scholarly journals ELDER VOICES NETWORK: PARTNERING WITH OLDER PEOPLE AND THEIR CAREGIVERS TO AVOID MEDICAL HARM

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S690-S690
Author(s):  
Molly Ranahan ◽  
Mary Brennan-Taylor ◽  
Michael Richbart ◽  
Collin Clark ◽  
Ryan Gadzo ◽  
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Abstract Team Alice, named after an older adult in our community who died as a result of medication harm, is an interdisciplinary team of prescribers, pharmacists, educators, advocates, and researchers with a mission to protect older people from medication-related harm across the continuum of care. In 2019, Team Alice partnered with the Erie County Department of Senior Services, older people, and caregivers to form the Elder Voices Network (EVN) as a vehicle for patient-driven deprescribing in the Western New York region. The objective of this presentation is to detail the planning and implementation of critical components of EVN’s formation, including outreach and engagement, funding development, community partnerships, roles and communication, and decision-making. Case study results demonstrate the capacity of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to empower older people and caregivers with knowledge, skills, and tools to promote self-advocacy across the system. Presenters will also discuss recommendations useful for future patient engagement initiatives.

Author(s):  
T. Agami Reddy ◽  
Itzhak Maor

There is increasing interest in using Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems to supply the energy needs in commercial/institutional buildings. However, due to the large diurnal and seasonal variability in building thermal and electric loads, such systems in buildings (BCHP) require more careful and sophisticated operation as compared to those in industrial CHP. Operating such systems consists of two separate issues: (i) equipment scheduling which involves determining which of the numerous equipment combinations to operate, i.e., is concerned with starting or stopping prime movers, boilers and chillers; and (ii) the second and lower level type of control, called supervisory control, which involves determining the optimal values of the control parameters (such as loading of primemovers, boilers and chillers) under a specific combination of equipment schedule. This paper is concerned with both these aspects, and presents case study results of a school under real-time electrical pricing (RTP) located in New York City, NY. A school has been selected for study because of its high diurnal and seasonal load variability. The approach first involved simulating the buildings using a detailed building energy simulation program to obtain hourly electrical and thermal loads which were then used to size the BCHP system components. Subsequently, a certain number of days in the year were identified, and simulation runs were performed for optimal scheduling control as well as for all the feasible (but non-optimal) equipment combinations. The energy and cost implications of operating the BCHP system in a non-optimal manner under various scheduling combinations are presented and discussed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula San Millan Maurino

Modern communication technologies continue to spawn new and transformed genres, but in the digital realm, distinctions between form, content, and medium are blurred. Confounding this issue is the fact that genres are usually specific to a particular discourse community of users with learned social and cultural expectations. In the domain of higher education, genres such as lesson plans, reading lists, and tests revolve around the creation of a course syllabus, itself a genre. As a preliminary analysis, a case study of selected syllabi from State University of New York at Farmingdale was conducted. Print syllabi for traditional classes, digital syllabi for traditional classes, and digital syllabi for online classes at the State University of New York at Farmingdale were examined using the genre theory of <content, form functionality> and a 5W1H (who, what, when, where, why, and how) communications framework. The research questions posed were: What are the similarities and differences between print syllabi genres for traditional classes, digital syllabi genres for traditional classes, and digital syllabi genres for online classes? What are some of the factors that account for the degree of uniformity in syllabi genre? Study results indicate that syllabi genres do evolve into replicated variant cybergenres with enhanced functionality, but that this does not always happen. There can be barriers to this evolution. One of those barriers is software. Other barriers may include social, cultural, power, and political issues. It also showed that closer knit communities such as full-time faculty produced more consistent, uniform syllabi genres than isolated adjuncts.


Author(s):  
Danielle E. Dani ◽  
Sara Salloum ◽  
Rola Khishfe ◽  
Saouma BouJaoude

Twentieth century curricula are no longer sufficient to prepare students for life and work in today’s diverse, fast-paced, technologically driven, and media saturated world of the 21st century. This chapter presents a new framework for analyzing science standards and curricula to determine the extent of alignment with 21st Century essential understandings and skills. The Tool for Analyzing Science Standards and Curricula (TASSC) was developed using the conceptual frameworks proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, and the typology of knowledge proposed by Jurgen Habermas. Development of TASSC relied on an iterative process of refinement, testing, and discussions resulting in an instrument with three sections and related rating scales: content, skills, and additional curricular components. TASSC was piloted using middle school science standards and curricula in the context of two US states (Ohio and New York) and two Arab countries (Lebanon and Qatar). The analysis procedure and individual case study results are presented and discussed in the chapter.


2015 ◽  
pp. 533-556
Author(s):  
Danielle E. Dani ◽  
Sara Salloum ◽  
Rola Khishfe ◽  
Saouma BouJaoude

Twentieth century curricula are no longer sufficient to prepare students for life and work in today's diverse, fast-paced, technologically driven, and media saturated world of the 21st century. This chapter presents a new framework for analyzing science standards and curricula to determine the extent of alignment with 21st Century essential understandings and skills. The Tool for Analyzing Science Standards and Curricula (TASSC) was developed using the conceptual frameworks proposed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, and the typology of knowledge proposed by Jurgen Habermas. Development of TASSC relied on an iterative process of refinement, testing, and discussions resulting in an instrument with three sections and related rating scales: content, skills, and additional curricular components. TASSC was piloted using middle school science standards and curricula in the context of two US states (Ohio and New York) and two Arab countries (Lebanon and Qatar). The analysis procedure and individual case study results are presented and discussed in the chapter.


1983 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-322
Author(s):  
Edward F. Howard
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1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-309
Author(s):  
Mohammad Irshad Khan

It is alleged that the agricultural output in poor countries responds very little to movements in prices and costs because of subsistence-oriented produc¬tion and self-produced inputs. The work of Gupta and Majid is concerned with the empirical verification of the responsiveness of farmers to prices and marketing policies in a backward region. The authors' analysis of the respon¬siveness of farmers to economic incentives is based on two sets of data (concern¬ing sugarcane, cash crop, and paddy, subsistence crop) collected from the district of Deoria in Eastern U.P. (Utter Pradesh) a chronically foodgrain deficit region in northern India. In one set, they have aggregate time-series data at district level and, in the other, they have obtained data from a survey of five villages selected from 170 villages around Padrauna town in Deoria.


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