Gerontology

Interested in the future of Medicaid? Intergenerational issues? The health and psychology of aging? Newly available from the Libraries is a search tool called Ageline. Ageline is produced by AARP and is now one of the Libraries’ best resources for coverage of social gerontology. Particularly timely at this historic moment– in which we are witnessing the passage of the new Health Care Reform law– it covers public policy and the delivery of health care for the population aged 50+.  A truly interdisciplinary database, it will prove useful to students of psychology, behavioral sciences, human services, geriatric nursing, anthropology, sociology, and business, as well as others. An example of an article I found here (which happened to be full text, thanks to the Libraries’ subscription to the journal Social Science and Medicine) is “The influence of national policy change on subnational policymaking: Medicaid nursing facility reimbursement in the American states.” Those who are interested in Ageline might also want to check out the Geriatrics and Gerontology subject guide and Human Services subject guide. For more information about Ageline and other library resources and how to effectively search and make use of them, please contact a subject librarian or request research assistance.