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• Home > News > Local Health program for elderly planned Boston Globe The Romney administration will take a major step next month to reduce the state's overreliance on nursing homes, offering 118,000 low-income senior citizens the chance to enroll in a new managed care program that emphasizes primary and preventive health care and extensive services in the home. Alice Dembner 2/15/2004 --> Health program for elderly planned.
• The Romney administration will take a major step next month to reduce the state's overreliance on nursing homes, offering 118,000 low-income senior citizens the chance to enroll in a new managed care program that emphasizes primary and preventive health care and extensive services in the home.
• After soliciting bids, the state selected three agencies to run the program -- Commonwealth Care Alliance, a Boston nonprofit organization founded by advocates and by doctors involved in Grieco's program; Senior Whole Health, a Boston for-profit organization founded by executives formerly associated with Neighborhood Health Plan; and Evercare, a division of for-profit UnitedHealth Group of Minnesota that provides elder care services in other states. ...
• Ackerman, chairwoman of the geriatrics committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society, who has consulted for Senior Whole Health. ...
• Lynn Community Health Center, which serves many low-income seniors, has joined Commonwealth Care Alliance's network and sees the plan as part of the future of health care, said Lori Berry, the center's executive director.

•  POLICY FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTIVE CARE.
• Its policy on health education (1986) 1 promoted the need for appropriately targeted education, appropriate screening and the institution of primary prevention wherever possible. A further policy, Health Promotion in Later Life, was produced in 1993 2 as a response to the Health of the Nation (1992) 3 .
• The Health Promotion Special Interest Group was instituted in 1994 and formally constituted in its present form in October 1996. Its mission is to promote appraisal, research and education on the range of health promotion and preventive care strategies pertinent to an older population, to enhance implementation of the most appropriate of these strategies within the clinical practice of Society members, other health and social care providers and society at large. ...
• Ensuring adequate income (WHO Health for All 2000).
• Strategies to minimise ill health.
• In 1994 the WHO (European Region) set a new ‘Health for all by the Year 2000’ target life expectancy at birth, which should be at least 75 years. There should be sustained and continuing improvement in the health of all people aged 65 years and over. The health target had four dimensions.
• Ensuring equity in health. ... Adding health to life. ...
• Within the European Union, article 129 of the European Treaty on Political Union (1991) - The Maastricht Treaty - gave the Community some competence in the field of public health with specific proposals for older people.
• Ageing Well Europe is an innovative pan-European health promotion programme for older people based on the Ottawa Charter (1986). ...
• At a national level the Health Education Authority in association with the Centre for Policy on Ageing has conducted a survey and is in the process of drawing up a framework for promoting the health of older people as the basis for a national strategy 5 . ...
• Kennie 6 emphasises the need for the practitioners of preventive care and health promotion to work together in a multidimensional approach backing three interwoven components.

• Mental Health of the Elderly.
• Having good mental health throughout life does not ensure immunity from severe depression, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety disorders and other disorders in the senior years of life. In fact, some studies show elderly people are at greater risk of mental disorders and their complications than are younger people. ...
• From 15 to 25 percent of elderly people in the United States suffer from significant symptoms of mental illness.
• Worldwide, elderly people lead the World Health Organization's list of new cases of mental illness: 236 elderly people per 100,000 suffer from mental illness, compared to 93 per 100,000 for those aged 45 to 64, the next younger group.
• Severe organic mental disorders afflict one million elderly people in this country and another two million suffer from moderate organic disorders. ...
• Sadly, many of the nation's elderly are reluctant to seek psychiatric treatment which could cure or alleviate their symptoms and return them to their previous level of functioning. ... Medicare, which sets the standard for health care insurance coverage, has traditionally discriminated against psychiatric care by offering a low level of benefits. Elderly people, their loved ones and friends and often their own doctors fail to recognize the symptoms of treatable mental illness in older people. ...
• Though nearly 25 percent of elderly persons suffer from symptoms of mental illness, they do not seek care; only 4 percent of the patients in community mental health centers are elderly.
• Only two percent of the patients seen in private practitioners' offices or hospitals are elderly.
• Elderly people may become forgetful, disoriented, or confused because they have developed a quickly reversible condition that is totally unrelated to dementia. ...
• Elderly people take many more prescription and over-the-counter medications than other age groups. Because metabolism is slower in the elderly, these substances can stay in the body longer and reach toxic levels more quickly. ...
• An elderly person may drop certain important foods from the diet because they are hard to chew. ...
• Aging and Mental Health: Positive Psychosocial, and Biomedical Approaches. ...

