Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 105-B Armsby Building, University Park, PA, 16802-5600, USA Kathryn J. Brasier Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 111-B Armsby Building, ...
Socio-Spatial Disparities in County-Level Availability of Aging and Disability Services OrganizationsPendergrast, ClaireRhubart, DanielleJournal of Rural Social Sciences
AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES (ADS)AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES (ADS)A noteworthy direction identified here is our movement to build upon evidence-based models that produce results. With the older population becoming more diverse, we are eager to see services expanded to under-served areas and pop...
Prevention of disability in late life has become a major public health concern, a key area of ageing research, and also an important target for the development of effective interventions. The increase in life expectancy and the resulting growth of the elderly population are also thought to be dr...
Life expectancy in the USA has increased substantially in the last century, as a function of improved living conditions and the prevention and treatment of disease. The impact on health span – the duration that people live with good health – vs...
Late-life depression occurring in older adults is common, recurrent, and malignant. It is characterized by affective symptoms, but also cognitive decline, medical comorbidity, and physical disability. This behavioral and cognitive presentation results from altered function of discrete functional brain netwo...
Common risk factors for psychiatric and other brain disorders are likely to converge on biological pathways influencing the development and maintenance of brain structure and function across life. Using structural MRI data from 45,615 individuals aged 3
Death with dignity, assisted dying, suicide and suicide hotlines, end-of-life decision-making, homicide (especially gun violence), mass shootings Disability Downsizing, decluttering, moving, and other hard-to-face realities Plus cleaning, recycling, donating to charity, and pest control! Drugs,...
Former City Council member, Gordon Lawshe calls the police department to report: “There’s a little Black woman walking, spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees on Elizabeth and Florence,” Lawshe told the dispatcher, according to a call obtained by CNN. ...
Aging and Disability Services 2009 YearbookCounty, Multnomah