...Eleanor G. Feldbaum; Merle B. Feldbaum “Reluctant” best describes health professionals' attitudes toward caring for the elderly. This article examines work plans of student nurses and work practices of registered nurses to ascertain who actually cares for the aged. Investigation of geriatric nurses...

.... With the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, a substantial amount of health care services rendered to the elderly has been financed by the federal government. The use by the elderly of eye care services and the cost of such services are influenced by Medicare reimbursement policies. Medicare specifically excludes...

...David A. Rochefort Howard A. Palley and Julianne S. Oktay, The Chronically Limited Elderly: The Case for a National Policy for In-Home and Supportive Community-Based Services (New York: The Haworth Press, 1983), 142 pp., $19.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration...

...A. E. Benjamin Diane Rowland and Barbara Lyons, eds. Financing Home Care: Improving Protection for Disabled Elderly People . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 256 pp. $47.50 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References Kane , Rosalie...

...Cynthia Massie Mara Stone Robyn . Long-Term Care for the Elderly . Washington, DC : Urban Institute Press , 2011 . 172 pp. $26.50 paper. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Stone Robyn I. 2000 . Long-Term Care for the Elderly with Disabilities...

...Anne R. Somers Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Position Paper The High Cost of Health Care for the Elderly: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Some Suggestions for Therapy Anne R. Sorners, College of Medicine...

...Frederick R. Eisele; Richard R. Hoke Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Guest Editorial Health Care Policy and the Elderly: Toward a System of Long-term Care Frederick R. Eisele, The Pennsylvania State University...

... sides of the issue are investigated in detail by drawing on published conference proceedings and empirical studies reported in the literature. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Position Paper Institutional vs. Noninstitutional Care for the Elderly...

...Thomas R. Willemain Book Reviews Rosalie A. Kane and Robert L. Kane, Assessing the Elderly: A Practical Guide to Measurement (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1981), 301 pp., $18.95 hardbound When I was a boy, I was stunned to hear it said that Eskimos have more than...

... as branches of clinical care will depend in substantial part on an ability to demonstrate an effective grasp of problems of the elderly and their solutions. It has been said that the cornerstone of a new specialty is the availability of a technology. Measurement may serve that purpose...

... that sees no applause for social change unless lives are made better. But this is then not simply a problem for medicine or social scientists. Wellesley College Jonathan B. Imber Policy Toward the Elderly Robert and Rosalie Kane, A Will and a Way: What the United States...

..., Medicare Policy brings together in one volume the findings from pre- vious research on health care utilization and expenditures of the elderly, proposals for reforming the financing of Medicare, and provision of long-term care. It is thus a useful reference for those who are actively involved...

...Timothy M. Smeeding; Lavonne Straub This paper investigates the issue of who pays the health care bills of the elderly by considering the types of subsidized health insurance protection enjoyed by the noninstitutionalized elderly and the way that increased Medicare cost-sharing efforts in the 1980s...

...A. J. Culyer; Stephen Birch There is always a temptation to suppose that one's own problems (whether personal or national) are unique. They rarely are. The “problem” of the elderly is no exception and so there is no particular point in looking to the specific characteristics of one's own health...

...Judith Feder This paper explores threats to the maintenance and expansion of public commitment to financing health care for the elderly. Threats come from rising costs that increase financial burdens, especially on low-income elderly; efforts to contain costs that may undermine benefits...

... discussion is any talk about the relative out-of-pocket costs of alternative models. In this paper, we provide data on these costs for American and Canadian elderly for medical, hospital, and ambulatory pharmaceutical use. Despite the fact that the elderly in America are generally viewed as facing fewer...

...Jens Alber This article maps variations in a standardized way in residential care for elderly people in three Western nations. Measured by the number of available places per person aged sixty-five and over and by the number of staff members per bed in nursing homes, the United Kingdom has the most...

... they care. She sandwiches her research between a critical review of the care-giving literature, a history of women’s care-giving role in the United States, and an explication of the current policy framework of care giving. On one level, Who Caresfor the Elderly? is a simple case study...

...Judith G. Gonyea Laura Katz Olson, ed. Age through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society. Lanham, MD: Rowman &Littlefield, 2001. 300 pp. $85.00 cloth; $32.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

.... Books Review Essay Caring for Elderly Parents: Family Relationships, Ageist Medical Care, and the Search for a Dignified End to Life Luisa Margolies. My Mother’s Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare. Philadelphia: Temple University Press...