Aging and gerontology
Experiencing aging or demystifying myths? – impact of different “geriatrics and gerontology” teaching strategies in first year medical students
... “Experiencing Aging”, students experience the functional limitation associated with aging [27–29], and thus are able to put themselves in the shoes of the elderly, thereby increasing their ...of ...
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Gerontology education and research in Kenya: establishing a U.S.-African Partnership in Aging
... “global aging” has become common parlance both within and outside the field of ...the aging world population, with its social, eco- nomic, and political implications, have finally attracted the attention of ...
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Overcoming barriers to interprofessional education in gerontology: the Interprofessional Curriculum for the Care of Older Adults
... Abstract: A fragmented workforce consisting of multiple disciplines with varying levels of training and limited ability to work as a team often provides care to older adults. Interprofessional education (IPE) is ...
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Merging ‘Critical Criminology’ with ‘Critical Gerontology’
... and aging can be located to the early post-war years with the governmental concern about the consequences of demographic change and the shortage of younger people in work in UK (Phillipson ...social ...
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'I am not disabled. It's my environment that makes me disabled': A critical ethnography of age-related vision loss (ARVL) in older adulthood
... perspective; aging perspective; compensatory strategies; low vision diagnosis; emotional response to vision loss; and changes in occupation/task ...critical gerontology and critical disability ...frame ...
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Constructing and Evaluating an Intergenerational Academic Service Learning Curriculum in Gerontology
... about aging, and reinforcing career choices (Blieszner & Artale, 2001; Hernandez & Gonzalez, ...of aging and issues related to aging in place as well as students’ professional development and ...
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From Phylogeny to Ontogeny of Longevity: Contributions of the Evolutionary Approach to Gerontology
... For the conduction of this investigation it was adopted the qualitative methodology through a narrative review which consists of a critical research summary about a topic of interest, prepared to set a research problem ...
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Inertial sensors as measurement tools of elbow range of motion in gerontology
... Background and purpose: Musculoskeletal system deterioration among the aging is a major reason for loss of autonomy and directly affects the quality of life of the elderly. Articular evaluation is part of ...
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A Review of Behavioural Gerontology and Dementia Related Interventions
... Behavioural Gerontology is concerned with the interaction between the aging individual and their ...behavioural gerontology has focussed on the use of behaviourist methods to improve the functioning ...
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Implementation of an active aging model in Mexico for prevention and control of chronic diseases in the elderly
... in Gerontology will be responsible for the training of ger- ontological promoters (GP) following the formal aca- demic structure of a workshop (Table 1) and considering the following principles for teaching older ...
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Testing the Mutation Accumulation Theory of Aging Using Bioinformatic Tools
... of aging and he is the one to coin the terms Geriatrics and Gerontology from the Greek word Geras for old ...for aging were put ...suggests aging to be a similar phenomenon to development ...
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A bibliometric study of research pertaining to the oldest-old (age eighty-five and older)
... of gerontology, particularly recent studies such as those by Dominko and Verbic [14], Gu et ...among gerontology topics irrespective of a specific population of older adults: well-being among older adults ...
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NKUT 2014 Health and Self Esteem-2.pptx
... • Goodpaster, Brian H., Won Park, Seok, Harris, Tamara B., Kritchevsky, Steven B., Nevitt, Michael, Schwartz, Ann V., et al. (2006), The Loss of Skeletal Muscle, Mass, and Quality in Older Adults: The Health, ...
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Being a Gerontologist: intersections between the professional and the personal in the Ageing of British Gerontology project.
... cultural gerontology this century, relatively few gerontologists have interrogated their own experiences of ageing through a critical reflexive ...British Gerontology project: a two-year (2015-17) ...
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End of life content in geriatric textbooks: what is the current situation?
... In contrast, the chapters on stroke and COPD contained more end-of-life content in three of the textbooks ( Brock- lehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology , Oxford Textb[r] ...
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National survey on the management of heart failure in individuals over 80 years of age in French geriatric care units
... and Gerontology throughout France, to evaluate the charac- teristics of patients with HF aged 80 years and older who were hospitalized in geriatric acute-care units (hospital department for acute patients with ...
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Clinical intervention in aging: ethicolegal issues in assessing risk and benefit
... our struggle is not really with biologic decline, but with the social construction of aging that has been the center of debate. Hormone replacement therapy, even if it had an element of success, was more about ...
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The economics of ageing and the political economy of old age
... social gerontology is made up from the contributions of separate social sciences (including sociology, social policy, politics and psychology), along with natural sciences like biology (Bond and Coleman, ...
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Recommendations From the International Consortium on Professional Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care Homes
... recommendations for improvements in RN leadership. Our aim of the global collaboration is focused on research, leadership, and knowledge transfer, and through the creation of evidence- based recommendations for practice, ...
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Barbados joint annual report 2006
... Nurses and General Nurses, Nursing Human Resource Administration, Nursing Education, Development, Water and Social work and Gerontology Environmental Engineering, Health Policy, Planning[r] ...
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