Stories Collection

  1. HHS Rural Health Office Offers Grants and Information Last year, 122 grants totalli...
  2. A 4-year reauthorization of the Older Americans Act was finally passed by the Congres...
  3. In one of his first official meetings at the Administration on Aging, Assistant Secre...
  4. Older women are failing to take preventive action against cancer, and many are dying ...
  5. Between the years 1981 and 1988, nearly 200 rural hospitals closed and transportation...
  6. SPEAKING OUT: Readers Voice Their Opinions An article in the last issue of Aging (N...
  7. When Hurricane Andrew slammed ashore in the dark morning hours of August 24, 1992, Jo...
  8. Estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) improves the mood and psychological functioning of...
  9. We need to avoid "medical overkill" on what may be essentially a social problem. Th...
  10. * Since Albert, 78, lost his wife and his closest friend, he has become increasingly ...
  11. Getting training manuals, videos, brochures and other products of R & D projects fund...
  12. A decade-old theory that heart attacks are linked to too much iron in the blood has b...
  13. A popular local T-shirt sports a strange winged mammal and jets: "Missoula, a place, ...
  14. It's a subject few people want to discuss, much less think about. "Just don't let me ...
  15. "Assisted living" is the topic of an excellent 15-page newsletter issued last year by...
  16. From Maine to California, the National Resource Center on Alzheimer's disease (NRC/AD...
  17. It is difficult to place a patient with Alzheimer's in a specific stage. However, sym...
  18. In September 1990, the Administration on Aging, under its Title IV Discretionary Fund...
  19. The Administration on Aging (AoA) awarded $10 million in grants under Title IV of the...
  20. For years, I have believed that, in the short run, we in the United States "save" mon...
  21. Death came peacefully and painlessly to the majority of persons in Fairfield County, ...
  22. An Interview with Steven Zarit, Ph.D. (Dr. Zarit is a clinical psychologist whose r...
  23. Changes in the home environment can make life easier for both the Alzheimer's disease...
  24. The Alzheimer's Association has more than 200 chapters and 1,600 support groups natio...
  25. According to a recent study on older volunteers, there are 14 million older Americans...
  26. In my previous column, I presented three charts illustrating the dramatic restructuri...
  27. In November 1991, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) announced the award of $3.8 m...
  28. Ten years ago, our family began to become acquainted with Alzheimer's disease when my...
  29. Where do people with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and related dementias go when staying a...
  30. An elderly, homeless American Indian woman was picked up off the Los Angeles street b...
  31. Eldercare Locator, a toll-free telephone service funded by AoA that helps callers to ...
  32. Retirees and student volunteers are bringing the personal touch to large group medica...
  33. With no cure or discovery yet of a drug or medical treatment to slow its progress, Al...
  34. Pathways, an innovative residential community designed to keep families of Alzheimer'...
  35. "I felt I could do anything. I felt light and alive and ageless," said 70-year-old Li...
  36. The Administration on Aging (AoA) has become an independent agency within the Office ...
  37. Grandparents have always stepped in to raise grandchildren when the need arises in bo...
  38. Should You Buy Insurance? New guide includes a chart on your chances of a long s...
  39. Why should a caregiver's ethnicity matter? Recent research suggests that Alzheimer's ...
  40. No matter how out of character the person's statements are, don't disagree with them....
  41. U.S. Commissioner on Aging Joyce T. Berry, Ph.D., announced the start of a National E...
  42. Jean Camper Cahn, an African-American attorney who, with her husband, Edgar Cahn, lai...
  43. Employees and friends throughout the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are...
  44. In many cases, deinstitutionalization of elderly persons with chronic mental illness ...
  45. Medicare now will pay for Pap smears to screen for early detection of cervical cancer...
  46. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, and the number one c...
  47. Thousands of older people bring major and minor medical problems every day to hospita...
  48. Osteoporosis researchers have identified an inexpensive drug that appears to reverse ...
  49. Six states got acceptable scores and seven got extremely low ratings on services to t...
  50. Nearly 2 million Americans 50 to 64 years old and ready and able to go back to work, ...
  51. HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan recently released a report called Healthy People 2000...
  52. Within the next 40 years, the number of older persons in the United States will more ...
  53. Only one older person out of four exercises regularly or maintains anything like the ...
  54. "When it comes to Medicare supplemental insurance, one plus one equals too much," sai...
