Generations articles from September 1993

Generations archives from September 1993

Self-care and older adults: making healthcare relevant. (includes related article on 'Healthwise for Life': a self-care workshop and handbook) (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Dorothy is 66. She has been taking insulin for her diabetes for six years. Her doctor has helped her through recurrent bouts of skin infection, vaginitis, fatigue, and numbness. She says he is in poor heatlh. Gladys, 85, has...

Self-management of chronic illness: a model for the future. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... It is difficult to make generalizations about any population. There are always many exceptions to the rule. One thing we know is that as our population ages, an increasing percentage of our population suffers from one or more chronic...

Cost-effective self-care strategies for retirees. (includes related article on Healthtrac, a health promotion/disease prevention program) (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Retiree health benefit plans are facing serious challenges as a result of a growing retiree population, continuing enhancements in medical technology, and increasing healthcare costs. The drive for healthcare reform and changes in the...

Self-care in institutional settings. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Self-care in institutional setting! Is this an oxymoron? The term self-care implies a degree of independence while the term institution conveys a sense of rigid control, a place where older persons go when they can no longer take care of...

Multicultural and social-class aspects of self-care. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Self-care in a health context can mean (I) individual lifestyle practices that promote health seeking and disease prevention behaviors, or (2) self-treatment, without professional intervention, to deal with bodily changes or symptoms of...

Self-care as a rural healthcare strategy. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... While healthcare reform is being dedated at the highest policy levels, rural residents continue to struggle with the distinctive features of their environment that can make obtaining good healthcare a challenge. Many other rural residents...

The importance of the human spirit in self-care for older adults. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Self-care for the older adult must Sembody the experiences that lead inward to the expansive storehouse of wisdom gathered through the years of each person's journey. Care for the self demands that all aspects of our lives be seen as...

The self-care movement and the gerontological healthcare professional. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... The self-care movement, like most other social movements, waxes and wanes according to general cultural trends and the opportunties and necessities these provide. In the context of American culture, self-care is prompted by the desire to...

Partnerships between physicians and older adults. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... The horse-and-buggy physician understood the limitations of medical practice, and the patient accepted these limitations as part of living--and dying. The alignment of practice and social expectation generally allowed doctor and patient to...

Self-care and medication management: pharmacists and older adults. (includes appendices) (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Medication management play an especially significant role in self-care for older people. The elderly (approximately 12 percent of the population) use a disproportionately high percentage (approximately 30 to 40 percent) of all medications...

Complementary self-care strategies for healthy aging. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... As the population ages and the healthcare crisis is upon us, prevention and self-care practices throughout our life span make both fiscal and physical sense. Chronic illnesses such as those frequently seen in older people--arthritis,...

The limits of self-care. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... A mere generation ago, health and medical knowledge were the property of specialists. A suspected medical problem typically prompted a vists to the doctor, and self-care generally meant Band-Aids for cuts, aspirin for headaches, and the...

Self-care: my responsibility. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... What is self-care? I have looked back over my 73 years to focus on what I consider essential to my onw self-care: regular exercise, good nutrition, access to both traditional and alternative healthcare, work that I love, closeness to family...

Health Watch: a paradigm of self-care empowerment. (Self-Care and Older Adults)
September 22, 1993... Health Watch, a longitudinal prospective study of healthy aging, was founded by George Z. Williams in 1970 (Williams, 1987). This study was originally designed to characterize a healthy population of 2,200 men and women in the San Francisco...

Aging Well: A Guide for Successful Seniors.
September 22, 1993... As of this writing, I await the recommendations of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the healthcare reform task force. One would hope that health promotion and self-care will be elevated to a higher level of importance, bringing us closer to the...

Healthwise for Life: Medical Self-Care for Healthy Aging.
September 22, 1993... As of this writing, I await the recommendations of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the healthcare reform task force. One would hope that health promotion and self-care will be elevated to a higher level of importance, bringing us closer to the...

Taking Care of Today and Tomorrow: A Resource Guide for Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
September 22, 1993... As of this writing, I await the recommendations of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the healthcare reform task force. One would hope that health promotion and self-care will be elevated to a higher level of importance, bringing us closer to the...

Adult Day Care: A Basic Guide.
September 22, 1993... Each of these three "how to" guides concisely describes administrative, facility and staff, and progam componets common to adult daycare (ADC), showing consensus on the following characteristics: Administrating begins with a working...

Planning and Managing Adult Day Care: Pathways to Success.
September 22, 1993... Each of these three "how to" guides concisely describes administrative, facility and staff, and progam componets common to adult daycare (ADC), showing consensus on the following characteristics: Administrating begins with a working...

Alzheimer's Day Care: A Basic Guide.
September 22, 1993... Each of these three "how to" guides concisely describes administrative, facility and staff, and progam componets common to adult daycare (ADC), showing consensus on the following characteristics: Administrating begins with a working...

Adult Day Care: Findings from a National Survey.
September 22, 1993... This study describes ADC after a decade of growth. A 1985-86 national sample of 60 ADCs defined three groupings of ADCs by their auspices: Model I (nursing homes, rehabilitation hospitals), Models Ii (hospitals, free-standing, housing...

Adult Day Care: The Relationship of Formal and Informal Systems of Care.
September 22, 1993... Kirwin addresses researchers, policy and program developers, and sociologists in this descriptive study of the division of labor between family and ADC staff in caring for frail elders. The rich review of the development of ADC and Litwak's...