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" Aging 2000: "
edited by Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, Nancy L. Wilson.
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739986
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edited by Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, Nancy L. Wilson.
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Aging 2000: : Our Health Care Destiny : Volume II: Psychosocial and Policy Issues\ edited by Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, Nancy L. Wilson.
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New York, NY: Springer New York, 1985
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(395 pages)
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1461250587
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: 1461250625
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: 9781461250586
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: 9781461250623
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For Volume II --;I. Overview --;1. Health Care of the Aging: Trends, Dilemmas, and Prospects for the Year 2000 --;2. Future Society's Outlook Toward Aging, Illness, and Health Care of the Aged --;3. Morbidity, Disability, and Mortality: The Aging Connection --;II. Health and Changing Concepts of the Life Cycle --;4. The Aged as Pioneers in Time: On Temporal Discontinuities, Biographical Closure, and the Medicalization of Old Age --;5. Loss and the Social Psychology of Aging --;6. Longitudinal Stability of Personality and Its Relation to Health Perceptions --;III. Working and Health: Emerging Trends --;7. A Developmental Perspective on Career-Change Options for Older Workers --;8. Trends in Assessing and Accommodating the Health of Older Workers --;9. Retirement and Work: Now and the Future --;IV. Future Directions in Cognitive Assessments of the Aged --;10. Cognitive Assessment in the Year 2000 --;11. Dual-Task Assessment of Attentional Capacities in Aging and Dementia --;V. Health Care and Physical Environments of the Aged --;12. The Social and Physical Aspects of Housing and Aging: A U.S. Perspective --;13. Emerging Technologies Supporting Independence Among Infirm Elderly --;14. A Theoretical View of the Person in a Health-Care Environment --;VI. Social Supports and the Health of the Future Aged --;15. The Informal Support System and Health of the Future Aged --;16. The Function, Form, and Future of Formal Services --;VII. Delivery of Care for the Aged in a State Mental Health and Mental Retardation System --;17. Caring for the Aged in a State Mental Health and Mental Retardation System --;18. The Impact of Technology on the Delivery of Mental Retardation Services in the Year 2000: A Research Perspective --;19. A Behavioral-Programming Approach to Treatment of the Institutionalized Aged --;20. The Impact of a Dementing Illness on Relatives: The Need for Family Support Groups --;VIII. Rehabilitation with the Future Aged --;21. Is Rehabilitation a Legitimate Intervention for the Elderly? Goals and Expectations --;22. Medical Rehabilitation: Predicting Needs and Measuring Outcomes for Quality of Life --;IX. Long-Term-Care System for Future Elders --;23. Meeting Long-Term-Care Needs: Efficacy, Efficiency, and Affordability --;24. Needs, Wants, and Preferences: Can a Long-Term-Care System Respond? --;25. Beyond Institutional Long-Term Care: The Community Care System --;26. Facility-Based Services: Strengthening Used and Useful Capacity --;X. Future Financing of Health Care --;27. The Economics of Aging: Doomsday or Shangri-La? --;28. Financing Health Care for the Elderly in 2000: Issues, Mechanisms, and Directions --;29. The Future Financing of Long-Term Care for Older Persons --;XI. Legal and Ethical Concerns in Care of the Aged --;30. The Interaction Between Ethics and Economics in Planning Health Care for the Aged --;31. Evolutionary Changes in Legal Remedies for the Impaired Elderly --;32. Micro- and Macroethical Aspects of Caring for the Aged --;XII. Concluding Visions --;33. Aging, Meaning, and Well-Being: Musings of a Cultural Historian --;34. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Toward Squaring the Suffering Curve --;35. Health Care in the 21st Century: The Social and Ethical Context.
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We believe that having a core of more qualified and better trained practitioners will help the population of aged persons achieve a higher level of physical and mental health, life satisfaction and happiness, find better coping techniques and control of environmental stresses, and attain personal and social goals.
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Internal medicine.
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Medicine.
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Psychiatry.
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Charles M Gaitz
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George Niederehe
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Nancy L Wilson
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