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Maintaining and Improving Social Security for Direct Care Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
America's more than three million direct care workers (DCWs) -- a category that includes nursing assistants, home health aides, and personal and home care aides -- play a crucial role in maintaining the health and economic security of elderly retirees ...
Shawn Fremstad
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The future in a bubble: Supporting Finnish early childhood professionals working in diverse settings

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to contribute to the knowledge about early childhood education and care (ECEC) personnel's perception of the support structures that are most effective in assisting them in their work with culturally and linguistically diverse children.
Alexandra C. Anton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate the Conceptual Stage of Interior Space Design: Conditional Generative Adversarial Network-Supported Long-Term Care Space Floor Plan Design of Retirement Home Buildings

open access: yesApplied Artificial Intelligence
This study uses Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) to construct a method for generating floor plans for long-term care spaces in retirement home buildings to assist architects in improving interior space design.
Yanyu Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why do people choose to enter and exit the teaching profession? An interdisciplinary quantitative synthesis

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many nations experience recurring shortages of teachers in particular subjects, prompting concerns that pupils' education is suffering as a result. Researchers have responded by generating a sizable literature on the reasons for which people enter and exit the teaching profession.
Sam Sims   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Involuntary Retirement and the Resolution of the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from Australia [PDF]

open access: yes
A substantial body of international research has shown that household expenditure on food and non-durables significantly decreases at the time of retirement -- a finding that is inconsistent with the standard life-cycle model of consumption if retirement
Garry F. Barrett, Matthew Brzozowski
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The GAMMA® nursing measure: Its calibration for construct validity with Rasch analyses*

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2016
Background: The GAMMA nursing measure was developed to routinely score a person's ability to independently perform activities of daily living. The nursing utility of the scale has been established as being satisfactory and it has been recommended that ...
Hendrik J. Loubser   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumption, retirement and life-cycle prices: Evidence from Spain [PDF]

open access: yes
Evidence from several countries reveals a substantial drop in household consumption around retirement age that some researchers believe is difficult to reconcile with standard life-cycle models. Using detailed expenditure data from a Spanish panel survey,
Almudena Sevilla-Sanz   +1 more
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Projecting Income and Assets: What Might the Future Hold for the Next Generation of Medicare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Analyzes the 2010 incomes and assets of Medicare recipients and projects those of future beneficiaries through 2030 by race/ethnicity and other demographics.

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To work, to retire - or both? Labor market activity after 60 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Danish labor market follows the trend in other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. In Denmark, this increase has - until now - been most pronounced among 60-64-year-olds and among women.
Larsen, Mona, Pedersen, Peder J.
core   +1 more source

Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding the recruitment and retention of minority ethnic teachers in England. Drawing on interview data from 33 teachers and school leaders of diverse ethnic backgrounds, it investigates whether racialised barriers identified in earlier research have shifted in the current context of ...
Antonina Tereshchenko   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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