OBJECTIVE The present research was an experimental test that aimed to quantify the impact of two dominant front-of-pack (FOP) nutritional label formats on consumer evaluations of food products that carried them. The two FOP label types tested were the traffic light label and the Percentage Daily Intake. DESIGN A 4×5 partially replicated Latin square design was used that allowed the impact of ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, almost 70 percent of persons age 65 or older resided with their adult children; by the end of the twentieth century, fewer than 15 percent did so. Many scholars have argued that the simplification of the living arrangements of the aged resulted primarily from an increase in their resources, which enabled increasing numbers of elders to afford independent living. T...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether animal-assisted therapy is effective in the rehabilitation of middle-aged schizophrenic patients living in a social institution. DESIGN A before and after study with nine-month treatment period. SETTING Social institute for psychiatric patients. SUBJECTS Seven schizophrenic patients living in the social institute. INTERVENTIONS Weekly sessions of animal-a...

There is little doubt that the elderly population of the world is growing. The greatest growth in this segment of society happens to be in the industrialized nations and is becoming a serious public policy issue, which will have a dramatic economic impact. Many approaches to solving this problem have been presented from various perspectives. In the current work, we examine the challenges associ...

Sir, Concerns have been expressed that most general practitioners remain unaware of the services and facilities provided by geriatric day hospitals,1 and research has shown that general practitioners fail to distinguish between the therapeutic functions of geriatric day hospitals and the social care provided by day centres.2 It has been argued, therefore, that general practitioners need to be m...