RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICYMAKERS TO IMPROVE OLDER ADULTS’ CLIMATE CHANGE PREPAREDNESS

Climate Change Policy: Recommendations to Reach Consensus

1 INTRODUCTION As the fi nancial crisis continues to take its toll on the global economy, another serious challenge looms large: preventing the planet from warming more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Policymakers are now faced with the daunting task of stimulating growth without using carbon-intensive practices and stabilizing the climate without dampening economic recovery. If the fi nancial cri...

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Summary for Policymakers to Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report of the IPCC Third Assessment Report

Narrative Group Therapy to Improve Aging Perceptions and Reduce Thanatophobia (Death Anxiety) in Older Adults

Introduction: Narrative therapy is a psychological intervention focusing on remembering and reconstruction of the people's life events in ways that are of benefit to them, and reduce the impact of challenges in their lives. This study was performed to examine the effect of narrative group therapy (NGT) on aging perceptions and death anxiety among older adults.   Methods: Forty-seven subjects,...

Interventions to Improve Walking in Older Adults.

Interventions to improve walking in older adults have historically been multifactorial (i.e. strengthening, endurance and flexibility programs) focusing on improving the underlying impairments. These impairment-based programs have resulted in only modest improvements in walking. In older adults, walking is slow, less stable, inefficient, and the timing and coordination of stepping with postures...

Reconsidering the approach to prevention recommendations for older adults.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) bases its recommendations on an evidence-based model of clinical prevention that focuses on specific diseases, well-defined preventive interventions, and evidence of improved health outcomes. Applying this model to prevention for very old patients has been problematic for several reasons: Many geriatric disorders have multiple risk factors, inter...