abstract：:This study examines how individual patient characteristics predict substance abuse treatment initiation among older adults, in an investigation based on the behavioral health service use model. Analyses tested the impact of demographic factors, substance abuse symptoms, depression and cognitive status on subsequent tr...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Satre DD,Knight BG,Dickson-Fuhrmann E,Jarvik LF

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to consider the contribution of intergenerational exchange to mental health. Using data from a national sample of Jewish Israelis age 60 and over with children (n = 1799), reciprocal and non-reciprocal exchange patterns were identified and examined in relation to respondents' scores on a ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Litwin H

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale Form A (DAS-A), a self-report measure of depression-related attitudes, has been used in numerous depression studies. The DAS-A has a two-factor structure that has been found consistently with college student samples and clinically depressed samples of middle-aged adults, but it has no...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Floyd M,Scogin F,Chaplin WF

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While it is clear that families remain involved in the lives of loved ones following placement in a nursing home, little research has examined whether visiting and the provision of care has effects on the emotional stress and psychological well-being of family members. Utilizing pre-placement and post-placement data f...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Gaugler JE,Anderson KA,Zarit SH,Pearlin LI

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors used attachment theory to hypothesize about the possible long-term psychological effects of evacuation during World War II, focusing on children who were evacuated unaccompanied by their parents. The study aimed to establish whether this experience had long-term effects on psychological well-being, and to ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Foster D,Davies S,Steele H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many healthcare professionals in Hong Kong are now working in dementia care, but little is known about their informational needs in this area. This study explored the level of knowledge about dementia that healthcare professionals perceived themselves as having, and the informational needs of dementia care. 320 respon...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Chung JC,Lai CK

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little evidence to indicate how far psychiatric day hospitals for older people can identify and address the needs of older people who attend. The current practice of Care Programme Approach (CPA) in which multidisciplinary team members, patients and their families meet, may provide a suitable forum for needs ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Ashaye OA,Livingston G,Orrell MW

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have examined either coping strategies or defence mechanisms; however, few have considered both. This research examined age differences in the type of defence mechanisms and coping strategies that people employ. In addition, gender differences, personality, and environmental variables were taken into ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Whitty MT

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early intervention in Alzheimer's disease (AD) should focus on psychological and social needs as well as the provision of medication. One possible component of early intervention programmes for people with early-stage AD is cognitive rehabilitation aimed at fostering the development of strategies for coping with memor...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Clare L,Wilson BA,Carter G,Hodges JR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad aim of the research presented here was to define the constituents and indicators of quality of life (QoL) in older age, in order to offer a more multidimensional and useful model of quality of life, based on the perspectives of older people themselves. This paper focuses on the extent to which self-evaluatio...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Bowling A,Banister D,Sutton S,Evans O,Windsor J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing a randomized controlled trial, this study documents the effects of six months of physical activity and six month follow-up on reduction in social physique anxiety (SPA) in older adults. In addition, the role played by changes in behavioral, physiological, and psychological predictors of changes in SPA were e...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： McAuley E,Marquez DX,Jerome GJ,Blissmer B,Katula J

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Acute versus Chronic Pain Questionnaire (ACPQ) was applied to older people. Two groups emerged from an analysis of which an item of each pair (an acute and a chronic affective item) was considered to cause the most suffering. One group of subjects comprised those who expected to suffer more from one or more acute ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Scherder EJ,Smit R,Vuijk PJ,Bouma A,Sergeant JA

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although persons 50 years of age and older account for 10% of all US AIDS cases, the mental health needs of this growing group remain largely overlooked. The current study delineated patterns and predictors of psychological symptoms amongst late middle-aged and older adults living with HIV/AIDS in two large US cities....

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Heckman TG,Heckman BD,Kochman A,Sikkema KJ,Suhr J,Goodkin K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality of written prescriptions has not been examined in a psychiatric setting. The aim of this study was to examine the quality of drug prescribing by medical staff for elderly patients hospitalized with dementia in comparison with the quality of prescribing for elderly patients hospitalized for functional psych...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Nirodi P,Mitchell AJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports findings from the carer component of the Gwynedd Dementia Study. It is based on carer interviews, using quantitative and qualitative data. It confirms earlier findings that carers for people with dementia are typically female and older than other carers, although it notes that caring husbands are am...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Wenger GC,Scott A,Seddon D

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the proposals from the Lord Chancellor's Department for new Mental Incapacity law for England and Wales as they may impact on older people with dementia. Various concerns and issues are raised, particularly from the perspective of health care professionals, and the focus is the interface between suc...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Jones RG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study documents correlates of psychotropic drug use among older adults and compares the results observed in this group to those observed in individuals aged 18-64. A multivariate logistic regression analysis using data from the Quebec Health Survey (1992-1993) was employed to study predisposing and facilitating f...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Préville M,Hébert R,Boyer R,Bravo G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy elderly and Alzheimer's disease (AD) volunteers participated in four conditions in which they were asked to demonstrate the function and category of a series of objects either verbally or non-verbally. When responding verbally to category judgement questions, volunteers with mild-moderate AD showed levels of p...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Grinstead K,Rusted J

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive aging research suggests that environmental support can minimize memory failures in older adults. Similarly, designers of dwellings for frail and dementing older populations try to provide prosthetic environments to support greater independence. We review some of these research issues and design practices fro...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Charness N,Holley P

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Policy research into the service needs of persons with dementia had its origin looking at challenges confronting caregivers-extended hours of instrumental task assistance, social isolation, fatigue, depression-and how public policy might support informal care-giving while saving public expenditures from nursing home c...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Newcomer RJ,Fox PJ,Harrington CA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of older adults' health status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) often rely on proxy responses when subjects have problems that affect their ability to respond. With the increased interest in outcomes research in health care, it is important to examine proxy reliability on HRQoL instruments. This stud...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Yip JY,Wilber KH,Myrtle RC,Grazman DN

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly clear that, in order to better understand the implications of global aging, more cross-cultural research is needed. In the present study, the structure and validity of the Geriatric Depression Scale-Short Form (GDS-SF) was examined in Korean and US samples of older adults. The participants ...

journal_title：Aging & mental health

authors： Jang Y,Small BJ,Haley WE

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00