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Mental status of the elderly receiving home health services and the associated stress of home helpers
- Authors:
- NAGATOMO Itsugi, TAKIGAWA Morikuni
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(1), January 1998, pp.57-63.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Investigates older Japanese people receiving home health service investigated. The study examines intellectual levels, depressive state evaluated by the Cornell scale for depression in dementia (CSDD) scale, abnormal behaviours evaluated by the dementia behaviour disturbance (DBD) scale, and activities of daily living (ADL).
The World Health Organisation perspective on gender, ageing and health
- Author:
- KALACHE Alexandre
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 24(4), Spring 1998, pp.39-48.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Ageing and Health Program has adopted the notion of gender as a key perspective to it's programme components. In this article the author cites health and ageing examples from Japan, Africa and other nations to demonstrate why there is a need for increasing recognition of gender differences.
Responding to dementia in East Asia: developments in Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea
- Author:
- INEICHEN B.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 2(4), November 1998, pp.279-285.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Countries of the Far East share a number of features in their response to the problem of dementia among the elderly. Research in Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea finds a very rapid rate of growth in their elderly populations, with corresponding rises in the number of dementia sufferers. Official responses have been rather slow, due to the long-standing belief that families would provide care. Demographic and sociological trends - longer life span, smaller families, urbanisation, the growing opportunity for paid work (especially for women) - have contributed to the decline of filial piety. All these processes are more advanced in the cities. Reports that rural elderly people suffering from dementia may be especially vulnerable to isolation, and in need of non-familial sources of help.
Long term care data pack
- Author:
- SWISS RE LIFE AND HEALTH LIMITED
- Publisher:
- Swiss Re Life and Health Limited
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 118p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines what long term care is and looks at current provision. Goes on to look at: the community care framework and the provision of long term care; the political environment; background statistics; public attitudes; long term care insurance in the UK; underwriting; claims; implications for long term care insurance of changes in health; long term care in overseas markets; long term care and partnership models in the US; statutory long term care insurance in Germany; long term care solutions in France; and Japan's Gold Plan.
Ageing, social security and affordability
- Editors:
- MARMOR Theodore R., DE JONG Philip R.
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 365p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Collection of papers looking at spending on pensions and medical care for older people and their place in the debate about the desirability and affordability of modern social programmes. Includes chapters on: social assistance in the member states of the European Union; the relationship between social and occupational security; an international comparison of legal indexation of social security benefits; the hidden liabilities of public pension plans in twelve EU countries; pensions in transition in the United States and Japan; transitional effects of a change in the Spanish pension system; financing old age in Singapore; pay as you go versus funded system of financing pensions in Central and Eastern Europe; pension system reform in Latin America; equity, cost containment and efficiency in health care; health care reform; the social and economic consequences of delaying a political decision concerning reform of health care in Poland; the role of government in the provision and financing of long term care for older people; the impact of the evolution of health expectancy in future public health care expenditure; and forecasts of future disabled and institutionalised US populations 195 to 2040.
Health and Canadian society: sociological perspectives
- Editors:
- COBURN David, D'ARCY Carl, TORRANCE George M.
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 648p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between health, health care, and Canadian society. Includes chapters on: health care costs; health status of Canadians; social distribution of health; low income and child health; the impact of aboriginal health interpreters on decision making; women's perspective on chronic illness; cultural constructions of menopausal women in Japan and Canada; role strains and tranquilliser use; gender and depression; the impact of working conditions, social roles and personal characteristics on gender differences in distress; predictors of successful ageing; women in medicine; maternity traditions and contemporary issues in Canada; womens perspectives on informal care of older people; Ontario's public general hospitals; partnership as a new strategy in mental health policy; community participation in Quebec's health system; the limits of health insurance; family policy and health care in Canada, Sweden and the United States; fiscal crisis and the restructuring of Medicare; and the sociology of health in Canada.