Residents in a home for the aged taught German to students who received college credit. Results suggest that geriatric residents can assume active roles and engage in profound interpersonal relationships until death. Students derived many of the same benefits in addition to improving language skills. (Author)

Derived a representative national nursing home admissions cohort with 1977 survey data. Found that high proportions of admissions have short lengths of stay and are discharged within the same calendar year. (Author/RC)

Reports on an evaluation of the University of North Carolina's Master of Science in Nursing program, which determined and contrasted graduates' and their employers' perceptions of the program; graduates' participation in professional associations; and graduates' further education plans. Both graduates (N=24) and their employers (N=17) rated the…

Recently admitted nursing home residents received a battery of psychological tests and were rated on a number of behavioral indices. Results revealed the morale/anxiety dimension was independent of cognitive competency, internally controlled residents were rated high by others in behavioral competency, and self-rating scales measure something…

The author states that the lecture is a valuable and necessary teaching method when used to help students synthesize information and understand relationships between concepts and to prepare them for discussion and practice. She offers ten suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the lecture. (MF)

Death rates among those referred to project services were lower within the first six months after enrollment, and the mortality rate difference was maintained throughout the first year. Death rate differences were related to specific long-term care services recommended and received, and to initial functional health status. (Author)

A senior center activities program was made accessible to nursing home patients through a project called Centercare. Nursing home patients (N=144) from seven different institutions made 4370 senior center visits over a 33-month period. Project results indicate a senior center can successfully provide the institutionalized elderly with social and…

Discusses the rise in population of Americans over the age of 65, job opportunities available or becoming available in health services areas concerned with older adults, and various training programs (Federal and State) related to working with older adults. (SH)

Principles for development of health professions curricula in family violence, arising from a 1994 national conference of experts, are identified at three levels: (1) knowledge, skills, and practices to be taught to all health professionals; (2) advanced training for primary care practitioners for comprehensive care and for specialists for…

Nursing, medicine, and public health students at East Tennessee State University function as interdisciplinary team members in a community partnership program designed to meet the health care needs of a rural underserved community. The program uses an experiential, inquiry-based learning model. (SK)

Provides an overview and discusses some of the implications of the 104th Congress's legislation relating to disability issues. Changes in the federal welfare programs are described as well as passage of legislation dealing with health insurance and reforms, traumatic brain injuries, developmental disabilities programs, and nursing homes.…

Provides a brief survey of informatics, defined as the application of information technology to various fields, with respect to its historical background, disciplinary identity, fundamental aspects, applications, and challenges. Highlights include biological, clinical, dental, environmental, geomatics, health, legal, management, medical, museum,…

Studied 108 adults to investigate the impact of adult attachment to parents, perceived disease severity, and caregiving behaviors, moderated by perceived caregiving adequacy. Results indicate that attachment style and the trait aspect of attachment predicted both aspects of caregiver burden. Attachment preoccupation predicted psychologic…

Discussion of the use of course management systems such as WebCT to create online courses focuses on the use of three instructional strategies to enhance learning in a clinical nursing course: multimode instruction with online progressive case studies; interactive online discussion to support dialogue, coaching, collaboration, and communication;…

Analyzed demographic, cancer, physical functioning and psychological data for late-stage cancer, newly admitted nursing home patients (n=90). Concluded that, compared to survivors, those who died within a three-month period more often acknowledged their condition as terminal, anticipated greater environmental stress and adjustment problems and had…