Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2012 Aug;102(8):1475-81. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300704. Epub 2012 Jun 14.
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.
老年囚犯人数的指数级增长，给刑事司法系统、各州经济以及老年前囚犯返回的社区带来了新的、昂贵的挑战。我们召集了 29 名全国惩教保健、学术医学、护理和公民权利方面的专家开会，以确定知识空白，并提出改善老年囚犯护理的政策议程。该小组确定了 9 个优先领域需要解决：老年囚犯的定义、惩教人员培训、监狱中功能障碍的定义、痴呆的识别和评估、老年女性囚犯特殊需求的认识、老年住房单元、老年人出狱后的问题、医疗提前释放以及监狱姑息医学计划。
