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Coupland, Justine; Coupland, Nikolas – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1994
Considers traditional approaches to identity across life span, then presents discursive perspective showing how, during interaction, individuals actively construct age-salient identities for themselves and others through talk. Conversational processes of age-identity management are explored in corpus of geriatric medical outpatient consultations.…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Geriatrics
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Kiyak, H. Asuman; Brudvik, James – Journal of Dental Education, 1992
A study of four classes of dental students (n=172) exposed to both didactic and clinical geriatric dental training found that the students perceived significant improvements in their abilities to manage geriatric patients in all areas assessed, notably treatment planning, preventive dentistry, referrals, and providing care in alternative settings.…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Dental Schools, Dental Students, Geriatrics
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Academic Medicine, 2000
Summarizes recommendations of a subcommittee of the American Geriatrics Society's Education Committee concerning core competencies for physicians caring for older patients. Competencies are organized into those concerned with attitudes, knowledge (basic science and clinical), and skills. (DB)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Competency Based Education, Geriatrics
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Slusher, Morgan P.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1996
Describes Gays and Lesbians Older and Wiser (GLOW), a support group sponsored by a geriatric medical clinic in the midwestern United States. Scheduling, professional involvement, and special attention to social support seem critical for the group's success. Concludes that carefully designed support groups can meet some support needs for this older…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Counseling, Geriatrics
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Owens, Norma J.; Padula, Cynthia A.; Hume, Anne L. – Educational Gerontology, 2002
Interdisciplinary clinical case studies in geriatrics were developed using active and problem-based learning approaches that simulate clinical environments. Feedback from their use in continuing education indicated that facilitators need interdisciplinary group skills, well-written discussion questions enhanced learning, and the presence of all…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Experiential Learning, Geriatrics, Health Occupations
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Mackelprang, Romel W.; Mackelprang, Romel D. – Social Work, 2005
End-of-life circumstances have changed dramatically in recent years. In the past century life expectancy has increased by 62 percent and people are living longer with chronic illness. This article discusses evolving health practices and policies in end-of-life decisions. Treatments to prolong life and provide comfort, and interventions that hasten…
Descriptors: Social Work, Chronic Illness, Death, Ethics
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Marquez, David X.; McAuley, Edward; Motl, Robert W.; Elavsky, Steriani; Konopack, James F.; Jerome, Gerald J.; Kramer, Arthur F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
This study examined the validity of Geriatric Depression Scale--5 (GDS-5) scores among older sedentary adults based on its structural properties and relationship with external criteria. Participants from two samples (Ns = 185 and 93; M ages = 66 and 67 years) completed baseline assessments as part of randomized controlled exercise trials.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Geriatrics, Factor Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
Tillman, Peggie S., Comp. – 1990
This bibliography contains 468 citations to journal articles and monographs on the role of the nurse in educating the patient or care provider for more involved self-care. Self-care is defined as the deliberate, voluntary practice of activities by individuals in the interest of health maintenance and promotion. A variety of National Library of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Geriatrics, Health Education
Huyck, Margaret Hellie – 1991
This paper focuses on three issues: (1) gender seems to structure life chances so that women and men end up with quite different fates in later life; (2) maintaining a sense of adequate masculinity seems to remain very important to men until the end of life, and most women also seem to need to experience themselves as feminine, but are less…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Geriatrics, Health Services, Medical Care Evaluation
McEvoy, Cathy L.; Patterson, Roger L. – 1984
Traditionally, the treatment of geriatric patients suffering from Organic Brain Syndrome (OBS) has been characterized by non-therapeutic custodial care. To determine whether elderly clients with dementia can benefit from self-care skill training, and to compare their progress with clients without OBS, 30 clients of the Residential Aging Program in…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Communication Skills, Dementia, Geriatrics
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Reiner, Myrtle L. – Journal of Rehabilitation, 1974
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Biological Influences, Citizen Role
Miller, Gary M., Comp.; Rotter, Joseph C., Comp. – 1976
The Carolina Counselors Spring Symposium, held in March, 1976, provided a setting in which faculty and students delivered papers focusing on their current interest areas in counseling and counselor education. The resulting publication contains studies on widely different subjects. Included in this volume are articles on: (1) mental patients' right…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Blindness, Career Planning, Conferences
1977
The first part of a report by the Special Committee on Aging of the United States Senate provides additional evidence about the need for far-ranging federal attention to the needs and aspirations of older Americans. A number of difficulties such as special transportation needs in rural areas, contradictions in policies and programs, and disaster…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Federal Programs, Geriatrics, Gerontology
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Stephens, Joyce – Journal of Gerontology, 1975
The social world of the aged SRO tenant is described and analyzed. Characteristic features include an impoverishment of social roles and relationships which result in a "world of strangers." Dominant norms of SRO life which preclude the establishment of intimacy are examined; these include prescriptive norms of privacy, freedom, and…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Hotels, Housing, Human Relations
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Miller, Michael B.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1975
Case studies demonstrate that when chronic sexual conflict constitutes a factor in family homeostasis, nursing home placement of the aged ill is a likely event when either there is a shift in family dynamics due to death or illness of a key member or the aged becomes overtly psychiatrically disabled. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Family Problems, Family Relationship, Geriatrics
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