Intergenerational relations and elder care preferences of Asian Indians in North Carolina.

Health Risks and Conditions among American Indians in North Carolina

Objectives: North Carolina has the eighth largest American Indian population in the United States. American Indians have high death rates for a number of specific causes of death. However, North Carolina has lacked comprehensive statewide information about health risks in its American Indian populations. The objective of this study is to examine health risks and conditions among adult North Car...

Preference for place of death in a continuing care retirement community.

PURPOSE To describe death-related planning and preferences for place of death among well elders in a community characterized by a low rate of hospital deaths. DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional prevalence survey of independent-living residents (n = 219) of a continuing-care retirement community (CCRC) in Central North Carolina characterized by a low rate of hospital deaths. RESULTS Death-re...

Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST): honoring patient preferences across the continuum of care.

The complement of research and theory in practice: contact theory at work in nonfamilial intergenerational programs.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY We assessed whether a shared site intergenerational care program informed by contact theory contributed to more desirable social behaviors of elders and children during intergenerational programming than a center with a more traditional programming approach that lacks some or all of the contact theory tenets. DESIGN AND METHODS We observed 59 elder and child participants ...

Partnering Around Data to Address Clinician Retention in Loan Repayment Programs: The Multistate/NHSC Retention Collaborative.

1Nebraska Division of Public Health, Lincoln, Nebraska 2North Carolina Foundation for Advanced Health Programs, Cary, North Carolina 3Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota 4New Mexico Health Resources, Albuquerque, New Mexico 5 Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North C...