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Item Open Access Age Differences in Barriers to Cardiac Rehabilitation(2009) Shanmugasegaram, Shamila; Grace, Sherry; Gravely, Shannon; Brual, Janette; suskin, neville; Stewart, Donna EileenOlder patients with heart disease experience more CR barriers, and the nature of their barriers differs from those of younger patients. Health care professionals should identify and address these barriers in order to optimize the benefits of CR use for elderly patients.Item Open Access How Operational Leaders Can Help Nurses Keep Older People Functioning in Hospital(2017) Fox, Mary; Butler, JeffreyNearly half of older people admitted to hospital experience functional decline, which is loss in the ability to independently perform basic activities of daily life such as walking or dressing. This study looked at ways that hospital leaders can support nurses in preventing functional decline. Key issues include leaders’ emphasis on efficiency, which undermines nurses’ efforts to promote older people’s functioning in hospital.Item Open Access It Is a Scandal: What Are the Results of Media Scandals on Nursing Home Policy?(2014) Bannerjee, Albert; Lloyd, Liz; Harrington, Charlene; Jacobsen, Frode; Szebehely, MartaThe media helps bring the larger picture into personal concerns. It can then help to take these concerns to the public, which could create change to policy. Media focus on nursing care scandals helped people to question the current belief that the for-profit sectors will provide better, more effective, care services in nursing homes.Item Open Access Masters Athletes Challenge Our Thinking About Health and Aging(2009) Baker, Joseph; Horton, Sean ; Weir, PatriciaMasters Athletes are not anomalies but, rather, potential models for how we should age. They challenge the widespread belief that chronic diseases are an inevitable part of aging. They demonstrate that maintaining physical activity, well into old age, has huge health benefits.Item Open Access The Pressures of Rapid Population Aging Affect Retirement, Work, and Pension Policies in South Korea(2010) Klassen, Thomas; Yang, Jae-jinSouth Korea’s rapidly ageing population is putting pressure on the state to come up with new social policies that accommodate this demographic shift and prevent an age crisis. This shift has played a major role in shaping workplace and income security policies for the elderly.Item Open Access Sweden Tops Canada in Care for the Aged(2011) Daly, Tamara; Szebehely, MartaBecause of their resources and the way their work is organized, Swedish care workers can provide better care than their Canadian counterparts. They are better placed to improve living conditions for their residents and themselves.