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Configurations of Care Work: Paid and Unpaid Elder Care in Italy and the Netherlands [PDF]

Sociological Research Online, 2006
Most current sociological approaches to work recognise that the same activity may be undertaken within a variety of socio-economic forms - formal or informal, linked with the private market, public state or not-for-profit sectors. This article takes care of the elderly as an exemplary case for probing some of the linkages between paid and unpaid work ...
Glucksmann, MA, Lyon, D
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Deep Learning Pose Estimation for Phenotyping of Co‐Occurring Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore whether routine outpatient video combined with deep learning‐based pose estimation and clinically interpretable kinematic features can support multi‐label phenotyping of co‐occurring hyperkinetic movement disorders (HMDs).
Laura Cif, Diane Demailly, Gabriella A. Horvàth, Juan Dario Ortigoza Escobar, Nathalie Dorison, Mayté Castro Jiménez, Cécile A. Hubsch, Thomas Wirth, Gun‐Marie Hariz, Sophie Huby, Morgan Dornadic, Zohra Souei, Muhammad Mushhood Ur Rehman, Simone Hemm, Mehdi Boulaymen, Eduardo M. Moraud, Jocelyne Bloch, Xavier Vasques   +17 more
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Neurological, Neurodevelopmental and Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study was to characterize intellectual and motor function, neurological features including epilepsy, treatment response, and adaptive behavior in patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency (PDCD) in Sweden.
Antri Savvidou, Colin Reilly, Kalliopi Sofou, Sofia Ygberg, Erik A. Eklund, Karin Naess, Niklas Darin   +6 more
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Climate stress as a caregiving crisis for mothers of children with disabilities in Tamil Nadu, India

Frontiers in Environmental Health
Climate change threatens maternal, newborn, and child health, but one pathway remains undermeasured: how climate-related stressors intensify unpaid caregiving and maternal mental health burden in households caring for children with disabilities.
Saravanan T. Thangarajan, Saravanan T. Thangarajan, Kari C. Nadeau, Kari C. Nadeau   +3 more
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Nationwide Survey of Association Between Fever and Epileptic Seizure in CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Revealed Therapeutic Implications

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD) is a rare, severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. There is a pressing need to develop effective and sustainable therapeutic strategies. We aimed to investigate the causal association between febrile episodes and epileptic seizures for therapeutic implications in CDD patients.
Siyi Wang, Jialin Du, Jinghui Liu, Dongmei Hu, Hongxin Wang, Xiaoxiao Man, Lehong Gao, Shimin Hu, Xianghong Meng, Hongyang Zhao, Minjing Hu, Yingxue Yang, Zhiqi Xiong, Liankun Ren   +13 more
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Cardiovascular disease risk among Australian unpaid carers - A survival analysis using 15 waves of the HILDA survey.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundEngaging in chronically stressful behaviours has been hypothesised to increase the risk of experiencing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Providing unpaid care is known to be a stressful activity, but it is not clear whether this caregiving is ...
Ameer Lambrias, Yamna Taouk, Jennifer Ervin, Tania King   +3 more
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Perceived technology usefulness for caregiving among unpaid caregivers: a National Cross-Sectional Study

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundTechnological advancements have the potential to improve caregiving quality and alleviate caregiver burden by providing tools for real-time communication, monitoring, and care coordination.
Matthew Lee Smith, Matthew Lee Smith, Shinduk Lee, Malinee Neelamegam, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Deborah Vollmer Dahlke, Jodi L. Southerland, Zachary G. Baker, Kris Pui Kwan Ma, Darina V. Petrovsky, Zahra Rahemi, Justine S. Sefcik, Juanita-Dawne R. Bacsu, Chung Lin Kew, Chung Lin Kew, Marcia G. Ory, Marcia G. Ory   +17 more
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The real-world problem of care coordination: a longitudinal qualitative study with patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectivesTo develop a model of care coordination for patients living with advanced progressive illness and their unpaid caregivers, and to understand their perspective regarding care coordination.DesignA prospective longitudinal, multi-perspective ...
Barbara A Daveson, Richard Harding, Cathy Shipman, Bruce L Mason, Eleni Epiphaniou, Irene J Higginson, Clare Ellis-Smith, Lesley Henson, Dan Munday, Veronica Nanton, Jeremy R Dale, Kirsty Boyd, Allison Worth, Stephen Barclay, Anne Donaldson, Scott Murray   +15 more
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Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2018
Women’s unpaid care and domestic work is gaining relevance in policy-making as well as in academia. Feminist scholars and activists have lobbied successfully for the integration of unpaid care and domestic work into the Sustainable Development Goals ...
Friederike Beier
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Metabolic and Fluid Biomarkers Support Microglia Activation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable neurodegenerative disease involving motor neuron degeneration and metabolic and immune dysfunction. We combined clinical data, cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the role of reactive microglia in disease ...
Matteo Zanovello, Francesca Serani, Alen Bebeti, Federica Paredi, Giulia Quadrio, Andrea Fortuna, Giacomo Maria Minicuci, Elena Pegoraro, Annachiara Cagnin, Diego Cecchin, Gianni Sorarù   +10 more
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