We determined the after-tax income required to finance basic needs for Canadian elders living with different circumstances in terms of age, gender, city of residence, household size, homeowner or renter status, means of transportation, and health status. Using 2001 as our base year, we priced the typical expenses for food, shelter, medical, transportation, miscellaneous basic living items and h...

First Nations Elders are very concerned about whether enough clean drinking water will exist for future generations. Three highly respected Elders from the Southern Interior of British Columbia helped the author investigate First Nations water-based ecology: Mary Thomas from the Secwepemc (Shuswap), Millie Michell from the Nlaka’pamux (Thompson), and Mary Louie from the Syilx (Okanagan) Nation....

Depression is projected to be the leading cause of disease burden in older populations by the year 2020. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence depression among a group of elders in Alexandria, Egypt and compare the characteristic of elders in 3 different settings. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out among 100 people aged 60+ years in a government elderly home, an i...

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emergent area that provides useful mechanisms that allows tracking elders through opportunistic sensoring, for example, using mobile devices. In that sense, it is necessary a permanent attention to these people by caregivers and relatives and a growing necessity to create mechanism to support this task. In our proposal, we have a network of caregivers that wo...

This study was aimed at evaluating sleep quality and identifying sleep related problems among elderly people living in longterm care institutions in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Subjects were 38 cognitively preserved elders living in these institutions for at least a year. Data collection was performed using the following instruments: Identification Form, Katz Index and Pittsburgh Sleep Quali...

The University of North Carolina Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (UNC MSHAC) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a voluntary service-learning program in which interdisciplinary teams of graduate level health professional students provide monthly home visits to isolated, community-dwelling elders with complex medical and social issues. Students are mentored by UNC clinical faculty and retir...

In this essay, we appeal to conceptual and empirical research establish that autonomy meaningfulness, when understood concretely realistically, remain possible for frail dependent elders. Contrary ageist cultural attitudes, relationships render frailty dependence compatible with the exercise of autonomous agency a life meaning. This conclusion is important not only goal supporting elders but al...

In the summers of 2005 and 2006, members of the King Island Native Community and approximately ten scientists will conduct research for a project called “Documenting the Cultural Geography, Biogeography, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of King Island, Alaska.” This project was funded in Fall 2003 by the Arctic Social Sciences Program, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation. ...