Download or read book Black Elderly in Rural America written by Arnold G. Parks and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aging in Rural Settings written by Raymond T. Coward and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides the critical dimensions of growing old in rural environments. Prominent researchers explore issues related to life conditions, diversity, services, and public policies for rural elders. A comprehensive overview of the field, this volume addresses the major contemporary themes that dominate rural living today. Special attention is given to populations such as women, African Americans, the oldest old, and the poor, generally considered at greater risk of poor health, social isolation, and economic vulnerability.
Download or read book A Health Care Challenge written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Health and Aging Research written by Wilbert M Gesler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. For each approach, contributors provide a theoretical background from the health care delivery literature, details of how it can be carried out in the field, its strengths and weaknesses, and illustrative examples from both the literature and their own work.
Download or read book The Aged in Rural America written by John Krout and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-03-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aged in Rural America
Download or read book African Americans Aging in the Rural South written by Iris Carlton-LaNey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aging in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks. They have traditionally been viewed as repositories of information and wisdom, and are critical pillars of the community but as the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroys family systems, the elderly increasingly have to deal with the loss of their own support while absorbing the additional responsibilities of caring for their orphaned grandchildren. Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa explores ways to promote U.S. research interests and to augment the sub-Saharan governments' capacity to address the many challenges posed by population aging. Five major themes are explored in the book such as the need for a basic definition of "older person," the need for national governments to invest more in basic research and the coordination of data collection across countries, and the need for improved dialogue between local researchers and policy makers. This book makes three major recommendations: 1) the development of a research agenda 2) enhancing research opportunity and implementation and 3) the translation of research findings.
Download or read book My Aging Minority Rural Grandparents written by Camille M. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about my rural elderly grandparents and how the lack of culturally competent health care providers affects their health and health care. As I write this article, they are ages ninety-two and ninety-six, and they are aging in their rural Mississippi home. As rural elderly African Americans, they beat the odds in a country where African Americans are sicker and die younger than their Caucasian counterparts, and where the health of rural Americans lags behind the population in general. My grandparents embody the intersection of three of health care's most disadvantaged population characteristics: age, race, and geographic location. As a result of their age, race, and geographic location, the quality of care they receive is inadequate and their overall health status suffers. Taken separately, each of the three population subsets -- the elderly population, the rural population, and the African American population -- is a disparity population. So it is no surprise that, when combined, the health of the rural elderly African American lags behind the health of the majority of the population. Although there are a number of reasons for the inadequate health and health care of such individuals, in this Article I focus on the non-financial barrier of the limited availability of culturally competent health care providers. Most conversations about disparities focus on lack of insurance and other financial barriers to health care. For my grandparents, and other similarly-situated individuals, eliminating disparities means more than removing financial barriers such as access to health insurance.
Download or read book Health Needs of Black Elderly Population in Certain Areas of Rural and Urban Kwazulu written by Magdaline Kumalo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Elderly in Rural Society written by Raymond T. Coward and published by New York : Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Older Rural Americans written by E. Grant Youmans and published by Lexington : University of Kentucky Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book The Rural Elderly in America written by Joseph D. Yenerall and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores recent changes that have impacted the rural community and its elderly residents, and attempts to construct an empirically based foundation of knowledge about the rural aged in the various social spheres of family, economy, health and health care, religion, and community supports. Construction of this knowledge base draws on a review of the literature, field interviews with older residents of four states during 1997-98, and reviews of Census data. Of interest to sociologists and policy makers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The General Well being of Rural Black Elderly written by Mary Sours Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elderly Rural African American Women Alone written by Kathleen Freudenberger Jett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Promotion for the Rural Black Elderly written by Joseph Dancy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population of older Americans grows, it is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Differences in health by racial and ethnic status could be increasingly consequential for health policy and programs. Such differences are not simply a matter of education or ability to pay for health care. For instance, Asian Americans and Hispanics appear to be in better health, on a number of indicators, than White Americans, despite, on average, lower socioeconomic status. The reasons are complex, including possible roles for such factors as selective migration, risk behaviors, exposure to various stressors, patient attitudes, and geographic variation in health care. This volume, produced by a multidisciplinary panel, considers such possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. It provides a concise summary of available research and lays out a research agenda to address the many uncertainties in current knowledge. It recommends, for instance, looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors presumably producing differentials and biopsychosocial mechanisms that lead to impaired health.