  55. The United States is in the midst of a revolution--a demographic revolution that will...
  56. Almost half of the 3.5 million older Americans with incomes below the poverty line ar...
  57. Newly revised standards for senior centers are now off the presses. The revised guid...
  58. Some of the residents who came from the State mental hospital to live in the Intermed...
  59. Mrs. Rogers, 72, is a part-time preschool program aide and also works one day a week ...
  60. Judging from the number of people jogging, limbering up in aerobics and devouring inf...
  61. Massive annual studies of the quality of care in nursing homes and death rates in hos...
  62. Services for older persons with serious mental illness have been strengthened in 16 S...
  63. No more need for pliers and plumber's wrenches to open medication containers, and few...
  64. Older Problem Drinkers -- Long-Term and Late-Life Onset Abusers: What Triggers Their ...
  65. Homecare Worker Crime, One Problem For Police Senior Affairs Unit For the Manchester ...
  66. Help for Families and Friends of Alcoholics On first reading, the "Advice for Familie...
  67. Alcoholism In the Elderly: Social and Biomedical Issues. The book is divided into f...
  68. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: The Heart of Treatment for Alcoholism Ten years ago I was pri...
  69. Evaluating ALCOHOL USE IN ELDERS In spite of wide dissemination of information on t...
  70. "Gatekeepers" Do the Casefinding In Spokane Apartment managers, meter readers and oth...
  71. Education and Prevention, Main Mission of NationalCouncil on Alcoholism * Drivers 1...
  72. Communities Aren't Helpless: Outreach to Older Alcoholics Works The word "alcoholic...
  73. Drug-free After 30 Years of Dependency I am writing this article in the hope of hel...
  74. TAP Trains Housing Managers to Help Alcoholic Tenants "I think you should put progr...
  75. EFFECTS OF HEAVY DRINKING Central Nervous System: Alcohol speeds up the loss of brain...
  76. Adult Children of Alcoholics In the foreword of her book Janet Woititz states that,...
  77. PEER GROUPS SUPPORT SENIORS FIGHTING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS A 1-year hospital outpati...
