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2012
Apart from personal factors, the living environment constitutes the other major group of factors that contribute to aging well. While there have been many studies on the impact of personal factors, such as lifestyle, socioeconomic, and psychosocial factors on aging well, there have been comparatively few studies on the impact of the living environment ...
Wong, M, Chau, PH, Woo, S
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Apart from personal factors, the living environment constitutes the other major group of factors that contribute to aging well. While there have been many studies on the impact of personal factors, such as lifestyle, socioeconomic, and psychosocial factors on aging well, there have been comparatively few studies on the impact of the living environment ...
Wong, M, Chau, PH, Woo, S
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Improving the living environment of Singapore
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1991For the past quarter century, the government of Singapore has redeveloped the city with multiple objectives. The city should be free of squatters, slums and pollutive influences. It should be clean, green and healthy for living. All necessary infrastructures are provided and function well.
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1990
The influx of adults with disabilities into community-based programs requires careful thought and planning regarding the development of community living programs. This need comes at a significant point in the history of services for adults with disabilities, for we currently have the opportunity to create programs that truly reflect the typical living ...
Robert L. Schalock, William E. Kiernan
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The influx of adults with disabilities into community-based programs requires careful thought and planning regarding the development of community living programs. This need comes at a significant point in the history of services for adults with disabilities, for we currently have the opportunity to create programs that truly reflect the typical living ...
Robert L. Schalock, William E. Kiernan
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Living environments and older people
Nursing Older People, 2000The influence of care environments on patients has long been a fundamental concern for nurses. Considerations of how environments might be defined, particularly how multiple aspects of environments might impact on any individual, are complex. This article aims to unpick some of the complexities and to offer ideas on how nurses can positively influence ...
H, Heath, L, Phair
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On Living in a Multicultural Environment
2016In Chap. 3 the origins of multiculturalism were explained. As was noted, multiculturalism can have different meanings—referring to the demographic composition of society, a policy promoting diversity and equality and finally an attitude towards a culturally plural society.
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2010
In this chapter we address the question of what kind of living environments the 20 homes provided in the early 2000s and how they compare with the past. Forty years ago, Pincus adopted the term the ‘institutional environment’ which he defined as the psycho-social milieu in which the residents live as expressed through and/or generated by (a) physical
Julia Johnson +2 more
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In this chapter we address the question of what kind of living environments the 20 homes provided in the early 2000s and how they compare with the past. Forty years ago, Pincus adopted the term the ‘institutional environment’ which he defined as the psycho-social milieu in which the residents live as expressed through and/or generated by (a) physical
Julia Johnson +2 more
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1991
Abstract There are millions of different types of individual organisms that inhabit the earth at any one time-some very similar to each other, some very different. Biologists classify organisms into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups on the basis of similarities and differences in their structure and behavior.
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Abstract There are millions of different types of individual organisms that inhabit the earth at any one time-some very similar to each other, some very different. Biologists classify organisms into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups on the basis of similarities and differences in their structure and behavior.
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Collegiate Living Environments
Journal of Addictions Nursing, 2004The purpose of this study was to examine the living environments of undergraduate college students as a predictor of 3 behaviors: binge drinking, its adverse consequences, and the risk-reducing activities used to mitigate binge drinking consequences.
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The Living and Its Environments
Process Studies, 2008In this article, I claim that Stengers’ interpretation of Whitehead’s speculative philosophy is organized around the concept of “infection.” In focusing on this concept it becomes possible to link process concepts such as “societies,” “environment,” and “historical trajectories” in a real philosophy of life.
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Gestures in Assisted Living Environments
2012This paper is concerned with multimodal assisted living environments, particularly based on gesture interaction. The research of ambient assisted living is about the provision of a safe, comfortable, and inde-pendent lifestyle at a domestic environment.
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