• Health and Mortality Trends among Elderly Populations.
• This policy monograph on the subject of Health and Mortality Among Elderly Populations: Determinants and Implications is based on the papers of a Conference on the same topic, organized by the Committee on Adult Mortality, one of the scientific committees of IUSSP, in collaboration with the united Nations, the World Health Organization, the city of Sendai in Japan and the Japan Ageing Research Center. ...
• • Committee on Population and Health (including Family Planning).
• Health and Mortality Trends among Elderly Populations.
• Evaluation of the Impact of Health Interventions.
• It then proceeds to discuss three issues surrounding this unexpected trend which have important policy implications: 1) adequacy of data, concepts and methodologies to fully understand this trend; 2) the future course of mortality for the elderly; and 3) the prospects for the quality of life of the elderly. ...
• While it is true that mortality cannot come close to the cumulative effect of fertility on the age distribution, in the low mortality countries the most important factor in the 'short run ' determining the future age structure of the population is the spectacular decline in the mortality of the elderly.
• The 'epidemiological ' or 'health ' transition, part of the demographic transition which also includes the secular decline in fertility, is now a commonly accepted name for these changes in mortality. ...
• As the level of mortality changed for the elderly there were major shifts in the cause specific structure of death at advanced ages both in terms of the age distribution of deaths at later ages and the importance of select conditions as underlying versus associated causes of death. ... Declines in mortality due to cardiovascular disease was a most important factor in the decline in mortality of the elderly. The decline in cardiovascular disease, however, has not occurred uniformly in all industrialized societies because in some countries smoking, alcohol and fat consumption remain high in middle age and elderly populations. ...
• The other is the increasing social and health needs of the elderly, who are increasing both in absolute and relative numbers. These issues will add to the financial burden and conflicts of governments already facing needs of other age groups and having to deal with new health and social problems such as illegal migration and AIDS.
• - What will be the future course of mortality for the elderly in the low mortality countries? .
• - Is the increased length of life accompanied by sufficiency of quality of life of the elderly? .
• Even though it occurred in countries with good population data, the rapid increase in the older population has shown that many shortcomings exist in regard to conceptual issues, availability of data, and appropriate methodologies for obtaining an adequate picture of the elderly. ...

