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This paper describes how a general psychiatrist entering a stable community of retired soldiers worked within the community's bounds and utilized its unique resources to augment its mental health services.
"The first task of this article is to analyze and dissect the seven major drawbacks of the current disjointed retirement system [in China] characterized by collection of pension for immediate distribution. This will be followed by an introduction of the reforms on the social security system of elderly support for enterprise retirees carried out in Hainan Province and specific social security and elderly support practices by private businesses in Haikou, capital city of Hainan Province....Special inquiries are made regarding the necessity and feasibility of establishing a national uniform social security system of elderly support covering civil servants, enterprise workers, private business owners, managers, and employees and farmers."
"Nowadays 75% of foreigners living in Switzerland have a permanent residence permit. A new phenomenon goes along with this stabilisation: the aging of this resident foreign population, especially Italians and Spaniards who arrived in Switzerland in the fifties and sixties. This trend will have definite consequences on the costs of Swiss social security benefits. Our research project aims at clarifying which factors influence those immigrants who are near retirement to decide whether to stay or go back to their home countries." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND GER)
"Almost half of...over-45s born in French overseas departments and living in mainland France had plans to return overseas by the year 2000. The desire to return is more clear-cut among the 50 to 54 year olds. The younger people have yet to think seriously about retirement, whilst a number of the oldest individuals have already made definite plans." Data are from a survey carried out in 1992. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND GER AND SPA)
INTRODUCTION: Danish social legislation operates with three levels of disablement pension: the highest level is given when the ability to work is lost; the middle level is given when the ability is estimated to be diminished to one third of the capacity of a healthy person; and the lowest pension is given when this ability is estimated to be half that of a healthy person. Many disabled persons would therefore be expected to work to supplement their pensions. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In 1997, 17,196 persons, who obtained a disablement pension in 1995, were asked via Statistics Denmark about their occupational income. The population was grouped according to income, sex, age, marital status, education, and the level of the pension. RESULTS: Of these, 81.1% earned nothing at all (< 1 krone), and only 5% earned > 50,000 kroner. The odds ratios for having an income to supplement the pension were: highest and middle pension/lowest pension 1.09, men/women 1.66, age below 40/above 40 years 1.50, living together/alone 1.31, and education/no education 1.46. DISCUSSION: Disabled, early retired persons are not making use of their theoretical ability to supplement their disablement pension with paid work, and the estimates of ability to work are not closely associated with the level of the disablement pension. Those who have jobs to supplement their pensions are significantly more likely to be men, younger rather than older, and educated rather than uneducated.
All the young whippersnappers better look out--the veterans are coming back to show how it's done. More and more as of late, executives who chucked the 80-hour workweek grind are coming out of retirement to take the helm at beleaguered healthcare systems. MedCath Corp. board Chairman Steve Puckett, at left, says experience counts for a lot when handing over such responsibility.
On June 21, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled on Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, the latest in a long line of decisions regarding the scope of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preemption and the remedies available to participants of ERISA plans. After taking what many observers perceived to be a detour over the last few years, the Davila decision returned the Court to a more expansive interpretation of ERISA's preemption clause.
It may have gotten easier to fill your nurse vacancies the last couple of years, but like all good things, this, too, shall pass. A large percentage of RNs are reaching the age when they typically cut back their bedside hours or retire altogether. Your challenge is to encourage them to stay on the job, and a number of hospitals have found ways to help you do that.
Geriatrics defines the branch of medicine that treats all problems peculiar to old age and the aging, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility. In the full chain of years of the human life, a special period is humans' last decade of professional life (i.e., 51-60 years) and their first decade of retirement (i.e., 61-70 years). For this study aimed at comparing neurootological complaints of persons in this period of their lives, we examined large samples of European neurootological patients: Group A consisted of 1,965 persons aged 51-60 years, and group B consisted of 1,032 persons aged 61-70 years. Of the 11 vertigo and nausea symptoms evaluated, group A demonstrated 2.68 signs and group B 2.49 signs per individual. Acoustic subjective symptoms of tinnitus were exhibited in 55.42% of group A patients, and hearing loss was present in 63.92% of these patients. In group B, 52.62% of patients exhibited tinnitus, and 68.31% of patients had hearing loss. Our experimental neurootometric investigations exhibited the following rates of abnormal test findings in group A: butterfly calorigrams, 71.86%; stepping craniocorpography, 72.01%; and pure-tone audiometry of bone conduction, 37.66% in the right and 47.07% in the left ear. Among group B patients, abnormal test findings were noted as follows: butterfly calorigrams, 69.86%; stepping craniocorpography, 74.03%; and pure-tone audiometry of bone conduction, 44.57% in the right and 55.43% in the left ear.
