Aging & Disability

About the Book

This book is published by International Academic Press and distributed by Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Modern medicine and technology combined with better standards of living have resulted in people living longer and we now see the emergence of a new and larger group of people, who due to congenital or childhood disability have lived with their disability surviving into old age. Secondary medical conditions, such as respiratory illness, renal failure, accidents, infections and depression and barriers to medical care prevented most of these people from experiencing their true life expectancy. The population of persons with life long disability, together with the general population getting older who as a result of old age now have a disability (or more than one), challenge the servive providers and planners, who now have to face the problem of aging with a disability. Both the general population aging and the person with a life long disability have common issues and would both profit from knowledge, experience and research in this field.

In this book you will find the following issues discussed and research presented:

• Quality of care in residential care centers
• Health active aging
• Health aspects
• Pain in older people
• Specific health problems
• Loss and end of life issues
• Aging in specific populations
• Older people with dementia
• Policy issues

About the Author

Isack Kandel, MA, PhD, is senior lecturer/assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Behavioral Sciences, the Academic College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel, Israel. During the period 1985-93 he served as the director of the Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: kandelii@zahav.net.il

Patricia Schofield, RGN, PhD, PGDipEd, DipN is senior lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, Northern General Hospital in the United Kingdom has worked in pain management since 1988. Originally as a clinical nurse specialist in Chesterfield and then as a lecturer and senior lecturer. PhD thesis on nursing interventions for the management of chronic pain and set up the first pain management course for nurses in the UK. Completed a number of post doctoral projects around pain management in older people including talking to them about their pain experiences, a systematic review and two annotated bibliographies. Served on council for the British Pain Society and recently set up a special interest group around pain in older adults. Currently working with the British Geriatric Society setting up guidelines for pain assessment in older adults and leading a group of researchers developing a number of projects around pain assessment in care homes and pain management for older adults. Several books and publications in this area of research. E-mail: P.A.Schofield@sheffield.ac.uk

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, is professor of child health and human development affiliated with the Zusman Child Development Center, Division of Pediatrics, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, the medical director of the Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, the founder and director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Numerous publications in the field of child health and human development, rehabilitation, intellectual disability, disability, health, welfare, abuse, advocacy, quality of life and prevention. Received the Peter Sabroe Child Award for outstanding work on behalf of Danish Children in 1985 and the International LEGO-Prize ("The Children's Nobel Prize") for an extraordinary contribution towards improvement in child welfare and well-being in 1987. E-Mail: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net. Website: www.nichd-israel.com