• STRENGTH TRAINING MAY HELP ELDERLY .
• REBUILD MUSCLES, IMPROVE HEALTH.
• Health Behavior News Service.
• A growing number of elderly Americans are losing muscle mass and strength, leading to physical disability and frailty. ...
• The research is not clear on whether the benefits of strength training can actually delay the onset of disability, or on how such training helps the elderly. ... Frequency and intensity of strength training are also open questions, although the American College of Sports Medicine recommends two to three days per week of strength training, a schedule which is appropriate for the elderly, Nelson says.
• Health Behavior News Service: (202) 387-2829 or www. ...
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• Promoting Better Health and Better Living -- IDF 2003.
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• Explore evidence-based technologies to help consumers be more proactive in managing their health and wellness needs at home, work, and play.
• Intel's Proactive Health Research is exploring the ways in which ubiquitous computing can support the daily health and wellness needs of people in their homes and everyday lives. ...
• Phase One: Focus on physical and cognitive decline, especially on technologies that will help tomorrow's elderly population to age in place from wherever they and their families choose .
• Phase Three: Focus on wellness, including nutrition, physical fitness, and mental health. ...
• Second, field results are then applied to develop and test early prototypes of future home systems that could help to meet the health needs of the entire household. ...
• The complex problems being addressed in the Proactive Health Strategic Research Project are beyond the capability of any one organization to solve. ... Key collaborators include Intel Research Seattle, the University of Washington, the Oregon Health and Science University, the University of Rochester, and Georgia Tech. ...
• Intel has taken the initiative to invest in research and development of these sensor networks, recognizing this technology as crucial to addressing the pending global age wave and public health crisis. ...
• Aging in Place Case Study: Helping the elderly age gracefully at home case study.
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• Hypertension in the Elderly.
• Although many studies have shown that controlling hypertension prevents complications like stroke, heart attack, heart and kidney failure, many elderly people continue to live with uncontrolled or inadequately controlled hypertension. ...
• How is Hypertension in the Elderly Different from the General Population's? .
• In general, hypertension in the elderly increases the risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, and death. However, ISH is more common, more progressive, and associated with increased risk for these complications in the elderly more than regular hypertension. ...
• Causes of Hypertension in the Elderly .
• We treat hypertension in the elderly to reduce the risks associated with it. ... I usually consider two approaches in planning to treat hypertension in my elderly patients, lifestyle modification (exercise, diet, and smoking cessation), and drug therapy. ...
• In my elderly patients with borderline hypertension (130-139/85-89) without any other medical problems, I usually recommend lifestyle modification as appropriate first step management for about six months. ... It is particularly important to start drug therapy early in elderly people with ISH because of the morbidity and mortality associated with it. ...
• Lifestyle modifications are the common-sense things that are good for our physical and emotional health. ... The types of exercise regimens I usually recommend for my elderly patients are moderate exercises (swimming, dancing, walking, and bowling) that do not necessarily involve vigorous activity. ...

• 3821 0 0 CHAPTER 9 HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE XE "Health Care:Insurance" .
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• Home And Community Care Services to the Elderly 42-66. ...
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• Catastrophic Health Insurance 42-62-1 to 42-62-25. ...
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• Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Elderly 42-66. ...
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• Deregulation Syringe Act for diabetes and health promotion 21-28-4. ...
• Health and Safety: Osteoporosis 23-69-1,23-69-3. ...
• Abuse in Health Care Facilities 23-17. ...
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• Health Care Facilities Rights of Patients 23-17-19. ...
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• Home And Community Care Services to the Elderly 42-66. ...
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• of Mental Health Care: .
• Foreword Acknowledgments Executive Summary Introduction Status of Medicaid Managed Mental Health Care "Privatizing" Public Mental Health Systems Trends Motivations Goals Making the Shift Smooth Transition Resource Issues Data Systems State Administration Population Covered Structure Other Challenges The War at the Borders Integrating Populations Services Integration Agency Integration Integrating Funding Streams State-Local Integration Integration in Rural and Frontier Areas Authorizing Services Ensuring Accountability Areas to Measure Meeting Contract Requirements Performance Data Outcomes Data Assessing Cost Savings Other Areas of Accountability Using the Data Conclusion Notes References .
• The theme of the report is that public managers can use many of these techniques to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of behavioral health services. ...
• The Fund is an endowed national foundation, established in 1905, that works with decision makers in the public and private sectors to carry out nonpartisan analysis, study, research, and communication on significant issues in health policy. ...
• Each of the officials we convened had firsthand experience with managed behavioral health care. ...
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
• Colleagues in government, managed care, business, and the health professions reviewed various drafts of this report. ...
• The officials who crafted the report are: Marilyn Eckley, Director, Bureau of Operations and Quality Management, Pennsylvania Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services; Brian Hepburn, Clinical Director, Mental Hygiene Administration, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Thomas A. Kirk, Deputy Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Michael McCracken, Executive Director, Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs; Dennis Mohatt, Deputy Director, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services; Oscar Morgan, Director, Mental Hygiene Administration, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Candy Nardini, Project Director, Mental Health Access Plan, Iowa Department of Human Services; Karen Snyder, Chief Operating Officer, Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; Barney Speight, Administrator, Oregon Health Plan Policy and Research; Don Thomas, Director, Hamilton County Department of Human Services, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Martin Wasserman, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Damian Kirwan, President, National Association for Rural Mental Health, Mesa, Ariz. ...
• The following persons reviewed the report in draft: Kevin Concannon, Commissioner, Maine Department of Human Services; Mary Jane England, President, Washington Business Group on Health; Donald P. Galamaga, Executive Director, Integrated Mental Health Services, Rhode Island Department of Mental Health; Laura Lee Hall, Research Director, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill; Peter F. ... ; Danna Mauch, Chief Executive Officer, Public Solutions Group, Magellan Behavioral Health, Burlington, Mass. ; Neil Meisler, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina; Cynthia O'Neil, Executive Director, Rhode Island Mental Health Association; Christopher Queram, Chief Executive Officer, The Alliance, Madison, Wisc. ... Sabin, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; James Stone, Commissioner, New York State Office of Mental Health; Marylou Sudders, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health; Richard C. Surles, Executive Director, Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University.