  78. A Multimedia Program On Problem Drinking In Later Life Family, friends, and practitio...
  79. Glossary and Resources For Aging and Chemical Dependency Networks Getting two distinc...
  80. Codependent No More: How To Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself T...
  81. My good-night kiss was two double Jack Daniel's Athol Fugard, 57, a South African w...
  82. The Commissioner's Corner It is common for those of us in social services, whether ...
  83. Older Problem Drinkers: A Community Treatment Continuum Portland, Oregon coaliti...
  84. Utah's "Quality Aging," Broad-Based Prevention of Problem Drinking Learning to do d...
  85. Gladys Roberts** lives alone in a farmhouse that her grandfather built on the Kansas ...
  86. In our work throughout the country, staff of The Center of Social Gerontology are fre...
  87. Nearly 10 million Americans lost their jobs due to plant closings and layoffs from 19...
  88. For roughly $36, the price of a new pocketbook or a pair of slacks, you could get an ...
  89. Five years ago I opened a private law office, after having worked the "aging desk" of...
  90. Justice Department statistics show show that persons 65 and older are victimized far ...
  91. The Wisconsin Bureau on Aging and the state's aging network have established a unique...
  92. Your Legal Rights in Later Life By John Regan with Legal Counsel for the Elderly, 198...
  93. Managing Home Care for the Elderly: Lessons from Community Based Agencies. By Anabel ...
  94. One of the most troubling concerns of older persons is the specter of disability and ...
  95. Over the past several years, a number of basic questions have been raised about the n...
  96. Tax reform legislation and other recent changes in Federal laws have dramatically alt...
  97. Help for Families of the Aging: Seminar Leaders Manual and Participants Workbook. By ...
  98. Guide to Understanding Your Pension Plan: Pension Handbook American Association of Re...
  99. Doing Things. Jitka M. Zgola, 1987, 149 pp., The Johns Hopkins University Press, 701 ...
  100. According to the Commission on Legal Problems of the elderly of the American Bar Asso...
  101. Elderly Americans are quickly becoming the largest "special interest" group in the co...
  102. Successful Aging: A Sourcebook for Older People and Their Families By Anne C. Averyt ...
  103. Listing of Health Promotion Films The National Audiovisual Center has issued a list...
  104. In 1985, Legal Counsel for the Elderly, with funding from the Adminstration on Aging,...
  105. Daunting. Overwhelming. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe...
  106. Necessity is the mother of invention. " The truth of this old adage was brought home ...
  107. The Etiology of Elder Abuse by Adult Offspring By Georgia J. Anetzberger. Springfield...
  108. Mobile Mental Health Team Reaches Minorities The typical caseload of the Mobile Ger...
  109. Elderly Refugees and Language Learning Since 1975, approximately 1 million refugees...
  110. Brighter Afternoons For Latchkey Children Involving senior citizens in the care of ...
  111. English Classes Open Up New Opportunities For Hispanic New Yorkers Services for His...
  112. Employment of Older Refugees: New York State Initiatives In New York State, the agi...
  113. N.Y. Trains Refugees To Be Counselors In Service Agencies Before Lilia Sorokin star...
  114. Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life Colin Murray Parkes is widely recognize...
  115. The Elderly Uncooperative Patient The message the emerges from this book is that it...
  116. Where A Ride To The Doctor Costs $20 There are about 20 persons per 100 square mile...
  117. College Students Tutor Older Refugees in English Xia Kao Xiong, a 60-year-old Hmong...
  118. The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy Mary Hufford, Marjorie Hunt and Steve Z...
  119. The Grand Generation: Memory, Mastery, Legacy A recipe for shortbread and the old t...
  120. New Branches . . . Distant Roots: Elderly refugees represent a small but very vulne...
  121. Study of Meals Programs The federally funded Elderly Nutrition Program (ENP) is per...
  122. How To Start A Respite Service for People with Alzheimer's and Their Families: A Guid...
  123. Old Pines In the Land Of Ten Thousand Lakes The traditional Vietnamese Mothers Day ...
  124. Ombudsmen Train Young Doctors Dr. Dan Bugoci is a young physician just beginning hi...
  125. National Center Helps Set Up Projects To Get Retirees To Volunteer Some people need...
  126. Knowing that families are the greatest resource for providing long-term care to the e...
  127. This year's Older American's Month theme is "Help Yourself to Independence." Whether...
  128. The growing number of older persons in our society is generally well recognized. Les...
  129. The growing need for services for the aging, whether formal or informal, is directly ...
  130. John Naisbitt called it one of the ten "megatrends" that are sweeping America. Alvin...
  131. There is a myth which persists about the elderly in America--that is, that most are v...
  132. In recent years there has been considerable interest in the kinds of programs and pol...
  133. A Calendar Card, with individual blister-like compartments for daily dosages of drugs...
  134. In her introduction to An Older Woman's Health Guide, Elinor Guggenheimer, Chairman o...
  135. Life-care communities, often called continuing care homes, are a fairly recent entry ...
  136. According to John Balkema, the editor of this book and the former Library Director fo...
  137. Although blindness and serious visual impairments are highly concentratfed in the ove...
  138. The amount of assets owned by American households increases with the age of the house...
  139. There is an unique program in Chicago that is proving that latchkey children and the ...
  140. A geriatric agency in New York City is operating a new program called "Elderlink" to ...
  141. They live in senior citizen complexes, in private homes, in residence hotels and in m...
  142. The Boston Police Department has created a special squad designed to protect the elde...
  143. Professionals in the field of aging have long recognized the need for timely and accu...
  144. Economists estimated that in 1984 over 28,000 people 55 and older in Greater Boston w...
  145. They are a unique group of people who survive, according to author Margaret Clark, "b...
  146. Southern elders--from midwives to civil rights activists--are the focus of a special ...
  147. These case examples of innovative work options, company practices and training opport...
  148. The old Rockledge school building in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania is once again playing a...
