Acquisitions: Core Concepts and Practice

Practice concepts expansion to practice concepts and policy analysis.

Editorial In keeping with The Gerontologist ' s mission to offer a multidisciplinary understanding of human aging, including the impact of social policy, we are expanding the Practice Concepts section to include papers that specifi cally analyze public policy as it affects aging populations and aging processes. We believe that a more explicit focus on social policy analysis will fi ll a need fo...

Baldrige Core Values and Concepts

Visionary Leadership Your organization’s senior leaders should set a vision for the organization, create a customer focus, demonstrate clear and visible organizational values and ethics, and set high expectations for the workforce. The vision, values, and expectations should balance the needs of all your stakeholders. Your leaders should also ensure the creation of strategies, systems, and meth...

Practice Concepts

Purpose of Study: To describe the ongoing efforts of the Connecticut Collaboration for Fall Prevention (CCFP) to move evidence regarding fall prevention into clinical practice and state policy. Methods: A university-based team developed methods of networking with existing statewide organizations to influence clinical practice and state policy. Results: We describe steps taken that led to fundin...

Core Concepts of Kinesiology

A re you interested in skillful movement? Do you, as a teacher, coach, or spectator, observe and evaluate movement in terms of its effortlessness or effectiveness? Do you try to elicit more skillful movement from yourself or others? If so, you probably have developed some tried and true methods of assessment and adjustment. And you probably have encountered frustration when the mover or the mov...

Core Concepts: Intraventricular Hemorrhage