• Catastrophic Health Insurance for the Elderly.
• By 1988, however, a grassroots revolt began to take shape against the new law, which offered new benefits but also imposed new charges on the elderly. ... In addition, it provides a primer in the structure of federal health insurance programs. ...
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• The cost of health care in retirement is large, because people tend to be ill more frequently in later life. Increasing numbers of older people, combined with an increase in the cost of healthcare, has led to the funding of post-retirement health care becoming a political issue. ...
• Many people in the later years of their lives, due to failing health, require assistance, the highest degree of assistance - in some countries - being provided in a nursing home. ...

• Bibliography of Tobacco and the Elderly Articles .
• While there has been a substantial increase in recent decades in the research and literature concerning tobacco use and the health effects of tobacco use, the focus on tobacco and older persons has been relatively limited. The following bibliography, prepared by The Center for Social Gerontology (TCSG), presents a comprehensive, albeit not all-encompassing, list of recent articles, as well as an ample selection of earlier articles, related to tobacco and the elderly. This is a broad collection of work in the tobacco and the elderly field, to be used as a starting point for research by health care professionals, aging and health care advocates, individuals working in tobacco control and prevention, public policymakers, and others. ...
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• "Life Events and Their Impact on Health Attitudes and Health Behavior. ...
• "Demographic and Health Characteristics of Elderly Smokers: Results from Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies for the Elderly. ...
• "The Quality of Life Implications of Health Practices Among Older Adults. ...
• " Am J Public Health (1989) 79:703-708.
• "Elderly Health Beliefs, Attitudes, and Maintenance. ...
• " J Health Care Poor Underserved (1996) 7:232-51.
• "Gender and Ethnic Differences in the Health Practices of the Elderly Poor. ...
• "Health Practices of the Elderly Poor. " Am J Public Health (1989) 79:731-4.

• Mayor Street's Social Services/Elderly Services Transition Team Report.
• SOCIAL SERVICES TRANSITION COMMITTEE, ELDERLY SERVICES SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT, February 2000.
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•     The Elderly Services Subcommittee of the Social Services Committee is responsible for reviewing  programs and services offered to the elderly in the City of Philadelphia and providing recommendations for their improvement. ...
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• Elderly Services Subcommittee Executive Summary .
• To address the concerns of the elderly population in Philadelphia, the Elderly Services Subcommittee proposes the following list of recommendations in the areas of safety and nutrition, health care and prevention, mental health, housing, recreation and socialization, transportation and employment. ...
• The prosperity of Philadelphia is dependent upon the health of its citizens and their neighborhoods. Because the elderly compose a high percentage of all people who live and own homes in Philadelphia, the welfare of the elderly is important to the people and to the future of Philadelphia. An investment in the elderly has a direct relation to the growth and prosperity of Philadelphia. ...

