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...

Let X1;X2;...;Xn have a jointly multivariate exchangeable normal distribution. In this work we investigate another proof of the independence of X and S2 using order statistics. We also assume that (Xi ; Yi); i =1; 2;...; n; jointly distributed in bivariate normal and establish the independence of the mean and the variance of concomitants of order statistics.

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...

In this paper we investigate the addition of arbitrary independent involutive negations to t-norm based logics. We deal with several extensions of MTL and establish general completeness results. Indeed, we will show that, given any t-norm based logic satisfying some basic properties, its extension by means of an involutive negation preserves algebraic and (finite) strong standard completeness. ...