We elicit numerical expectations for late-onset dementia in the Health and Retirement Study. Our elicitation distinguishes between precise and imprecise probabilities, while accounting for rounding of reports. Respondents quantify imprecision using probability intervals. Nearly half of...

"Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to develop a better and sustainable future for the world and the goals are part of an action plan to address poverty, hunger, health, gender equity and various pressing world issues. One of these goals looks at health and wellness. Ageing populations...

Nursing homes have difficulty dealing with intimacy and sex because they are central to life satisfaction and psychological well-being, but are also constricted by moral values and cultural expectations. This article focuses on the dilemma nursing homes face when the current wishes of the...

"This ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also, for the first time, a cost-benefit analysis of those interventions to establish whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Focussing on new...

Introduction. New Perspectives on Caregiving -- Reformulating Stress and Burden -- Challenging the Medical Model of Dementia -- Looking to the Past: What the Nineteenth Century Can Tell Us -- The Elder Care Crisis: The Tyranny of the Family Responsibility Ethic -- "That Was No Respite for Me!":...

Background: Nearly 19 million people across OECD countries are living with dementia, and millions of family caregivers are affected by the disease. The costs of informal care are estimated to represent 40-75% of the total dementia cost exceeding formal care time and medical costs. Objective: To...

Part I - Focus Public Health: Missing health political opportunities due to a lack of nutritional behaviour acceptance -- The Importance of Research-Based Learning as a Didactic Necessity in German Public Health Degree Programs -- Community based health promotion for senior citizens – what we...