Program, Highlights & Budget Summaries, 2004

Budget in Brief from the Governor's Office

Budget Report Fiscal Year 2005

Budget from the Governor's Office

Annual Report and Budget Summary, 2003-2004

Annual report for the Department of Public Health

Annual Report and Budget Summary, 2004

Annual report for the Department of Public Health

Iowa Budget Report Associated Financial Documents, January 2005

This report is of the financial documents, statements of federal funding.

Iowa Budget Report, January 2005

The FY 2006 budget we present to you today was built from the ground up and is the result of a budget process that focuses on priorities and results. Faced with difficult choices, we are heartened by the progress we have achieved with your cooperation and collaboration. Fulfilling our responsibility to Iowa children, together we have focused resources on cing class sizes and reversed an eight-year decline in test scores. As a result, Iowa students have reachieved four straight years of improved test scores, ranking among America’s best.

Iowa Budget Report Agency Budgets, January 2005

This is the detailed budget report of all state agencies for the FY2006. Page 604 long.

Iowa Budget Report Capital Projects, January 2005

This report is of the projects for the capital.

The influence of institutionalization on the perception of autonomy and quality of life in old people

Objective To evaluate the influence exercised by institutionalization on the autonomy and perception of quality of life among the institutionalized elderly. Method The study is quasi-experimental (interrupted time series) and longitudinal. The sample is composed for 104 elderly people who went into a three nursing home in Santander, Spain. To assess the quality of life and dependence two scales were used: the Barthel Index and Lawton Index. Results There was an important relationship between autonomy and independence and their deterioration due to their institutionalisation, such as the physical and social aspects. Conclusion It´s important to point out that the dependence of the elderly is a complex phenomenon, which admits many types of intervention, including the customary ones referring to more classic welfare actions which tend to supplant the absence of autonomy in everyday life by facilitating services and attention to make up for this need, without having to resort to institutionalization.