Interventions to reduce the adverse psychosocial impact of driving cessation on older adults

As a result of our aging population, the coming years will see increasing numbers of older adults faced with the prospect of giving up driving due to poor health or functional limitations. Driving cessation has been associated with negative psychosocial outcomes for older adults including restricted mobility and depression. While several studies report evaluations of interventions designed to help older adults to drive safely for longer, there is a paucity of published research concerned with the design or implementation of intervention programs intended to reduce the negative consequences of driving cessation. This paper reviews cognitive and educational interventions designed to promote older driver safety, and discusses possible approaches to the design and implementation of clinical interventions for older adults who have ceased driving. A broad framework for adaptable interventions based on the theoretical tenets of social cognitive theory, with an emphasis on planning for cessation, problem-solving and the involvement of friends and family members is proposed

Coplanar interconnection module

Module for interconnecting a semiconductor array to external leads or components incorporates a metal external heat sink for cooling the array. Heat sink, extending down from the molded block that supports the array, is immersed in a liquid nitrogen bath which is designed to maintain the desired array temperature

Interventions to reduce the adverse psychosocial impact of driving cessation on older adults

As a result of our aging population, the coming years will see increasing numbers of older adults faced with the prospect of giving up driving due to poor health or functional limitations. Driving cessation has been associated with negative psychosocial outcomes for older adults including restricted mobility and depression. While several studies report evaluations of interventions designed to help older adults to drive safely for longer, there is a paucity of published research concerned with the design or implementation of intervention programs intended to reduce the negative consequences of driving cessation. This paper reviews cognitive and educational interventions designed to promote older driver safety, and discusses possible approaches to the design and implementation of clinical interventions for older adults who have ceased driving. A broad framework for adaptable interventions based on the theoretical tenets of social cognitive theory, with an emphasis on planning for cessation, problem-solving and the involvement of friends and family members is proposed

Deriving prevalence estimates of depressive symptoms throughout middle and old age in those living in the community

BACKGROUND: There is considerable debate about the prevalence of depression in old age. Epidemiological surveys and clinical studies indicate mixed evidence for the association between depression and increasing age. We examined the prevalence of probable depression in the middle aged to the oldest old in a project designed specifically to investigate the aging process. METHODS: Community-living participants were drawn from several Australian longitudinal studies of aging that contributed to the Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) project. Different depression scales from the contributing studies were harmonized to create a binary variable that reflected "probable depression" based on existing cut-points for each harmonized scale. Weighted prevalence was benchmarked to the Australian population which could be compared with findings from the 1997 and 2007 National Surveys of Mental Health and Well-Being (NSMHWB). RESULTS: In the DYNOPTA project, females were more likely to report probable depression. This was consistent across age levels. Both NSMHWB surveys and DYNOPTA did not report a decline in the likelihood of reporting probable depression for the oldest old in comparison with mid-life. CONCLUSIONS: Inconsistency in the reports of late-life depression prevalence in previous epidemiological studies may be explained by either the exclusion and/or limited sampling of the oldest old. DYNOPTA addresses these limitations and the results indicated no change in the likelihood of reporting depression with increasing age. Further research should extend these findings to examine within-person change in a longitudinal context and control for health covariates.NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia

Lowe, W. D. High School Yearbook 1969-1970

Yearbook of W. D. Lowe High School (Windsor, Ontario); formerly Windsor-Walkerville Technical School and Walkerville Technical School; yearbook called: The Towershttps://scholar.uwindsor.ca/essexcountyontariohighschoolyearbooks/1183/thumbnail.jp

Lowe, W. D. High School Yearbook 1970-1971

Yearbook of W. D. Lowe High School, formerly called Walkerville Technical School (and other names); yearbook also called The Towershttps://scholar.uwindsor.ca/essexcountyontariohighschoolyearbooks/1207/thumbnail.jp

Lowe, W. D. High School Yearbook 1964-1965

Yearbook of W. D. Lowe High School (Windsor, Ontario); formerly called Walkerville Technical School (and other names); yearbook also called the Towers.https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/essexcountyontariohighschoolyearbooks/1093/thumbnail.jp

Lowe, W. D. High School Yearbook 1967-1968

Yearbook of W. D. Lowe High School (Windsor, Ontario); formerly called Walkerville Technical School (and other names); yearbook also called the Towers.https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/essexcountyontariohighschoolyearbooks/1096/thumbnail.jp

Lowe, W. D. High School Yearbook 1956-1957

Yearbook of W. D. Lowe High School, formerly called Walkerville Technical School (and other names); yearbook also called the Towershttps://scholar.uwindsor.ca/essexcountyontariohighschoolyearbooks/1041/thumbnail.jp

Lowe, W. D. High School Yearbook 1968-1969

Yearbook of W. D. Lowe High School (Windsor, Ontario); formerly called Walkerville Technical School (and other names); yearbook also called the Towers.https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/essexcountyontariohighschoolyearbooks/1097/thumbnail.jp