Eva Kahana

Issue theme: ADULTS' ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND PROVIDER-PATIENT INTERACTIONS IN LATER LIFE Table of Contents: Older Patients' Experiences with Medical Care and Caregiving: EditorialEva Kahana PhD, Editor-in-Chief Integrated, Personalized Care for Older PeopleKurt C. Stange, MD, PhD, Anne Gaglioti, MD, MS, James Bindas, MBA Shaping Long-term Care for Older Adults: Exploring the Role of Geriatricians in Italy and the United StatesFrancesca Degiuli, PhD "Here it was waiting for me: " Diabetes Diagnosis Pathways and Implications for Health PolicySarah Chard, PhD, Laura Girling, PhD, Brandy Harris-Wallace, PhD, Loren Henderson, PhD, Erin G. Roth, PhD, J. Kevin Eckert, PhD Trust Between Physicians and Family Caregivers: Qualitative Insights from Three Family-Centered Academic Medical CentersRuchira Rao, Minakshi Raj, PhD Role of Medical Insurance in Reducing Place-based Health Disparities: Functional Disability in Rural AppalachiaJulie Hicks Patrick, PhD, Carly E. Pullen, MA, Kareem Ibrahim-Bacha, BS, S. Mindi Spencer, PhD Patient-Provider Relationships in an All-Inclusive Specialized Geriatric Program: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study among Older Foreign-Born Latinos with MultimorbiditiesRosana L. Bravo, PhD, MPH, ngela Guti rrez, PhD, MPH, Len F. Levy-Storms, PhD, MPH

This issue's Table of Contents: OLDER ADULTS' PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICE NEEDS AND POLICY EXPERIENCE Facilitating Aging in Place: Planning for, Utilization and Satisfaction with Informal Supports and Formal Services for Older AdultsEva Kahana PhD, Editor-in-Chief The Chosen Child: Characteristics of Family Caregivers Selected at an Early Age to Provide Care to Their Parents Joanne R. Campione, PhD, MSPH and Katarzyna A. Zebrak, PhD A Comfort or a Threat? How Older Italians View Home Eldercare AssistantsAnne Barrett, PhD and Katia Vecchione, MS, RN Residents' and Family Perspectives of Involuntary Healthcare Facility Closure and RelocationRaven H. Weaver, PhD, Karen A. Roberto, PhD, Nancy Brossoie, PhD, and Pamela B. Teaster, PhD Why Don't Older Adults Use Senior Centers? Evidence from Adults Age 50 and Older in MassachusettsCeara Somerville, MS, Nidya Velasco Rold n, MS, Cindy N. Bui, MS, Caitlin Coyle, PhD, and Jan Mutchler, PhD Mobilizing a Community to Develop a Comprehensive Master Aging PlanSallie Allgood, PhD, RN, Ryan Lavalley, PhD, OTR/L, Cassandra Dictus, MPH, BSN, RN, Janice Tyler, BA, and Cherie Rosemond, PhD Regional Planning for Aging in Place: Older Adults' Perceptions of Needs and Awareness of Aging Services in Washington StateCory Bolkan, PhD, Raven H. Weaver, PhD, Eunsaem Kim, PhD, and Bidisha Mandal, PhD Anchored yet Displaced: Affordable Housing and Aging in a Gentrifying PlaceBrian N. Sweeney, PhD

This monograph is a call to action. It is an urgent request to those using the web to help find solutions to problems facing healthcare globally. The disciplines of Web Science and its subfield Health Web Science explore how the World Wide Web drives discussions, technologies, policies, and solutions, which surround health issues.The monograph presents Health Web Science as a sub-discipline of Web Science that, while being concerned with the Web's impact on health and wellbeing, also examines the impact of the Web's health-related uses on the design, structure, and evolution of the Web itself. Understanding and appreciating the overlapping, yet divergent disciplinary orientation of Health Web Science compared to related research domains, motivates specific research efforts around better utilization of, innovation on, and communication over and within the Web.Health Web Science is an ideal reference for researchers and practitioners with an interest in this emerging topic.

Based on a unique research study, this volume examines the later life development of Holocaust survivors from Israel and the US. Through systematic interviews, the authors – noted researchers and clinicians – collected data about the lives of these survivors and how they compared to peers who did not share this experience. The orientation of the book synthesizes several conceptual approaches – gerontological and life span development, stress research, and traumatology, and also reflects the varied disciplines of the authors, spanning psychology, social work, and sociology. The result is a multi-faceted view of their subject with an understanding of the individual, society, and the interaction of the two, tempered by the authors’ own Holocaust experiences. Chapters cover a range of areas including stress and coping of these survivors, reviews of their heath and mental health, an examination of their social integration, as well as a review of the multiple predictors of psychological well-being and adaptation to aging. This book will be of interest to psychologists, social workers, sociologists, psychiatrists, and all those who study both trauma and aging.

Based on a unique research study, this volume examines the later life development of Holocaust survivors from Israel and the US. Through systematic interviews, the authors – noted researchers and clinicians – collected data about the lives of these survivors and how they compared to peers who did not share this experience. The orientation of the book synthesizes several conceptual approaches – gerontological and life span development, stress research, and traumatology, and also reflects the varied disciplines of the authors, spanning psychology, social work, and sociology. The result is a multi-faceted view of their subject with an understanding of the individual, society, and the interaction of the two, tempered by the authors’ own Holocaust experiences. Chapters cover a range of areas including stress and coping of these survivors, reviews of their heath and mental health, an examination of their social integration, as well as a review of the multiple predictors of psychological well-being and adaptation to aging. This book will be of interest to psychologists, social workers, sociologists, psychiatrists, and all those who study both trauma and aging.

Why are the elderly so often perceived as burdensome and unproductive members of our society? Altruism in Later Life explores and refutes this view with cogent, empirical data. Authors Elizabeth Midlarsky and Eva Kahana introduce the results of a series of investigations on assistance offered by--rather than to--the elderly, in the context of historical, philosophical, and theoretical trends in gerontology and altruism research. Following a brief but inclusive historical survey of aging treatments, they present their own theoretical model of successful aging: Based on a carefully applied methodological review of research focusing on altruism and the elderly, the results reveal the relative frequency, nature, correlates, and ramifications of the contributions they make. Dispelling many of the misapprehensions held about the elderly, this work will prove to be a vital, timely resource for professionals and students in fields including gerontology, psychology, social work, sociology, counseling, and the health sciences.

Why are the elderly so often perceived as burdensome and unproductive members of our society? Altruism in Later Life explores and refutes this view with cogent, empirical data. Authors Elizabeth Midlarsky and Eva Kahana introduce the results of a series of investigations on assistance offered by--rather than to--the elderly, in the context of historical, philosophical, and theoretical trends in gerontology and altruism research. Following a brief but inclusive historical survey of aging treatments, they present their own theoretical model of successful aging: Based on a carefully applied methodological review of research focusing on altruism and the elderly, the results reveal the relative frequency, nature, correlates, and ramifications of the contributions they make. Dispelling many of the misapprehensions held about the elderly, this work will prove to be a vital, timely resource for professionals and students in fields including gerontology, psychology, social work, sociology, counseling, and the health sciences.