This study determined the national prevalence and profile of Asian Americans with Activities of Daily Living (ADL) limitations and identified factors associated with institutionalization. Data were obtained from 2006 American Community Survey, which replaced the long-form of the US Census. The data are nationally representative of both institutionalized and community-dwelling older adults. Resp...

INTRODUCTION Media reports tell of the increasing global burden of an ageing population, both financially and in care provision (Conway, 2010). In the U.K. the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide has become more prominent with some disabled, elderly and physically ill people making trips to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland to end their lives. Baroness Warnock stated that frail elderly p...

Background Most recently research on the AIDS epidemic has focused on persons who are infected by HIV in globally. However, the impact on elderly whose adult children living with AIDS has received less attention until 1990s. The impact of the epidemic extends not only infected with the virus but also affect their family members, emotionally, economically, socially, and physically. The elderly p...

In this study, the authors examine the longitudinal experience, annual trends, and subpopulation differences in Medicaid use and expenditures for persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in California from 1983 through 1986. About two-thirds of adult males were enrolled in Medicaid within 1 month of their AIDS diagnosis. These recipients averaged approximately 20-percent higher li...

I propose in the following paper to give your readers a brief description of 13 deaths due to suffocation, not of poisonous or irrespirable gases which came under my notice during the nine years' medico-legal experience that I have been relating. Race and sex.?These cases occurred in the persons of 4 adult native males, 2 adult native females, 4 native boys, 1 native girl, 1 adult European male...

neurotrauma is one of the main medical problems that affect considerable number of population especially young persons in all countries. neurotrauma not only is a serious threat for life but also creates various disabilities and consequently imposes large costs to society. following central nervous system (cns) injury, tissue damage occurs via primary and secondary mechanisms. despite many atte...