The vital life force in the body, supposedly able to be regulated by acupuncture. It corresponds roughly to the Greek pneuma, the Latin spiritus, and the ancient Indian prana. The concept of life-breath or vital energy was formulated as an indication of the awareness of man, originally directed externally toward nature or society but later turned inward to the self or life within. (From Comparison between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West, 15th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West, August 26-September 3, 1990, Shizuoka, Japan, pp. ix-x)
Housing arrangements for the elderly or aged, intended to foster independent living. The housing may take the form of group homes or small apartments. It is available to the economically self-supporting but the concept includes housing for the elderly with some physical limitations. The concept should be differentiated from HOMES FOR THE AGED which is restricted to long-term geriatric facilities providing supervised medical and nursing services
Life care communities -- Case studies : Continuing care retirement communities : political, social, and financial issues / Ian A. Morrison [and others]
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Life care communities -- Finance : Continuing care retirement communities : political, social, and financial issues / Ian A. Morrison [and others]
Life care communities -- Information services : Wireless technologies for ambient assisted living and healthcare : systems and applications / Athina Lazakidou, Konstantinos Siassiakos and Konstantinos Ioannou, editors
Life care communities -- Maryland : The big move : life between the turning points / by Anne M. Wyatt-Brown, Ruth Ray Karpen, and Helen Q. Kivnick ; with an afterword by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Life care communities -- Taiwan : Caring for older people in Taiwan : the role of community care centers / Chi-Wei Cheng ; with a foreword by Christine Bigby
Life care communities -- United States -- Management : Assisted living : needs, practices, and policies in residential care for the elderly / edited by Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D. Sloane, J. Kevin Eckert ; foreword by M. Powell Lawton
Physiologic period, characterized by endocrine, somatic, and psychic changes with the termination of ovarian function in the female. It may also accompany the normal diminution of sexual activity in the male
Those occurrences, including social, psychological, and environmental, which require an adjustment or effect a change in an individual's pattern of living
Life change events -- Economic aspects : Lifecycle events and their consequences : job loss, family change, and declines in health / edited by Kenneth A. Couch, Mary C. Daly, and Julie M. Zissimopoulos
