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Known in the nursing home: development and evaluation of a digital person-centered artistic photo-activity intervention to promote social interaction between residents with dementia, and their formal and informal carers

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background To address the lack of social interaction and meaningful activities for persons with dementia (PWD) in nursing homes an artistic Photo-Activity was designed.
Josephine Rose Orejana Tan, Petra Boersma, Teake P. Ettema, Laurence Aëgerter, Robbert Gobbens, Max L. Stek, Rose-Marie Dröes   +6 more
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Managing Cartels: how Cartel Participants Create Stability in the Absence of law [PDF]

, 2016
Firms enter cartels (e.g. price-fixing; bid-rigging) in order to control market uncertainties and gain collusive profits, but face challenges in controlling the cartel itself.
Jaspers, J.D.
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MOTIVATIONS, IMPORTANCE, CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN HEALTH

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2019
Purpose: To understand the motivations, importance, challenges and perspectives for acting as local health counselors in the Unified Health System.Method: A qualitative and descriptive study of the exploratory type conducted with 15 local health ...
Carlos Junglos, Felipa Rafaela Amadigi, Rosani Ramos Machado, Jacks Sorato   +3 more
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Choice in the context of informal care-giving [PDF]

, 2007
Extending choice and control for social care service users is a central feature of current English policies. However, these have comparatively little to say about choice in relation to the informal carers of relatives, friends or older people who are ...
Allen I., Appleby J., Arksey H., Audit Commission, Bell J., Cabinet Office, Carers National Association, Caring Costs Alliance, Clarke J., Commission for Social Care Inspection, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Dowding K., Ellis K., Giddens A., Hadley R., Hasler F., Hirsch C.H., Howard M., Joshi H., Kagan C., Klein R., Larkin J.P., Lent A., Levin E., Macgregor G., Mayo E., McLaughlin E., Minichiello V., Mooney A., Morris J., Morris J., Myers F., Needham C., Nolan M., Parker G., Parker G., Parry J., Penrod J., Pickard L., Pickard L., Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Qureshi H., Royal Commission on Long Term Care, Schwartz B., Scottish Executive, Scourfield P., Seddon D., Seddon D., Shakespeare T., Tilse C., Twigg J., Twigg J., Twigg J., Vernon A., Welsh Assembly Government   +57 more
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]

, 2021
In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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Social Support and Personal Agency in At-Risk Mothers [PDF]

Psychosocial Intervention, 2011
This study investigated: a) mothers´ use and satisfaction with informal and formal supports in at-risk psychosocial contexts, and b) the relationships between satisfaction with help and the mothers´ perception of their role (personal agency). Self-report
María José Rodrigo, Sonia Byrne
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Willingness of women‐led businesses in Pakistan to join formal e‐commerce platforms

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2022
An equitable distribution of economic benefits from the recent growth of e‐commerce in Pakistan requires inclusive adoption of formal digital marketplaces.
Syed M. Hasan, M. Raza Mustafa Khan, Verda Arif   +2 more
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Post-Socialist Anomie Through the Lens of Economic Modernization and the Formalization of Social Control [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This paper inquires into how economic modernization impacts normative regulation by spurring, on the one hand (a) formal media of normative regulation (also known as formal social control) in the spheres of politics, economics and interpersonal relations and, on the other hand, (b) informality via the lower density of norms (also known as anomie). This
Christopher Swader, Leon Kosals
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Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life [PDF]

, 2013
According to economic theory, real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of inflation adjusted nominal income and not taken into
A E Clark, A E Clark, A Ferrer-I Carbonell, A Ferrer-I-Carbonell, A Finkelstein, A Oswald, A Oswald, A Stutzer, A Stutzer, Armin Falk, B S Frey, B Weber, C Senik, D Kahneman, Di Tella, E Fehr, E Shafir, Efp Luttmer, G Akerlof, G G Wagner, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, I Fisher, J Schupp, J Stiglitz, K Fliessbach, M M Grabka, P Dolan, R Chetty, R Kawka, R Layard, S Boes, T Blumkin, Thomas Deckers   +32 more
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Trapped by the Lack of Control Over Savings: Evidence From Pakistan

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Gender discrimination and associated social norms are important contributing factors to the high frequency of women trapped in poverty – particularly in developing countries.
Elisa van Dongen, Syedah Ahmad, Robert Lensink, Annika Mueller   +3 more
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