Develops a framework for identifying community long-term care program and policy features that support or hinder client autonomy. Offers a contextual approach for understanding individual autonomy and discusses its relevance to community long-term care. Illustrates how current financing, organization, and delivery of care provide clients with…

The International Conference on Rural Aging (June 2000) endorsed policy recommendations in the following areas: health and active aging of older rural people; education, participation, and rights of older rural people; policy development, advocacy, and implementation; components of successful model policies and programs; implications for…

This document details how Australia's government intends to implement the New National Agenda for Women, which was formulated in 1993 after a review of many recent reports and after a forum to obtain input from women in the community, representatives of many women's organizations, and all areas of government. Sixteen of the 23 chapters examine the…