Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"institutional care"”.
-
'Who of us care to be seen assisting an old woman?': the institutional care of Ireland's elderly women, 1845 - 1908
This thesis explores the institutional care of Irish women, aged fifty years or more, from 1845 to the introduction of the Old Age Pension in 1908. Moving beyond the experiences of the adolescent and young women, which have been explored by historians in recent years, this study introduces the aged …
-
Emotional adjustments made by parents of physically disabled children following their discharge from institutional care : a case study of Cheshire Homes,Lusaka Zambia
… physical disabilities following discharge from institutionalised care.Data was collected from a sample of twenty parents and fifteen staff of Cheshire home in Kabulonga. The parents were drawn from the sum of Lusaka based parents whose children had been discharged from Cheshire Home within the …
-
Transition from institutional care to community care for residents of community care units in Greece: construction of the notion of “asylum” in community care units
… illness (SMI), who are residents of community care units (CCUs), by comparing and contrasting participants’ experiences of CCUs with their previous lives in institutions. Currently, there is a gap in the Greek context in the field of qualitative studies exploring the issues of …
-
Essays on Health Economics
… impacts of government reimbursement of long-term care. We apply a regression discontinuity design using administrative data from South Korea to estimate the impact of subsidies for formal home and institutional care on informal care use and medical expenditures. We find that reimbursement leads to …
-
The history of community care for people with learning difficulties in Norfolk 1930-1980 : the role of two hostels
This thesis explores the history of community care for people with learning difficulties in Norfolk between 1930 and 1980 through case studies of two hostels. It also examines ways in which people with learning difficulties can make a contribution to a construction of the past. Historical evidence …
-
Towards the health promoting retirement village : a case study
The aged care industry along with the public health movement has undergone profound change, yet aged care is a growing concern with an ageing population. Within the Australian context, there remains the need for further research and education especially with regard to the retirement village setting …
-
Does the type of care matter? : a study of the effect of early substitute care
… risk, adverse experiences before reception into care, or from risks associated with substitute care experiences. Methods: The study was a `natural experiment' comparing two different patterns of rearing after breakdown in early parenting, using teacher and parent questionnaires, interviews, …
-
Three Essays on Health Economics
… impacts of government reimbursement of long-term care. We apply a regression discontinuity design using administrative data from South Korea to estimate the impact of subsidies for formal home and institutional care on informal care use and medical expenditures. These subsidies lead to increases …
-
Understanding the History of Institutionalization: Making connections to De-institutionalization and the Olmstead Act for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the State of Illinois
<p>What is the historical connection between deinstitutionalization and the Olmstead decision? The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze policy within a historical perspective the connections between institutional care, deinstitutionalization, the Olmstead decision, and the effect on …
-
Understanding Czech Children’s Experiences of Parental Incarceration – Ambiguous Loss and Gain
… of Czech children of prisoners and their primary caregivers and how these experiences can be interpreted using Ambiguous Loss (and Ambiguous Gain) theory (Boss, 2007). The experiences of Czech children of prisoners and their primary caregivers are under-represented in academic literature; there is …
-
Specifika edukace a aktivizace seniorů v rezidenčních zařízeních
… impetus for change in the field of professional institutional care for the elderly. Specific integrative, counselling, therapeutic and rehabilitation approaches and conceptualisations of these topics are set within the framework of andragogy and gerontagogy. The research focuses on two target …
-
Practitioners' discourse of juvenile delinquency at a child and youth care centre in the Western Cape from 1990 to 2020
… juveniles from a Western Cape Child and Youth Care Centre. It employs the Foucauldian discourse analysis approach when analysing the content of thirty learner casefiles from 1990 to 2020. The discourses are analysed in terms of shifts in power over the institutional care of the children brought …
-
Prevence a způsoby pomoci mladým bezdomovcům v oblasti sociálních služeb v České republice
… entirely. Those individuals tend to be raised in institutional care usually lacking in role models and have little to no financial and social resources at their disposal. Social exclusion always originates from variety of different problems that need to be taken care of before they become too …
-
Neuropsychological Outcome In Relation To Duration Of Early Orphanage Experience
… orphanage experience, increasing duration of institutionalization is related to decreasing performance for a number of cognitive domains, most consistently verbal measures and executive Functioning measures. The relationships with duration for measures requiring visual-spatial skills were more …
-
Orchid Care: an exploration in experiential and theoretical environmental care practice shown to orchids through the Anthropocene
… in experiential and theoretical environmental care practice shown to orchids through the Anthropocene. It revolves around two African orchid species, one in Cape Town and one in Zimbabwe, and the care practices shown to these plants. The thesis explores the question: in what way does an …
-
Caring for a relative with dementia: anticipatory grief and social death
… interview, the dementia sufferer lived with the carer in 61 cases, in their own home in 16 cases, and in long-term institutional care in 23 cases. The interviews were based on a `Carers' Questionnaire' which has evolved via preliminary unstructured exploratory interviews with carers, followed by …
-
Institutionalization as a contributing factor in antisocial behaviour : implications for statutory social work practice
… behaviour were examined in the light of institutional and community-based management options. An overview of the literature is presented in order to place the concepts of institutional care, community-based options and legal reform in perspective. These literature studies provided the …
Page 1 of 4