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Aging in correctional custody: Setting a policy agenda for older prisoner health care

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  • Williams, B.A.
  • Stern, M.F.
  • Mellow, J.
  • Safer, M.
  • Greifinger, R.B.

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An exponential rise in the number of older prisoners is creating new and costly challenges for the criminal justice system, state economies, and communities to which older former prisoners return. We convened a meeting of 29 national experts in correctional health care, academic medicine, nursing, and civil rights to identify knowledge gaps and to propose a policy agenda to improve the care of older prisoners. The group identified 9 priority areas to be addressed: definition of the older prisoner, correctional staff training, definition of functional impairment in prison, recognition and assessment of dementia, recognition of the special needs of older women prisoners, geriatric housing units, issues for older adults upon release, medical early release, and prison-based palliative medicine programs.

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  • Williams, B.A. & Stern, M.F. & Mellow, J. & Safer, M. & Greifinger, R.B., 2012. "Aging in correctional custody: Setting a policy agenda for older prisoner health care," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(8), pages 1475-1481.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2012.300704_2
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300704
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    1. Adrian J Archuleta & Stephanie Grace Prost & Seana Golder, 2020. "The light and dark sides of social capital: Depressive symptoms among incarcerated older adults," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 66(1), pages 23-33, February.
    2. Bethany Divakaran & Natania Bloch & Mahima Sinha & Anna Steiner & Shira Shavit, 2023. "The Reentry Health Care Hub: Creating a California-Based Referral System to Link Chronically Ill People Leaving Prison to Primary Care," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(10), pages 1-17, May.

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