Three million persons under age 65 are entitled to Medicare because of disability. This study examines their Medicare use and mortality. Disabled enrollees had higher health care use and mortality than comparison groups of Medicare's aged enrollees or of the general population under age 65. One type of disabled enrollee, adults disabled as children (over one-half of whom are mentally retarded) ...

Most of the points that apply to dysphasic patients can usefully be remembered when dealing with the mentally handicapped, especially the following. (1) Use simple sentences, but do not "talk down." (2) Put instructions in writing; there will usually be someone in the patient's environment who can read. (3) Both truculence and shyness are often due to being in an unfamiliar environment, so putt...

Sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals occurs today despite little consensus in the medical community as to when sterilization is appropriate (Zurawin & Paransky, 2003). In addition, each state has different laws regarding sterilization of the mentally handicapped. Thus, nurses and nurse practitioners must navigate the complex social issues and legal uncertainties related to steriliz...

This article draws upon an extensive case management literature in order to integrate a number of key concepts and findings that must be considered by those responsible for the planning, administration, and provision of effective community care to the chronically mentally disabled. A discussion of the reasons for the current popularity of the case management concept within human services is fol...

The main purposes of the present analysis were to describe the causes of intellectual disability (ID) and examine its overtime change from 2000 to 2007 in Taiwan. Data of the present study mainly come from the public web-access information which collected by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of the Interiors, Taipei, Taiwan. Data were obtained from two ways of 2000-2007 national data: (1) ...

AUTHOR Glali3, Sister Mary Paulette TITLE The 'Thfluence of Typewriting on Selected Lanauage Arts qkills and Mot-or Development of the Flucable Mentally Handicapped, Volure T. Final Fepect. INSTITUTION North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks. SPONS AGENCY Pureaq of Education for the Panlicapped (DH'W/Ct)t Washington, P.C. BUPEA9 N9 PP-44-2199 PUB DATE Aua 7() GRANT 0EG-0-70-1220(60') NOTE 12p.: Doctora...

In his interesting account of the history of Brentry Hospital, Dr. Jancar describes the work of the Burdens who came to Bristol in 1895. This era, le fin de siecle, was a golden age for the well-endowed. The rich were very rich thanks to the bounties of the industrial revolution. The arts flourished and were well-patronised; new and interesting forms were emerging in the visual arts and in lite...

The United States Supreme Court, in the recent case of Riggins v. Nevada, extended its examination of the issue of involuntary treatment with antipsychotic medication to the mentally disabled facing criminal trial. A criminal defendant who is "incompetent to stand trial" cannot be subjected to trial. Many such persons are committed to hospitals to be treated and rendered "competent to stand tri...

Being mentally handicapped doesn't relieve people of their capacity for emotion, tenderness and concern. In hospital they should still be able to experience the pleasures and annoyances of ordinary 'family' life to the greatest extent possible.