How impact factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, change the quality of life of the elderly [PDF]
Population Health MetricsPurpose The worldwide population is facing the aging issue. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has decreased the living standards of elders. Therefore, understanding the impact factors changing the quality of life of the elderly, and considering the ...
Shuang Cang, Yi Lu
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Navigating a vulnerable transition: a qualitative study of the role of companions and providers in pregnancy and childbirth in Burkina Faso [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjective To explore women’s expectations and experiences of care and support from pregnancy to childbirth in Burkina Faso, with a focus on the role and impact of companions and providers.Design An exploratory qualitative study based on in-depth ...
Helle Mölsted Alvesson +8 more
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An integrative review on filial responsibility expectations in older parents [PDF]
BMC GeriatricsBackground Older adults require varying degrees of care. The primary providers of care to older adults are often their adult children. Familiarity of adult children with the expectations of filial responsibility towards their older parents makes better ...
Leila Tagharrobi +5 more
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Quality of life in long-term care facilities in Gauteng, South Africa: an institutional ethnographic study of older adults’ perspectives [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction The increasing demand for long-term care (LTC) services in resource-constrained settings has highlighted significant gaps in both the quality of care and the quality of life (QoL) for older adults.
Lieketseng Ned, Naomi Hlongwane
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When the bed beside you empties: Two long-term ward stories [PDF]
Palliative Care and Social PracticeIn long-term geriatric care, dying is rarely a single event; it is a shared atmosphere shaped by proximity, repetition, and ward culture. This narrative essay follows two women living “beside” death: one who becomes a feared symbol after multiple ...
Anat Romem
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Analysis of the moral virtue of loyalty in the life of Hazrat Khadijeh Kobra [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانی, 2022 The main problem of the current research is the delay in the moral virtue of loyalty and the semantic analysis and expression of its types, and an attempt has been made to evaluate its examples in the life of the wife of the Prophet Khadijah, Hadrat ...
eshagh asoodeh
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A semantic search on the words "poor" and "rich" in Nahj al-Balaghah Inspired by the semantic method of "Toshihko Izutsu" [In Persian] [PDF]
آموزش زبان، ادبیات و زبانشناسی, 2021 Semantics is one of the new approaches in the field of linguistics dealing with the explanation of words; This science, as one of the purposeful sciences, has a significant application in the field of Quranic studies and holy texts.
Roya Badakhshan, Abdol ahad Gheibi
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P-154 The value of silence in end-of-life spiritual care: connexion, companionship, potential for change [PDF]
Patient care, 2017 Background At the end of life silence seems to take increasing prominence in encounters between professional caregivers, patients and their family members but its value as an element of spiritual care has been little explored. Whilst silence lends itself to spiritual and existential dimensions of care, unfamiliarity with the phenomenon can lead to ...
Lynn Bassett +2 more
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The semantics of "Eghva" in the Qur'an, with emphasis on conceptual relationships [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2019 Semantic analysis of words and understanding or recognition the relationships between them is one of the ways to achieve the delicacies of meaning. This is especially important in relation to the Quran, which has various semantic levels and ultimate ...
Ebrahim Ebrahimi, Fatemeh Dastranj
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Introduction: The experience of bereavement is associated with severe physical, psychological, social and spiritual reactions in the parents of children with cancer.
Maryam Pakseresht +5 more
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