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Challenges of home care: a qualitative study

BMC Nursing
Background Despite countless benefits of home care, unfortunately, the variety and quality of services provided by homecare centers are uncertain. This study was conducted to explore of home care challenges. Methods The present qualitative study used the
Mohsen Shahriari, Donya Hafezi Nia, Fatemeh kalij, Maryam Sadat Hashemi   +3 more
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Rotary 3D Printing With Integrated Electroplating

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A rotary material extrusion platform integrates localized copper electroplating with printing and encapsulation to fabricate cylindrical polymer–metal structures containing fully embedded, low‐resistance conductive pathways that enable internal Joule heating and thermally activated shape‐memory responses.
Antonio Zagaria, Nicola Larovere, Moslem Mohammadi, Gianluca Percoco, Ali Zolfagharian, Gianni Stano   +5 more
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Household Responses to Public Home Care Programs [PDF]

A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of publicly and privately financed home care services is proposed.
Peter C. Coyte, Mark Stabile
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Thermal Cycle–Microstructure–Property Relationships in Rail Steel Heat‐Affected Zone Simulated by Gleeble

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Microstructural evolution of premium rail steel during flash butt welding (FBW), comparing physically simulated heat‐affected zones with actual weld regions. Thermal cycles induce phase transformations and microstructural heterogeneity that influence weld quality and mechanical performance. These findings provide insights into optimizing FBW parameters
Emmanoelle Cintra da Cunha Araújo, João Marcos da Silva Nunes, Marcelly Cristiny Nunes de Carvalho, Alex Rojas, Cristie Luis Kugelmeier, Cristhian Ricardo Loayza Loayza, João Carlos Ferreira, Maria Veronica Goncalves Rodrigues, Rute Sayuri Kano, Isaac Araújo Furtado, Jacyara Dalylla da Silva Nunes, Jhonatan Peres de Sousa, Marcos Natan da Silva Lima, Eden Santos Silva, Gedeon Silva Reis, Samuel Filgueiras Rodrigues   +15 more
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Nae too bad: a survey of job satisfaction, staff morale and qualifications in residential child care in Scotland [PDF]

, 2004
The report of the National Children’s Bureau study of staff morale, qualifications and retention in England (Mainey, 2003) rightly highlighted a number of crucial issues facing providers of residential child care.
Milligan, I.M., Avan, G., Kendrick, A.
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Understanding the Complexity of Diabetes and Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults Receiving Home Care Services: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2019
Urinary incontinence (UI) is a very prevalent problem for older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) receiving home care services. However, the complexities of living with UI and T2DM and providing nursing care for older adults in the home care ...
Melissa Northwood, Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid, Diana Sherifali   +3 more
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Allocation of home care services by municipalities in Norway: a document analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background In Norway, elder care is primarily a municipal responsibility. Municipal health services strive to offer the ‘lowest level of effective care,’ and home healthcare services are defined as the lowest level of care in Norway.
Solrun G. Holm, Terje A. Mathisen, Torill M. Sæterstrand, Berit S. Brinchmann   +3 more
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Other title: Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services Update; Other title: Update

, 2016
application/pdf; "August 5, 2016."; "Reporting Date 06/30/2016."; Presentation before the Kansas Legislature, Robert G. Bethell Joint Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight, presented by the Kansas ...
Kansas. Department for Aging and Disability Services.
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Integrated working between residential care homes and primary care: a survey of care homes in England [PDF]

, 2012
© 2012 Gage et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Cheynel Jerome, Katherine Froggatt, Iliffe Steve, Gage, H, Davies Sue L, Dickinson, Angela, Froggatt Katherine, Angela Dickinson, Wendy Martin, Gage, Heather, Heather Gage, Goodman Claire, Froggatt, Katherine Alison, Christina Victor, Victor, CR, Dickinson Angela, Victor, Christina, Froggatt, Katherine, Williams Peter, Iliffe, S, Davies, S, Iliffe, Steve, Davies, Susan, Sue L Davies, Goodman, Claire, Martin, W, Williams, P, Jerome Cheynel, Cheynel, Jerome, Victor Christina, Goodman, C, Martin, Wendy, Gage Heather, Claire Goodman, Williams, Peter, Davies, Sue, Martin Wendy, Froggatt, K, Peter Williams, Steve Iliffe, Dickinson, A, Cheynel, J   +41 more
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