This report provides consumer information on board and care homes, a housing alternative for older persons which serves a broad spectrum of the population, ranging from those needing a modest amount of care and assistance to those who are physically or mentally disabled, but do not need to be institutionalized. The first section of this two-part…

This report focuses attention on the quantity and timeliness of adoptions in the state. The report begins with an overview of current adoption practices and procedures in Maryland. A series of 54 recommendations follows. The recommendations are based on the following issues: (1) legal barriers to adoption; (2) barriers in local departments of…

As the inpatient population in New York State psychiatric centers declines, many mentally disabled persons are returned to their families. This study examined the needs of those individuals and their families after the client's discharge. Interviews were conducted with 116 individuals who had received services from a New York State adult…

Private self-consciousness (PSC) refers to the dispositional tendency to be attentive to the private, covert aspects of oneself. Studies were conducted to investigate whether there are motivational underpinnings for individual differences in level of PSC. Four separate studies were conducted at three different institutions. Study 1 (N=59) results…

This is a report of a governor's task force established to investigate alcohol abuse by youth and young adults in Maryland. Since the task force was informed that young people use whatever drug is readily available including marijuana and cocaine, substance abuse in general is included in the report. The introduction discusses the task force's…

This report presents information from the Home Care Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) on the types of help needed by adults with chronic health problems who live outside of institutions. Home care items discussed include: (1) assistance in basic physical activities; (2) assistance in home management activities; (3) adults…

This document contains witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine problems in the partnership of Medicare and Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO's). Opening statements are included from committee chairman Claude Pepper and from Representative Lawrence J. Smith. Two panels of witnesses address…

This document presents witnesses' testimonies from the Senate hearing held in Casselberry, Florida to consider the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act. In his opening statement, Senator Lawton Chiles reviews the history of the Older Americans Act and its amendments since its creation in 1965 and notes that the recent increase in the number…

This publication is devoted to five major topic issues selected from articles first published in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The volume begins with the theme of the individual in the recreation experience. It next reviews the role of leisure and recreation within the basic unit of society, the family. The third area of…

This document provides witness testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to investigate the cost of long-term care for the chronically ill and disabled. The merits of a public-private initiative on long-term care insurance are considered by the witnesses, who include a woman struggling to care for herself and her son,…

Recent research in persuasion shows that while message recipients often use little cognitive effort when assessing message validity, they may instead rely on a heuristic processing strategy. This study used a priming-like paradigm to manipulate the reliability that subjects apply to the heuristic "message length implies message strength." Subjects…

Five papers on the topic of family history are presented. In the first paper, the author discusses techniques which have been successfully used for motivating reluctant writers to write their own personal histories. For example, in an effort to get her husband to write his life story, one woman asked her children to write what they remembered and…

Article described a comprehensive organization that gave increased opportunities to the whole ability-range. (Author/RK)

The study investigated the relationships of adult learners' personal abilities and attributes with academic success in two technical design programs having different instructional objectives. (AG)