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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"living well"”.
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Achieving the Telos of Living Well Together
<p>Mental health promotion involves fostering living conditions and environments that enable people to realize and maintain healthy lifestyles (WHO, 2010). It is well established that integration into community life is important to well-being among individuals with mental disorders (Davidson et …
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Developing an occupation-based complex intervention for living well with anxiety in Parkinson's (OBtAIN-PD)
… promoting participation in activities of daily living and is recommended in national guidelines. An evidence-based occupational therapy intervention for living well with anxiety in Parkinson’s does not exist.<br/><br/>Aim: To design a new occupation-based complex intervention for living well …
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Living Well with Chronic Pain: A Heuristic Examination of Strategies used by Young Adults to Achieve Well-Being
… examine how young adults with chronic pain are living well. The scholarly literature supports the notion that chronic pain is debilitating. It is important, however, to explore what factors affect the lived experience of chronic pain for young adults, and what contributes to their ability to …
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THINKING MAKING AND LIVING ARCHITECTURE IN AN AGEING SOCIETY. THE TYPOLOGICAL PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA
… norm is represented by people living longer. This new demographic structure creates a number of societal challenges. One such challenge is that living longer and becoming old increases the likelihood of acquiring long-term conditions such as dementia. Another challenge is with …
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'The Time that Used to Go': A Psychosocial Study of the Care Relationship in Residential Care Homes for People with Dementia
… who lived and worked in both care settings, as well as noting the ways in which they came to inform the organisational culture of each site which was simultaneously constitutive of the relational field and also constituted by it. Using research methods influenced by psychosocial ideas, data was …
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AUTONOMY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
… a human rights-based conception of the idea of living well within planetary boundaries.
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Aligning Mind, Body, and Spirit Through Breath in Architecture
At the root of all living beings is our breath -- without it, we are not alive. Eastern practices such as yoga and meditation are conveyed through the awareness of our breath and the encouragement to be present in what our physical bodies are telling us. This awareness is a huge influence in …
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Soils, Symbiosis, and Succession: Eco-centric Care in Eastern Ontario
… as “eco-centric,” are people who take soil as a living entity — or as a community of living beings — which opens into a wider domain of ecological concern. Coupling ethnographic concepts, rooted in ecology, with the anthropologies of kinship and ethics, this thesis contributes to …
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Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato
… for the health of your soul, to care for the well-being of other human beings--that a person needs to have in order to live well, and a reliably good life requires that these commitments be entrenched and unwavering. For those people and soul-parts that lack philosophical understanding, some …
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A discourse analysis of recovery stories
… embodiment, fulfilment through work, living well without work, acceptance of illness and acceptance by others. These 'personal' testimonies might reflect wider discourses in the mental health system. The research shows the powerful interests at play under the discourse of recovery, and …
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Stress and coping among adolescent diabetics
… reduces the risk of long-term complications ("Living Well," 1993).
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Business Ethics and Global Age Cosmopolitanism
… presupposes civic universalism, a theory of living well in accordance to the values and customs common to the global society. This includes pluralistic political, economic, and educational ideas that deal specifically with social and economic inequalities. While these issues have been …
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Healthy Aging: Factors that Predict Preservation of Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
… researchers is to determine how to promote aging well. Cognitive functioning is a heavily researched area due to the exponentially increasing number of older adults experiencing cognitive decline. Preservation of cognitive functioning is one aspect of aging well. Three domains of cognition that …
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Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life among Persons with Paraplegia
… of non-disabled persons. Since SCI survivors are living well into their 70s, quality of life (QOL) is a major concern. The purpose of this study, informed by Ferrell and Grant's Quality of Life Model, was to examine relationships between spiritual well-being (SWB), existential well-being (EWB), …
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Defining Health and Health-Related Behaviors Following a Near-Death Experience
… related to both the near-death experience and living one's health. Coming back involved coming to terms with the physical, emotional, and spiritual consequences of the event, understanding what the NDE was and what it meant, and achieving some level of stabilized health. When their health was …
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Recovery in Year Two of Adults After Undergoing TKA and THA: Implications for Understanding Recovery, Care Delivery, and Referral to Community Exercise Programs
… scores. A shift in focus from impairment to living well was a clear transition in recovery in the THA study. A third qualitative study addressed the gap in understanding about how physiotherapists and family physicians refer patients to community exercise programs after undergoing TKA or THA. …
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'A desert for the arts'? Orchestral provision in Northern Ireland, 1945-1981
… became apparent that the Ulster Orchestra was living well beyond its means, and in 1969 a reappraisal of the orchestra’s position was undertaken. Under the auspices of the Northern Ireland government’s Operations and Methods department, a report was issued which recommended the amalgamation of …
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Educating for faithful pluralism
… offer different responses to the challenges of living and educating in the midst of deep pluralism. Yet many common responses to pluralism fall short of the ‘principled pluralism test,’ which states that an adequate response to pluralism must enable us both to hold true to our own principles and …
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