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Aging/elderly incarcerated individuals

  • Managing Aging and Terminally Ill Inmates[Videoconference held on September 12, 2001]

    This program discusses Information regarding current policies and procedures and their impact on aging offenders and offenders with chronic and ter
  • Correctional Health Care: Addressing the Needs of Elderly, Chronically Ill, and Terminally Ill Inmates

    An exploratory report regarding the management of aging and infirm inmates is presented. Six chapters follow an executive summary:
  • Effectively Managing Aging and Geriatric Offenders [Satellite/Internet Broadcast held March 11, 2010]

    This 3-hour program will interest anyone dealing with geriatric offenders. Issues covered during this presentation include:
  • It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release

    This report, “based upon a statutory review of geriatric release provisions...offers recommendations for responding to the disparities between geri
  • A Resource Pack for Working with Older Prisoners

    If you are involved with older inmates, you should read this publication.
  • Aging Prisoners: A Brief Report of Key Legal and Policy Dilemmas

    The problems surrounding the imprisonment of elderly offenders are examined.
  • Trauma, stress, grief, loss, and separation among older adults in prison: the protective role of coping on physical and mental wellness

    "Recent evidence suggests that older adults in prison experience a high level of adverse life experiences that can be categorized as trauma, stress
  • The High Costs of Low Risk: The Crisis of America's Aging Prison Population

    "The immense costs of incarceration have increasingly framed the conversation around reducing the prison population as a matter of fiscal responsib
  • Managing the Elderly in Corrections

    "The elderly offender is still treated as distinctly marginal and remains more or less peripheral to policy and advocacy within most correctional j
  • Losing Time: Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease Behind Bars [Webinar]

    Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, is difficult to detect in a population often afflicted with other mental illnesses and maladaptive social
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