Home-delivered meals, long provided through a network of community-based organizations funded through the Older Americans Act, state dollars, and charitable contributions, grew out of a need to promote food security, socialization, and independence among older adults [18]. Until recently, meals have...
We acknowledge that we examined the potential role of SNAP/Food Stamp, which is only one of the federally funded programs for older adults in the US collected in the NHANES; therefore, our findings could not be extrapolated to other federally funded programs, such as the Older Americans Act ...
The passage of Medicaid home- and community-based service waivers in 1981 (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Medicaid 1915c) further fostered the development of HCBS [2]. The policy questions asked in past research studies were whether older adults’ use of HCBS reduced their use of ...
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Research has shown that synchronised movements, such as during group dance activities, act as a social glue and reinforce cooperation, increasing the sense of affiliation between strangers, boosting self-esteem and is part of a virtuous cycle that improves performance on subsequent joint socio-motor ...
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However 8.6% of Americans had no insurance which equates to 27.3 million people with no insurance. It is easy to see how older adults gain access to healthcare in publically funded systems such as United Kingdom and Canada, and via the public system of Medicare in Australia. In United ...
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