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Parenting Support for Mothers Raised in Out‐Of‐Home Care

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research and social indicators consistently confirm that young people who exit statutory out‐of‐home care (OOHC) tend to remain socially and economically disadvantaged through young adulthood. The present article reports findings from a qualitative study of the perceived parenting support needs of eight mothers (aged 17–30 years) who had spent
Jamie Ussher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Review for Ireland's National Dementia Strategy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines the prevalence and economic and social costs of dementia; policies, practices, and data on health and social care services in community-based, acute care, and long-term residential settings; and proposed elements for a new ...
Eamon O'Shea   +2 more
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A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

open access: yesCritical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
wiley   +1 more source

From dawn to dusk: a temporal model of caregiving: adult carers of frail parents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Caregiving is not a short term commitment. Of the estimated 6 million carers in the UK, almost a third of co-resident carers have been caring for at least 10 years (Rowland and Parker 1998).
Cavaye, Joyce E.
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Mental health difficulties in cerebral palsy: A qualitative study of young people's and parents' perspectives

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim To explore the experiences of mental health difficulties and access to mental health support among young people with cerebral palsy (CP). Method We used a qualitative descriptive design. Participants were young people with CP aged 13 to 25 years and parents of children with CP (6–25 years).
Manjula Manikandan   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The provision of informal care in terminal illness: An analysis of carers? needs using a discrete choice experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
There is an increasing expectation that families will provide care at home for those with chronic, acute and terminal illness. There is a range of services available to support the home care of these patients.
Ishrat Hossain   +2 more
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caring for Our Kupuna: Building an Aging in Place Movement in Hawaii [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Government funding for elder care in the United States is becoming increasingly strained as the number of seniors and the cost of healthcare rise. Medicare paid $560 billion for hospital visits, prescription drugs, and other services in 2010 and expects ...

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Real‐world use of second‐generation integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTI) as switch therapy in the prospective ANRS‐CO3‐AquiVIH‐NA cohort

open access: yesHIV Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives To characterize real‐world treatment switching in France to bictegravir (BIC or B) or dolutegravir (DTG)‐based regimens with a focus on treatment persistence, effectiveness (HIV‐1 RNA ≤50 copies/ml) and particular attention to the prevalence and incidence of comorbidities. Methods People living with HIV from the prospective ANRS‐CO3‐
O. Leleux   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Am I lovin’ it? Tourists and the McDonald’s experience abroad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Global organisations such as McDonald’s play a part in the tourist experience not only by offering food and drink, but also by providing other informal benefits such as clean toilets, air conditioning and increasingly wifi.
Johns, Nick, Osman, Hanaa
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