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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"elderly care"”.
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AN INTEGRATED ELDERLY CARE AT HDB ESTATE
… society of Singapore. With increasing number of elderly and changing perspectives about ageing, the current elderly care is not sufficient for the needs in neither quantity nor quality. At the same time, the public domain of urban context is not conducive for the elderly but discouraging them …
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Innovation in elderly care organizations : process and attitudes.
… The first, carried out in two Homes for the Elderly, examines the sequence of the innovation process, influences on it, and staff attitudes towards it. Data are collected through semi-structured interviews, incorporating verbally administered questionnaires. Findings regarding the effect of …
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Exploring the influence of management practices in retaining nurses in Dunedin's elderly care facilities
The New Zealand healthcare sector, particularly aged care, faces significant challenges due to an ageing population and a shortage of healthcare personnel. This study employs a qualitative research methodology, utilising semi-structured interviews and interpretive analysis, to examine the impact of …
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Development and validation of a composite endpoint as a quality indicator in elderly care
Contains fulltext : 157078.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The epidemiology of musculoskeletal pain in an elderly population within a selected elderly care facility in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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Dependency in Caregiving Contexts : The Role of Personality
… of behavioral dependency and morale among 114 elderly care recipients. The research draws on a trait personality and person-environment perspective in order to understand factors which influence dependency in home and institutional environments. Subjects completed standardized scales of trait …
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Ålderdom, omsorg och makt. Gamlas situation och omsorgsrelationer i nyliberala tider
… examines the status of old age and the nature of elderly care in Sweden, where the welfare state is being transformed through neoliberalism. The overall aim is to study old age as identity and lived experience, and how caring relationships condition the lives of the elderly. The dissertation’s …
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Preliminary design of a social asymmetric virtual reality upper-limb exergame for individuals with dementia utilizing insights from caregivers
… game for upper limb activity in the context of elderly care from the perspective of caregivers. The study presented participants with three different play modes: Cooperative within immersive VR, cooperative external to VR, and single-player within VR. The results indicate that the three …
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Affordable avatar control system for personal robots
… Media Lab. It has its specific purpose in healthcare, elderly care, education, and family communication. It is important that a user can successfully convey the meaningful context in a dialogue via the robot's puppeteering interface. I investigate relevant technologies to develop a robotic …
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Recognition and Classification of Aggressive Motion Using Smartwatches
Aggressive motion can occur in clinical and elderly care settings with people suffering from dementia, mental disorders, or other conditions that affect memory. Since identifying the nature of the event can be difficult with people who have memory and communication issues, other methods to identify …
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Family Involvement Within Assisted Living: Care-Receivers' and Caregivers' Roles and Relationships
<p>Family systems providing informal care and support to their aging relatives, who were residing in assisted living systems and receiving formal care were central to this study. A broader understanding of family involvement, with respect to exploring both care-receiver and caregiver roles and …
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Gentrifying geriatrics : challenging design paradigms for the aged and aging
… the needs of the aged: aging in place or in-home care, assisted living and nursing homes. Continuing care communities have attempted to provide an integrated model to assist through all the stages of late adulthood. With the exception of in home care, all architectural models for elderly care have …
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Occupancy monitoring and prediction in ambient intelligent environment
… of occupants, and energy saving can be improved. Elderly care and supporting people with health problems like dementia and Alzheimer disease are amongst the applications of such an environment. In the research, environments are considered in different scenarios based on the complexity of the …
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The implications of US senior housing to China
… have started to catch up the needs of the elderly in China. None of them are sophisticated enough compared to senior housing owners and operators in US. In China, the increased number of middle-class, and the rapid social and cultural changes of traditional elderly care have demonstrated …
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Veiksniai, sąlygojantys socialinio darbuotojo veiklos turinį senelių globos namuose /
… increasing the need for social services for the elderly. These services are mostly provided and organised in residential care facilities for the elderly. Reteriment homes provide comprehensive care and care for the elderly. Social workers provide a range of social services. Social workers are …
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Humanoid robot dynamic synchronization via whole-body teleoperation with bilateral feedback
… range from disaster response all the way to elderly care and further. Hence, an intuitive short-term answer for this issue lies on harnessing human motor control abilities and transferring them to the remote robot via whole-body teleoperation while providing the operator with real-time …
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