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American Civil War: Why Does It Matter?
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Ohio CCRCs in the Economic Downturn
(2011-11-11)This report examines how the economic downturn affected consumer opinions about choosing a CCRC and how the CCRCs in Ohio made adjustments in response to declining numbers of prospective residents. One hundred-sixty five ... -
Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
(2011-08-11)In a 16 year tracking of utilization trends for institutional and home and community-based services, we learned that Ohio has made considerable change in its approach to delivering and funding long-term care services. The ... -
Right Place, Right Time, Right Care: An Evaluation of Ohio's Nursing Home Diversion and Transition Initiative
(2011-08-11)In 2010 the Ohio General Assembly asked the Ohio Department of Aging to develop and implement a nursing home diversion and transition initiative. This report describes the evaluation of that initiative. Results showed ... -
Right Place, Right Time, Right Care: An Evaluation of Ohio's Nursing Home Diversion and Transition Initiative--Research Brief
(2011-08-11)In 2010 the Ohio General Assembly asked the Ohio Department of Aging to develop and implement a nursing home diversion and transition initiative. This research brief summarizes the results from an evaluation of that ... -
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Counterfactual-seeking: The scenic overlook of the road not taken
(2011-07-25)Decision-makers faced with an opportunity to learn the outcome of a foregone alternative must balance anticipated regret, should that information be unfavorable, with the potential benefits of this information in reducing ... -
Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
(2011-06-20)16 years of tracking utilization trends for institutional and home-based services and supports shows that Ohio has made considerable changes i its approach to delivering long-term services and supports. For example, in ... -
Understanding breast-cancer patients’ perceptions: Health information-seeking behaviour and passive information receipt
(2011-06-07)It is critical to understand patients’ information use from the patient perspective, especially when patients are from different cultures and levels of health literacy. A cross-sectional survey supplemented with ... -
Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema and the Family: A Qualitative Investigation of Families Coping With Chronic Illness
(2011-06-07)The number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors who ... -
Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Implications for Family Leisure Participation
(2011-06-07)An estimated 20% of breast cancer survivors face the chronic condition of breast cancer related lymphedema. This study explored the ways in which women with this condition experienced changes in their participation in ... -
Women's literacy in Old Russia: hypotheses and facts
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GenerAges : Generations as They Age
(2011-05-10)GenerAges examines the history and culture of the 20th century that shaped the lives of Americans age 65 and older today, with a special focus on the generations coming of age in the 1920s (centenarians), ‘40s (the Greatest ... -
Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Final Report
(2011-05-10)In 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This year the survey had the largest number of family ... -
Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Research Brief
(2011-05-10)In 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey. The year the survey had the largest number of family responses ever, with 97% of facilities participating ... -
Ohio's Aging Network Efforts to Enhance Nursing Home Diversion and Transition
(2011-05-10)This brief report provides preliminary results from an evaluation of Ohio's diversion and transition demonstration program. -
Writing The Woman’s Documentary Voice in Perestroika Gulag Narratives
(2011-05-10)A substantial body of fictional and factual literature discusses labor camps, imprisonment, and exile as aspects of Russian culture both before and after 1917. However, while the Thaw opened public discussion of the Gulag, ... -
Publishing the Russian Soul? Women’s Provincial Literary Anthologies, 1990-1995
(2011-05-10)From 1990 to 1995 four collections of women’s writing appeared in northwestern Russia: Mariia (two volumes: one issued in 1990 and the other in 1995), Zhena, kotoraia umela letat’ (The Wife Who Could Fly, 1993), and Russkaia ... -
Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Literature of Tolerance
(2011-05-04)When Liudmila Ulitskaia published The Funeral Party in 1997 the novella received the critical scrutiny warranted by the latest work of an already prominent figure in postSoviet letters. The plot, set in New York in the ...