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Seeing sense
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.6.00, 2000, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A social worker explains how she intervened to help her visually impaired client when his employer what him to retire.
The use of preexisting and novel coping strategies in adapting to age-related vision loss
- Authors:
- BRENNAN Mark, CARDINALI Gina
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(3), June 2000, pp.327-334.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study presents data in the form of spontaneous comments or responses to open-ended questions from three previous quantitative studies of adaption to age-related vision loss. Self-reported coping strategies were identified using a "Grounded Theory" approach, and then examined for evidence of whether the strategy was recently utilized (novel) or whether it had been used prior to vision loss (preexisting). Results supported the utilization of novel coping strategies in the process of adaptation to a chronic impairment among older adults. Overall, the use of novel coping strategies was found to be associated with better adaptational outcomes, emphasizing perspective, stress and coping in response to stressful life circumstances.
Health and function in the third age: papers prepared for the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age
- Authors:
- EVANS J. Grimley, et al
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 206p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on: human ageing and the differences between young and old; active life expectancy and disability; Ischaemic heart disease; chronic bronchitis; osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; stroke; cancers; depression; dementia; incontinence; risk factors; physical fitness; visual and hearing abilities; and psychological function and ageing.
A cry for help
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.2.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the realities of handling extreme domestic violence in a multidisciplinary team.