A Fifteen-Year Psychogeriatric Patient Follow-Up Study

1984 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 412-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Grauer ◽  
D. Mueller ◽  
R. Zelnicker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Time Of Death ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Positive Correlations

Two hundred and ninety-one patients, with an average age of 69 in 1965, referred to a psychogeriatric clinic were studied. All but 20 were traced. 167 died and 104 remained alive. 73 were institutionalized. Medical, psychiatric and social data was available for all. Using mortality tables, we calculated the time of death for each patient. The group that exceeded their life expectancy was compared to the group that died prematurely. Significant positive correlations with longevity were self-referral, higher education, skilled work, independent income and absence of dementia. Females and orphans also lived longer. Living alone, dependency on children and conflict with one's spouse predisposed to institutionalization. Curiously, the hardships of being in wartime Europe and/or in a concentration camp increased life expectancy and mitigated against institutionalization. An attempt is made to correlate our findings with other studies and to explain our results.

Survivorship among the Aged Blind

1965 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 333-338
Author(s):  
Eugene Rogot
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
One Year ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
Age Range

A follow-up study of 11,732 persons first registered as legally blind in Massachusetts during the twenty-year period, 1940-1959, was conducted in order to determine survivorship patterns and causes of death among the blind. This paper reports findings for 5,976 blind persons who were sixty-five years of age or older at the time of registration. Life-expectancy values calculated for single years of age from sixty-five to ninety showed that blind males had lower values than the general population over most of this age range; differences in life-expectancy were roughly two years for ages sixty-five to seventy-two, about one year for ages seventy-three to seventy-nine, and essentially no difference for ages eighty to ninety. The pattern for females was very similar to that for males. The largest differences according to major causes of blindness were for diabetes with blind males age sixty-five and over having an observed life-expectancy almost four years less than expected, and blind females age sixty-five and over having a life-expectancy 4.8 years less than expected. For blind males as well as for blind females age sixty-five and over, excess mortality due to diabetes was particularly noted.

Life expectancy of people with intellectual disability: a 35-year follow-up study

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Patja ◽  
M. Iivanainen ◽  
H. Vesala ◽  
H. Oksanen ◽  
I. Ruoppila
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Follow Up Study

scholarly journals Comparison of Interpreting Teachers’ Use and Perceptions of Distance Interpreter Training (DIT) Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interview-Based Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-223
Author(s):  
Mianjun Xu ◽  
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Tianyuan Zhao ◽  
Juntao Deng ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Interpreter Training ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Different Parts

The study indicates that before the COVID-19 pandemic, despite its importance, distance interpreter training (DIT) was not positively perceived or widely used in higher education institutions that offer Bachelor of Translation and Interpreting (BTI) and/or Master of Translation and Interpreting (MTI) programs in China. However, the pandemic has changed almost everything in the world, with no exception of DIT, prompting the authors to have a follow-up study in August 2020 of the same 14 full-time interpreting teachers from different BTI and MTI institutions in different parts of China who had been interviewed right before the pandemic. This interview-based comparative study shows that all the interviewees used DIT during the pandemic shutdown and their perceptions of DIT have altered greatly, becoming more objective than subjective and more positive than negative. The pandemic has, to some extent, boosted the further development and acceptance of both the online and blended approaches to interpreter training.

From High School to Higher Education: Curricular Policy and Postsecondary Enrollment in Israel

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Addi-Raccah ◽  
Hanna Ayalon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Additional Advantage ◽  
Postsecondary Enrollment ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Social Composition

Using multilevel models, the authors tested the hypothesis that high schools, through their curricular policies, operate as mechanisms that help members of privileged groups to take better advantage of postsecondary opportunities. The analysis was based on a 7-year follow-up study of 44,666 Israeli students who graduated from 385 high schools in 1991. The main findings were that (a) the curricular experience of students partly mediated between their sociodemographic characteristics and postsecondary enrollment, (b) the curricular arrangements of schools fully mediated the effects of their social composition on their graduates’ postsecondary education, and (c) graduates of socially privileged schools made a better use of their matriculation certificates. This afforded privileged students an additional advantage.

A follow-up study of the effect of pedagogical training on teaching in higher education

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liisa Postareff ◽  
Sari Lindblom-Ylänne ◽  
Anne Nevgi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

The Longer Term Contributions of Formal and Informal Support

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Rawan W. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Care Leavers

Drawing on the findings of a qualitative follow-up study of 29 Jordanian care leavers, this chapter demonstrates how a combination of formal and informal support has contributed positively to care leavers’ longer term outcomes. The support that the care leavers were offered by the growing formal entities, as well as their affiliation with adults and families outside care, enabled them to deal successfully with issues such engaging in higher education, achieving security in accommodations, and home ownership. The chapter demonstrates that the young adults were able to use the opportunities given to them to achieve progress despite an economic climate that challenges all young people and an often-unforgiving social context that strongly stigmatizes care leavers. Focusing on factors that promote positive outcomes for care leavers, this chapter offers considerations for practice and for policy and contributes to the growing body of international research on this topic generally, and specifically from developing economies.

scholarly journals Effects of Smoking and Smoking Cessation on Life Expectancy in an Elderly Population in Beijing, China, 1992–2000: An 8-Year Follow-up Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 376-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaobing Tian ◽  
Zhe Tang ◽  
Jingmei Jiang ◽  
Xianghua Fang ◽  
Xiaoguang Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Cessation ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Beijing China
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