Surveyed patients and families who used hotline emergency service in ambulatory day treatment center for frail elderly. Results revealed appropriate use of service: Most calls required medical intervention, including hospitalization in 31 percent of cases. Findings suggest that 24-hour medical coverage is necessary and cost efficient. (Author/NB)

Analyzed health care use in four years prior to death for 4,256 elderly decedents. Found hospital bed use by nursing home residents declined with age and was much lower than for decedents in community. Institutionalized elders were much less likely to die in hospitals than were community elders, particularly very old and longer-term patients.…

Examined use of in-home services by older rural people who received assistance exclusively from informal sources. Results suggest that informal caregiver is essential in community-based care for rural elderly. Having a car, distance to friend, economic resources, physical health, and performance in daily living activities related to use of more…

Finds that family use of teletext services declines over time as does viewing time. (FL)

Estimated cost of tenant services to tenants in Congregate Housing Services Program (CHSP). Monthly service costs per tenant were $563. Community services accounted for 50 percent, medical care accounted for 42 percent, and 8 percent represented imputed cost of informal care. Services were financed by CHSP, other government programs, and tenant…

Investigated faculty and students' factual knowledge of a university counseling center (CC). Faculty (N=88) and student (N=79) responses to a questionnaire showed that faculty understood the model of comprehensive mental health services offered by the CC, but students viewed the CC more as a guidance service. (BH)

Examines the stability-reliability of two of the gratification constructs--surveillance and communicatory utility--to provide evidence on the convergence of several of the indicators used in previous research and to examine the interrelationships between the constructs. (FL)

Discusses three perspectives concerning counseling center use and examines characteristics of students who seek counseling (N=609). Results indicated that compared to nonclients, service users were disproportionately women, underclassmen, dormitory residents, and liberal arts majors. (JAC)

Examined health service utilization by 4,800 Canadian elderly. Findings suggested that most elderly are healthy and are infrequent users of services. Identifies a minority of very high users of health care and discusses the potential influence of physicians on health care use by the elderly. (JAC)

Indicates that respondents preferred private ownership of a cable television system, but notes that the results may reflect a lack of awareness on the part of respondents about their options. (FL)

Described rural-urban differences in health care utilization between 1971 and 1977 in 3,628 Manitoba elderly. Despite disparities in reported income and in the distribution of physician resources, ambulatory care use did not differ greatly. Hospital usage was consistently greater among rural than urban elderly. (JAC)

Concludes that the mass media influence spelling usages and could be used as an effective tool in changing spelling patterns of the public. (RB)

Work request statistics have been tracked at the Praxair Information Resource Center (IRC) for nearly a decade. After a gradual and steady increase of work requests over the years, the work requested of the IRC reached a plateau in 1999 that lasted approximately 1 year. Work request statistics during the winter of 2000, however, indicated a shift…

Guidelines for improving the utilization of information by teacher educators have been developed as an outcome of a study of their use of a variety of information sources. (SA)

Educational institutions recognize that in the speeding decade of the Seventies they can ill afford to ignore the leadership potential of library personnel. In recognizing this potential, however, they are likely to expect and hold library management accountable for discretionary leadership as well as for the traditional, ministerial functions.…