older adults community care social worker | older adults social worker | geriatric social worker | gerontology social worker

older adult services worker | support worker (older adults in care) | residential home older adult care worker | residential support worker

Community technology initiative for disabled and elderly people | technology for the socio-economic integration of the disabled and elderly people | Technology Initiative for Disabled and Elderly people | TIDE [Abbr.]

Definition: Disorders characterized by a repetitive and persistent pattern of dissocial, aggressive, or defiant conduct. Such behaviour should amount to major violations of age-appropriate social expectations; it should therefore be more severe than ordinary childish mischief or adolescent rebelliousness and should imply an enduring pattern of behaviour (six months or longer). Features of conduct disorder can also be symptomatic of other psychiatric conditions, in which case the underlying diagnosis should be pre ...[+++]ferred. Examples of the behaviours on which the diagnosis is based include excessive levels of fighting or bullying, cruelty to other people or animals, severe destructiveness to property, fire-setting, stealing, repeated lying, truancy from school and running away from home, unusually frequent and severe temper tantrums, and disobedience. Any one of these behaviours, if marked, is sufficient for the diagnosis, but isolated dissocial acts are not.

Definition: A type of pervasive developmental disorder that differs from childhood autism either in age of onset or in failing to fulfil all three sets of diagnostic criteria. This subcategory should be used when there is abnormal and impaired development that is present only after age three years, and a lack of sufficient demonstrable abnormalities in one or two of the three areas of psychopathology required for the diagnosis of autism (namely, reciprocal social interactions, communication, and restricted, stereotyped, repetitive behaviour) in spite of characteristic abnormalities in the other area(s). Atypical autism arises most often ...[+++]in profoundly retarded individuals and in individuals with a severe specific developmental disorder of receptive language. | Atypical childhood psychosis Mental retardation with autistic features

Definition: Problems related to contact or attempted contact with the child's or the other person's breasts or genitals, sexual exposure in close confrontation or attempt to undress or seduce the child, by a substantially older person outside the child's family, either on the basis of this person's position or status or against the will of the child.

Technology for the Socio-economic Integration of the Disabled and of Elderly People | TIDE [Abbr.]

Social Allowances for Certain Persons 65 Years Old and Over Regulation

Expert Group Meeting on the Development of Policies and Programmes for the Elderly in the ESCWA Region

Family Income Security Act [ Blind Persons Allowance Act | Disabled Persons Allowance Act | Old Age Assistance Act | Senior Citizens Shelter Assistance Act | Social Welfare Act ]

C. whereas social inclusion of the elderly is an indicator of the degree of civilisation of the EU Member States;

This demographic trend confronts the EU with major challenges, notably regarding the economic situation and social inclusion of older people.

14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that equitable access to healthcare and treatment options for older patients are included in their health policies and programmes and to make adequate access to healthcare and treatments for older people a priority for ‘2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity’; calls on the Member States to promote initiatives in order to tackle social isolation in elderly patients as it has a significant impact on patients‘ longer-term health; stresses the need for the European Union and its Member States to anticipate, through an appropriate long-term strategy, ...[+++]the social and economic impact of the ageing of the European population, in order to guarantee the financial and organisational sustainability of healthcare systems, as well as equal and continued delivery of care for patients;

14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that equitable access to healthcare and treatment options for older patients are included in their health policies and programmes and to make adequate access to healthcare and treatments for older people a priority for ‘2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity’; calls on the Member States to promote initiatives in order to tackle social isolation in elderly patients as it has a significant impact on patients‘ longer-term health; stresses the need for the European Union and its Member States to anticipate, through an appropriate long-term strategy, ...[+++]the social and economic impact of the ageing of the European population, in order to guarantee the financial and organisational sustainability of healthcare systems, as well as equal and continued delivery of care for patients;