GUEST EDITORIAL:

Promising Models for Transforming Long-Term Care

Joe Angelelli
Gerontologist 2006 46: 428-430. [Full Text] [PDF]  

SELF-RATED HEALTH:

Self-Rated Health Appraisal as Cultural and Identity Process: African American Elders' Health and Evaluative Rationales

Carmit K. McMullen and Mark R. Luborsky
Gerontologist 2006 46: 431-438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

FAMILY CARE:

Making Choices: A Within-Family Study of Caregiver Selection

Karl Pillemer and J. Jill Suitor
Gerontologist 2006 46: 439-448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Concordance of Race or Ethnicity of Interventionists and Caregivers of Dementia Patients: Relationship to Attrition and Treatment Outcomes in the REACH Study

Kathleen A. McGinnis, Richard Schulz, Roslyn A. Stone, Julie Klinger, and Rocco Mercurio
Gerontologist 2006 46: 449-455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

INSTITUTIONAL PLACEMENT:

Informal Caregivers and the Risk of Nursing Home Admission Among Individuals Enrolled in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

Susan M. Friedman, Donald M. Steinwachs, Helena Temkin-Greener, and Dana B. Mukamel
Gerontologist 2006 46: 456-463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reported Expectations for Nursing Home Placement Among Older Adults and Their Role as Risk Factors for Nursing Home Admissions

Adaeze B. Akamigbo and Frederic D. Wolinsky
Gerontologist 2006 46: 464-473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Who Recommends Long-Term Care Matters

Robert L. Kane, Boris Bershadsky, and Julie Bershadsky
Gerontologist 2006 46: 474-482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MEDICAID HCBS:

The Relative Benefits and Cost of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services in Florida

Glenn Mitchell, II, Jennifer R. Salmon, Larry Polivka, and Horacio Soberon-Ferrer
Gerontologist 2006 46: 483-494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL RELATIONS:

Meeting the Need to Belong: Predicting Effects of a Friendship Enrichment Program for Older Women

Nan L. Stevens, Camille M. S. Martina, and Gerben J. Westerhof
Gerontologist 2006 46: 495-502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Performance of an Abbreviated Version of the Lubben Social Network Scale Among Three European Community-Dwelling Older Adult Populations

James Lubben, Eva Blozik, Gerhard Gillmann, Steve Iliffe, Wolfgang von Renteln Kruse, John C. Beck, and Andreas E. Stuck
Gerontologist 2006 46: 503-513. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RETIREMENT PATTERNS:

Retirement Patterns From Career Employment

Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea, and Joseph F. Quinn
Gerontologist 2006 46: 514-523. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PERSONAL CARE INTERVENTION:

Assisting Cognitively Impaired Nursing Home Residents With Bathing: Effects of Two Bathing Interventions on Caregiving

Beverly Hoeffer, Karen Amann Talerico, Joyce Rasin, C. Madeline Mitchell, Barbara J. Stewart, Darlene McKenzie, Ann Louise Barrick, Joanne Rader, and Philip D. Sloane
Gerontologist 2006 46: 524-532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PRACTICE CONCEPTS:

Radical Redesign of Nursing Homes: Applying the Green House Concept in Tupelo, Mississippi

Judith Rabig, William Thomas, Rosalie A. Kane, Lois J. Cutler, and Steve McAlilly
Gerontologist 2006 46: 533-539. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Flexibility as a Management Principle in Dementia Care: The Adards Example

Jiska Cohen-Mansfield and Allan Bester
Gerontologist 2006 46: 540-544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enhancing Adherence Among Older African American Men Enrolled in a Longitudinal Cancer Screening Trial

Marvella E. Ford, Suzanne Havstad, Sally W. Vernon, Shawna D. Davis, David Kroll, Lois Lamerato, and G. Marie Swanson
Gerontologist 2006 46: 545-550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS:

LEARNING ABOUT LIFE BY STUDYING DEATH

Review Essay by Susan H. McFadden
Gerontologist 2006 46: 551-554. [Full Text] [PDF]  

GLOBAL AGING ASPIRATIONS CONFRONT CULTURAL AND REGIONAL REALITIES

Review Essay by James T. Sykes
Gerontologist 2006 46: 555-558. [Full Text] [PDF]  

GERONTOLOGY FOR THE 21^ST CENTURY

Review Essay by Larry Polivka
Gerontologist 2006 46: 558-263. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BOOK RECEIVED:

BOOKS RECEIVED

Gerontologist 2006 46: 563-564. [Full Text] [PDF]  

AUDIOVISUAL REVIEWS:

ALMOST HOME—A FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY ON LONG-TERM CARE

Robert E. Yahnke
Gerontologist 2006 46: 565-567. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather M. Young and Ernlé W. D. Young
Gerontologist 2006 46: 565-567. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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