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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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Detecting formal and informal interests in forest governance

MethodsX, 2022
To reveal the interests of actors in forest governance, this paper proposes a power-based interest identification (PII) approach. Based on the assumption of intentional action, the benefits that actors derive from policy impacts are the result of ...
Jiacheng Zhao, Max Krott, Jinlong Liu, Lukas Giessen, Jiayun Dong   +4 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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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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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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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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Les dynamiques sociologiques entre contrôle des migrations et protection sociale : femmes migrantes sans papiers en quête d’hébergement à Paris

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2017
This article aims to bypass polarized debates that either accuse migrants of abusing state forms of social protection or accuse states of excluding migrants from welfare provisions.
Maybritt Jill Alpes
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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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Patient Experiences with an mHealth App for Complex Chronic Disease Care: Connections Despite Lack of Traditional Clinical Interactions

Patient Experience Journal
Chronic diseases are costly to treat and burdensome for patients. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies might reduce costs of care and increase patient self-efficacy in chronic disease management, but the patient experience of mHealth is poorly understood.
Jenney Lee, Melissa Cheyney, Michael May, Marit Bovbjerg   +3 more
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Social Anchor: Privacy-Friendly Attribute Aggregation From Social Networks

IEEE Access, 2020
In the last decade or so, we have experienced a tremendous proliferation and popularity of different Social Networks (SNs), resulting more and more user attributes being stored in such SNs.
Md. Sadek Ferdous, Farida Chowdhury, Madini O. Alassafi, Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Victor Chang   +4 more
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