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Investigating user satisfaction with the services provided by the care program "Helping Elderly at Home" and assessing their self-evaluation health level: The case of the program "Helping Elderly at Home" in the municipality of Kilkis

, 2019
ABSTRACT Introduction: The recent socioeconomic crisis created an imperative need to empower the non-hospital structures that provide care services to the elderly. In Greece, the programs “Helping Elderly at Home” and “Social Care” are the most widespread kind of non-institutional care services.
Frengidou, Elissavet, Frengidou, Elisavet, Nikolentzos, Athanasios, Galanis, Petros, Papadopoulou, Antonia   +4 more
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Far out or alone in the crowd: Classification of selfevaluators in DEA [PDF]

The units found strongly efficient in DEA studies on efficiency can be divided into self-evaluators and active peers, depending on whether the peers are referencing any inefficient units or not.
Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld, Føsund, Finn R., Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.   +2 more
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Improving Social Work in Brazil [PDF]

, 2013
As part of efforts to improve social work provision, INGO EveryChild commissioned Dr Andrew Bilson, Professor of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, to complete a literature review on the role of social workers in responding to ...
Adriana Pacheco Graham
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International Profiles of Health Care Systems, 2012 [PDF]

, 2012
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

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Information Management and E-services Development : The Follow-up Process of Residential Care Homes for Children and Young People in Two Swedish Municipalities

, 2021
This article presents preliminary results of a study that explores the management of information critical to the follow-up process of the placement of children and young people in residential care homes in two municipalities in Sweden. The placement of children and young people is regulated by a stringent legal framework to protect their integrity ...
Svärd, Proscovia, Zimic, Sheila
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Patients’ experiences of quality in palliative care and advance care planning in primary care: a qualitative study

BMC Palliative Care
Background Primary healthcare services provide care to patients and their relatives during the late palliative phase in the patients’ home or in facilities such as nursing homes.
Liv Skomakerstuen Ødbehr, Aasa Serholt Jensen, Aina Korup, Reidun Hov, Harald Sanaker, Tuva Sandsdalen   +5 more
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Potential interactions of community-based acute care teams on the frequency of acute contacts with health-care systems: an interrupted time series analysis

The Lancet. Healthy Longevity
Summary: Background: Ageing populations necessitate innovative approaches to health-care services. In 2018, Denmark introduced statutory municipal acute nursing care as part of community-based health care to improve care for adults with complex health ...
Stine Emilie Junker Udesen, MScPH, ProfMD Annmarie Touborg Lassen, MScPH, ProfMD Jens Søndergaard, MScPH, Nina Andersen, RN, ProfMD Søren Mikkelsen, RN, Søren Bie Bogh, PhD   +5 more
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Living with Uncertainty: Older Persons’ Lived Experience of Making Independent Decisions over Time

Nursing Research and Practice, 2013
The aim of the study was to illuminate the meaning of older persons’ independent decision making concerning their daily care. Autonomy when in care is highly valued in the western world.
Agneta Breitholtz, Ingrid Snellman, Ingegerd Fagerberg   +2 more
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Factors associated with the use of home-visit nursing services covered by the long-term care insurance in rural Japan: a cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics, 2013
Background In Japan, there is a large increase in the number of elderly persons who potentially need home-visit nursing services (VNS). However, the number of persons using the VNS has increased only little in comparison to the number of individuals who ...
Kashiwagi Masayo, Tamiya Nanako, Sato Mikiya, Yano Eiji   +3 more
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Home Based Care Services as Strategy to Support Anti-Retroviral Adherence: The Case of Musoma Municipal, Mara region

, 2012
A descriptive qualitative study was conducted to assess whether Home Based Care services can be used as a strategy to support Anti-retroviral adherence for People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Musoma Municipality, Mara region in March 2012. Six public health facilities that are providing ARVs were included in the study; this included the regional ...
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