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Barusch, Amanda | Social security is not for babies: trends and policies affecting older women in the United States | In the first year of the new century, over a million American women officially entered the ranks of "the elderly" by reaching their 65th birthday (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1999). What can they expect of government policy? To what extent will the nation's economic support systems respond to their n... | Income security; Shifting fertility patterns; Labor force participation | 2001-01-01 |
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Lundahl, Brad Ward | Motivational interviewing in medical care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials | Objective Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method for encouraging people to make behavioral changes to improve health outcomes. We used systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate MI's efficacy in medical care settings. Methods Database searches located randomized clinical trials that comp... | Motivational interviewing; Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Health care; Medicine; Medical; Behaviour; Behavior; Counseling; Consultation | 2013-07-17 |
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Barusch, Amanda | Depressive symptoms in the frail elderly: physical and psycho-social correlates | The elderly who suffer from chronic illness are at unusually high risk of depression and depressive symptoms. This study was conducted to describe the prevalence of depressive symptoms in a sample of chronically-ill elders and to examine the relationship between physical illness and depression, bot... | Physical correlates; Psycho-social correlates | 1999 |
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Barusch, Amanda | Self-concepts of low-income older women: not old or poor, but fortunate and blessed | This article examines the extent to which low-income older women define themselves in stigmatizing terms, then explores the strategies they use to preserve a positive sense of self. Instead of considering themselves "old" or "poor," the sixty-two women interviewed defined themselves as "fortunate" a... | Low-income older women; Stigmatizing terms; Positive thinking | 1997 |
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