BACKGROUND Although empirical evidence is available on the coping-health link in older age, research on this topic is needed with non-clinical samples of ethnically diverse older women. To contribute to filling such a research gap, we tested whether these women's general health and functional limitations were associated with specific coping strategies (selected for their particular relevance to...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess differences in acculturation, knowledge, beliefs, and stages of readiness for mammograms from pre- to postintervention among Korean American women aged 40 years or older. DESIGN Prospective, repeated measures, quasi-experimental. SETTING A Korean American senior center in the midwestern United States. SAMPLE 300 Korean American women aged 40 years or older wit...

OBJECTIVE To study risk factors of hospital admission among older Thai adults. MATERIAL AND METHOD Nationwide observational cross-sectional survey by mailed questionnaires. 1801 older adults who attended senior citizen clubs organized by local hospitals from 66 provinces of Thailand. RESULTS 28.1% of subjects had been admitted to a hospital. Independent factors determining hospital admissio...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between resident oral care policies provided by 2 types of long-term care (LTC) institutions. The study also investigated factors affecting LTC institutional caregivers' perceptions of the residents' oral health. Overall, 103 completed questionnaires were returned. Of these, 44 were from senior citizen welfare institutions, and 59 wer...

Europe, lawyer Pablo Rivero is a leader in the use of information and tools to meet the diverse needs of patients and providers. As deputy minister of health information in Spain’s Andalusia province, his vision and plan were central to integrated information and communications technologies deployed in response to Andalusia’s e-health needs for patients, providers and policy makers. With intern...

The National Student Computer Games Tournament and the Chinese Computer Games Championship (NSCGT-CCGC), sponsored by the chess game management center, General Administration of Sport of China (GASC, a government department of China) and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and the College Steering Committee of Computer Science and Technology Education (CSC-CSTE), were hel...

PURPOSE This study describes the development of a short version of the Expectations Regarding Aging Survey (ERA-38), a 38-item survey measuring expectations regarding aging. DESIGN AND METHODS In 1999, surveys containing the ERA-38 were mailed to 588 adults aged > or = 65 years who were recruited through physicians; 429 individuals (73%) returned completed surveys. The mean age of participant...

This article illustrates a method of studying the evaluative connotations of words and phrases, by studying their most frequent collocates in large corpora. The semantic schemas which can be identi®ed in this way are clusters of preferred lexis and syntax, which often have conventional pragmatic connotations. Examples of individual schemas are given. A broader research project is then proposed ...

Q. By whom are you presently employed and in what capacity? A. I am employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), which has its home base in Greenbelt, Maryland. I am the director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is a division of GSFC located in New York City. I am also a senior scientist in the Columbia Universi...