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  The politics of home care for the elderly poor: New York City's Medicaid-funded home attendant program

  Examines a Medicaid-funded home health care program for elderly in New York City.
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  Physicians' norms and health care decisions of elderly Medicare recipients

  Examines, in a two-step analysis, the degree to which health care decisions made by elderly Medicare recipients coincide with the norms of physicians using theory and methods from cognitive anthropology.
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  Stigmatizing a "normal" condition: Urinary incontinence in late life

  The geriatric medical literature presents a perspective on urinary incontinence in the elderly that is sharply divergent from the realities of medical and lay responses to incontinence. It reveals a consensus that urinary incontinence, a major health problem among the elderly, is treatable and frequently reversible.