Journal articles: 'First Homes'

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Hecht, Jeff. "The First Fibers to Homes." Optics and Photonics News 22, no. 3 (March 1, 2011): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/opn.22.3.000036.

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Smith, Sarah. "Putting safety first in care homes." Nursing and Residential Care 17, no. 12 (December 2, 2015): 667. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2015.17.12.667.

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Yang, Xiu-Fen, Meng-qi Li, Lu-lu Liao, Hui Feng, Si Zhao, Shuang Wu, and Ping Yin. "A qualitative study of the first batch of medical assistance team’s first-hand experience in supporting the nursing homes in Wuhan against COVID-19." PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (April 15, 2021): e0249656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249656.

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Background The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has global impact, Wuhan in Hubei province is a high-risk area. And the older people in nursing homes are the most susceptible group to COVID-19. The aim of this study was to describe the practice and experience of the first-line medical team, to provide insights of coping with COVID-19 in China. Method This qualitative study used a descriptive phenomenological design to describe the experience of medical staff supported the nursing homes in Wuhan fighting against COVID-19. Unstructured interviews via online video were conducted with seven medical staffs who supported the nursing homes in Wuhan. Data were analyzed using content analysis in five main themes: for nursing homes, we interviewed the difficulties faced at the most difficult time, services for the older people, and prevention and management strategies, for the medical staff, the psychological experience were interviewed, and the implications for public health emergencies were also reported. Conclusions It is imperative that effective preventive and response measures be implemented to face the outbreak of COVID-19 and meet the care needs of older people in the context of COVID-19. Implications Findings will inform managers of some reasonable instructional strategies for implementing effective infection management. Nursing homes need to provide targeted services to help alleviating their bad psychology for residents.

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Childs, Ann. "Fill the empty beds in nursing homes first." Nursing Standard 11, no. 24 (March 5, 1997): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.11.24.11.s25.

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Canady, Valerie A. "First phase of California Health Homes Program launches." Mental Health Weekly 28, no. 30 (August 6, 2018): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mhw.31545.

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Appachu, Geeta, Anita Ollapally, and Payal R. Shah. "Old Age Homes." Artha - Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 2 (November 11, 2004): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.12724/ajss.4.2.

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This study aims to understand the influence of different cultures in the basic purpose and functioning of homes for the old in Norway and India. The study was first conducted at Heimens, (translated as Home) in Norway. The study was later continued in some of the homes for the aged in Bangalore, India. A self-prepared questionnaire was used and the questions were addressed to the Head/ Director and the Nursing staff of the Homes by the author. Conceptual differences in culture were seen in the basic purpose and functioning of the old age homes in India and Norway.

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Tchobanoglous, G., L. Ruppe, H. Leverenz, and J. Darby. "Decentralized wastewater management: challenges and opportunities for the twenty-first century." Water Supply 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2004): 95–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2004.0011.

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Decentralized wastewater management (DWM) may be defined as the collection, treatment, and reuse of wastewater from individual homes, clusters of homes, subdivisions, and isolated commercial facilities at or near the point of waste generation. In some areas, the liquid portion could be transported to a central point for further treatment and reuse. At the time of writing (2002), more than sixty million people in the United States live in homes where individual decentralized systems are used for wastewater management. Further, the U.S. EPA now estimates that about 40 percent of the new homes being built are served with onsite systems. In the early 1970s, with the passage of the Clean Water Act, it was often stated that it was only a matter of time before sewerage facilities would be available to almost all residents of the continental United States. Now, more than 25 years later, it is recognized that complete sewerage of the entire U.S. may never be possible, due to both geographic and economic constraints. Because complete sewerage is unlikely in the foreseeable future, it is clear that DWM systems are needed for the protection of public health and the environment and for the development of long-term strategies for the management of our water resources. The challenges and opportunities for DWM systems in the twenty-first century are discussed in this paper.

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Larkin, Peter. "The Secondary Wordsworth's First of Homes: Home at Grasmere." Wordsworth Circle 16, no. 2 (March 1985): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24041107.

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Hay, James. "DESIGNING HOMES TO BE THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE." Cultural Studies 20, no. 4-5 (July 2006): 349–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502380600724728.

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Calcaterra, Valentina, and Maria Luisa Raineri. "Young People’s Voice: The First Visiting Advocacy Project in Italian Residential Care for Children." Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika 15, no. 15 (July 27, 2017): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/stepp.2017.15.10808.

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This article presents the research of the project Giving Young People a Voice: Advocacy in Children’s Homes, set up as a result of the interest of a nonprofit organization working with looked-after children, with an aim to improve advocacy as a listening process and to promote the participation of children that reside in children’s homes. The research focused on the implementation of a visiting advocacy project and the activities carried out by an independent advocate working in children’s homes. The children’s evaluation of the project was collected by two focus groups; interviews were conducted with social care workers and the manager of the organization. This research deals with the implementation of the first visiting advocacy project in the context of the Italian child protection system.

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White, Jay. "The Homes Front." Articles 20, no. 3 (November 6, 2013): 117–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1019268ar.

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No city in Canada was closer to the front lines of battle in 1942 than Halifax, Nova Scotia. But Halifax, like the rest of the country, was unprepared for a long war and the city struggled to cope with the heavy demand placed on her housing stock and municipal services. In one respect, Halifax was ready: the massive federal investment in new piers and rail facilities, begun before the First World War, enabled the port to accommodate huge British battleships and passenger liners converted into troopships. Her commodious harbour provided safe haven from German U-boats to hundreds of Allied merchantmen. But on the domestic front, Halifax could not even begin to manage the effects of a 10% rise in population in less than two years. Few industrial jobs, limited housing construction, a very high transient population, and a reluctance on the part of the federal government to accept responsibility for local problems all contributed to Halifax having a "rather uncomfortable rail seat at the spectacle of war." — Quotation from "Gateway to the World", film produced by the Nova Scotia Department of Industry and Publicity, 1946.

