In 2001, the Japan Geriatric Society released its Position Statement regarding palliative care for the elderly, formulating the following observation on end-of-life care for the elderly: the majority of health care professionals receive insufficient specialized training in the care of terminally-ill patients [1]. There is a particular need for comprehensive and practical instruction in the care...

OBJECTIVE Life expectancy in individuals with schizophrenia continues to increase. It is not clear whether cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia remain as strong predictors of function in older and younger individuals. Thus, we assessed the relationship between cognition and functional competence in individuals with schizophrenia across 7 decades of life. METHODS We analyzed data o...

Wide bodies of literature document gradients in the experience of disease and function by levels of education and other measures of socioeconomic status: The lower a person’s education, the more likely the person will suffer from a greater variety and severity of diseases as well as functional disability arising from those diseases. It is unclear whether education proxies for other indicators o...

Moving on from a city to another is a stressful situation. Emigration to another country on the other hand, could be even more stressful for many reasons such as the new cultural and educational environment (1), especially for children and adolescents due to leaving a familiar environment to unfamiliar one which can seriously affect their both mental and physical health status (2). Therefore, o...

The IS professional is a person endowed with certain professional skills and attributes usually formally obtained through an education process. The IS professional may also have formal skills in peripheral, non technical areas that may too be obtained through a formal education process. This is typical now in the education of IS students who are aspiring IS professional. In addition they come w...

The main goal of this study was to reveal the basic psychometric properties of the imported Dutch Youth Version of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports (PSIS–Youth), applied on Croatian samples of athletes, to establish the relationship among different psychological skills, to find the differences in psychological skills between trainers and recreational table tennis players, as well a...