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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo, Berta Fernández‐Gallego   +1 more
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak among vaccinated staff and residents at a skilled nursing facility in Los Angeles County [PDF]

, 2021
Prabhu Gounder, Mona R. Saint, Cesar A. Larios, Nicole J. Fountas, Patrick Tran, Aya P. Obara, Kim Bui, Maverick R. Sison, Faith Washburn, Elizabeth A. Cabigao, Cynthia Chavez, Pingting Nie   +11 more
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An Inpatient Rehabilitation Interprofessional Care Pathway for Traumatic Hip Fracture: A Pilot Quality Improvement Project [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Each year over 300,000 older adults are hospitalized for hip fracture. The impact of the cost of hip fracture on the US health care system is estimated to be as high as $9 billion, with the typical cost of a hip fracture episode around $30 ...
Plante, Sarah
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Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak Investigation Findings from an Urban Skilled Nursing Facility [PDF]

, 2022
Mana Rao, Walid Michelen, Mary Francis, Brittany Governale, Gina Esposito   +4 more
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BaYaka forager and Bantu fisher‐farmer adolescent engagement with intensifying market integration in the Republic of the Congo Participation des adolescents BaYaka chasseurs‐cueilleurs et Bantous pêcheurs‐agriculteurs à l'intégration croissante au marché en République du Congo

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market‐based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolescent orientations towards intensifying market integration in the Congo Basin.
Sheina Lew‐Levy, Vidrige Kandza, Haneul Jang, Francy Kiabiya Ntamboudila, Derlan Bihoundou Mouketou, Chelvin Destin Siassia Vindou, Evrahd Ngalekandza, Brel Koubemba, Aise Pie X Lendzingoud, Roglane Goulou, Amandine Visine, Adam Howell Boyette, Lee T. Gettler   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Georgia's Aging Population: What to Expect and How to Cope [PDF]

, 2005
This report analyzes the impacts of Georgia's aging population on state finances.
Angelino Viceisza, Clare S. Richie, David L. Sjoquist, Glenn M. Landers, Sally Wallace   +4 more
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

An investigation of quality improvement initiatives in decreasing the rate of avoidable 30-day, skilled nursing facility-to-hospital readmissions: a systematic review

Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2017
Michael Mileski, Joseph Baar Topinka, Kimberly Lee, Matthew Brooks, Christopher McNeil, Jenna Jackson School of Health Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA Objectives: The main objective was to investigate the applicability and ...
Mileski M, Topinka JB, Lee K, Brooks M, McNeil C, Jackson J   +5 more
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Trends and Factors Associated With Extremity Fractures and Post-Acute Care Utilization of Nevada Older Adults: Insights of Age-Friendly State Planning in U.S.

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Along with the trend of a steady utilization decline in the U.S. nursing home beds, post-acute care (PAC) utilization at the skilled nursing facilities has declined. This study was a cross-sectional, retrospective review of hospital discharge-based claim
Soo Hwan Kang MD, Jay J. Shen PhD, Yonsu Kim PhD, Iulia Ioanitoaia-Chaudhry MD, Se Won Lee MD, Tae Ha Chung MD, Ian Choe MD, Connor Jeong, Songe Kwon, Daniel Lim, Yena Hwang, Leora Frimer MD, Ji Won Yoo MD   +12 more
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