• Results of two national surveys, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III 1988-91) and the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes of Individuals (1994 CSFII) indicated that the dietary intake of most Americans does not provide the recommended intake for vitamin E. ...
• 4 What is the health risk of too much vitamin E?.
• An observational trial conducted by The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health found that when vitamin E is taken daily in large doses (400-1000IU) in combination with vitamin C (500-1000mg) the onset of Alzheimer's was reduced between 64 and 78%. ...
• What is the health risk of too much vitamin E? .
• The health risk of too much vitamin E is low. A recent review of the safety of vitamin E in the elderly indicated that taking vitamin E supplements for up to four months at doses of 530 mg or 800 IU (35 times the current RDA) had no significant adverse effect on general health, body weight, levels of body proteins, lipid levels, liver or kidney function, thyroid hormones, amount or kinds of blood cells, and bleeding time. ... Upper tolerable intake levels "represent the maximum intake of a nutrient that is likely to pose no risk of adverse health effects in almost all individuals in the general population". ...

• Text Version Caring for the Disabled Elderly: There's No Place Like Home.
• And long-term care is receiving equal billing with hospital and physician care in major reviews of health policy by the U. ... Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care (Pepper Commission), the White House Domestic Policy Council, and the Advisory Council on Social Security.
• Even more important, virtually all of the parents of the baby boom generation will be elderly. ... The growing number of elderly and their adult children will make long-term care a political issue that neither the president nor Congress will be able to ignore indefinitely.
• Contrary to what many people think, most disabled elderly are not living in nursing homes--they are living at home and want to stay there. Home care services, such as home health care, homemaker help, personal care, meals-on-wheels programs, respite care and adult day care, enable them to do so. However, only a small minority of the chronically disabled elderly receive any paid home care services. ... 65 million disabled elderly living at home used any paid in-home care. ...
• 2 Although coverage of nursing home care by private long-term care insurance has improved markedly over the last few years, home care coverage has many restrictions and is still only slightly more generous than Medicare home health benefits. ...
• Nonetheless, the elderly strongly prefer home care. 4 Formal home care helps the disabled elderly to live independently, to be less burdensome to relatives, and to avoid nursing home care. 5 Fully 95 percent of the chronically disabled elderly living at home in 1982 said they would prefer to stay out of a nursing home as long as possible. ... A 1988 nationwide poll by Louis Harris found that 87 percent of the people polled favored a "federal long-term home care program for chronically ill and disabled elderly. 7 In another survey, seven out of eight voters said they wanted a public program that would pay for community services for a disabled elderly family member to stay at home. ...
• This chapter's summary of studies done in ten separate policy areas will help public policymakers and insurers to evaluate proposals to expand formal home care for the disabled elderly. ...

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• But the array of new medical options introduces a number of new considerations, particularly for the elderly population. Many elderly people are managing not one, but several conditions at once, with a variety of medications. ... And many elderly patients are faced with critical treatment decisions; endure side effects and complications and extend life, or forgo treatment for a good quality of life. ...
• Below, she shares some of the special issues that elderly patients face as participants in the healthcare system. ...
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• Hypertension in the Elderly.
• How is Hypertension in the Elderly Different from the General Population's? .
• Causes of Hypertension in the Elderly? .
• It is estimated that about 65 percent of people older than the age of 65 (the elderly) have hypertension. ... Although many studies have shown that controlling hypertension prevents complications like stroke, heart attack, heart and kidney failure, many elderly people continue to live with uncontrolled or inadequately controlled hypertension. ...
• How is Hypertension in the Elderly Different from the General Population's? .
• In general, hypertension in the elderly increases the risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, and death. However, ISH is more common, more progressive, and associated with increased risk for these complications in the elderly more than regular hypertension. ...
• Causes of Hypertension in the Elderly .
• We treat hypertension in the elderly to reduce the risks associated with it. ... I usually consider two approaches in planning to treat hypertension in my elderly patients, lifestyle modification (exercise, diet, and smoking cessation), and drug therapy. ...

