Practice Concepts Expansion to Practice Concepts and Policy Analysis

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...

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...

Efficiency and Effectiveness of Policy Instruments: Concepts and Practice

In this paper a brief overview of types of instruments is given, with particular emphasis on the expected and experienced effectiveness and efficiency of policy instruments. After introducing the instruments, a brief discourse concerning the difficulties in ex ante and ex post assessment is given. Subsequently, a few experiences in Finland and other countries are presented. In the concluding ob...

Communication: concepts, practice and challenges.

Mathematical concepts and investigative practice

In this paper I investigate two notions of concepts that have played a dominant role in 20th century philosophy of mathematics. According to the first, concepts are definite and fixed; in contrast, according to the second notion concepts are open and subject to modifications. The motivations behind these two incompatible notions and how they can be used to account for conceptual change are pres...