Title | Aging 2000: Our Health Care Destiny [electronic resource] : Volume II: Psychosocial and Policy Issues / edited by Charles M. Gaitz, George Niederehe, Nancy L. Wilson |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5062-3 |
Descript | 395 p. online resource |
for Volume II -- I. Overview -- 1. Health Care of the Aging: Trends, Dilemmas, and Prospects for the Year 2000 -- 2. Future Societyโs Outlook Toward Aging, Illness, and Health Care of the Aged -- 3. Morbidity, Disability, and Mortality: The Aging Connection -- II. Health and Changing Concepts of the Life Cycle -- 4. The Aged as Pioneers in Time: On Temporal Discontinuities, Biographical Closure, and the Medicalization of Old Age -- 5. Loss and the Social Psychology of Aging -- 6. Longitudinal Stability of Personality and Its Relation to Health Perceptions -- III. Working and Health: Emerging Trends -- 7. A Developmental Perspective on Career-Change Options for Older Workers -- 8. Trends in Assessing and Accommodating the Health of Older Workers -- 9. Retirement and Work: Now and the Future -- IV. Future Directions in Cognitive Assessments of the Aged -- 10. Cognitive Assessment in the Year 2000 -- 11. Dual-Task Assessment of Attentional Capacities in Aging and Dementia -- V. Health Care and Physical Environments of the Aged -- 12. The Social and Physical Aspects of Housing and Aging: A U.S. Perspective -- 13. Emerging Technologies Supporting Independence Among Infirm Elderly -- 14. A Theoretical View of the Person in a Health-Care Environment -- VI. Social Supports and the Health of the Future Aged -- 15. The Informal Support System and Health of the Future Aged -- 16. The Function, Form, and Future of Formal Services -- VII. Delivery of Care for the Aged in a State Mental Health and Mental Retardation System -- 17. Caring for the Aged in a State Mental Health and Mental Retardation System -- 18. The Impact of Technology on the Delivery of Mental Retardation Services in the Year 2000: A Research Perspective -- 19. A Behavioral-Programming Approach to Treatment of the Institutionalized Aged -- 20. The Impact of a Dementing Illness on Relatives: The Need for Family Support Groups -- VIII. Rehabilitation with the Future Aged -- 21. Is Rehabilitation a Legitimate Intervention for the Elderly? Goals and Expectations -- 22. Medical Rehabilitation: Predicting Needs and Measuring Outcomes for Quality of Life -- IX. Long-Term-Care System for Future Elders -- 23. Meeting Long-Term-Care Needs: Efficacy, Efficiency, and Affordability -- 24. Needs, Wants, and Preferences: Can a Long-Term-Care System Respond? -- 25. Beyond Institutional Long-Term Care: The Community Care System -- 26. Facility-Based Services: Strengthening Used and Useful Capacity -- X. Future Financing of Health Care -- 27. The Economics of Aging: Doomsday or Shangri-La? -- 28. Financing Health Care for the Elderly in 2000: Issues, Mechanisms, and Directions -- 29. The Future Financing of Long-Term Care for Older Persons -- XI. Legal and Ethical Concerns in Care of the Aged -- 30. The Interaction Between Ethics and Economics in Planning Health Care for the Aged -- 31. Evolutionary Changes in Legal Remedies for the Impaired Elderly -- 32. Micro- and Macroethical Aspects of Caring for the Aged -- XII. Concluding Visions -- 33. Aging, Meaning, and Well-Being: Musings of a Cultural Historian -- 34. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Toward Squaring the Suffering Curve -- 35. Health Care in the 21st Century: The Social and Ethical Context