Comparative analysis of ambient, in-home, and personal exposures reveals associations between breathing zone pollutant levels and asthma exacerbations in high-risk children by Camille M. Moore, Jonathan Thornburg, Elizabeth A. Secor, Katharine L. Hamlington, Allison M. Schiltz, Kristy L. Freeman, Jamie L. Everman, Tasha E. Fingerlin, Andrew H. Liu, Max A. Seibold

“…Correlations between personal and ambient PM10, NO2, and O3 concentrations were poor, whereas personal PM10 and NO2 correlated with in-home concentrations. In-home monitoring less frequently detected BrC (Personal:79% > lower limit of detection, Home:36.8%) and ETS (Personal:83.7%, Home:4.1%) than personal exposures, and detected BC in participants without personal exposure (Personal: 26.5%, Home: 96%). …”
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Assessment of Technology Readiness in Norwegian Older Adults With Long-Term Health Conditions Receiving Home Care Services: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study by Sverre Bergh, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Lisbeth Dyrendal Høgset, Britt Rydjord, Lars Kayser

“…ConclusionsThe technology readiness level varied in our cohort of Norwegian participants receiving home care. Not all elderly people have the eHealth literacy to fully benefit from digital health services. …”
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Encouraging Landscape Water Conservation Behaviors Series Overview #7: Personal and Social Norms of Florida Residents Who Use Irrigation in the Home Landscape by Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Laura A. Warner, Alexa Lamm, Joy N. Rumble, Randall Cantrell

“… This 4-page fact sheet is the seventh publication in the Encouraging Landscape Water Conservation Behaviors series, which focuses on encouraging water conservation among Florida residents who use irrigation in their home landscapes. Extension educators create programs to encourage good irrigation practices and water conservation activities based on personal and social normative beliefs. …”
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Vitamin D Status and Physical Functioning in Nursing Home Residents after Improved Adherence to the Vitamin D and Calcium Recommendation—A Quasiexperimental Study by Charlotte Mortensen, Anne Marie Beck, Inge Tetens, Charlotte Jeppesen, Søren Frank Jørgensen, Leif Kofoed Nielsen, Michael Kristensen

“…Dietary supplements with vitamin and calcium are recommended to nursing home residents in Denmark, but adherence to the recommendation is low. …”
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Impact of patient–family physician language concordance on healthcare utilisation and mortality: a retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada by Claire Kendall, Sharon Johnston, Michael Reaume, Peter Tanuseputro, Michael Pugliese, Douglas Manuel, Denis Prud'homme, Manish Sood, Ricardo Batista, Ewa Sucha, Rhiannon Roberts, Emily Rhodes, Emily Seale, Lise Bjerre, Louise Bouchard

“…We sought to examine whether patient–family physician language concordance in a primary care setting is associated with lower rates of hospital-based healthcare utilisation and mortality.Methods We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of 497 227 home care recipients living in Ontario, Canada. Patient language was obtained from home care assessments while physician language was obtained from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. …”
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Long-Term Home Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation Increases Systemic Inflammatory Response in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Prospective Observational Study by Gregorino Paone, Vittoria Conti, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Elena De Falco, Isotta Chimenti, Mariangela Peruzzi, Corrado Mollica, Gianluca Monaco, Gilda Giannunzio, Giuseppe Brunetti, Giovanni Schmid, V. Marco Ranieri, Giacomo Frati

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Action-Oriented Study Circles Facilitate Efforts in Nursing Homes to “Go from Feeding to Serving”: Conceptual Perspectives on Knowledge Translation and Workplace Learning by Albert Westergren

“…Action-oriented study circles (AOSC) have been found to improve nutrition in 24 nursing homes in Sweden. Little, however, is known about the conceptual use of knowledge (changes in staffs’ knowledge and behaviours). …”
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Fire Evacuation Process Using Both Elevators and Staircases for Aging People: Simulation Case Study on Personnel Distribution in High-Rise Nursing Home by Yameng Chen, Chen Wang, Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap, Heng Li, Hong Song Hu, Chih-Cheng Chen, Kuei-Kuei Lai

“…By simulating the evacuation process in various scenarios, the general distribution strategy of high-rise nursing home and the optimal use of the elevator-stair combination during the emergency evacuation were developed. …”
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Social Undertones in William Robinson’s Crusade Against ‘Architects’ Gardens’: a ‘Costly Ugliness to Our Beautiful Home-landscapes’ (Robinson 1892, XIII) by Aurélien Wasilewski