• Addressing Barriers to Health Care for Our Elderly.
• The number of physicians currently trained in geriatrics falls short of the need to care for the elderly now, and there are no mechanisms in place to properly train physicians for this population in the near future to deal with this growth. ...
• Conclusion: The increasing growth of the geriatrics population, without a concurrent growth in the number of trained geriatricians, is creating an "elderly care gap". The specialized kind of care needed to treat the elderly, keep them healthy, and make proper decisions about long-term care require our system to create incentives for training physicians and medical students to become geriatricians. ...
• The elderly currently represent 12. ...
• The actual need for special approaches, because of frailty and increasing illness, occurs much more often in the oldest of the old, leading to a newer classification of the elderly: .
• Thus "old old" are the fastest growing segment of the older population, and no amount of preventive medicine, health maintenance, or decreased cardiovascular morbidity, have had a major effect on the prevalence of dementia (50 percent over age 85) or degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis), the world's most common chronic condition. ...
• All those who provide health care to the elderly must be made aware of the resources available and those needed to properly care for these patients. ...
• The elderly represent a medically underserved population, not only because of a shortage of primary care professionals, but also because the health care system is not well designed to meet their needs. Physical handicaps, lack of money, and inadequate transportation systems make health care inaccessible for may older people. ... Health maintenance, anticipatory guidance, and advance directives remain infrequently discussed. ...
• Elderly Attitudes Toward Medical Care.
• Programs and policies that address the heath needs of the elderly must deal with the issue of access to care. ... Many studies have looked at these barriers from the perspective of the health care providers and the elderly patients themselves. ...
• The reasons that the elderly avoid care was explored by asking a sample group a series of open-ended questions. There were many reasons discovered as to why care is avoided, but the major theme that emerged involved the interactions among autonomy, self-esteem, and the degree of illness or health. The study generated two hypotheses as to why the elderly avoid health care. 1) Self-esteem is directly correlated with the willingness of the elderly to seek care, especially as illness increases and autonomy decreases, 2) The individual's perception of health status, the perceived roles of the physician and the patient, the physician-patient relationship, and systems issues, for example, finances and transportation relate to wellingness to seek care. ...

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• Offering companion, home health care and assisted living services so loved ones can remain at home. ...
• This resource centre was created to help caregivers deal with the stress of being in the position of having to deal with the elderly and ill.
• Serves as a health education and information resource for the elderly, their caretakers and significant others.
• Helpguide provides user-friendly mental health resources and information, including sources of help for mental .
• An online guide assisting both the caregiver and the elderly care receiver.
• Life management and consulting services for families and financial institutions charged with meeting the needs of the elderly. ...
• This Denver, Colorado companion care company offers affordable assistance to the elderly, resources for seniors living at home, and care for the chronically disabled, easing the burden on family caregivers.
• Resources, chat room, messagesboards and newsletter devoted to carers of the elderly.
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• The ElderCare Connection operates in Floridas Broward and Palm Beach Counties and features professional guardianships, geriatric care management, healthcare surrogate services and special legal and financial services for the elderly.
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• CORK Bibliography: Substance Use -- Elderly.
• Treating Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the Elderly. ...
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• Alcohol use in later life: Scourge, solace, or safeguard of health? (editorial). ...
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• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Cooper-Stanley M. ... Canberra Australia: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003. ...
• Sexual function in men older than 50 years of age: Results from the health professionals follow-up study. ...
• health professionals. ... Previous biennial questionnaires since 1986 asked about date of birth, alcohol intake, and other health information. ...
• Evidence-based practices in geriatric mental health care. ...
• Older and younger patients with substance use disorders: Outpatient mental health service use and functioning over a 12-month interval. ...
• The role of benzodiazepines in elderly suicides. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 31(3): 224-228, 2003. ...
• However, drug poisoning suicides increased among the elderly during this period. ... Results: A benzodiazepine was implicated in 216/548 (39%) of the drug poisoning suicides recorded among the elderly. ... Conclusion: Benzodiazepines, especially the hypnotics flunitrazepam and nitrazepam, are common in drug poisoning suicides in the elderly and should be prescribed with caution for this age group. ...

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