Staying in the Room

Staying in the Room.

The call from the nursing home relayed that an 85-yearold male was coming in by ambulance complaining of increased shortness of breath. The nursing home told us that he had an unknown code status. Once the patient arrived, it was clear that he was in the process of dying. While I was preparing for aggressive resuscitative efforts, my attending physician was shuffling through some paperwork that...

Staying on the Dole

We develop a simple model of labor market participation, human capital degradation, and re-training. We focus on how non-participation, as a distinct state from unemployment and employment, is determined by the welfare system in interaction with labor market conditions and personal characteristics. We provide a tractable framework to analyze how the decisions to exit the labor force and to miti...

Staying the course.

Examining the Duration of Unemployment, Reasons for Leaving the Job and Staying in the Labor Market

Abstract. With the industrialization of societies, the issue of employment also faced changes. specially For women, with the increase in the level of education, their desire to do jobs that were exclusive to men in the past, has become a tendency to engage in social activities along with men. Men also try to enter the labor market as soon as possible due to family responsibilities and the duty...

Suicide in the elderly: staying in control.

Suicide remains one of the major causes of death among the fastest growing segment of the US population--the elderly aged 65 and over. Individuals 65 and over comprised 12.4% of the population in 1988, but accounted for 20.9% of all reported suicides (McIntosh, 1992). The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the meaning of suicide to the elderly and how suicide becomes an alternativ...