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Research Snapshots

Many of the Centre on Aging's Research Snapshots are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Download Adobe Reader to view the documents.

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• A Comparison of Methods for Measuring Cognitive Change In Older Adults

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• Bereavement Experience Following Home-Based Family Caregiving for Perons with Advanced Cancer, The

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• Calcium-Selenium-Mercury Connection In Cancer and Heart Disease, The
• Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit: Views of family caregivers in chronic illness
• Canadian Disability Policy: Still a Hit-and-Miss Affair
• Challenge of Caregiving, The
• Chinese Canadian Beliefs Towards Organ Donation
• Comparative Costs of Home Care and Residential Care

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• End-of-Life in Acute Care Hospitals in Canada: A Quality Finish?
• Ethical Dilemmas in Home Care Case Management of the Elderly
• Exercise After Cancer Prognosis


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• Giving Voice to Seniors: Successful Aging in Greater Victoria

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• Health Care Restructuring and Community-Based Care
• Holes in the Safety Net
• Home Sweet Home: Changing Places in Retirement

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• In Sickness and In Health - Does Cohabitation Count?

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• Keeping a Wary Eye on the Elderly Driver

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• Lay Perceptions of Neighbourhood Health

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• Making Sense of Alzheimer's Disease in an Intergenerational Context
• Memory Span on the Wechsler Scales
• Mental Health of the Childless Elderly: Social Networks Support Their Quality of Life, The
• Most Seniors are Satisfied with Health Care - More or Less

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• New Technology and Older Adults

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• Palliative Care at Home is Not Always a Clear Choice
• Politics of Health Care Policy: The United States Comparative Perspective, The
• Predictors of Anticipating Caregiving In Multigeneration Families: An Exploratory Study
• Promoting Health and Innovative Health Promotion Practice through a Community Arts Centre

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• Quality of Life: Definitions, Measurement and Application to Practice
• Quality of Long-Term Care: Perspectives from the Users of Home Care

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• Social Isolation and Loneliness
• Social Support for Patients with Prostate Cancer: The Effect of Support Groups

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• Taking Control of Health Care Decisions in Late Life

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• Use it or Lose It: An Active Lifestyle Moderates the Age-Related Decline in Cognitive Ability
• Use Of Memory Compensation Strategies Is Related To Psychosocial And Health Indicators

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• Variations In & Factors Influencing Family Members' Decisions for Palliative Home Care

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• What Matters Most in End-of-Life Care: Perceptions of seriously ill patients and their family members
• Women and Health Transplantation: An Issue of Gender Equity?


The following Centre on Aging's Snapshots are available upon request. Please contact Lois Edgar (ledgar@uvic.ca) and a PDF will be sent to you by return email.

• Dimensions of Care for Dementia Sufferers in Long-Term Care Institutions: Are They Related to Outcomes?
• Employer-Based Health Insurance
• Health Care in Regression: Issues and Commentaries
• Health Care Restructuring and Community-Based Care: A Longitudinal Study
• Hole in the Safety Net
• Home Alone With Dementia
• Mild Mental Impairment: Dementia or a Treatable Medical Condition?




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