edited from tapes made in the field, convey, albeit optimistically, the harsh realities of poverty and withal, the resilience and strength that some elderly can clearly muster. (Author)

Data from 878 older persons in 28 communities in the USA were analyzed in order to determine the most important factors contributing to residents' community satisfaction. The most important predictors of community satisfaction were perceived community safety, satisfaction with the individual dwelling unit, and satisfaction with recreational and…

The "old-old" (80+), needing the most health and domiciliary care, will increase twice as fast by the year 2000 as the "young-old" (65-79). Half of the elderly women in 2000 may be maintaining a home apart from relatives. Few elderly persons now live with unrelated adults of the opposite sex. (Author)

Measured levels of living among 157 elderly family households in a plantation community. Found the level of living to be determined more by the plantation production system and the elderly's past patterns of economic participation than by the size of the completed family. (Author/ABB)