...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...

... by Duke University Press 2006 Beisecker, A. E., and T. Thompson. 1995 . The Elderly Patient-Physician Interaction. In Handbook of Communication and Aging Research , ed. J. Nussbaum and J. Coupland, 397 -416. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Blanchette, P. L., and B. Flynn. 2001 . Geriatric Medicine...

...Debbie Ward Hazel Qureshi and Alan Walker. The Caring Relationship—Elderly People and Their Families . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. 291 pp. $34.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Reviews 189 all...

... and the Elderly in the U.S. Scientific American 251 ( 6 ): 44 -49. Salholz , E. 1990 . Blaming the Voters: Hapless Budgeteers Single Out “Greedy Geezers.” Newsweek , 29 October, p. 36 . Com ment a ry Another Form of “Elderly Bashing...

... 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...

...Edith Geronimus Walsh Emily K. Abel. Who Cares for the Elderly? Public Policies and the Experiences of Adult Daughters. . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1991. 220 pp. $34.95 cloth. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993...

...John Capitman Harold S. Luft, ed. HMOs and the Elderly . Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press, 1994. 348 pp. $38.00 paper. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 380 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law this essentially distributional struggle can or should...

...James H. Schulz Josef Pacolet and Celeste Wilderom, eds. The Economics of Care of the Elderly . Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1991. 221 pp. $52.95 cloth. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Economist. 1984 . A Granny Crisis Is Coming, 19 May, p. 55 . Schulz...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Thomas R. Willemain 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 Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Book Reviews...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Elizabeth Anne Kutza, The Benefits of Old Age: Social Welfare Policy for the Elderly (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 187 pp., $5.95 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 282 Journal...