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Smith, James C. "Making Existing Homes Greener." Symposium Edition - Sustainable Communities 4, no. 2 (December 2017): 117–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/jpl.v4.i2.4.

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During the past two decades, a “green building movement” has emerged, at first concentrating on the “greening” of government and commercial building. More recently, the focus has turned to the greening of residential buildings. “Green homes” are increasingly popular in the United States and throughout the world. They consume less energy; reduce environmental impacts; and conserve land, water, and other natural resources. Now, thousands of homebuyers are willing to take into account green environmental considerations when making home purchase decisions. They are motivated economically (the prospect of lower utility bills) and altruistically (doing what is good for the environment).

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Larkin, Peter. "The Secondary Wordsworth's First of Homes: "Home at Grasmere" (1985)." Wordsworth Circle 37, no. 3 (June 2006): 172–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/twc24045124.

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Stiman, Meaghan. "Second homes in the city and the country: a reappraisal of vacation homes in the twenty-first century." International Journal of Housing Policy 20, no. 1 (August 17, 2019): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2019.1627842.

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Rabilloud, Muriel, Benjamin Riche, Jean François Etard, Mad-Hélénie Elsensohn, Nicolas Voirin, Thomas Bénet, Jean Iwaz, René Ecochard, and Philippe Vanhems. "COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes: A strong link with the coronavirus spread in the surrounding population, France, March to July 2020." PLOS ONE 17, no. 1 (January 7, 2022): e0261756. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261756.

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Background Worldwide, COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes have often been sudden and massive. The study investigated the role SARS-CoV-2 virus spread in nearby population plays in introducing the disease in nursing homes. Material and methods This was carried out through modelling the occurrences of first cases in each of 943 nursing homes of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes French Region over the first epidemic wave (March-July, 2020). The cumulative probabilities of COVID-19 outbreak in the nursing homes and those of hospitalization for the disease in the population were modelled in each of the twelve Départements of the Region over period March-July 2020. This allowed estimating the duration of the active outbreak period, the dates and heights of the peaks of outbreak probabilities in nursing homes, and the dates and heights of the peaks of hospitalization probabilities in the population. Spearman coefficient estimated the correlation between the two peak series. Results The cumulative proportion of nursing homes with COVID-19 outbreaks was 52% (490/943; range: 22–70% acc. Département). The active outbreak period in the nursing homes lasted 11 to 21 days (acc. Département) and ended before lockdown end. Spearman correlation between outbreak probability peaks in nursing homes and hospitalization probability peaks in the population (surrogate of the incidence peaks) was estimated at 0.71 (95% CI: [0.66; 0.78]). Conclusion The modelling highlighted a strong correlation between the outbreak in nursing homes and the external pressure of the disease. It indicated that avoiding disease outbreaks in nursing homes requires a tight control of virus spread in the surrounding populations.

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Hallworth, Emily, Phillip Heffer-Rahn, Kathryn Atkins, Ruth Setchell, Sue Wilson, Caroline Ispan, and Julie Budd. "The evolution of the Leeds Care Homes Service – from Nurse-Led Team to MDT." FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older People 1, no. 126 (April 2014): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpsfpop.2014.1.126.34.

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Since its inception, the Leeds Care Homes Team has consisted of community mental health nurses working as lone practitioners into three care homes sectors across the city. In 2011 a pilot multidisciplinary team (MDT) was introduced with a specific remit; that being to reduce antipsychotic prescriptions for people with dementia by working intensively with a small number of care homes using an MDT approach. The results of this pilot project will be described first, followed by subsequent developments within the Care Homes Service.

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Håkanson, Cecilia, Berit Seiger Cronfalk, Eva Henriksen, Astrid Norberg, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, and Jonas Sandberg. "First-Line Nursing Home Managers in Sweden and their Views on Leadership and Palliative Care." Open Nursing Journal 8, no. 1 (December 31, 2014): 71–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874434601408010071.

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The aim of this study was to investigate first-line nursing home managers’ views on their leadership and related to that, palliative care. Previous research reveals insufficient palliation, and a number of barriers towards implementation of palliative care in nursing homes. Among those barriers are issues related to leadership quality. First-line managers play a pivotal role, as they influence working conditions and quality of care. Nine first-line managers, from different nursing homes in Sweden participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using qualitative descriptive content analysis. In the results, two categories were identified: embracing the role of leader and being a victim of circumstances, illuminating how the first-line managers handle expectations and challenges linked to the leadership role and responsibility for palliative care. The results reveal views corresponding to committed leaders, acting upon demands and expectations, but also to leaders appearing to have resigned from the leadership role, and who express powerlessness with little possibility to influence care. The first line managers reported their own limited knowledge about palliative care to limit their possibilities of taking full leadership responsibility for implementing palliative care principles in their nursing homes. The study stresses that for the provision of high quality palliative care in nursing homes, first-line managers need to be knowledgeable about palliative care, and they need supportive organizations with clear expectations and goals about palliative care. Future action and learning oriented research projects for the implementation of palliative care principles, in which first line managers actively participate, are suggested.

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KOVELMAN, IOULIA, STEPHANIE A. BAKER, and LAURA-ANN PETITTO. "Age of first bilingual language exposure as a new window into bilingual reading development." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 11, no. 2 (July 2008): 203–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728908003386.

