Oakland Journal Number 15: Fall 2008
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Item Poems: translation, panic attack, before, after, before, daydreaming, when you leave . . ., close, amnesia, too often . . .(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Ballard, Karen; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem Teleportation(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Rojo, Alberto G.; Nixon, Jude V.The scene is illusory, in a hypothetical future where an improbable technology, teletransport, is of everyday usage. Improbable but—as we will see—not impossible.Item Notes from the Dismal Science: Just How Good is Oakland University(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Nixon, Jude V.Altogether, what is the answer to the initial question: “Just how good is Oakland University?” I think that the best thing to say was spoken by Gary Russi in his presidential address to faculty on January 31, 2007 in Varner Recital Hall. He said that “Oakland University is a good university . . . can we be great?”Item Changing Health Care for Vulnerable Older Adults: Five Programs of Research(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Adams, Linda Thompson; Nixon, Jude V.Four papers discuss the relative influence of scientific, societal, and/or public policy upon the care of vulnerable older adults. Each paper addresses a program of research, an aspect of which influences the quality of health provided. Although the focus of each program of research is different, a common theme is improvement in health care provided for older adults.Item Promoting the Well-being of Older Adults through Multi-sensory Environments(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Riley-Doucet, Cheryl; Nixon, Jude V.The rapidly growing elderly population brings new health care issues into sharp focus, particularly that of caring for elders with neurologic and cognitive deficits related to dementia.Item Preserved Implicit Memory in Dementia Care: A Potential Model for Care(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Harrison, Barbara E.; Nixon, Jude V.In the next decade, millions of persons with dementia will need nursing care, which will challenge our current approaches to care. This discussion explains a new nursing practice approach for the care of persons living with dementia.Item Item Not My Fault(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) McQueen, Cathy; Nixon, Jude V.An essay on the subject of personal responsibility.Item The Chronicles of Seminarnia(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Byrne, Bill; Nixon, Jude V.A humorous essay on the subject of seminars.Item Changing the Care Provided Persons with Dementia: The Role of Experiential Knowledge and Philosophy of Science(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Whall, Ann L.; Nixon, Jude V.This discussion is both cautionary and hopeful, for it addresses the remaining ability of those persons with dementia as well as the effect of such lack of recognition, upon the care delivered to all vulnerable older adults.Item Review: Paul Collier The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press, 2007).(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.Much of what Collier writes about will be familiar with specialists in development, but this book is designed for a more general audience. He explains in clear, concise language the findings of numerous studies by economists, including his own work, that look at the problems of the world’s poorest countries.Item Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 15 table of contentsItem Archives(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.Item Editor's Notes(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 15 editorial notesItem A School of Fish (or Students)(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Van Vliet, Jennifer; Nixon, Jude V.Short storyItem The Politics of Pinyin: Reflections on the Differences of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan and China by a Novice(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Coyl, Peter D.; Nixon, Jude V.In efforts to boost literacy, the Chinese language and its romanized transcription have been modified over the past 100 years. The changes in Chinese on the mainland and Chinese in Taiwan have been motivated by literacy and by politics.Item Item What Oakland Taught Me(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Nixon, Jude V.Lessons learned from forty years at Oakland University.Item Wake-up Call(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Bertocci, Peter J.; Nixon, Jude V.If there is any extra-curricular reading that should soon be on every Oakland University faculty member’s agenda, it is the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment’s “What Students Are Telling Us About Their OU Experience: Results from the NSSE Survey.”Item Successful Aging Through the Use of Holistic Self-Care Practices(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Dunn, Karen S.; Nixon, Jude V.Holistic self-care activities may be of particular interest to older adults because of the many challenges that occur with aging. These challenges may include (1) suffering from multiple chronic illnesses, (2) chronic pain, (3) coping with several deaths of friends, loved ones, and spouses, (4) retirement, and (5) recognition of their own mortality.