Modularity and customisation for home care – Configuration and multicriteria analysis of furnishings by Teresa Villani, Federica Romagnoli

“… Given the ageing population and the growing interest in prior verification of the compatibility of existing housing to accommodate home care activities, this paper reports the results of a research aimed at implementing tools to support the design of housing adaptation in anticipation of flexibility to accompany the evolving needs of the elderly cared for. An evaluation system was structured starting with the definition of requirements connoting the home space for home care, which was useful for selecting and verifying, on a performance basis, the compliance of furniture available on the market, also in relation to modularity and readiness for customisation. …”
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Revolutionizing Health Care: The Transformative Impact of Large Language Models in Medicine by Kuo Zhang, Xiangbin Meng, Xiangyu Yan, Jiaming Ji, Jingqian Liu, Hua Xu, Heng Zhang, Da Liu, Jingjia Wang, Xuliang Wang, Jun Gao, Yuan-geng-shuo Wang, Chunli Shao, Wenyao Wang, Jiarong Li, Ming-Qi Zheng, Yaodong Yang, Yi-Da Tang

“…LLMs are unique in processing multimodal data, thereby improving emergency, elder care, and digital medical procedures. Challenges include ensuring their empirical reliability, addressing ethical and societal implications, especially data privacy, and mitigating biases while maintaining privacy and accountability. …”
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A Case of Ruptured Aortic Arch Aneurysm Successfully Treated by Thoracic Endovascular Aneurysm Repair with Chimney Graft by Yohei Kawatani, Yujiro Hayashi, Yujiro Ito, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Yoshitsugu Nakamura, Yuji Suda, Takaki Hori

“…On postoperative day 75, he was discharged from the hospital to an elder care facility. Few reports have focused on stent grafting for treating aortic arch aneurysm rupture. …”
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A Data Quality Control Program for Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews by Janet E. Squires, Alison M. Hutchinson, Anne-Marie Bostrom, Kelly Deis, Peter G. Norton, Greta G. Cummings, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…To illustrate the value of the program, we assess its use in the Translating Research in Elder Care Study. We utilize data collected annually for two years from computer-assisted personal interviews with 3004 healthcare aides. …”
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The impact of long-term care insurance on the health status and healthcare expenditure of older adults in China by Ran An, Ran An, Ran An, Shujie Xiu, Xiaosheng Yang, Shishi Wang

“…These include consider the differences among the various pilot cities and social strata to allow policy adjustments and improvements in a timely, establish a dynamic and diversified long-term care insurance financing mechanism, encourage collaboration between medical institutions and elder care facilities, establish effective contact between LTCI and medical institutions, and use incentive policies such as tax relief to provide financial support and subsidies.…”
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Nurses’ health and work experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Swedish prehospital and hospital care: a deductive content analysis through the lens of the swAge model by Cicilia Nagel, Petra Nilsson Lindstrom, Albert Westergren, Sophie Schon Persson, Kerstin Nilsson

“…The pandemic disrupted the social contract between healthcare organizations and the public, particularly in elder care. To perform effectively, nurses need adequate staffing, a safe work environment, fair compensation, manageable workloads, and recognition. …”
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3D Point Cloud from Millimeter-wave Radar for Human Action Recognition: Dataset and Method by Biao JIN, Kangsheng SUN, Hao WU, Zixuan LI, Zhenkai ZHANG, Yan CAI, Rongmin LI, Xiangqun ZHANG, Genyuan DU

“…Millimeter-wave radar is increasingly being adopted for smart home systems, elder care, and surveillance monitoring, owing to its adaptability to environmental conditions, high resolution, and privacy-preserving capabilities. …”
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Validation of the Maslach burnout inventory-general survey 9-item short version (MBI-GS9) among care aides in Canadian nursing homes by Anni Wang, Yinfei Duan, Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh, Peter G. Norton, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…Methods Following the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, this study validated the MBI-GS9 among 3,765 care aides from 91 Canadian nursing homes, using data collected between September 2019 and February 2020 by the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program. Results The Exhaustion subscale had good reliability with coefficients around 0.66–0.74. …”
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Disparities in anxiety and related factors among Chinese older adults across different aged-care models: a comparison of two cross-sectional studies by Xin Zheng, Ziwen Xu, Jiajie Zhao, Sanyuan Hao, Fuqin Xu, Shuo Ding, Guoqing Liu, Shufan Yang, Benjamin Otsen, Wen Zhu, Zhongliang Bai, Jie Yang, Ren Chen

“…Methods Data were collected from the Anhui Healthy Longevity Survey (AHLS) and the Anhui Elderly Caring Social Organizations Survey (AECSOS). Data on demographic variables, lifestyle factors and health-related variables in 6968 older adults were used for analysis. …”
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Prediction of oral diseases in care dependent older people by Christina Andersen, Astrid Pernille Jespersen, Kim Ekstrand, Esben Boeskov Øzhayat

“…Abstract Background A large number of older people depend on others for help with their daily personal care, including oral health care. Nursing home and elder-care staff often face challenges identifying older people, who are exposed to or at an increased risk of oral diseases. …”
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Examining factorial validity and internal consistency of Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL-9) among care aides working in Long-term Care (LTC) by Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh, Anni Wang, Yinfei Duan, Isaiah Hipel, Peter G. Norton, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…Methods We used surveys collected by the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC), a pan-Canadian program that collects longitudinal surveys from the healthcare workforce in the LTC. …”
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Overground robotic exoskeleton vs conventional therapy in inpatient stroke rehabilitation: results from a pragmatic, multicentre implementation programme by Pui Kit Tam, Ning Tang, Nur Shafawati Binte Kamsani, Thian Yong Yap, Ita Coffey-Aladdin, Shi Min Goh, Jean Pei Pei Tan, Yook Cing Lui, Rui Ling Lee, Ramaswamy Suresh, Effie Chew

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