Aging

Information on AGING and on the AGED can be found in all libraries of Case Western Reserve University, as well as at a number of reliable internet resources.

From this web page, you will find sources from a health sciences perspective.

AGING is defined as the aging process anywhere between birth and old age, from the U. S. National Library of Medicine.

AGED is defined as a person 65 through 79 years of age.
For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.

DENTAL CARE FOR AGED, is defined as the giving of attention to the special dental needs of the elderly for proper maintenance or treatment. The dental care may include the services provided by dental specialists.

GERIATRIC NURSING is the nursing care of the aged patient given in the home, the hospital, or special institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric institutions, etc.

GERIATRICS is the branch of medicine concerned with the physiological and pathological aspects of the aged, including the clinical problems of senescence and senility.

All of the bold-face terms may be used for subject searching in EuclidPLUS (as a MeSH: Medical Subject Heading Search) or in PubMed. All of the definitions for the bold-face terms are from MeSH, Medical Subject Headings from the U. S. National Library of Medicine.

If you need more information, please contact Reference at the Allen at 216.368.3640, or at the Health Center at 216.368.3218, or send us an email, (hclref@case.edu).

Print Resources

Readily available books and journals are good starting places for research on a topic. Dictionaries and textbooks are especially helpful. Please check the items listed on Print Resources for Aging available at Case.

Library Catalogs

Catalogs are lists of materials an institution owns or to which it has access. At Case Western Reserve University, the catalog is EuclidPLUS. EuclidPLUS includes information about print and electronic materials, both monographic and serial.

Other catalogs are:

OhioLINK Library Catalog >>

Library of Congress >>

LocatorPlus >>

WorldCat >>

Research Databases

Databases are collections of data organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. In libraries they are primarily bibliographic in nature, indexing journals, meetings and sometimes books. An example of a database is PubMed.

Other databases are:

AgeLine >>

CINAHL >>

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition >>

Family & Society Studies Worldwide >>

Sociological Abstracts >>

Web of Science Citation Databases - Click on the tab "Select a Database" and then click on Web of Science. >>

All Research Databases at Case >>