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Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2020 Older adults residing in long-term care facilities are especially vulnerable for severe illness or death from COVID-19. To contain the transmission of the virus in long-term care facilities, federal health officials have issued strict visitation ...
Edem Hado, Lynn Friss Feinberg
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Equity in medical resource utilization is a crucial concern in countries with national health insurance systems. From the perspective of an active aging framework, public health insurance is one of the pillars of economic security, as ...
Chiao-Lee Chu +6 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the stage between the expected cognitive decline of normal aging and the more serious decline of dementia.
Jia-Chi Lin, I-Hsuan Chen, Fang-Yu Cheng
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Long-Term Care for Older People
When We're Sixty-Four: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Policies in a Population-Aging Context in Latin America, 2020 Population ageing is a global reality. So is the fact that, as people age, they tend to require greater care and assistance in activities related to daily living. Nevertheless, current debates about long-term care for older persons are remarkably narrow.
Rafael P. Rofman, I. Apella
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It's Time to Resolve the Direct Care Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care
The gerontologist, 2020 Nearly 4.5 million direct care workers—including personal care aides, home health aides, and nursing assistants—provide daily support to older adults and people with disabilities across a range of settings in the United States, predominantly in long-term
Kezia Scales
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Long-Term Care System in Korea
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research, 2020 Korea is a country with unexpectedly fast ageing speed, which gives burden on caregivers of older adults. Thanks to long-term care insurance and national health insurance system, most people who need long-term care are currently staying in long-term care
H. Ga
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Patients, Primary Care, and Policy: Simulation Modeling for Health Care Decision Support [PDF]
Health Care Management Science 2021, 2019 Demand for health care is constantly increasing due to the ongoing demographic change, while at the same time health service providers face difficulties in finding skilled personnel. This creates pressure on health care systems around the world, such that the efficient, nationwide provision of primary health care has become one of society's greatest ...
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BMC Geriatrics, 2018 Background Iron deficiency is one of the most common causes of anemia in geriatric patients. Although the oral iron intake is often inadequate, the potential of iron dense foods in the daily meals of geriatric institutions is rarely considered.
Baerbel Sturtzel +4 more
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Renal Replacement Therapy, 2023 Background Preventing peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis remains a major concern in continuing safe treatment and improving patient quality of life. This study aimed to determine the self-care education and quality care initiatives performed
Haruna Kugai +6 more
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Learning to Bid Long-Term: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Long-Term and Sparse Reward in Repeated Auction Games [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We propose a multi-agent distributed reinforcement learning algorithm that balances between potentially conflicting short-term reward and sparse, delayed long-term reward, and learns with partial information in a dynamic environment. We compare different long-term rewards to incentivize the algorithm to maximize individual payoff and overall social ...
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