Title: Procedures For Handling Elderly Inmates
Headings: Elderly Prison Inmates: Specifying Priorities for Care and Staff Training
Elderly Prison Inmates: Specifying Priorities for Care and Staff Training
Explanations for the Rising Prison Age
Consequences of Rising Prison Age
Overview of Policy and the Aging Inmate Population
Current study
Findings
Prison Policy
Employee Training
Reentry
Conclusion
References

Content: According to their study, elderly inmates expressed anxiety about release from prisons due to their decline in health since their initial incarceration. The inmates from their study also expressed that they felt unprepared to leave prison due to lack of knowledge about how to take care of themselves in the community. The inmates were concerned about issues such as “accessing healthcare, not maintaining their health, and returning to previous behaviors” (Loeb, Steffensmeier, and Myco, 2007, p. 324). This study further investigates these issues. There are many issues to consider when evaluating the elderly inmate population in prisons. However, this study will address three of the main issue presented within the literature, prison policy, employee training, and ways to improve life after release for elderly inmates. The current study aims to address the lack of appropriate age related policy, the issue of employee training for staff that have direct contact with inmates a