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How does age of first bilingual language exposure affect reading development in children learning to read in both of their languages? Is there a reading advantage for monolingual English children who are educated in bilingual schools? We studied children (grades 2–3, ages 7–9) in bilingual Spanish–English schools who were either from Spanish-speaking homes (new to English) or English-speaking homes (new to Spanish), as compared with English-speaking children in monolingual English schools. An early age of first bilingual language exposure had a positive effect on reading, phonological awareness, and language competence in both languages: early bilinguals (age of first exposure 0–3 years) outperformed other bilingual groups (age of first exposure 3–6 years). Remarkably, schooling in two languages afforded children from monolingual English homes an advantage in phoneme awareness skills. Early bilingual exposure is best for dual language reading development, and it may afford such a powerful positive impact on reading and language development that it may possibly ameliorate the negative effect of low SES on literacy. Further, age of first bilingual exposure provides a new tool for evaluating whether a young bilingual has a reading problem versus whether he or she is a typically-developing dual-language learner.

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Cliff, K. D., S. P. Naismith, C. Scivyer, and R. Stephen. "The Efficacy and Durability of Radon Remedial Measures." Radiation Protection Dosimetry 56, no. 1-4 (December 1, 1994): 65–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082424.

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Abstract In the UK, over 16,000 homes, from an estimated 100,000, with annual average radon concentrations exceeding the UK Action Level of 200 Bq.m-3 have been discovered. Some 600 householders who have taken action have sought confirmatory measurements from NRPB. Results for 345 such homes are discussed. A number of remedied homes are being remeasured annually to determine the durability of the remedies: results for the first year follow-up measurements are given. In a separate exercise, homes having the highest radon levels known in the UK have been enrolled in a research programme of the Building Research Establishment. The results for 53 homes in which BREW surveyed, designed and supervised remedial work are presented.

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Coutaz, Joelle, and James L. Crowley. "A First-Person Experience with End-User Development for Smart Homes." IEEE Pervasive Computing 15, no. 2 (April 2016): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mprv.2016.24.

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Valentini, Luzia, Karin Schindler, Romana Schlaffer, Hubert Bucher, Mohamed Mouhieddine, Karin Steininger, Johanna Tripamer, et al. "The first nutritionDay in nursing homes: Participation may improve malnutrition awareness." Clinical Nutrition 28, no. 2 (April 2009): 109–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2009.01.021.

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Gill, Michael. "Managing patients in care homes." InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice 13, no. 2 (January 13, 2020): 102–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1755738019890118.

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Older people in care homes deserve the best health and social care we can offer. Their care needs are usually high and they are vulnerable either physically, cognitively or both. They are likely to have several long-term conditions and be in the last year or so of life. Although some may have families and friends supporting them with regular visits and advocacy, others may be more alone and socially isolated. Care homes are traditionally classed as either residential homes or nursing homes, with some being dual registered. The main difference is the presence of 24-hour on-site qualified nursing support in nursing homes. This means that, in general, the residents of nursing homes are more dependent and complex. This article will first describe how to approach the planning and delivery of primary care services to nursing homes, and then consider some of the most common problems and conditions. Much of this also applies to residential home residents.

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O’Toole, Ciara, Darina Ní Shíthigh, Aisling Molamphy, and Eibhlin Walsh. "Findings from the first phase of developing a receptive vocabulary test for the Irish language." International Journal of Bilingualism 24, no. 4 (May 15, 2019): 572–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006919848142.

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Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to develop and pilot a test of receptive vocabulary for bilingual Irish-English-speaking children, based on a model from Welsh. Design/Methodology/Approach: 310 typically developing children aged five, six and seven years took part. The children were all attending Irish-medium education in Irish-dominant Gaeltacht regions and in immersion education schools outside of these regions. Data and Analysis: Participants were identified as being from either bilingual Irish- and English-speaking homes or English-dominant homes. A mixed-factorial analysis of variance found a significant main effect of age and language background, but no interaction. Post hoc comparisons revealed that those from Bilingual-speaking homes had significantly higher Irish receptive vocabulary scores than those from English-dominant homes. Linear regression models showed that the receptive vocabulary scores of children in immersion schools grew by an average of 21 words per year between the ages of five and seven, compared to almost 12 words per year in Gaeltacht schools. Findings/Conclusions: The findings demonstrate the advantages of immersion education and the need for vocabulary enrichment of children in the Gaeltacht. However, the complexities of developing assessments for first language speakers of a minority language that is in conflict with a second language variety of that language and the majority English language are also highlighted. Significance/Implications: The implications of this study are that immersion schooling is advantageous to the Irish vocabulary of children, but that children from Gaeltacht schools may require vocabulary enrichment that is sufficiently complex to address their needs. Limitations: Limitations to this study include the uneven number of children from each language background/school location and incomplete background details from the children, such as socio-economic status and language use amongst peers.

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Dosanjh, Amrita, Charlotte Moore, Antonia Hyman, and Laura Fisk. "A service evaluation exploring what factors may lead to psychiatric hospital admissions for older adults living in care homes." Clinical Psychology Forum 1, no. 341 (May 2021): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2021.1.341.39.

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To prevent avoidable psychiatric hospital admissions from care homes, common driving factors need to first be identified. This service evaluation identifies factors leading to admission to BSMHFT’s older-adult psychiatric hospitals from care homes over an 18-month period.

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Gjerberg, Elisabeth, Lillian Lillemoen, Reidar Pedersen, and Reidun Førde. "Coercion in nursing homes." Nursing Ethics 23, no. 3 (January 6, 2015): 253–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733014564907.

