Family Influence on Caregiver Resistance,Efficacy, and Use of Services in Family Elder Care

This research investigated how resistance to use of services attributed to family members and primary caregiver self-efficacy and resistance influenced actual use of services. Data were analyzed from questionnaires completed by 224 persons engaged in informal elder care in the community. Tests of 6 hypotheses revealed that family influence on caregivers had a consistent, important influence on behavior and views of caregivers. Family resistance to use of formal services framed caregivers' feelings, preferences, and decisions ranging from their own perceived self-efficacy to actual obtainment of help outside the family. Professionals must include family members in their dialogue with primary caregivers about their plans for elder care. Suggestions for interventions to better understand family and caregiver resistance are discussed.     

Racial Differences in Family Burden

This article examines the clinical implications for social work practice of the differential impact of caregiving strain according to race. Data for this report is drawn from a study of 810 patients in a community-based geriatric assessment center. Although this research found no essential difference, based on race, in the experience of family burden as a social problem, there was a difference within the interaction of race and the care for an elderly person with Alzheimer's disease. The authors suggest a classification scheme of specific interventions for different caregiving groups and subgroups, based on both race and relationship; these selected variables can provide more insight into possible vulnerable caregiving conditions.     

Improving Emergency Care for the Elderly

Much has been written on the developing role for social workers in hospital emergency rooms but little has focused specifically on social work interventions with elderly emergency room patients in an urban teaching hospital. A group of fifty patients over sixty-five years of age, referred to social service for assessment and assistance with home care issues, is described. The emergency room social worker's role with these elderly patients is highlighted and three case examples are discussed. It is argued that social work interventions improve the quality of both emergency and ongoing care for this growing and often at risk population.     

Grandparent Carers II

Summary

A demonstration project was undertaken in two of New York City's five boroughs using an intervention model to assess how a three-prong approach using outreach, provision of support groups, and case management could be used to aid grandparents acting as primary carers for children with developmental delay or disabilities. Three small community-based agencies participated in the demonstration. Several common themes were identified that warrant attention when working with older adults who assume later-age parenting roles: (1) recruitment, (2) pressing grandparent problems, (3) unresponsive service systems, (4) falling between the cracks, (5) mutual support, and (6) need for long-term planning.     

Post Acute Care of the Elderly in Singapore What Factors Influence Use of Services?

This research focused on understanding the factors associated with utilization of post-acute care services in Singapore and how these are woven into family care as well as the lived experience of elderly persons and their families. The multi-method study applied Andersen's model and the quantitative results of the 299 elderly Singaporeans surveyed showed medical and physical conditions, perceived health and utility, knowledge and previous use of service, ethnicity, family size, paid help, housing type, and living arrangement as significant factors. Qualitative results from interviews of a subsample of 13 elderly and their family members and focus group discussions of providers consistently pointed affordability of services as an important factor. Findings surfaced the question of service accessibility and its implications on practice, policy, and research.     

西方国家转移支付制度的经验及对我国的启示

介绍了西方国家的转移支付制度及其对我国的启示:加快转移支付立法,完善转移支付的法律监督体系;明确划分各级政府的事权;按照财权与事权相匹配的原则,合理划分各级政府的收入;优化转移支付结构,规范转移支付的方式;规范转移支付的分配方法,用"因素法"替代"基数法"。     

物流最优服务水平的确定方法研究

物流服务水平的确定受到物流成本和利润的影响,物流服务水平的提高必然导致物流成本的提高,但同时会导致收入的提高,如何在服务、成本、收益之间找到平衡点,进而确定物流最优服务水平是本文主要讨论的问题。结合物流服务水平概念,分析物流服务水平与成本及收益之间的关系,进而建立了"成本——服务——收益"关系的物流服务水平的理论模型及数理模型,最后通过算例具体来验证。     

西部地区发展服务外包的条件、作用及路径选择——基于印度的经验

服务外包是在全球范围内发生的以现代服务业以及高端制造和研发环节转移为主要特征的新一轮产业转移的表现形式,是现代服务业的重要组成部分.服务外包以人力资源优势为基础、信息技术网络为支撑,充分体现信息承载度高、能源资源消耗少、附加值大等特点.文章分析了印度发展服务外包的成功经验,认为发展服务外包有利于发挥中国西部地区人力资源比较优势,提升对外开放水平和产业层次,形成新的产业支撑,实现西部地区跨越式发展.最后提出发展西部地区服务外包的对策建议.     

公益广告语中人称代词的认知心理

集中探讨了公益广告语中人称代词的认知心理,并分析了代词阶在公益广告语中的运用,指出受众基于自己的的知识框架,态度,价值观所形成的认知图式会对识解公益广告人称代词时的认知心理产生深刻的影响。     

市场格局下我国电视节目的人文化趋势

从受众的人文化意识需求出发,分别从电视节目的贴近性、服务性和互动性三方面去分析研究近几年我国电视节目的人文化特点,并预测其未来的发展趋势。