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Outbreak Investigation of COVID-19 Among Residents and Staff of an Independent and Assisted Living Community for Older Adults in Seattle, Washington.

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2020
Importance Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused epidemic spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the Seattle, Washington, metropolitan area, with morbidity and mortality concentrated among residents of skilled ...
A. Roxby, A. Greninger, Kelly M. Hatfield, John B. Lynch, T. Dellit, Allison E James, Joanne Taylor, L. Page, Anne A. Kimball, Melissa M. Arons, Albert Munanga, N. Stone, J. Jernigan, Sujan C. Reddy, James W Lewis, Seth A Cohen, K. Jerome, J. Duchin, Santiago Neme   +18 more
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Quality improvement collaborative approach to COVID-19 pandemic preparedness in long-term care homes: a mixed-methods implementation study

BMJ Open Quality
Background The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care (LTC) homes underscores the importance of effective pandemic preparedness and response. This mixed-methods, implementation science study investigated how a virtual-based quality
Clayon Hamilton, Annette Berndt, Lucy Kervin, Laura Kadowaki, Janice Sorensen, Akber Mithani, Simran Dhadda, Abeera Irfan, Emma Leong   +8 more
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The Need to Include Assisted Living in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Schools of Social Work and Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC Cecil G.
S. Zimmerman, P. Sloane, P. Katz, Margo B. Kunze, Kevin O’Neil, B. Resnick   +5 more
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Assisted Living

, 2011
Some pages are in colour.
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Improving Activity Recognition Accuracy in Ambient-Assisted Living Systems by Automated Feature Engineering

IEEE Access, 2017
Ambient-assisted living (AAL) is promising to become a supplement of the current care models, providing enhanced living experience to people within context-aware homes and smart environments.
Eftim Zdravevski, Petre Lameski, Vladimir Trajkovik, Andrea Kulakov, Ivan Chorbev, Rossitza Goleva, Nuno Pombo, Nuno Garcia   +7 more
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The Role of Assisted Living Capacity on Nursing Home Financial Performance

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018
The rapid growth of the assisted living industry has coincided with decreased levels of nursing home occupancy and financial performance. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationships among assisted living capacity, nursing home occupancy ...
Justin Lord MBA, CMA, FHFMA, Ganisher Davlyatov MPH, Kali S. Thomas PhD, Kathryn Hyer PhD, MPP, Robert Weech-Maldonado PhD   +4 more
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Ambient Assisted living system's models and architectures: A survey of the state of the art

Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2020
The field of Ambient Assisted living (AAL) is evolving rapidly. Standardization, uniformities and facilitation in the system design, have become an urge to satisfy the growing needs for integrated solutions.
Amina El murabet, Anouar Abtoy, A. Touhafi, A. Tahiri   +3 more
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The dynamics and pitfalls of home-based caregiving rendered by male caregivers in the city of tshwane metropolitan municipality, South Africa

Critical Public Health
This study investigated the dynamics and pitfalls surrounding home-based caregiving as rendered by male caregivers in the South African City of Tshwane Metro Municipality.
Christian Dumba, Robert Lekganyane
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A home, an institution and a community – frames of social relationships and interaction in assisted living

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2022
Assisted living facilities are presented as the older person’s home but, at the same time, defined by institutional and communal characteristics. Using Goffman’s (1974/1986) concept of frame, we aim to find out how home, institution and community frames
Katariina Tuominen, Ilkka Pietilä, Marja Jylhä, Jari Pirhonen   +3 more
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Patient Activation in Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors: Current Insights and Implications for Survivorship Care—A Systematic Review From the e‐QuoL Project

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Patient activation—encompassing knowledge, confidence, and skills in managing individual's health—is a cornerstone of person‐centered care. However, its significance among childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors (CAYACS) remains unexplored. This article examines the application of the 13‐item Patient Activation Measure (
Charlotte Demoor‐Goldschmidt, Anne Maas, Gisela Michel, Amandine Bertrand, Kristen E. T. Thornton, Martine Bellanger, Anna‐Liesa Filbert, Desiree Grabow, Monica Muraca, Katharina Roser, Sara Oberti, Jelena Roganovic, Hanne Cathrine Lie   +12 more
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