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Protocol for a process evaluation: face-to-face physiotherapy compared with a supported home exercise programme for the management of musculoskeletal conditions: the REFORM trial by David Wong, Catherine Sherrington, Manuela L Ferreira, Christopher G Maher, Hueiming Liu, Joshua R Zadro, Lisa A Harvey, Hannah G Withers, Joanne V Glinsky, Jackie Chu, Matthew D Jennings, Alison J Hayes, Ian J Starkey, Blake A Palmer, Lukas Szymanek, Jackson J Cruwys, Kitty Duong, Anne Barnett, Matthew J Tindall, Barbara R Lucas, Tara E Lambert, Deborah A Taylor

“…Introduction The REFORM (REhabilitation FOR Musculoskeletal conditions) trial is a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial (n=210) designed to determine whether a supported home exercise programme is as good or better than a course of face-to-face physiotherapy for the management of some musculoskeletal conditions. …”
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Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Treatment With a Home-Based Footworn Device in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Claims Analysis by Josh Mark, Shirley Shema-Shiratzky, Joel Sommer, Tim Nolan, Ganit Segal

“…**Objective:** This study looked at the healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) in patients with knee OA and low back pain before and after the utilization of a new, home-based, noninvasive, biomechanical intervention. …”
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Encouraging Landscape Water Conservation Behaviors Series Overview #7: Personal and Social Norms of Florida Residents Who Use Irrigation in the Home Landscape by Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Laura A. Warner, Alexa Lamm, Joy N. Rumble, Randall Cantrell

“… This 4-page fact sheet is the seventh publication in the Encouraging Landscape Water Conservation Behaviors series, which focuses on encouraging water conservation among Florida residents who use irrigation in their home landscapes. Extension educators create programs to encourage good irrigation practices and water conservation activities based on personal and social normative beliefs. …”
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Smart home technology to support engagement in everyday activities while ageing: A focus group study with current and future generations of older adults. by William Son Galanza, Jens Offerman, Sofi Fristedt, Susanne Iwarsson, Nebojsa Malesevic, Steven M Schmidt

“…Despite the potential of smart home technologies (SHT) to support everyday activities, the implementation rate of such technology in the homes of older adults remains low. …”
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Incomplete recovery in patients with minor head injury directly discharged home from the emergency department: a prospective cohort follow-up study by Bram Jacobs, Joukje van der Naalt, Jan Cornelis ter Maaten, Sophie Maria Coffeng, Laura Jane Kim

“…We also evaluated the differences between patient groups in this least severe category of brain and head injury.Design Prospective cohort follow-up study.Setting Patients admitted to the emergency department (ED) of a tertiary hospital in the Netherlands.Participants 242 patients with MHI (n=100 with head injury only and n=142 with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)) discharged home directly after evaluation at the ED.Outcome measures The primary outcome measure was incomplete recovery at 3 months measured by the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended score <8. …”
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Developing a set of key principles for care planning within older adult care homes: study protocol for a modified Delphi survey by Madalina Toma, Jonathan Taylor, Nick Smith, Sarah Jasim, Jacqueline Damant, Yuri Hamashima, Thais Caprioli

“…Background Older adult care homes in England are required to develop care plans on behalf of each of their residents and to make these documents available to those who provide care. …”
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Effect of home-based interventions on basic activities of daily living for patients who had a stroke: a systematic review with meta-analysis by Ping Qin, Canxin Cai, Xuan Chen, Xijun Wei

“…We included studies involving home-based intervention prescribed by professionals and implemented at patients’ homes. …”
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Home-based strength and balance exercises for fall prevention among older individuals of advanced age: a randomized controlled single-blind study by Jian Zhou, Bo Liu, Jian-fang Xu, Fu-bai-hui Wang, Hui Ye, Jin-Ping Duan, Xin-wen Cui

“…Objective This research was to explore the effectiveness, safety, and adherence of home-based strength and balance exercises for fall prevention among the self-reliant individuals of advanced age and analyzed the beneficial components.Method This randomized controlled single-blind study included 124 individuals aged 80 years and over(mean age 84.4±3.2 years). …”
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Management of volume load for patients undergoing hemodialysis via WeChat and home monitoring in China: a protocol for a cluster-randomized trial by Xiaocui Wang, Bonan Yan, Shipeng Zhang, Yuanke Zhou, Qinxiu Zhang, Xueying Li

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Retos actuales para los profesionales del futuro by Carlos Alberto Martell Alonso, Beatriz Home López-Viera

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Service delivery and the role of clinical pharmacists in UK primary care for older people, including people with dementia: a scoping review by Alice Burnand, Abi Woodward, Vladimir Kolodin, Jill Manthorpe, Yogini Jani, Mine Orlu, Cini Bhanu, Kritika Samsi, Victoria Vickerstaff, Jane Wilcock, Jane Ward, Greta Rait, Nathan Davies

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