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A Group Approach for Working with Families of the Elderly
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This article is published in Gerontologist.The article was published on 1983-06-01. It has received 23 citations till now.read more
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Researching self-help/mutual aid groups and organizations: Many roads, one journey
Keith Humphreys,Julian Rappaport +1 more
TL;DR: Self-help and mutual help groups are defined and the status of the literature described and reviewed in this paper, and a review of self-help literature is provided. But self-helping groups are different from peer and non-professional services under the supervision of professionals.
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Effect of dietary 2-mercaptoethanol on the life span, immune system, tumor incidence and lipid peroxidation damage in spleen lymphocytes of aging BC3F1 mice
TL;DR: The results suggest that the antioxidant activity of 2-ME delayed the accumulation of free radical damage in spleen lymphocytes, which resulted in a delay in the decline of immune function and was associated with the decreased tumor incidence and increased life span.
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Reappraisal of Aids — Is the oxidation induced by the risk factors the primary cause?
TL;DR: The emergence of AIDS as a recognizable disease, its epidemiology, the clinical and laboratory data and the way in which they have been interpreted to deduce the currently acceptable hypothesis of its aetiology and mechanism of transmission are critically examined.
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The Role of Alzheimer's Disease Support Groups in Families' Utilization of Community Services
TL;DR: The relationship between support group participation and families' knowledge and utilization of community services was explored through the comparison of 301 Alzheimer's disease families attending ADRDA support groups and 75 control Alzheimer's Disease families.
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The impact of a spouse-caregiver support group on care recipient health care costs.
TL;DR: Frail elderly veterans who received care at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center and whose spouse-caregivers participated in support groups to which they had been randomly assigned had lower health care costs over a 1-year period than did control participants.