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Improving outcomes for care leavers: evaluating a care leaver's assessment of need tool

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006
Care leavers' poor outcomes across a range of areas have been well documented since the 1980s. Their vulnerability to homelessness, poor educational achievement, mental ill health and offending (Biehal, Claydon, Stein and Wade,1992; Stein and Wade, 2000;
Wendy Harrington
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“I Need My Children to Know That I Will Always Be Here for Them”: Young Care Leavers’ Experiences With Their Own Motherhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina

SAGE Open, 2018
For care leavers in Argentina, the transition to an autonomous lifestyle is a process that begins at 18 years old when they are no longer protected by Children’s Rights laws.
Lucía Coler
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The impact of transition interventions for young people leaving care: a review of the Australian evidence

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2020
Whilst advancing outcomes for young people transitioning from out-of-home care is a national priority, no synthesis of Australian interventions that support their transition from care and into independence currently exists.
Renée O’Donnell, Kostas Hatzikiriakidis, Philip Mendes, Melissa Savaglio, Rachael Green, Gary Kerridge, Graeme Currie, Helen Skouteris   +7 more
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Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
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Contextualised responsiveness: care-leavers’ responses to risks and opportunities in a resource-constrained social environment

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
This South African qualitative study explicates the psychosocial process ‘contextualized responsiveness’, focussing on care-leavers’ responses to risks and opportunities within their social environments.
Sasambal Reuben
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Decreased Access to Health Care and Social Isolation among Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy after Leaving School

Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2003
Objective. T o examine if leaving special schools has a negative impact on the health care and social isolation of young adults with cerebral palsy. Methods.
SY Ng, SK Dinesh, SKH Tay, EH Lee
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SUPPORT FOR YOUTH LEAVING CARE: A NATIONAL RESEARCH STUDY, INDIA

International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2020
This paper is a condensed version of a study entitled “Beyond 18: Leaving Child Care Institutions — A Study of Aftercare Practices in Five States of India”, conducted and published in 2019 by Udayan Care, a charitable organisation, with support from ...
Kiran Modi, Lakshmi Madhavan, Leena Prasad, Gurneet Kalra, Suman Kasana, Sanya Kapoor   +5 more
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Microbiome−host proteostasis crosstalk—An emerging perspective on mechanisms and interventions toward healthy longevity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Proteostasis and the gut microbiota play a key role in shaping host physiology. Microbiota‐derived metabolites, vitamins, and RNA modulate host proteostasis. Findings from model systems, including C. elegans, indicate microbes can either stabilize or disrupt host proteostasis.
Abhishek Anil Dubey, Maria Ermolaeva
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Employment, education and housing outcomes for care leavers from a children's village in Ghana.

Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit, 2020
Each year several young people in Ghana make a transition from residential care to adulthood. However, little is known about the adult lives of care leavers in Ghana.
Kwabena Frimpong-Manso
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