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Background: Studies have demonstrated the extensive use of coercion in Norwegian nursing homes, which represents ethical, professional as well as legal challenges to the staff. We have, however, limited knowledge of the experiences and views of nursing home patients and their relatives. Objectives: The aim of this study is to explore the perspectives of nursing home patients and next of kin on the use of coercion; are there situations where the use of coercion can be defended, and if so, under which circumstances? Methods: The data are based on individual interviews with 35 patients living in six nursing homes and seven focus group interviews with 60 relatives. Ethical considerations: Participation was based on written informed consent, and the study was approved by the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics. Results: More than half of the patients and the majority of the relatives accepted the use of coercion, trusting the staff to act in the patient’s best interest. However, the acceptance of coercion is strongly related to the patients’ lack of understanding, to prevent health risks and to preserve the patient’s dignity. Conclusion: The majority of nursing home patients and relatives accepted the use of coercion in specific situations, while at the same time they emphasised the need to try alternative strategies first. There is still a need for good qualitative research on the use of coercion in nursing homes, especially with a closer focus on the perspectives and experiences of nursing home patients.

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Leontowitsch, Miranda, Frank Oswald, Arthur Schall, and Johannes Pantel. "Doing Time: Experiences of Care Home Residents in Germany During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2042.

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Abstract Residents of care homes across the globe are affected by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as they have been identified as a high-risk group and because they experienced strict social isolation regulations during the first wave of the pandemic. Social isolation of frail older people is strongly associated with negative health outcomes. The aim of this research project was to investigate how residents in care homes experienced social isolation during the first phases of contact ban in Germany. This paper draws on structured interview data collected from 22 residents in two care homes during early June 2020 in Frankfurt/Main. The findings show that their experiences were shaped by three factors: care home staffs’ approach to handling the contact ban; biographical sense of resilience; and a hierarchy of life issues. The findings highlight the importance of locally specific response mechanisms in care homes, and the need to contextualize residents’ experiences.

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Castle, Nicholas G. "Innovations in Dying in the Nursing Home: The Impact of Market Characteristics." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 36, no. 3 (January 1, 1997): 227–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/lkgl-517d-mbna-ux9d.

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During the 1980s nursing homes emerged as a dominant site of death for the elderly. This may precipitate more innovative approaches to death and dying in the nursing home and may account for the recent emergence of hospice care and pain management programs in nursing homes. However, the provision of hospice care and pain management in nursing homes are trends about which we have virtually no information. As a first step in examining these phenomena we provide a descriptive analysis of nursing homes that provide hospice care or pain management programs and an analysis of the impact of market characteristics as determinants of nursing homes providing them. Our findings suggest that the provision of pain management programs and hospice care are becoming prevalent in nursing home settings and that nursing homes are quite sensitive to their market environment indicating that policy changes could encourage further increases in these service innovations in death and dying.

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Abashin, Victor G., and Yuri V. Tsvelev. "Who was the first obstetrician in Russia?" Journal of obstetrics and women's diseases 51, no. 2 (April 14, 2002): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/jowd90425.

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It is rightly believed that the establishment of scientific obstetrics in our country was facilitated by the opening of womens schools (1757), the creation of Educational homes in Moscow (1764) and St. Petersburg (1771), the activities of the first Russian professor and father of Russian obstetrics Nestor Maksimovich Maksimovich-Ambodik. However, these transformations and the emergence of a domestic obstetric school could not arise out of nothing, out of nowhere. The basis for them was the activity of foreign and Russian doctors who worked in Russia at the beginning of the 18th century.

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Kleszczewska-Albińska, Angelika, and Dżesika Jaroń. "Sense of coherence and styles of coping with stress in youth brought up in educational care facilities and in family homes." Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze 585, no. 10 (December 31, 2019): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.6840.

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Introduction: The article concerns sense of coherence and styles of coping with stress in group of adolescents brought up in children’s homes and in family homes. Short characteristic of functioning of youth from educational care facilities was presented in the first part of the text. The functions of children’s homes and family homes are described. Concept of sense of coherence and coping with stress in in research on youth was discussed. Method: The level of sense of coherence and styles of coping with stress in youth brought up in educational care facilities and in family homes were compared. A group of 90 teenagers aged 15-19 was examined using the SOC-29 and CISS questionnaires. The analyzed group consisted of 40 adolescents brought up in children’s homes and 50 adolescents brought up in family homes. Results: In the group of youth brought up in children’s homes negative correlations between the sense of comprehensibility and the style focused on avoiding and seeking social contacts were observed. In the group of youth brought up in family homes negative correlations between the sense of coherence, the sense of comprehensibility, resourcefulness and the style focused on emotions and a positive relationship between the sense of comprehensibility and the style focused on task was observed. The level of resourcefulness was significantly higher in the group of youth brought up in family homes, compared to adolescents brought up in children’s homes. Youth brought up in family homes significantly more often than their peers from children’s homes uses task-focused strategies. Youth growing up in children’s homes and having contact with their own families significantly more often, compared to teenagers growing up in children’s homes and not having contact with their own families, uses strategies focused on avoiding and seeking social contacts. Conclusions: There are differences in the intensity of sense of coherence and the use of adaptive strategies related to coping with stress in the group of youth from children’s homes and family homes. Contact with the family of origin causes the increase in the frequency of using dysfunctional strategies of coping with stress in youth from children’s homes.

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Volk, Dinah. "Constructing Literacy Spaces in Low-Income Homes and Communities: A Study of Two Latino First Graders and Their Families." Urban Education 56, no. 1 (January 19, 2017): 61–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085916677348.

