An Overview of Elder Abuse and Neglect in Australia

ABSTRACT

Only relatively recently has the issue of elder abuse come to prominence in Australia. Until the late 1980s it was a hidden problem with little knowledge of its presence. Attention was drawn to elder abuse after the publication of a number of reports and research projects, allowing the development of responses at national and state levels. This paper gives an overview of the development of elder abuse as a social, legal and medical issue in Australia, and describes the diverse range of responses from the national, state and territory governments.     

An Examination of the Woodwork Effect Using National Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports Data

A common concern in long-term services and supports (LTSS) policy is the “woodwork effect,” which has two components: (1) more people will use publicly funded services if access to home- and community-based services (HCBS) is expanded; and (2) the additional beneficiaries will increase the growth rate of LTSS expenditures. Medicaid LTSS beneficiary and utilization data starting in 1999 indicate modest growth in beneficiaries and expenditures, after adjusting for inflation and the number of people with functional impairments. The data do not provide strong evidence that the shift in Medicaid funding toward HCBS significantly increased or decreased overall Medicaid LTSS spending.     

Transition from Home Care to Nursing Home: Unmet Needs in a Home- and Community-Based Program for Older Adults

A major effort is under way nationally to shift long-term care services from institutional to home- and community-based settings. This article employs quantitative and qualitative methods to identify unmet needs of consumers who transition from a statewide home- and community-based service program for older adults to long-term nursing home residence. Administrative data, care manager notes, and focus group discussions identified program service gaps that inadequately accommodated acute health problems, mental health issues, and stressed family caregivers; additional unmet needs highlighted an inadequate workforce, transportation barriers, and limited supportive housing options. National and state-level policy implications are considered.     

Intersectionality,Multiple Messages,and Complex Causality: Commentary on Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins

In this article I approach gender, sexuality, and race as analytical concepts and intersectionality as an analytical framework for examining the relations between these concepts and the context within which they operate. Issues of complex causality make the disentangling of messages communicated by symbolic and everyday acts susceptible to oversimplification and paralysis of political action. Intersectionality addresses many of the pitfalls featured among intractable political problems such as racism. Patricia Hill Collins's provocative book Black Sexual Politics (2005) Collins, P. H. 2005. Black Sexual Politics, New York: Routledge.  [Google Scholar] proposes an alternative lens, that of the “new racism,” and I interrogate the utility of both frames for the analysis of African American popular culture and sexuality in the 21st century.     

历史文化资源开发与河北省文化强省建设探研

河北省历史文化资源种类繁多、内容丰富,具有建设文化强省的先天优势。然而,在河北省众多的历史文化资源中,具有较高知名度的品牌却并不多见,除了少数传承已久的精品资源妇孺皆知外,多数仍处于少人问津的状态,这与河北文化强省建设是格格不入的,并已成为文化强省建设中的重要瓶颈,因此急需开发。在具体开发中,无论是社会科学工作者、新闻媒体,还是各级党委和政府,都应该勇于挑起宣传与弘扬历史文化的重任,为建设文化强省贡献一己之力。     

Incorporating self‐determination into substance abuse prevention programming for youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood

Youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood are at higher risk for alcohol and substance abuse disorders than general population youth. At the same time, these youths are often recipients of strong clinical intervention, often at levels considered unnecessary, for other mental health or behavioural challenges. Because of this, there is sometimes resistance from providers to offer services such as substance abuse prevention programming as it may be seen as contributing to youths' overclinicalization, stigmatization, or retraumatization. Using thematic content analysis, this qualitative study analysed focus groups with community stakeholders providing recommendations on support services for youth transitioning from foster care to adulthood to derive strategies for delivering substance abuse prevention programming in a way that enhances youth self‐determination. Findings were organized by self‐determination theory's 3 key psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. All three needs were represented in stakeholder recommendations, which were translated into strategies for bolstering youths' achievement of each need. Strategies include a mix of those already present in motivational interviewing‐based brief substance abuse prevention interventions as well as more unique strategies that are much less frequently employed but that may better meet the needs of youth with foster care experience.     

Elder mistreatment in underserved populations: Opportunities and challenges to developing a contemporary program of research

ABSTRACT

This article provides an overview of the status of research on elder mistreatment among underserved populations in the United States, including gaps in our current knowledge base and scientific and structural barriers to growing research on the exploitation, neglect, and abuse of older people from diverse and disadvantaged ethnic/racial, geographic, sexual identity, and socioeconomic groups. High-priority areas in need of new elder mistreatment research with underserved populations are identified, and suggestions are given for how this research can be facilitated by researchers, university institutional review boards, and funding agencies.     

Computerized Behavioral Interventions: Current Products and Recommendations for Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Unlike traditional methods of delivering substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health treatment, computerized behavioral interventions deliver services via computers, smartphones, and other electronic devices. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of Web-based treatment programs designed for certain target populations. Studies have shown that many of these programs are evidence-based, and some are just as effective as traditional in-person interventions. This article reviews current computerized behavioral interventions and makes recommendations for how these tools can be incorporated into SUD treatment services.     

从上层包办到简政放权:抗战时期中共干部作风建设之进路

干部作风好坏关系到党和政府在人民群众中的形象与人心向背,故中共自成立之日起就极为注重干部作风建设,并将之作为立身之本和执政之基。抗战时期,中共干部作风上存在着一种严重倾向:即上层领导包办代替一切。这有悖于党的群众路线,还阻滞了中共政策的全面有效贯彻。为了疏通上述滞碍,中共采取了加强干部作风建设、贯彻群众路线简政放权的改进之策。尤其是中共在贯彻群众路线时对于至关重要的调查研究环节的把握,更成为其能够掌握真实情况并得以改进干部作风的关键所在。     

应用多媒体技术提高工程制图教学质量的探索

通过在工程制图教学中应用多媒体技术的实践,阐述了在教学中创造多层次、多视觉的立体学习空间,使教与学双方利用视频技术产生互动教学,克服了传统教学中的许多局限性,使抽象、复杂的教学内容变的更加生动、形象、直观.进一步探讨了在计算机多媒体辅助教学环境下更新教学理念,活跃课堂气氛,提高教学质量等问题.