Financial Abuse of Elders and Dependent Adults: The FAST (Financial Abuse Specialist Team) Approach

ABSTRACT

The Financial Abuse Specialist Team, a partnership of professionals from diverse disciplines, volunteer their time to review cases of financial elder abuse and facilitate comprehensive service delivery. The team also advocates for legislative reform, educates the community about the problem, and trains professionals in how to recognize, prevent, and resolve financial elder abuse.     

Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain:

Two diseases, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, are responsible for a majority of the chronic musculoskeletal pain that older women experience. Osteoporosis is the metabolic bone disease most common in older women and is responsible for fractures, kyphosis, and chronic pain. Osteoarthritis, the most commonly diagnosed musculoskeletal problem in older women, causes degeneration of the weight-bearing joints in the body, resulting in limited function and chronic pain. In this paper, these and other common disorders are briefly described and typical coping strategies used by older women in pain are reviewed. In addition, potential multidisciplinary treatment regimens are discussed.     

Local Administrative Practice and AFDC Error in Maryland

Data from two Maryland AFDC quality control samples (n=2376) are joined with data from two surveys of local administrative practices to examine administrative correlates of error. Less error exists among cases processed by agencies that: 1) use checklists to simplify agency procedures, 2) use follow-up controls in conjunction with tickler files, 3) have in-house training to deal with earned income procedures, 4) provide training on reducing earned income errors, and 5) have less staff turnover. Surprisingly, the findings show client error to be more influenced by administrative practices than agency error, suggesting the distinction between the two may be misleading.     

The School Success Profile Online

SUMMARY

This article provides an overview of the purposes, development, and implementation of the School Success Profile Online (SSP)–a computerized, self-report survey for middle and high school students. The SSP takes advantage of World Wide Web technology and the increasing access of public schools to computers and the Internet to assess students' perceptions of their neighborhoods, schools, peers, and families, as well as their own psychological and physical health and school performance. The individual and group profiles generated by the SSP can help school social workers identify areas of concern, plan their interventions with students, and evaluate the impact of their efforts at the end of interventions.     

努力提高普通高校图书馆社会化信息服务能力

本文以教育部印发的《普通高等学校图书馆规程 (修订 )》为准绳 ,结合高校图书馆社会化信息服务的实际 ,建议从加强特色数据库建设、建立良好的机制和积极开拓市场等方面开展工作 ,以提高图书馆社会化信息服务的能力。     

对新刑法中国家工作人员的认识

根据修订后的新刑法第九十三条对国家工作人员的有关规定 ,结合刑法理论和司法实践 ,国家机关人员应包括国家机关中从事公务的工作人员和“以国家工作人员论”的国家工作人员两部分 ,其本质特征就在于“从事公务” ,因此 ,“利用职务之便”是国家工作人员职务犯罪客观构成的本质要件 ,也是国家工作人员职务犯罪与普通犯罪的根本区别所在。     

论GATS金融附件中的“审慎例外”

金融服务贸易自由化与审慎监管的关系是WTO金融服务贸易的核心问题,而"审慎例外"是WTO法律体系内这一问题的惟一依据."审慎例外"虽然十分概括,但却包含着调整二者关系的原则,蕴涵着审慎措施的标准,从而为界定审慎措施与政策的关系提供了依据,同时也为我国在金融业对外开放中加强审慎监管提供了根据和保护.     

网络环境下大学图书馆的参考服务

知识网络的诞生与发展,给大学图书馆的参考服务带来严峻的挑战.因此就网络环境下图书馆的参考服务特性与面对的问题进行探讨,以期能重新思考其未来定位与走向.     

现代邮政通信系统结构模型研究

分析了现代邮政通信系统的产生条件和发展趋势 ,并通过对发达国家邮政通信系统的研究 ,揭示了现代邮政通信系统的基本结构。通过对邮政通信系统现代结构模型和传统结构模型的比较 ,得出了现代邮政通信系统的结构能够更好地满足社会发展对邮政的需求。     

Using Nursing Students to Enhance One College's Immunization Program

Abstract

In New York State, all college students who were born on or after January 1, 1957, are required to show proof of immunity against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) before the 1st day of classes. Colleges have established immunization programs so that those students who do not have the required proof can be given the necessary injections. Often, our health service office does not have enough staff to administer the MMR shots during the registration period, resulting in long lines of students waiting to be immunized. In this article, the authors describe how one college used nursing students to assist with and enhance its immunization program. The 45 nursing students who participated in this project administered 694 injections over a 5-day period, They received credit from the nursing department for clinical time and all of the participants agree that the project was a success.