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This article describes a research study using an ethnographic approach and sociocultural theory with a spatial perspective to explore the ways that two Latino children, with the mediation of their families, constructed literacy spaces in their homes and communities. The families lived in low-income neighborhoods, and their school district was identified as urban emergent. Challenging the profiling of children, families, and neighborhoods, the article details how the children and families expressed their agency by building on the affordances of their homes, neighborhoods, and city. Implications for practice include foregrounding children’s expertise and creating collaborations between schools and community settings.

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Herr, Marie, Séhéno Raharimanana, Emmanuel Bagaragaza, Philippe Aegerter, Irène Sipos, Céline Fabre, Joël Ankri, and George Pisica-Donose. "Evaluation de la culture de sécurité en Etablissement d’Hébergement pour Personnes Agées Dépendantes (EHPAD): adaptation française du questionnaire Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 36, no. 4 (October 11, 2017): 453–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s071498081700037x.

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ABSTRACTThe objective was to translate into French the American questionnaire “Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture” and to test the feasibility of its use in a sample of nursing homes. The questionnaire was translated by a multidisciplinary group of six experts and tested on a sample of people working in nursing homes. The questionnaire was then administered in five nursing homes. A first version of the French NHSPSC is proposed in this article. Despite similarities between items and ceiling effect for one item, the choices made were conservative to allow international comparisons. The administration of the questionnaire in five nursing homes confirmed the feasibility of the approach, with a participation of more than 50 per cent. This work made a French version of the NHSPSC available and confirmed that it is a feasible method for evaluating safety culture in nursing homes.

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Зиятдинов, Зуфар Закиевич, and Тимур Зуфарович Зиятдинов. "URBAN PLANNING TREND: SECOND HOMES TRANSFORMATION INTO MAIN RESIDENCE." Академический вестник УралНИИпроект РААСН, no. 2(41) (July 1, 2019): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.25628/uniip.2019.41.2.010.

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В развитых зарубежных странах площадь вторых домов во многих случаях превышает площадь первых жилищ, наблюдается массовая трансформация вторых жилищ в места основного проживания. Наблюдается перманентный рост уровня объемно-планировочных показателей и инженерного оснащения садовых домов. Приведены причины увеличения длительности пребывания горожан во вторых жилищах в течение года. In developedforeign countries, the area of second homes in many cases exceeds the area of the first homes, there is a massive transformation of second homes in the main place of residence. There is a permanent increase in the level of space-planning parameters and engineering equipment of garden houses. The reasons for the increase in the length of stay of citizens in the second homes during the year.

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Alqahtani, Eman, Nourah Janbi, Sanaa Sharaf, and Rashid Mehmood. "Smart Homes and Families to Enable Sustainable Societies: A Data-Driven Approach for Multi-Perspective Parameter Discovery Using BERT Modelling." Sustainability 14, no. 20 (October 19, 2022): 13534. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142013534.

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Homes are the building block of cities and societies and therefore smart homes are critical to establishing smart living and are expected to play a key role in enabling smart, sustainable cities and societies. The current literature on smart homes has mainly focused on developing smart functions for homes such as security and ambiance management. Homes are composed of families and are inherently complex phenomena underlined by humans and their relationships with each other, subject to individual, intragroup, intergroup, and intercommunity goals. There is a clear need to understand, define, consolidate existing research, and actualize the overarching roles of smart homes, and the roles of smart homes that will serve the needs of future smart cities and societies. This paper introduces our data-driven parameter discovery methodology and uses it to provide, for the first time, an extensive, fairly comprehensive, analysis of the families and homes landscape seen through the eyes of academics and the public, using over a hundred thousand research papers and nearly a million tweets. We developed a methodology using deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and big data analytics methods (BERT and other machine learning methods) and applied it to automatically discover parameters that capture a comprehensive knowledge and design space of smart families and homes comprising social, political, economic, environmental, and other dimensions. The 66 discovered parameters and the knowledge space comprising 100 s of dimensions are explained by reviewing and referencing over 300 articles from the academic literature and tweets. The knowledge and parameters discovered in this paper can be used to develop a holistic understanding of matters related to families and homes facilitating the development of better, community-specific policies, technologies, solutions, and industries for families and homes, leading to strengthening families and homes, and in turn, empowering sustainable societies across the globe.

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Eldh, Ann Catrine, Lena Olai, Birgitta Jönsson, Laris Wallin, Leif Denti, and Marie Elf. "Supporting first-line managers in implementing oral care guidelines in nursing homes." Nordic Journal of Nursing Research 38, no. 2 (July 6, 2017): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057158517713379.

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This study investigated first-line managers’ experience of and responses to a concise leadership intervention to facilitate the implementation of oral care clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in nursing homes. Leadership is known to be an important element in knowledge implementation but little is known as to what supports managers to facilitate the process. By means of a process evaluation with mixed methods, the context and a three-month leadership program was explored, including activities during and in relation to the program, and the effects in terms of oral care CPG implementation plans. While the managers appreciated the intervention and considered improved oral care to be a priority, their implementation plans mainly focused the dissemination of an oral care checklist. The findings suggest that extended implementation interventions engaging both managers and clinical staff are needed, and that a concise intervention does not facilitate first-line managers to adopt behaviors known to facilitate knowledge implementation.

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Janning, Michelle. "Public Spectacles of Private Spheres." Journal of Family Issues 29, no. 4 (April 2008): 427–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x07310303.

