Effectiveness of Respite Care via Short-Stay Services to Support Sleep in Family Caregivers. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Sakurai S, Kohno Y.
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Developing New Strategies to Support Future Caregivers of the Aged in Canada: Projections of Need and their Policy Implications [PDF]
Projections of future need for Canadian continuing care services typically uses current utilization patterns and population aging. Accurately assessing this need is much more complex since disability patterns among the elderly are changing and ...
Jacques Légaré +2 more
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Rapid postfire color shift in a Mediterranean lizard
Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.We quantified dorsal luminosity and color composition of Psammodromus algirus in burned and adjacent unburned habitats at different times since fire. Lizards inhabiting recently burned areas displayed lighter dorsal coloration, particularly during the early stages of postfire succession, with the effect being more pronounced in larger individuals ...
L. Álvarez‐Ruiz +2 more
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Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this ethnographic research project involving disabled and non/disabled siblings in Canada, we have found that during major life‐changing transitions, such as the death of a parent, siblings face many challenges, including structural and systemic inequalities, struggles with and within various service systems, and difficulties with emotions ...
Pamela Block, Helen Ries, Dima Kassem
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Effects of Respite Care on the Quality of Life of Caregivers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Comparison With Parent Training: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
CureusTakatani S +6 more
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Learning and distraction: Evidence for cognitive load interference in medical education
Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Background Distraction may increase cognitive load. Cues may decrease it. But what happens if we cue in distracted learning environments? Does effective instruction buffer against the detrimental effects of distraction? Methods In a 2 × 2 factorial experiment, 117 s–year medical students without prior knowledge watched a standardised ...
Andrea Storck +8 more
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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