In recent years, senior citizens account for over 50% of all traffic fatalities, and accident location analysis reveals that over 50% of fatal traffic accidents occur at intersections. One conceivable reason for the high rate of fatal traffic accidents at intersections and in their vicinities, and the high percentage of senior citizen deaths, is their relationship with basic vision properties, ...

There is currently a movement to promote “culture change” in long-term care facilities for the elderly. One goal of this movement is to make resident care more person-centered rather than institution-centered. Of interest in this research was an exploration of conditions under which a videotaped biography of a senior citizen could be used to create more personalized relationships between reside...

PURPOSE This study concerns one component of the ability to provide person-centered care: the cognitive skill of perceiving others in relatively complex terms. This study tested the effectiveness of a social motivation for increasing the number of psychological constructs used to describe an unfamiliar senior citizen. DESIGN AND METHODS Forty-four certified nurse aide students participated. S...

Dorothy Euwards, PhD, is Coordinator of Research, De· partment of Occupational Therapy, and Carolyn Manville Baum, MA, OTR, FAOTA, is Director of Occupational Therapy Clinical Services, both at the Irene Walter John· son Institute of Rehabilitation, Washington University Medical School, SI Louis, Missouri. Dorothy Edwards and Carolyn Manville Baum also are members of the OASIS AdVisory Committe...

The spatial inequality of the environment arises as a planning problem when the spatial structure of the different districts of a city is distinctly different; Differences that require different programming solutions for different regions and meeting the objective of creating spatial equality in a city. Nobahar and Vaki-Agha are two districts with unequal urban space located in north and south ...