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This introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Family Issues, titled “Spaces and Places of Family Life: Cultural and Popular Cultural Representations of Homes and Families,” calls attention to the intersections of conceptions of families and homes and to the cultural and popular cultural representations of both. Two themes make up the focus of the collection of articles contained in the special issue. First, the included articles explore the pieced-together media production of real and fictional families and homes. It is here we see the location of home and family as not quite real, not quite fictional, even if the families and homes represented are nonfictional (such as within the reality television genre). Second, this issue focuses on the relationship between media-produced images of homes and families and real everyday experiences, including whether real families use fictional and nonfictional media representations to situate and define themselves as families. The collection presented here begins to answer the question, What are the forms and locations in which popular culture and cultural definitions of homes and families shape each other?

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Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro, Filbert Musau, Tim Sharpe, and Gráinne McGill. "Indoor Air Quality Assessment of Latin America’s First Passivhaus Home." Atmosphere 12, no. 11 (November 8, 2021): 1477. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111477.

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Sustainable building design, such as the Passivhaus standard, seeks to minimise energy consumption, while improving indoor environmental comfort. Very few studies have studied the indoor air quality (IAQ) in Passivhaus homes outside of Europe. This paper presents the indoor particulate matter (PM2.5), carbon dioxide (CO2), and total volatile organic compounds (tVOC) measurements of the first residential Passivhaus in Latin America. It compares them to a standard home in Mexico City. Low-cost monitors were installed in the bedroom, living room, and kitchen spaces of both homes, to collect data at five-minute intervals for one year. The physical measurements from each home were also compared to the occupants’ IAQ perceptions. The measurements demonstrated that the Passivhaus CO2 and tVOC annual average levels were 143.8 ppm and 81.47 μg/m3 lower than the standard home. The PM2.5 in the Passivhaus was 11.13 μg/m3 lower than the standard home and 5.75 μg/m3 lower than outdoors. While the results presented here cannot be generalised, the results suggest that Passivhaus dwellings can provide better and healthier indoor air quality in Latin America. Further, large-scale studies should look at the indoor environmental conditions, energy performance, and dwelling design of Passivhaus dwellings in Latin America.

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C. Menezes, Deborah. "Aging in India: From Family to Institutional Care." Indian Journal of Health Studies 02, no. 01 (2020): 26–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.56490/ijhs.2020.2102.

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This paper has two parts—the first reviews literature on institutional care in the world, in India, and in Goa; the second presents a case study of care homes in Goa. The study was carried out in three phases: scoping study for first two months, following which we applied participant observation for a month each in three homes, the three months following that, we conducted in-depth interviews on a sample of 24 residents, 12 employees and managerial staff distributed across the three homes. The review highlights transitions in the Indian socioeconomic, cultural and value systems which espouse the need for quality institutional care for the elderly. The case study explores the decision-making dynamics of admission into a care home as well as the process of moving into a care home.

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HÄMEL, KERSTIN. "Making nursing homes more community-oriented: insights from an exploratory study in Germany." Ageing and Society 36, no. 4 (December 17, 2014): 673–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x14001391.

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ABSTRACTNursing homes have been criticised for restricting the lifestyle of older people in need of care. As concepts of elder care have changed and services in formal care have developed further, efforts towards deinstitutionalisation have led to the enhancement of community care models. This paper discusses how ideas of community care can also influence reform within institutional care. The study focuses on the challenges and obstacles of practice change arising in German nursing homes by opening up to civil society principles. Applying the model of organisational hybridisation, the concept of 12 German nursing homes regarding family and community partners' involvement were analysed through explorative qualitative interviews with nursing home directors. The nursing homes have conceived various forms of co-operation with community actors. Nevertheless, emerging tensions between state, market and civil society conceptions of the nursing homes limit practical change. The ‘organisational hybridisation’ has generated two general problems to be discussed here: first, the difficulty nursing homes have in opening their doors to new perceptions of care as well as to the interests of their community partners. Second, the fact that the nursing homes tend either to strive for an integration in community life or for the maintenance of a ‘sheltered zone’ for their residents implies that nursing homes' definition of ‘normality’ has a strong influence on their chosen concept of care.

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Daly, Mary, Margarita León, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Costanzo Ranci, and Tine Rostgaard. "COVID-19 and policies for care homes in the first wave of the pandemic in European welfare states: Too little, too late?" Journal of European Social Policy 32, no. 1 (December 20, 2021): 48–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09589287211055672.

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This article examines COVID-19 and residential care for older people during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, comparing a range of countries – Denmark, England, Germany, Italy and Spain – to identify the policy approaches taken to the virus in care homes and set these in institutional and policy context. Pandemic policies towards care homes are compared in terms of lockdown, testing and the supply of personal protective equipment. The comparative analysis shows a clear cross-national clustering: Denmark and Germany group together by virtue of the proactive approach adopted, whereas England, Italy and Spain had major weaknesses resulting in delayed and generally inadequate responses. The article goes on to show that these outcomes and country clustering are embedded in particular long-term care (LTC) policy systems. The factors that we highlight as especially important in differentiating the countries are the resourcing of the sector, the regulation of LTC and care homes, and the degree of vertical (and to a lesser extent horizontal) coordination in the sector and between it and the health sector.

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Lomas, GM, R. Howell-Jones, and CAM McNulty. "Identifying key factors that affect care home catheterisation rates: changing practice through audit." Journal of Infection Prevention 10, no. 2 (March 2009): 66–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177408098142.

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Urinary catheterisation in care homes is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Catheterisation rates in English care homes can vary significantly, yet the cause of these variations remains unclear. The authors approached 114 randomly selected care homes (3,190 residents) in the health district of Gloucestershire, England. A postal questionnaire survey was used to determine the number of catheters per care home and where residents' catheters were first acquired. There was a wide range of urinary catheterisation prevalence between homes, with some homes having no catheterised residents and one home with a prevalence of 47%. The majority of care home residents acquired catheters as hospital in-patients (57%), prior to care home admission. The authors suggest that patients discharged from hospital with a urinary catheter need a catheter care plan stating the reason for catheter insertion, and plans for review and removal. There is a need for ongoing local audits in primary and secondary care to determine how many patients are being discharged with unnecessary urinary catheters.

