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Spiritual Support on Skype for the Seriously Ill

Voices in Bioethics, 2015
Newly diagnosed and seriously ill patients who need spiritual support, but are unable to travel for it, can now access free counseling via Skype or phone from chaplains working with ChaplainsOnHand.org, ChaplainCareforVeterans.org and ...
Randi Belisomo
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A Service Evaluation of a Specialist Multi‐Disciplinary Weight Management Service Based in Primary Care Including Long‐Term Follow‐Up Data

Clinical Obesity, Volume 16, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This service evaluation of a primary care‐based specialist weight management service reports data from 1094 patients over 5 years (2014–2019), including weight data at 1‐year post‐discharge. The results show clinically and statistically significant improvements in weight, diet, physical activity, quality of life, blood pressure and blood ...
Helen M. Parretti, Carly A. Hughes, Sally Erskine, Nicholas Steel, Amy Jennings   +4 more
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Household members and health care workers as supervisors of tuberculosis treatment Miembros familiares y profesionales de salud en la supervisión del tratamiento de la tuberculosis Membros familiares e profissionais de saúde na supervisão do tratamento da tuberculose

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2010
OBJECTIVE: To compare tuberculosis cure rates among patients supervised by household members or health care workers. METHODS: Prospective cohort study of 171 patients treated by the program in Vitoria, Southeastern Brazil, from 2004 to 2007. Each patient
Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel, Leticia Molino Guidoni, Ana Paula Brioshi, Thiago Nascimento do Prado, Geisa Fregona, David Jamil Hadad, Lucilia Pereira Molino, Moises Palaci, John L Johnson, Reynaldo Dietze   +9 more
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Half of Vermont Academic and Public Libraries Lack Written Confidentiality Policies Despite Directors’ Support for Principles of Patron Confidentiality

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2008
A Review of: Magi, Trina J., “The Gap between Theory and Practice: A Study of the Prevalence and Strength of Patron Confidentiality Policies in Public and Academic Libraries.” Library & Information Science Research 29 (2007): 455-70 ...
Stephanie Walker
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Caring for caregivers and persons living with dementia under home-based primary care: protocol for an interventional clinical trial

Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Approximately 7.5 million older adults are homebound, who have difficulty and/or need assistance to leave their homes. In this growing population, the prevalence of people living with dementia (PLWD) is approximately 50%. Current dementia care
Maimouna Sy, Ayush Thacker, Orla C. Sheehan, Bruce Leff, Christine Seel Ritchie   +4 more
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Dietary patterns and psychosocial health status among elderly in West Bengal-India

Cogent Gerontology
The health and quality of life, of older persons are commonly affected by physiological and psychological changes and concurrent to the changes that occur in their food choices and consumption patterns due to various biological and psychological reasons.
Rima Ghosh, Vahini Jalli, Balakrishna Nagalla, Sylvia Fernandez Rao   +3 more
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How Public Home Care Officers Reason when Making a Needs Assessment for Food Distribution to Homebound Elderly Persons in Sweden

Global Journal of Health Science, 2013
Food distribution (FD) is a part of the public social and care service in Sweden aiming to prevent improper food intake for persons that they are unable to do their own shopping, and prepare their own meals, and in that way ensure reasonable standard of living. Before a person can be granted the FD service, from any municipality, an assessment of their
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Assistência domiciliar na cidade de Salvador-BA: possibilidade de atuação fonoaudiológica em Motricidade Orofacial Home care in Salvador-BA: a work possibility for speech therapists in orofacial myofunction

Revista CEFAC, 2009
OBJETIVO: caracterizar o atendimento fonoaudiológico nas empresas de Assistência Domiciliar de Salvador. MÉTODOS: pesquisa retrospectiva por meio da aplicação de questionário às empresas, fonoaudiólogos e pacientes atendidos com fonoaudiólogo, de Janeiro
Sarah Leite Barros da Silva, Rosana Inácio Protásio Musse, Kátia Nemr   +2 more
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Half of Vermont Academic and Public Libraries Lack Written Confidentiality Policies Despite Directors’ Support for Principles of Patron Confidentiality. A Review of: Magi, Trina J., “The Gap between Theory and Practice: A Study of the Prevalence and Strength of Patron Confidentiality Policies in Public and Academic Libraries.” Library & Information Science Research 29 (2007): 455-70.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2008
Objectives – To examine the prevalence and strength of patron confidentiality policies and practices at academic and public libraries in Vermont; to examine variances in policies by type and size of library and by qualifications of library directors; and
Stephanie Walker
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Obesity is a risk factor for homebound status among older persons

The FASEB Journal, 2006
Gordon Lee Jensen, Heidi J Silver, Marie‐Andree Roy, Eve Callahan, Christopher Still, William Dupont   +5 more
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