tailieunhanh - Medicare 2000: 35 Years of Improving Americans’ Health and Security

In the field of aging, disability is measured by judging how a person performs Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). ADLs include very basic activities like eating, toileting, bathing, transferring in and out of bed, and walking (Katz, Ford, Moskowitz, Jackson and Jaffee, 1963). IADLs include additional activities needed to get along in the world such as shopping, taking medications, using the phone, and other activities. (Lawton and Brody, 1969.) People may be disabled if they do not have the cognitive ability to perform functions without supervision or assistance. Broader definitions of disability may. | MEDICARE A PROFILE MEDICARE Medicare 2000 35 Years of Improving Americans Health and Security Health Care Financing Administration July 2000 PAGE 1 S OF S President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing ceremony July 30 1965 at the Truman Library in Independence Missouri. No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so they might enjoy dignity in their later years. No longer will young families see their own incomes and their own hopes eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations. PAGE 2 PROFILES OF MEDICARE .