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Immigrants in Health Care: Keeping Americans Healthy Through Care and Innovation [PDF]

, 2016
Immigrants play an outsized and imperative role in the U.S. health care industry. Combining existing data and profiles of immigrants across the health care spectrum, Immigrants in Health Care: Keeping Americans Healthy Through Care and Innovation ...
Marcia D. Hohn
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Activity and Behavioral Recognition Using Sensing Technology in Persons with Parkinson’s Disease or Dementia: An Umbrella Review of the Literature

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Background: With a progressively aging global population, the prevalence of Parkinson’s Disease and dementia will increase, thus multiplying the healthcare burden worldwide.
Lydia D. Boyle, Lionel Giriteka, Brice Marty, Lucas Sandgathe, Kristoffer Haugarvoll, Ole Martin Steihaug, Bettina S. Husebo, Monica Patrascu   +7 more
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Home care workers: careers, commitments and motivations

, 2003
This paper reports on a small-scale study that investigated the careers, commitments, motivations and attitudes toward training of home care workers in Medway. It also gathered information from home care providers to form a picture of Medway’s home care
Francis, Jennifer, Netten, Ann
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Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care [PDF]

, 2007
Presents findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey, and demonstrates how having stable insurance, a regular provider and, in particular, a medical home, improves health care access and quality among vulnerable ...
Anne C. Beal, Karen Davis, Katherine K. Shea, Michelle M. Doty, Susan E. Hernandez   +4 more
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Home Care

Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics, 2008
openaire   +4 more sources

The conversation: developing confidence to provide end of life care in Salford nursing homes [PDF]

, 2011
The study was funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing and partly by Salford Primary Care Trust. A realistic evaluation design was used to collect data using a range of approaches, from before and after surveys of confidence in delivering end of life care,
Attree, M, Gamal, E, Garbutt, D, Johnson, M, Jones, I   +4 more
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Models for providing improved care in residential care homes: a thematic literature review [PDF]

This Annotated Bibliography is one output from a review of the available research evidence to support improved care in residential care homes as the needs of older people intensify. Key findings The review identified extremely little published evidence
Clay, Diane, Hyde, Julia, Nelson, S. (Sara), Szczepura, Ala, Wild, Deidre   +4 more
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Do Non-Profit Operators Provide Higher Quality of Care? Evidence from Micro-Level Data for Japan's Long-term Care Industry [PDF]

Along with the introduction of the long-term care insurance scheme, the Japanese government in 2000 for the first time allowed for-profit operators to compete head-on with non-profit operators in the provision of at-home care services.
Haruko Noguchi, Satoshi Shimizutani
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Out of care, into university: raising higher education access and achievement of care leavers [PDF]

Around 40,000 children are estimated to require out-of-home care in Australia and this number has risen every year over the past decade (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2014a).
Andrew Harvey, Lisa Andrewartha, Michael Luckman, Patricia McNamara   +3 more
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Complicated Interactions in Home Care: An Ethnographic Study. [PDF]

Glob Qual Nurs Res
Einarsdottir VT, Snorradottir A, Pols J, Symonds-Brown H, Bjornsdottir K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source