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Understanding accountability in practice: Obligations, scrutiny, and consequences
Development Policy Review, Volume 41, Issue S1, March 2023., 2023 Summary Motivation Attempting to increase authorities' accountability for their actions has become a mainstay of development practice in recent decades. Yet commentators suggest that these efforts have reached an impasse, in part because of conceptual fuzziness regarding the core ideas of public accountability. Purpose This article explores what we can
Colin Anderson
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 32, Issue 5-6, Page 736-748, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Aims and objectives The objectives of this study were to assess the benefits of a caregiver training programme on the cognitive and functional status of older adults, and to compare the effects of this programme according to type of caregiver (professional vs. family caregiver).
Miriam Sanjuán +2 more
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Role of sarcopenia in the frailty transitions in older adults: a population‐based cohort study
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, Volume 13, Issue 5, Page 2352-2360, October 2022., 2022 Abstract Background Frailty and sarcopenia are age‐associated syndromes that have been associated with the risk of several adverse events, mainly functional decline and death, that usually coexist. However, the potential role of one of them (sarcopenia) in modulating some of those adverse events associated to the other one (frailty) has not been ...
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos +6 more
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History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 765-788, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article explores how during Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Francoist disabled veterans of the Spanish Civil War navigated the disappearance of formerly hegemonic historical narratives which had hitherto defined their relationship with the state.
Stephanie Wright
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Cultural auditing to enhance reflective counseling practices with Indigenous families
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 151-161, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Contemporary researchers in counseling consider cultural sensitivity and respectfulness as vital to developing a therapeutic working alliance. The author explores using a cultural audit to reflexively support cultural reflection, sensitivity, and respectfulness.
Wanda Boyer
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SANTANA Cohort: Study on Frailty in Institutionalised Older Adults and Its Relationship With Gordon's Functional Health Patterns. [PDF]
J Adv NursABSTRACT Aim This study investigated whether Gordon's Functional Health Patterns (FHPs) can predict frailty in older adults residing in nursing homes over 5 years. Design Prospective cohort study with participants from 10 nursing homes across five countries. Methods Researchers assessed 1245 participants at baseline and 903 at follow‐up (5 years) using
Pérez-Rugosa V +4 more
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Economic Anthropology, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 137-148, January 2022., 2022 During the South African lockdown, food relief was largely delivered by civil society, after the government failed to honor its pledge to provide for the population. By taking a local food parcel initiative in a small rural township as an ethnographic case study, this article examines why the attempt to mimic government food distribution generated ...
Magnus Godvik Ekeland
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SOCIEDAD Y PERSONA ADULTA MAYOR. SIGNIFICADOS PARA PERCIBIR BIENESTAR SUBJETIVO
Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2013 El objetivo principal de este artículo consiste en exponer los significados que el anciano bayamés utiliza para construir su percepción de bienestar subjetivo en la interacción con la sociedad.
Karina Riverón Hernández +1 more
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Civic‐Led Banishment in South Africa: Punishment, Authority, and Spatialised Precarity
Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 174-196, January 2022., 2022 Abstract Civic‐led banishment, a fundamentally spatial punishment, is an understudied phenomenon in South Africa and beyond. We define it as “a punitive spatial practice, enacted by non‐state actors in response to alleged criminality or deviance, which attempts varying degrees of socio‐spatial expulsion over time”.
S.J. Cooper‐Knock, Gail Super
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An Edition of Ambrosio Nieto’s Paradise Lost: A Drama in Four Acts (c. 1920–50)
, 2023 Milton Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 59-88, October 2023.
Angelica Duran
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