  149. The National Association of State Units on Aging (NASUA) recently published A Guide t...
  150. Intended as a "practical guide for people over 50," TRAVEL EASY offers a wealth of in...
  151. In December of 1984, M. Smith, an elderly person in rural southern Illinois, called t...
  152. The New York City Department for the Aging, with the country's largest elderly consti...
  153. Bob Hope will be appearing soon in a TV commercial for Silver Pages, a new classified...
  154. Last summer, 19 black senior citizens became the first graduating class of the Housin...
  155. For the most part, 69-year-old Dorothy Hamby is a typical grandmother. She prides he...
  156. One late afternoon, as the temperature began to cool off in a dusty village in the so...
  157. For The elderly, bereavement is very much a part of life. Although people of all ages...
  158. The bibliography incorporates various types of literature including books, pamphlets,...
  159. We often hear people say that the occurrence of depression is extremely common among ...
  160. This workbook for the establishment of community respite services describes a three-s...
  161. Established in 1975, The Support Center In Wheaton, Maryland is just that--a place wh...
  162. In January of 1984 the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in the U.S. Department of La...
  163. The imge conveyed is often one of old people huddled helplessly behind clsoed doors, ...
  164. Established in January, 1979, the Art With Elders program is an inspiring example of ...
  165. "Here, John, sign your 'X' right here, John," is a frequent request made by nursing h...
  166. What is it like to be a chronically ill, dependent, recipient of home health services...
  167. If an elderly woman is shocked when she gets an exhorbitant bill for what she thought...
  168. If the number of new books, articles, and other documents on the subjects of aging an...
  169. Many of us know someone--usually a woman over the age of 60--who has broken a hip or ...
  170. As the flu season approaches, grandparents who are involved with the care of their gr...
  171. Millions of Americans of all ages are aware of the benefits of daily exercise in remo...
  172. At the Chelsea United Methodist Retirement Home in Chelsea, Michigan, the emphasis is...
  173. Dementing illness is a serious public health problem that currently afflicts four mil...
  174. Roughly one fourth of the more than 14,000 residents of 335 adult homes in the State ...
  175. On most bright spring afternoons, the sun splashes its rays across the warms pine pan...
  176. A series of arts and humanities projects have stimulated curiosity and creativity amo...
  177. he family has always been the primary source of care for its member--young and old Re...
  178. Gulfport, Mississippi is quietly making inroads on adult illiteracy, a problem that i...
  179. Hulda Crooks is 88 years old, and she doesn't knit or own a rocking chair. What she ...
  180. People Match, a New Hampshire program, uses the latest technology of video taping and...
  181. Stereotypes are more than privately held "pictures in our heads." They are more often...
  182. Family Friends, a unique intergenerational program to pair older volunteers with chro...
  183. It is often said that television is this country's most powerful channel of mass comm...
  184. Truth About Aging, a 36-page booklet produced by the American Association for Retired...
  185. Recently a choral group from a senior center visited an elementary school to perform ...
  186. The Shared Housing Resource Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a national nonpr...
  187. Some time ago, I read somewhere a very practical philosopher's advice--"If life hands...
  188. Wellness at the worksite--a relatively recent concept--appears to be attracting incre...
  189. How do you get learning-disadvantaged children and older people to shed negative ster...
  190. Each year, Americans arrange more than two million funerals for family and friends. ...
  191. Foster Grandparents from Ionia, Michigan have ventured into a new territory where the...
  192. Mara Brand Covell provides suggestions for creating "your own home health care center...
  193. Paul Brown, 83, and his wife, Bessie, 89, spent most of their working years in a garm...
  194. Any discussion of the aging of America's population inevitably includes the question,...
  195. Mayor Edward I. Koch recently joined Department for the Aging Commissioner Janet S. S...
  196. To many people, nursing homes are quiet places to pass quickly--like funeral homes--r...
  197. The phenomenon of ageism has existed far longer than the term that refers to this pra...
  198. A new emergency system designed to accommodate the special and often critical needs o...