Assessing Multidimensional Deprivation Among the Elderly in the USA

2017 ◽  
pp. 255-270
Author(s):  
Shatakshee Dhongde
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Multidimensional Deprivation

Infections caused by medical products at longterm nursing care

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Hardy Thorsten Panknin
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Care ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Nosocomial Infections ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Medical Products ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Therapeutic Measures

Nosocomial infections in the elderly, often suffering from many ailments, patients in homes for the disabled and the old are among the problematic diseases that specialized nursing staff and doctors have to deal with more often in such institutions. Review work from the USA introduces relevant information about infectious risks, as well as possible preventive and therapeutic measures.

An Environmental Justice Analysis of British Air Quality

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 909-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Mitchell ◽  
Danny Dorling
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Car Ownership ◽  
National Study ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of

This paper presents the results of the first national study of air quality in Britain to consider the implications of its distribution across over ten thousand local communities in terms of potential environmental injustice. We consider the recent history of the environmental justice debate in Britain, Europe, and the USA and, in the light of this, estimate how one aspect of air pollution, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels, affects different population groups differentially across Britain. We also estimate the extent to which people living in each community in Britain contribute towards this pollution, with the aid of information on the characteristics of the vehicles they own. We find that, although community NO x emission and ambient NO2 concentration are strongly related, the communities that have access to fewest cars tend to suffer from the highest levels of air pollution, whereas those in which car ownership is greatest enjoy the cleanest air. Pollution is most concentrated in areas where young children and their parents are more likely to live and least concentrated in areas to which the elderly tend to migrate. Those communities that are most polluted and which also emit the least pollution tend to be amongst the poorest in Britain. There is therefore evidence of environmental injustice in the distribution and production of poor air quality in Britain. However, the spatial distribution of those who produce and receive most of that pollution have to be considered simultaneously to see this injustice clearly.

scholarly journals ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL MECHANISM OF PREVENTING THE SUICIDE IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
S.S. Filonenko
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Suicide Prevention Programs ◽  
Legal Mechanism

The article focuses on the study of suicide worldwide and Ukraine in particular. The phenomenon of suicide is relevant in all corners of the world, it affects people of all nations, cultures, religions, articles, and classes. The scientific community in many countries around the world demonstrates indifference to the problem of suicide; Accordingly, suicide is gradually becoming one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Thus, suicide ranks 15th among the leading causes of death. WHO statistics show that suicide is committed twice as often as murder, and emphasizes that this phenomenon is global and reaches critical levels every year. We have analyzed the regulatory framework for suicide at the global level. For example, over the last decades, since 2000, due to the incredible efforts of WHO, this problem has begun to receive national attention. In the developed world, many regulations on suicide prevention have been developed and adopted. In the course of scientific research, we found out that suicide and Ukraine is the seventh cause of death, which confirms the criticality of the problem and the need for its fastest solution. We believe that there is a need today to support such categories of persons as children and young people, servicemen, convicts, and the elderly. The article examines the experience of such foreign countries as the USA, Azerbaijan, Israel, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and other European countries of the world. Finding out what prevention and prevention measures they have implemented in national suicide prevention programs, we see the possibility of their implementation in Ukraine and are convinced of their effectiveness. According to the results of scientific research, we will develop an administrative and legal mechanism for suicide prevention in Ukraine, which can work if all the steps of the algorithm for reducing suicide rates are fulfilled. Keywords: suicide, administrative and legal mechanism, the algorithm of actions, statistics, suicide rate.

scholarly journals Trends in One-Year Recurrent Ischemic Stroke among the Elderly in the USA: 1994–2002

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norrina B. Allen ◽  
Theodore R. Holford ◽  
Michael B. Bracken ◽  
Larry B. Goldstein ◽  
George Howard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Usa ◽  
One Year

scholarly journals Underutilization of Treatment for Regional Gastric Cancer Among the Elderly in the USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 955-963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Liu ◽  
Daniela Molena ◽  
Miloslawa Stem ◽  
Amanda L. Blackford ◽  
David B. Sewell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gastric Cancer ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Usa

Targeting the Mature Consumer Market

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Moschis ◽  
D. N. Bellenger ◽  
P. A. Kennett ◽  
L. E. Aab
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Mature Market

The aging population in the USA makes skill in marketing to the mature consumer increasingly important. The biophysical and psychosocial aging process create a need for specific strategies to address the changes brought on by age. This study attempts to ascertain the degree to which the health service providers recognize some of the needs of the elderly market and the degree to which marketing programs are addressing these needs. A comparison with other industries is also provided. The results indicate that 4 out of 16 strategies directed at the mature market have been used by more than 80% of health care respondents. In addition, there are significant differences between the health care industry and other industries for five of the strategies. All but two of the strategies are thought to be important by more than half of the survey respondents.

ELDER ABUSE

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-498
Author(s):  
Frank Glendenning
Keyword(s):  
Elder Abuse ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
Public Health Epidemiology

L. B. Cebik, Glenn C. Graber and Frank H. Marsh (eds) Advances in Bioethics: Volume 1: Violence, Neglect and the Elderly. JAI Press Inc., Greenwich, Conn. 1996, 240 pp. £62.50 Hbk ISBN 0-7623-0096-5.This book appears to be the first volume of a series, although it is not clear what additional volumes will follow. The price alone suggests that it is aimed at academic libraries, although serious researchers into elder mistreatment may decide that it is a necessary addition to a personal library as a book of reference.The Preface explains the origin of this series on Advances in Bioethics: ‘The magnitude of violence in the United States has become an increasingly grim reality for many Americans’. Walker and Maltby (1997), in their presentation of European research on ageing, recently drew attention to the sense of fear of walking out at night that older people have in all the member states of the European Union. The same appears to be true in the USA as well. The preface catalogues figures for 1992: 207,000 rapes, over 20,000 murders and 690,000 robberies. This has led the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to focus attention on violence and health, seeking to understand violence-related behaviour and its consequences. In 1993, the NIH set up the Panel of NIH Research on Antisocial, Aggressive and Violence-related Behaviours and their Consequences. The Panel included experts on ethics, criminal justice, medicine, behavioural and biological research, public health, epidemiology, anthropology, nursing, sociology, psychology and psychiatry. The Panel's purpose was to ‘evaluate the NIH research portfolio in terms of its relevance, adequacy and responsiveness to social and ethical concerns.’ It has been necessary to give this background in order that the book may be seen in context.

Headache

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
GJF Saldanha ◽  
CG Clough ◽  
N Ward
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Large Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
The Usa ◽  
One Year

Little is known about the frequency of headache in the elderly population as few epidemiological studies have been carried out. In one year in the USA, 70% of the general population had a headache, 5% of whom sought medical attention. In a large population-based study carried out in East Boston, US, some 17% of patients over 65 yrs of age reported frequent headache, with 53% of women and 36% of men reporting headache in the previous year.

scholarly journals Trends in acute pericarditis hospitalizations and outcomes among the elderly in the USA, 1999–2012

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purav Mody ◽  
Behnood Bikdeli ◽  
Yun Wang ◽  
Massimo Imazio ◽  
Harlan M Krumholz
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Acute Pericarditis ◽  
The Usa
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