Social support, disability and independent living of elderly persons in the United States

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Avery ◽  
Alden Speare ◽  
Leora Lawton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
The United States ◽  
Elderly Persons

Comparative Funeral Practices

1969 ◽  
Vol os-16 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Vanderlyn R. Pine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Funeral Practices ◽  
Funeral Practice

By comparing funeral practices in Bali, Japan, Russia, England, and the United States, the author shows that funeral practices are designed to provide socially sanctioned solutions to deep psychological needs at the time of bereavement. Suggested universal features of funeral practice across cultures include the provision of social support for the bereaved, religious ritual, funeral expenditure, sanitary disposal of the body, visual confrontation, and the funeral procession, which is generally conceived as a family parade.

scholarly journals Foster Care Independent Living Services: Youth Perspectives

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Petr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
The United States ◽  
Independent Living Programs ◽  
Foster Youths ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Successful Adults ◽  
Independent Living Services

Emerging adulthood is a phase in the life course recently identified by developmental theorists. For youth in foster care, recent federal legislation in the United States has engendered new programs, typically called independent living programs, to help them become successful adults. This qualitative study reports the findings of interviews with a diverse sample of 27 current and former foster youths in a Midwestern state, focusing on the quantity and quality of independent living services received. The youths reported hopeful expectations and plans for their futures, widespread support for postcustody benefit programs, mixed opinions about the utilization and effectiveness of existing independent living programs, significant educational delays associated with frequent placements while in out-of-home custody, and strong attachments to families of origin.

State IQ and Elderly Suicide Rates in the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 601-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Voracek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Total Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Elderly Suicide

Paralleling previous findings with state suicide rates of the total population, the associations of state suicide rates of elderly persons with regional IQ estimates across the USA were inconsistent (positive, negative, or nil), depending on the source of available state IQ estimates used in the analysis. The implications of these findings and directions for further inquiry are discussed.

Visits to Family Physicians or Specialists by Elderly Persons in Canada and the United States: An Exploratory Comparative Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark S. Kaplan ◽  
Nathalie Huguet ◽  
David Feeny ◽  
Bentson H. McFarland ◽  
Stacey S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
The United States ◽  
Elderly Persons

Comparison of Swedish and American Preschool Children's Attitudes toward Elderly Persons

1999 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 899-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue W. Williams ◽  
Elizabeth M. Blunk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Social Attitude ◽  
Attitudes Toward Elderly ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children's Attitudes ◽  
Full Day

Attitudes toward elderly persons were examined for 40 4- and 5-yr.-old children, 20 from Sweden and 20 from the United States, enrolled in full-day preschool programs. Subjects were matched for age, socioeconomic status, and parents' age and marital status. One-half of each group were male and one-half were female. The Social Attitude Scale of Ageist Prejudice was used to assess children's attitudes toward elderly persons. One-way analysis of variance indicated no significant differences in scores between the groups.

Social policy: models, directions, and features of the implementation

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Svetlana Nikolaevna Ispulova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Models

The article is devoted to the main models and ways of forming social well-being as an indicator of the social state. The author draws attention to the ongoing measures of social support for economically disadvantaged citizens in Russia and the United States.

Disability and the Transition to Adulthood in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Bardo ◽  
Ashley Vowels
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Cumulative Inequality ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter provides a synthesis of the literature on the transition to adulthood among emerging adults with a disability in the United States. The life course paradigm was used to frame the discussion in the context of demographic trends and contemporary circumstances regarding major life transitions in the areas of education, employment, independent living, and sex, marriage, and parenthood. A critical assessment of the current state of the literature from a social versus medical model of disability in these central life domains provides a foundation from which sociologists can explore processes of cumulative inequality embedded in the relatively uncharted lives of transition-age youth with a disability.

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