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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Extra-care"”.
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''We have the knitting circle, and they call it ‘stitch and bitch’... Is a male really going to want to stitch and bitch?'': Engaging Elderly Male Extra-Care Tenants in Social Activities
<b>Purpose:</b> Extra-care is a form of social housing that provides self-contained accommodation for ageing persons in an environment (schemes) intended to promote independent living and social engagement. Social Isolation becomes more prevalent with age and the risk for men is higher than women. …
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Cultural Discovery in Nursing Practice: The Experience of Nurses' Who Work with Vietnamese
… experiences working with Vietnamese in acute care, community, and clinic settings was interviewed using a semi-structured format. Data were analyzed for dimensions as well as conditions, context, action strategies, and consequences. The theory of cultural discovery described how nurses learn …
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Mothers' Lived Experience of Parenting an Infant/Young Child with Special Needs in a Rural Context
… an infant with special needs requires performing extra care giving duties and mothers living in rural communities face additional challenges obtaining health and social support services. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to explore the lived experience of parenting young children …
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Quality of life and ethics-patients with ischemic heart disease
… quality of life, identify groups in need of extra care and even on a long-term basis predict mortality. From an ethical point of view this possibility is of prime importance. After a cardiac event, first-rate compliance by the patient in secondary prevention is needed. However, if the patient …
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Minimally Invasive, Integrated Endoscopic Hemilaminectomy for Hansen Type I Intervertebral Disc Extrusion in Chondrodystrophic Dogs
… approaches have a steep learning curve and extra care is required in the learning phase to avoid complications. Further studies are warranted to compare the safety and efficacy of this technique to a standard approach.
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The effects of secondary trauma on professionals working with victims and survived traumatized individuals
… clinics, and representing health and social care councils in London, United Kingdom completed four self-reported questionnaires measuring secondary traumatic stress. Several hypotheses were postulated and tested using correlation and hierarchical regression analyses. The results showed that a …
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Journeying on to a better place? The processes and experiences associated with working around death and dying in care homes for older people.
… was undertaken during a period of change within care homes for the older person in Scotland. The move to single status homes meant that the traditional divide between nursing and residential homes no longer existed. The experiences of workers were largely under-represented in literature and …
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms
… in schools' classrooms. To prevent failure, extra care should be taken to select a suitable ventilation strategy for providing both air quality and thermal comfort during summer for the schools located under the flights paths. For such schools, it would be beneficial that the solar gain and …
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A descriptive study of the attitudes of doctors, working at clinics and day hospitals in the Cape Metropole to patients with HIV/AIDS
… and feelings of the physicians who diagnose, care for and make decisions with regard to these patients, especially children. Several studies suggest that health care workers who provide clinical care for Persons with HIV/AIDS (PWA's) may have an intolerant attitude towards them. As the number …
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Understanding the Use of Graphic Novels to Support the Writing Skills of a Struggling Writer
… him (Star Wars), and that he would put extra care in the creation of corresponding tasks. It can be concluded that self-chosen material, and not the format of graphic novels, motivated the participant to work. The content analysis of his post-treatment essay as compared to his …