{"title":"Laboratory-based research on the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology: the goals and methods of the National Center for Health Statistics study.","authors":"J. Lessler, M. Sirken","doi":"10.2307/3349848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349848","url":null,"abstract":"The National Center for Health Statistics is embarked on a major project to combine the respective strengths of cognitive psychologists and survey researchers in a common effort to improve the design of survey questionnaires. This methodological research is conducted within the framework of the National Health Interview Survey, the nation's main source of information on the health of civilians. Better quality of such information--from recall to response rates--can aid both scientific inquiry and public policy.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"34 5","pages":"565-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/3349848","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72447089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sharing increasing costs on declining income: the visible dilemma of the invisible aged.","authors":"B. B. Torrey","doi":"10.2307/3349885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349885","url":null,"abstract":"The federal government considers all persons aged 65 and over a single beneficiary group, and data collectors consider them a single cohort. As a result, the very old (80 years and over) are virtually invisible; little is known about their specific income benefits and economic resources. Costs for the very old--a more economically diverse group than the nonaged--are likely to grow disproportionately. Recent proposals to share costs will affect the distribution of income and assets among the aged and between generations.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"51 1","pages":"377-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76653982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing the \"oldest old\".","authors":"R. Suzman, M. W. Riley","doi":"10.2307/3349879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349879","url":null,"abstract":"The mounting numbers of the very old--their percentage of the population will double in the next 15 years--is so new a phenomenon that there is little in historical experience to help in interpreting it. Not only are the older living longer, but they are also growing older in markedly different ways from their predecessors. The work at hand, still partial and tentative, indicates that the oldest old can no longer remain invisible in the economy, the polity, the health care system, or the statistical records.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"8 1","pages":"177-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86308007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health and disease among the oldest old: a clinical perspective.","authors":"K. Minaker, J. Rowe","doi":"10.2307/3349883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349883","url":null,"abstract":"Interactions of aging and disease are poorly understood by both clinicians and the aged themselves. The altered expressions of illness in the oldest old--in severity, presentation, and perception--provide a clinical challenge to treatment as well as to the formulation of health policy. A progressively diverse population, the oldest old will require new strategies for individualized care (acute and long-term), case-finding, research and training, and health promotion.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"36 2 1","pages":"324-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81450260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The oldest old: a fresh perspective or compassionate ageism revisited?","authors":"R. Binstock","doi":"10.2307/3349887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349887","url":null,"abstract":"A focus on persons aged 85 and over is a timely measure for better understanding the implications of population aging. Yet, it may generate inaccurate stereotypes that reinforce anxieties about conflicts between age groups in the allocation of health and social welfare resources. Alternative constructs enable consideration of a variety of options that differ from unnecessary extrapolations from existing public policies. These range from market initiatives, through state and local government actions, to federal intervention for meeting the challenges of becoming \"an aging society.\"","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"5 1","pages":"420-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75211275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Cornoni-Huntley, D. Foley, L. White, R. Suzman, L. Berkman, D. Evans, R. Wallace
{"title":"Epidemiology of disability in the oldest old: methodologic issues and preliminary findings.","authors":"J. Cornoni-Huntley, D. Foley, L. White, R. Suzman, L. Berkman, D. Evans, R. Wallace","doi":"10.2307/3349884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349884","url":null,"abstract":"Little is known about the health problems of the fastest-growing segment of the population. Three major community-based studies present prevalence information on physical and mental disabilities among the oldest old. These data also illustrate the limitations of interpretations in cross-sectional studies, and emphasize the value of prospective investigations of populations aged 85 and older. Although more costly and time-consuming, such prospective longitudinal studies are indispensable to sound policy planning.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"13 1","pages":"350-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87606434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economic status of the oldest old.","authors":"G. Atkins","doi":"10.2307/3349886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349886","url":null,"abstract":"Proposals to shift more of Medicare's costs to beneficiaries raise the question of whether the oldest old--the heaviest users--have the resources to bear these costs. Information on cash income, assets, other economic resources, and in-kind benefits provides an assessment of the economic status of the very old. When all factors and adjustments are considered, the oldest old, as a group, are shown to have substantially lower economic status than the young old.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"116 1","pages":"395-419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79267453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of health changes in the oldest old: new perspectives and evidence.","authors":"K. Manton, B. Soldo","doi":"10.2307/3349881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349881","url":null,"abstract":"Improvement in survival at advanced ages suggests that important changes in health and the natural history of disease processes may be occurring concurrently. a general model based upon cohort and life-course perspectives describes the changing relation of morbidity, disability, and mortality over time. Variability across different social and economic conditions is examined among institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly, and between the United States and Japan. Future policy must take account of the qualitative, as well as the quantitative, changes in aging.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"57 1","pages":"206-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73658206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Withholding treatment from Baby Doe: from discrimination to child abuse.","authors":"N. K. Rhoden, J. Arras","doi":"10.2307/3349897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349897","url":null,"abstract":"Questions surrounding withholding treatment from severely impaired newborns have elicited three significantly different substantive and procedural responses: from the Reagan administration's Department of Health and Human Services through the Carter President's Commission on Ethical Problems, and subsequent congressional legislation on child abuse. Movement from a rigid and simplistic application of medical imperatives to ambiguous and abstract criteria of the child's \"best interest\" represented limited progress. A new legislative compromise principle is an imperfect but practical accommodation to moral and medical realities.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"2 1","pages":"18-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81427238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life and death in a welfare state: end-stage renal disease in the United Kingdom.","authors":"T. Halper","doi":"10.2307/3349898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/3349898","url":null,"abstract":"The uniquely parsimonious approach to treatment of end-stage renal disease patients in the U.K. was initially developed under the imprimatur of the nation's medical elite and sanctioned by the central government. Public value for public money and an equitable balance of scarce resources among many social and medical claims still guide the National Health Service. But these clinically dominated allocative decisions are imperfect, often counter-productive, and, ultimately, political. There is a marked dissonance between compassionate and bureaucratic themes.","PeriodicalId":76697,"journal":{"name":"The Milbank Memorial Fund quarterly. Health and society","volume":"64 1","pages":"52-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83947754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}