Are old age services equipped to cope with immigrant elders?

Morbidity Profile of Elders in Old Age Homes in Chennai

Enhancing Replica Management Services to Cope with Group Failures

In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components must be replaced by new components on available spare nodes. This replacement results in the membership of the replicated group 'walking' over a number of machines during system operation. In this context, we address ...

Utilization of dental services in old age.

Regular utilization of dental services helps to improve and maintain oral and general health, even in old age. However, utilization behavior for dental services changes with age: preventive utilization behavior is often replaced by a symptom-driven one. With age, a decrease in the utilization of dental services can be observed, whilst the frequency of contact with physicians increases. The pres...

Bmi and Cognition at Old-age Are Obese Elders Working More or Less, and Why? Bmi and Cognition at Old-age

Old-age obesity is prevalent and increasing; there is no systematic research on the labor market outcomes of obese elders. Using the data on men aged 70-79 from the Health and Retirement Study and panel econometrics allowing for individual fixed-effects, we present evidence that obesity increases labor supply at old-age: an increase among the obese, compared to the normal weight, of 3.8 percent...

The effectiveness of old age psychiatry services.

The objective of this study was to review outcomes of acute service delivery in old age psychiatry. Sources of data included Medline, PsycINFO and Cochrane Collaboration databases of English language papers to 1998 on service delivery evaluation in 'old age psychiatry', 'psychogeriatrics' and 'geriatric psychiatry', supplemented by a manual search of references from relevant literature. All con...