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Changes in job satisfaction and career commitment were observed as a consequence of a geriatric case management training program focusing on skills development among personal care attendants in home care. A comparison of pretraining and posttraining scores uncovered a statistically significant increase in Intrinsic Job Satisfaction scores for participants 18-39 years of age, whereas levels declined among the group of middle aged participants and no change was observed among participants age 52 and older. On the other hand, a statistically significant decline in Extrinsic Job Satisfaction was documented over all participants, but this was found to be primarily due to declines among participants 40-51 years of age. When contacted 6-12 months after the training series had concluded, participants indicated that the training substantially increased the likelihood that they would stay in their current jobs and improved their job satisfaction to some extent. A comparison of pretraining and posttraining scores among participants providing follow-up data revealed a statistically significant improvement in levels of Career Resilience. These results are discussed as they relate to similar training models and national data sets, and recommendations are offered for targeting future educational programs designed to address the long-term care workforce shortage.

To facilitate the professional development of service providers, the Virginia project on geriatric alcohol abuse and alcoholism developed and used an informational booklet, brochure, and video in a \"train the trainer\" model. A core group received extensive training, and then trained colleagues in their local communities. Knowledge gains were documented among both trainers and trainees. Follow-up interviews with agency personnel revealed substantial impact on a broad spectrum of service systems and improvements in interagency coordination. Results are discussed in terms of the educational needs of professional service providers regarding the unique aspects of alcoholism and alcohol abuse in the older population.

To facilitate the professional development of service providers, the Virginia project on geriatric alcohol abuse and alcoholism developed and used an informational booklet, brochure, and video in a \"train the trainer\" model. A core group received extensive training, and then trained colleagues in their local communities.

Nonverbal disclosure of deception was investigated in young and old American men and women. Sixty-two college-aged and 42 older individuals were asked to judge silent videotaped segments showing young and old stimulus persons being truthful or deceptive. An analysis of variance of the judgments showed that the elderly stimulus persons generally were less nonverbally revealing of deception than the younger stimulus persons. In addition, the young and old decoders showed differences in the way in which they decoded the same nonverbal behavior. Results thus show differences in both encoding and decoding of nonverbal behavior between young and old adults.

Initial encoding of information in the elderly was examined within the framework of controlled vs automatic processing. Controlled processing demands conscious effort, whereas automatic processing is cost-free in this regard. The suggestion is that adequate encoding and storage could be hindered if semantic depth is not accessed automatically. A task developed by Warren to investigate automatic processing in young Ss was used to test whether words reached semantic levels automatically in elderly Ss. Twenty-four females, 12 young and 12 old, heard word triads. Each triad was followed by visual presentation of a single word in colored ink. For both young and old Ss, color-naming latency for the visual words was significantly higher if the word itself was present in the auditory triad. This indicated that the visual words were processed to the level of meaning automatically in both young and old Ss.