Characteristics of aging as a normal physiological process are presented. The main indicators of increased the number of older population in the world as well as problems related to society and particularly to public health are listed. The difference between gerontology and geriatrics is described. Retirement is separately presented as a psychological process. Reported are the most frequent chronic diseases that may develop in older people including dementia, mental depression, and other psychological problems. The theories of aging related to organs and organic systems are described. The importance of geroprophylaxis, including primary, secondary and terciary prevention for older people is particularly stressed.
Any discussion about the prospects of retirement security for the baby boomers must take into account the potentially devastating costs of future long-term care (LTC) services. Although the market for LTC insurance is growing, baby boomers' misperceptions about LTC persist, and the market for LTC insurance must be expanded. The author presents analysis showing that LTC insurance is affordable for the majority of workers, describes the current state of employer-sponsored LTC insurancebenefits and outlines policies to encourage LTC insurance.
With Medicare Part D now providing prescription drug coverage, employers' retiree health plans are ripe for change. Effective change requires more than just adjustments. A global or enterprisewide approach to the development of a retirement strategy is important and should encompass five components: design, finance, administration, communication and control. This article discusses the strategic approach to crafting retiree health policy as the Medicare landscape continues to evolve.
In conclusion, there is a reasonable chance that retirement plan assets in Delaware qualified plans are insulated from judgment creditors, but the best course is to maintain adequate insurance protection and follow an aggressive prejudgment strategy in serious cases so you don't have to resolve the issue in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Women's needs are largely overlooked when it comes to help with retirement, according to Dorset health visitor Margaret Burgess. Her award-winning project for National health visitor week 1990 aimed to redress the balance.
Based on four functions (assignment of status and role, making one's living, reasons for social contacts, and structure of time) the importance of work and profession in a society mainly orientated on performance are shown. From this we can conclude that with retirement from the profession a lability of the level of satisfaction can be found. Based on the analysis some measures are discussed which could assist to restabilisation by strengthening the individual competences for overcoming problems connected with loosing professional tasks.
The article deals with chances and risks of the concept "gliding retirement". Special notice is taken of partial-pension schemes. Possible consequences for employees with respect to their financial situation and to their working-conditions are discussed.
Doctors and their advisors should examine existing plan documents in terms of all optional provisions available as part of the 1989 rewrite process. The analysis should not be limited solely to the compliance types of changes. It makes good sense to take this opportunity to address all aspects of the retirement program, optional and required, so that the plan program provides the most benefit at the lowest cost.
After identifying the income security system as a tripod structure symbolizing the efforts of the individual, the employer, and the government, the first section of this chapter suggested that economic security is a broader concept than income security, since a person is concerned not only with the acquisition of income and assets but also with the retention and disposal of them. Factors such as health care expenditures, housing and living arrangements, service delivery, and support networks affect income and asset retention. Both acquisition and retention of income and assets, furthermore, are influenced by macroeconomic policies. This section also discussed the possibility that the role of the individual in providing economic security may be underestimated. In the second section, the heterogeneity of older persons was demonstrated in terms of both income sources and the relative importance of these sources to persons in different income classes. Social Security declines in importance as income level rises, whereas assets and employment as sources of income increase with income levels. Occupational pensions are of minimal importance to persons in the lowest-income class. Though more important to persons in the higher-income classes, occupational pensions as a proportion to their total income lie between 10% and 20% for these groups. By definition, public assistance is important only to the lowest-income class. During the last two decades, the relative importance of these income sources has changed, as pointed out in the third section, which also speculated on their future roles. The fourth section proposed possible ways of improving the five income security mechanisms: to provide more child-care credit for women under Social Security, to strengthen portability under private pension plans, to make IRAs more accessible and more meaningful for retirement purposes, to enhance the role of employment for adults, and to raise SSI so as to eliminate poverty. The chapter concluded by emphasizing that, without accessible and adequately financed health care, few persons will feel economically secure with the incomes they have.