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Bunnell, Joseph E., Linda V. Garcia, Jill M. Furst, Harry Lerch, Ricardo A. Olea, Stephen E. Suitt, and Allan Kolker. "Navajo Coal Combustion and Respiratory Health Near Shiprock, New Mexico." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2010 (2010): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/260525.

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Indoor air pollution has been identified as a major risk factor for acute and chronic respiratory diseases throughout the world. In the sovereign Navajo Nation, an American Indian reservation located in the Four Corners area of the USA, people burn coal in their homes for heat. To explore whether/how indoor coal combustion might contribute to poor respiratory health of residents, this study examined respiratory health data, identified household risk factors such as fuel and stove type and use, analyzed samples of locally used coal, and measured and characterized fine particulate airborne matter inside selected homes. In twenty-five percent of homes surveyed coal was burned in stoves not designed for that fuel, and indoor air quality was frequently found to be of a level to raise concerns. The average winter 24-hourPM2.5concentration in 20 homes was 36.0 μg/m3. This is the first time thatPM2.5has been quantified and characterized inside Navajo reservation residents' homes.

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Lynch, Heather. "Esposito’s affirmative biopolitics in multispecies homes." European Journal of Social Theory 22, no. 3 (May 27, 2019): 364–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368431018804156.

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Drawing on Roberto Esposito’s conceptualization of ‘affirmative biopolitics’, this article examines the relationship between bedbugs and humans in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Through an analysis of ethnographic field notes and interviews with people who live in the area, this article traces their experiences from first encounters. The trajectory of this experience shows a shift from a desire to immunize their homes through total annihilation of the creatures to the more pragmatic position of learning how to live with them through an orientation toward ‘shared vulnerability’. This case study raises interesting questions for biopolitical theory: how can we conceive of affirmative biopolitics when the limitations of species being are evident, and is it possible to conceive of a multi or even interspecies munus or obligation?

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Ben-Ner, Avner, Darla J. Hamann, and Ting Ren. "Does Ownership Matter in the Selection of Service Providers? Evidence From Nursing Home Consumer Surveys." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 47, no. 6 (July 30, 2018): 1271–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0899764018790698.

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This study considers the role of ownership in consumer choice of service providers in mixed-ownership industries. First, it analyzes theoretically consumer search in the face of severe asymmetric information about important service attributes in a market where nonprofit, for-profit, and local government providers coexist. Second, the article distinguishes between two consumer decision strategies, traditional search for information, and using ownership as a signal of quality. Third, the article analyzes an original data set about nursing homes and their customers (residents and their families). We found that (a) despite empirical evidence showing that nonprofit nursing homes are of higher quality, consumers who use ownership status in their search were more likely to choose for-profit organizations; (b) better educated consumers are more likely to choose nonprofit over for-profit organizations; (c) consumers who search more in-depth and who find information about nursing home lobbies less important for selection are more likely to choose homes that are nonprofit. The choice of local government–owned homes is based on a process that resembles weakly the process used to choose nonprofit homes more than for-profit homes.

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Tulloch, J. S. P., R. Green, C. Tunnah, E. Coffey, M. Ashton, and S. Ghebrehewet. "COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes during the first wave: are Care Quality Commission ratings a good predictor of at-risk homes?" Journal of Hospital Infection 111 (May 2021): 96–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.023.

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Swain, Susan M. "The First Telecasts of Congress." News for Teachers of Political Science 54 (1987): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0197901900000398.

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When C-SPAN began satellite-transmitted telecasts of the U.S. House of Representaives in March 1979, three million cable homes were wired to receive its service. Weekdays, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. live Congressional debates could be piped into the livingrooms of interested cable subscribers. Four C-SPAN employees labored on the project and when the House was dark, they typed up the text for video billboards that announced their next Congressional telecast.Over the next eight years, C-SPAN grew dramatically. Today, 135 employees work for C-SPAN in fields as diverse as programming, marketing, accounting, and newsletter publication. C-SPAN is on the air 24 hours a day with two channels of public affairs programming. The core of C-SPAN's fare is still the U.S. House debates; C-SPAN II, created in 1986, offers live coverage of Senate debates.

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Cespedes-Lopez, Maria-Francisca, Raul-Tomas Mora-Garcia, V. Raul Perez-Sanchez, and Pablo Marti-Ciriquian. "The Influence of Energy Certification on Housing Sales Prices in the Province of Alicante (Spain)." Applied Sciences 10, no. 20 (October 13, 2020): 7129. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10207129.

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This work examines the implementation of energy labelling by the residential real estate sector. First, it considers the interest by real estate sellers in not publishing energy certification information, and then, it quantifies the impact of the housing’s energy certification on the asking price. The results are compared with those obtained from other studies conducted in distinct European countries. The study’s final sample was collected, including information from 52,939 multi-family homes placed on the real estate market in the province of Alicante (Spain). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used, as well as an ordinary least squares regression model. This study highlights the fact that, in the current market, owners and sellers have no incentive to reveal the energy certification, since this permits them to sell homes with low energy ratings at prices similar to those of more energy efficient homes. In addition, it was found that homes with better energy ratings (letters A and B) are not sold at higher prices than homes with other rating letters, unlike the case of other European countries that were examined.

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Kubala, Sebastian, and Magdalena Zając-Sawicka. "Regional differences of demand for social welfare homes in Poland in 2010-2018." Problems of Economics and Law 3, no. 2 (October 22, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7215.

