The Legacy of longevity : health and health care in later life / edited by Sidney M. Stahl.
Material type: TextPublication details: Newbury Park ; London : Sage, 1990.Description: 342p. : ill. ; 23cmISBN:- 9780803940017 (cased) :
- 9780803940024 (pbk) :
- 0803940025 (pbk.)
- 362.19897 STA
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Published in cooperation with the Midwest Council for Social Research in Aging.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1:-Conceptualizing and measuring the health of older persons:- 1. Old equals sick: and ontogenetic fallacy--2. Assessing the physical and mental health of the elderly--3. The iceberg of disability--Part 11:- Social factors in who gets sick:-4. The relative contributions of gender, social class and advancing age to health--5. Old age health problems and long-term care--6. The distribution of distress by age and gender: examining data from community surveys--7. Changes in health functioning and mortality--Part 111: The use of services:- 8. Health beliefs, attitudes and behavior of older persons: an analysis of advances in research and future directions--9. Predicting nursing home utilization: is this the best we can do?--10. The relationship between formal and informal health care services for the elderly--11. Autonomy in health care for elders--Part IV: The organization and financing of health care services:- 12. Health needs and services for older adults: evaluating policies for an aging society--13. The dilemma of poverty-based long-term care--Part V: The interaction of system with individual:- 14. Health care provider choice and satisfaction--15. Physician-elderly patient communications: processes and outcomes of medical encounters--16. Transition to the status of family caregiver: a new framework for studying social support and well-being--17. The caregiver role: Review of family caregiver-physician relations and dementing disorders.