Word: gerontologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charged with murder for complying with a family's request to remove feeding tubes from a hopelessly brain-damaged patient. The charge was dismissed upon appeal last fall. But, together with similar cases around the country, it has "sent a chill into the medical community," according to Washington Gerontologist Joanne Lynn, principal author of a 1983 Presidential Commission report on medical ethics...
...with a broken hip, but one could have senile dementia and need a high level of nursing care." Under the new Medicare laws, hospitals would be reimbursed the same amount for both patients. Categorizing each patient into a single DRG may also present problems. Patients over 75, points out Gerontologist Laurence Rubenstein of U.C.L.A., "have an average of eight to ten chronic health problems." Rubenstein and others also worry lest patients be sent home prematurely, only to return under another DRG. This, he says, would cost the Government more than if patients had been thoroughly cared for during their initial...
...great deal can be done to improve the quality of life for AD patients and their families, according to Johns Hopkins Gerontologist Nancy Mace. She is co-author with Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Peter Rabins of The Thirty-Six Hour Day, a tellingly titled book on the grueling aspects of caring for the victims. Most important, she explains, is to "simplify the sensory information the patient is getting." Mace suggests discussing only one topic at a time, not confusing patients with too many choices, posting instructions on how to use household appliances and encouraging the individual to make lists and written...
...home owners and $4,000 for renters) to help defray resettlement costs. According to Emmett Moten, Detroit's industrial development director, the city is also purchasing federally owned housing units for Poletowners and offering them mortgages at a bargain 9.5% interest. Detroit hired a professional gerontologist to help assess the impact of the move on the elderly, who make up about half of those to be displaced. So far, 1,154 property owners -about 90% of those affected-have voluntarily sold out to the city. Says Moten of the opposition: "How many mass meetings have been held? Where...
...former World War II Red Cross aide, she has donned a blond wig to visit, incognito, a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in New Jersey, a suicide prevention center in Los Angeles, even a Masters and Johnson clinic in St. Louis. Says she: "I learn more from my mail than a gerontologist can in an average practice...