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Aim: The aim of the article was to assess the satisfaction of the needs for social welfare homes in voivodeships in 2010-2018. An additional aspect was the visibility of the principles of functioning of social welfare homes in Poland on the basis of applicable legal acts. Material and methods: Assessment of the satisfaction of the needs for social welfare homes in voivodeships in 2010-2018 was based on two measures. The first was the ratio of meeting the needs of people waiting for placement in social welfare homes. The second indicator is the demand indicator for social welfare homes. The data needed for the calculations was taken from the reports of the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy. In addition, analysis of the literature and collected materials enabled insightful describe activities of social welfare homes in Poland. Results and conclusions: Considering the area of Poland as a whole, positive tendencies have been observed in the years 2010-2018 to meet the needs of social welfare homes. Considering individual voivodships, some areas can be identified which are characterized by a better and worse level of satisfaction for these houses. The greatest satisfaction of the needs for social welfare homes occurs in the south-eastern part of Poland in the Podkarpackie and Lubelskie Voivodeship. The smallest degree of satisfying the needs for social welfare homes occurs in the Śląskie Voivodeship. A relatively low degree of satisfaction of needs occurs in the western and northern Poland. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce solutions that will result in a proportional development of the number of social welfare homes. The lack of places in public social welfare homes may increase the time needed to locate people who need support in these entities. It can also cause the appearance of people in need of assistance in other places that are not designed for this.

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Klempic-Bogadi, Sanja. "The older population and the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Croatia." Stanovnistvo 59, no. 1 (2021): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/stnv210406003k.

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The probability of older people contracting COVID-19 is high, and the disease in this population is in a significant percentage of cases accompanied by severe symptoms that can be fatal. Unlike numerous European countries, Croatia introduced epidemiological measures during the first and second waves of the disease that were no more rigorous for the elderly living in their own homes than those for the general population. However, the urge to stay at home and maintain physical distancing has significantly altered the daily lives of all senior citizens. At the same time, very strict measures were introduced for older residents living in nursing homes during both waves. This paper aims to analyse the differences between the lifestyles of the elderly living in their own homes and those accommodated in nursing homes in the context of the epidemiological measures implemented, and to analyse the dominant narrative about the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia. News stories focusing on the elderly exclusively in terms of care, (in)security, and illness(es) construct a position that further excludes, isolates, and intimidates them. In doing so, most attention is paid to problems within social and health institutions (nursing homes and hospitals), while the elderly living in their own homes are largely marginalised.

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Lee, Ye-Na, Dai-Young Kwon, and Sung-Ok Chang. "Bridging the Knowledge Gap for Pressure Injury Management in Nursing Homes." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 3 (January 27, 2022): 1400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031400.

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Background: Pressure injuries in nursing homes remain a consistent problem. Unfortunately, despite the variety of pressure injury education offered in nursing homes, the knowledge learned cannot be applied in practice, and as a result, the prevalence and incidence of such injuries are consistently high. This study aimed to address those gaps by analyzing the nursing competency for pressure injury management and implementing pressure injury education programs in nursing homes. Methods: Two phases were conducted based on the action cycle in the knowledge to action model. During the first phase, a framework was constructed by analyzing nursing experience. The second phase consisted of the implementation and monitoring of the program to evaluate the effects of the framework. Results: The main results for nursing competencies for pressure injury management in nursing homes are integrated thinking, understanding in an environmental context, interpersonal relationships for efficient decision making, and meeting any challenges to professional development. The results concerning the program’s effects showed significant differences in the participants’ knowledge, attitude, stage discrimination ability, and clinical management judgment ability. Conclusion: The educational framework and program derived from this study are expected to improve nurses’ pressure injury management competency in nursing homes and to contribute to effective pressure injury management and quality of life for residents in nursing homes.

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Archambault, Olivia, Martine Lagacé, and Sarah Anne Fraser. "A critical discourse analysis of the Quebec media’s portrayal of older adults in residences and long-term care homes pre- and peri-COVID-19." F1000Research 11 (October 21, 2022): 1205. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.125098.1.

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Background: How we discuss older adults can influence our perceptions of aging and age-related policies, particularly during times of crisis. Ageist discourse in the media impacts how society views older adults and how older adults view themselves. Negative stereotypes have been associated with negative health outcomes and can exacerbate the adverse events faced by older adults during a pandemic. This study examined the Quebec media’s portrayal of older adults living in long-term care (LTC) homes before and during the first wave of COVID-19. Methods: The first confirmed COVID-19 case in Quebec was on 27 February 2020. The Factiva database was searched for newspaper articles that were published three months before (pre) and three months after (peri) the first confirmed case. Articles had to include the terms: older adults, LTC, and/or residence. Articles were excluded if they did not discuss direct or indirect impacts in the lives of people living in LTC (i.e., only discussed statistics of COVID-19 cases). After screening, 208 articles were retained, and critical discourse analysis was conducted. Results: The media discourse regarding older adults in LTC homes revealed a lack of resources (i.e., insufficient staff) and negative health outcomes for older adults (i.e., bed sores) in both the pre- and peri-COVID-19 articles. Negative and positive elements emerged from the peri-COVID-19 discourse, including increased social isolation of those in LTC, government action and advocacy (by health care practitioners and family) to support those in LTC homes. Conclusions: Existing systemic problems were exacerbated by the pandemic and this impacted older adults in LTC homes negatively. Despite this, the peri-COVID-19 discourse suggests meaningful change at the societal and policy levels to improve outcomes for future generations of older adults who reside in LTC homes.

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