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Veterans with early psychosis: a comparison of veterans and non-veterans
2017Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) ; Aim: Early psychosis has been identified as period during which rapid identification and treatment can lead to significant improvement in clinical and functional outcomes. Despite increased research, no studies have examined early psychosis in Veteran populations.
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Diabetes in Nonveterans, Veterans, and Veterans Receiving Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care
Diabetes Care, 2004OBJECTIVE—To compare behavioral risk factors and health and disease characteristics among three groups of adults with diabetes: nonveterans, veterans not receiving Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care, and veterans using VA services.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Two data sources were used to describe the veteran population.
Edward J. Boyko +4 more
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2015
In many ways, veterans face the end of life in a similar manner to civilians. In some ways, however, they experience death differently. This chapter identifies some of these differences in the hopes that readers will come to understand the unique hospice needs of veterans and their families.
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In many ways, veterans face the end of life in a similar manner to civilians. In some ways, however, they experience death differently. This chapter identifies some of these differences in the hopes that readers will come to understand the unique hospice needs of veterans and their families.
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Veterans Helping Veterans: a NSW Example
Australian Journal on Ageing, 1995World War II veterans are now in their seventies and eighties. Health problems that were experienced during the years of conflict have a lasting effect on this unique section of the community. Through VWAWC, a nucleus of veterans and the widows of veterans on the Central Coast of New South Wales have developed successful strategies of support for the ...
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Examining Women Veteran’s Experiences, Perceptions, and Challenges With the Veterans Choice Program
Medical Care, 2018Background: The Veterans Choice Program (VCP) was launched in 2014 to address the growing concerns about the timeliness and quality of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) care.
K. Mattocks +4 more
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Military veterans: Creative counseling with student veterans
Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2015Student veterans represent a unique population on college campuses. Not only are they transitioning back to civilian life but also into a new role as college student. This paper describes the attempts of one university to aid in that transition through the means of expressive arts.
Seth C. W. Hayden +4 more
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Veterans and Veterans Legislation in Canada: An Historical Overview
Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 1988ABSTRACTThis article provides a descriptive account of the history of Canadian veterans and veterans legislation focussing upon five time periods: pre–1918; 1918–1939; 1939–1950; 1950–1980; and the present time. Emphasis is placed on issues and legislation relating to aging and elderly persons, with particular concentration on pensions and health.
A. Margeny Boyce, Ellen M. Gee
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Journal of Rural Health, 2016
PURPOSE Telephone motivational coaching has been shown to increase urban veteran mental health treatment initiation. However, no studies have tested telephone motivational coaching delivered by veteran peers to facilitate mental health treatment ...
Christopher J Koenig +8 more
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PURPOSE Telephone motivational coaching has been shown to increase urban veteran mental health treatment initiation. However, no studies have tested telephone motivational coaching delivered by veteran peers to facilitate mental health treatment ...
Christopher J Koenig +8 more
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Veterans Affairs Intensive Case Management for Older Veterans
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009There is a growing need for information on evidence-based practices that may potentially address needs of elderly people with severe mental illness (SMI), and more specifically on community-based services such as assertive community treatment (ACT).This study examines national evaluation data from fiscal year 2001-2005 from Veterans Affairs Mental ...
Somaia Mohamed +2 more
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Current Excessive Drinking Among Vietnam Veterans: a Comparison With Other Veterans and Non-Veterans
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1981Analysis of recent data collected in a 1977 U.S. national epidemiologic study of substance abuse revealed that Vietnam veterans (N = 87) had substantially higher levels of alcohol con sumption and binge drinking, than comparable groups of Vietnam "era" veterans with no Vietnam service (N = 107), other veterans (N = 483), and nonveterans (N = 2,600 ...
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