Reports on the approval of the United States Senate Ways and Means Committee to Senate Bill 1536 which aimed to reauthorize the Older Americans Act of 1965. Overview of the 1965 law; Dispute over the proposed changes to part-time job training program; Concerns about the provision that would ...
Older Americans Resources and Services PASE: Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly RMSEA: Root mean square error of approximation SEM: Structural equation modeling TUG: Timed up and go WLSMV: Weighted least square mean and variance ...
Physical activity guidelines for Americans. 2nd ed. 2018. Takatori K, Matsumoto D. Effects of social activity participation and trust in the community on the transition of frailty classification in late-stage older adults: a 4-year prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2023;13(5):e072243. ...
The CHALLENGE study will evaluate if and how (i.e., proposed mechanisms of action) an intervention that supplements an activity monitoring system with elements of game design leads to lasting changes in PA patterns in older adult women. The intervention is designed to take a “celebratory technol...
Mental health is important in older age; neighborhood environment is considered a protective factor of depression. Research has established that a critical indicator of neighborhood environment, street connectivity, is related to older people's health. H
In response, in 1990, Congress amended the Age Discrimination in Emloyment Act of 1967, adding title II of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, to ensure that waivers in the individual and group termination contexts were both "knowing and voluntary" rather than attained through duress, ...
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...
The body of evidence related to the effect of physical activity monitor-based interventions has grown over the recent years. However, the effect of physical activity monitor-based interventions in older adults remains unclear and should be systematically
There are many iterations of the social-ecological model, but the one used for this project is the World Health Organization endorsed model, initially proposed by L Dahlberg and EG Krug [19]. This version proposes four nested levels of interaction: the individual, the interpersonal, the community...
Past studies had proposed that different HCBS may have different effects on nursing home use for different subgroups of older adults [10]. Our study findings further pointed out that different combinations of HCBS use are related to different residential transitions. Further study to identify the ...