This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that…

Purpose: There is a growing consensus that quality of care for frail elders should include family and be evaluated in terms of patient-centered, family-focused care (PCFFC). Family caregivers are in a unique and sometimes sole position to evaluate such care. In the context of caring for physically frail elders, this study examined the extent to…

Purpose: We examined the adjustment to societal change following the fall of communism in a group of Soviet war veterans from Russia and the Ukraine. The focus of the study was on the dynamics of identity development, and especially generativity, in a period of intense social upheaval. Design and Methods: We administered measures of self-esteem,…

Purpose: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has adopted two functional assessment systems that guide care planning: one for nursing home residents (the Resident Assessment Instrument [RAI]) and a compatible one for home care clients (RAI-HC). The purpose of this article is to describe the RAI-HC (often referred to as the Minimum Data Set-Home…

This paper discusses the book "Achilles in Vietnam" (Jonathan Shay) in relation to Homer's "Iliad" and the need for society to accept the consequences of veterans' experiences. Classical allusions to the epic are incorporated into the study and U.S. experience of the Vietnam War. The paper advocates student "ownership" of literature study and…

The Senior Officer Oral History Program (SOOHP) is sponsored jointly by the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Army Military History Institute, as an educational service. As of 1992, this program includes over 2,000 hours of taped interviews and 100,000 transcribed pages covering 900 military personalities and special topics. This document is a…

The Veterans Administration (VA) established the Readjustment Counseling Program in 1980 to assist Vietnam era veterans who had not made a successful psychosocial adjustment to civilian life. The program was intended to make services available at vet centers for veterans reluctant to seek counseling from regular VA health care facilities. At the…

This paper investigates the utility of various procedures used to locate and interview veterans as part of a longitudinal research study being conducted for the Department of Defense. The populations are comprised of below entry aptitude standards males who entered the military during the late 1960s, and potentially ineligibles who entered between…

The last of eight delegate workbooks prepared for the May, 1977 White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals contains ballots for the workshop on civil rights, special populations, veterans and aging. The ballots are designed to enable delegates to assign priorities to various issues and proposals in a way that reflects conclusions of state…

The initiative for this two volume study was taken by officials in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in response to mounting concerns and divided opinions about the use of accreditation to establish the eligibility of postsecondary institutions for federal programs. Conclusions and recommendations include: (1) Accreditation should…

This document identifies characteristics of war veterans enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point campus. Data obtained from enrollments, geographic origins, age, marital status, class, teaching intent, high school rank, ACT (American College Testing) scores, and college of study. Characteristics of the veterans suggest most came…

The project was initiated in fall 1968 to conduct a pilot program to prepare returning veterans for careers in education. Eight large city school systems and eight institutions of higher learning took part. Specific objectives were 1) to launch an educational career development program for veterans to be employed in urban schools; 2) to utilize…

The study is a reinvestigation of the effectiveness of the Trail Making Test in discriminating between 51 brain damaged and 72 pseudoneurologic hospitalized male veterans (mean age 36 years). (Author/PHR)

A review of Dr. Floyd Wesley Reeves and his contribution to adult education. (ABM)

Presents a comprehensive four-phase treatment approach for helping Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Describes phases in the recovery process: assessment, stabilization of symptoms, working through the trauma and reintegration into the family and society. Also describes the Vet Center Outreach Program designed to meet…