Older Persons and Retirement Communities: Case Studies in Social Gerontology

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-381
Author(s):  
P. Bollin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Retirement Communities ◽  
Social Gerontology

scholarly journals The experience of older persons with mental health conditions who interact with healthcare robots and nurse intermediaries: The qualitative case studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Tanioka ◽  
Feni Betriana ◽  
Tomoya Yokotani ◽  
Kyoko Osaka ◽  
Rozzano C. Locsin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Persons With Schizophrenia

Background: Caring expressions between humans and nonhuman intelligent machines are futuristic prototypes with healthcare robots as major advocates. Objective: To examine the experience of older persons with mental health conditions, particularly patients with schizophrenia and with dementia in the interaction with healthcare robots and intermediaries in a transactive relational engagement.Methods: Two qualitative case studies were conducted using sophisticated audio-video technologies to record the conversation and activities that were carefully documented. Following the procedure for qualitative descriptive analysis, a framework based on the Transactive Relationship Theory of Nursing was employed to analyze and interpret the data. Results: Three themes were revealed, including feelings for the other, inspiring meaningful responses, and demonstrating expressions of joy. The description of the experience of older persons involved in the conversation with humanoid robots was feeling for the other while inspiring meaningful responses in demonstrating expressions of joy. Conclusion: This study provided initial evidence that the transactive engagements of robots with older persons with schizophrenia and dementia and nurse intermediaries in psychiatric and mental health settings can result in occasions of ‘joy’ for the patients. These findings suggest that transactive engagements with robots facilitate expressions of joy among older persons with schizophrenia and dementia. However, these findings are not intended to prescribe nursing care actions but to describe the experience of older persons who are in transactive engagements with intelligent machines, indicating the importance and value of healthcare robots in nursing older persons with schizophrenia and with dementia. Funding:  This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H01609.

Getting People Back into Work: The Experience of Jobcentre Plus

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Pendleton
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Age Diversity ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
National Framework

This article is a contribution by a Jobcentre practitioner. The focus is first upon the context for government policies. The policies themselves are next outlined, and some problematic issues are then considered. The author's two case studies are based upon personal experience, and point up the importance of local initiatives within the national framework. Other key aspects include assessing and meeting individuals' needs, whether among the younger or older out-of-work; encouraging older persons to change expectations about themselves; and a measure of age diversity in training provision.

scholarly journals The Balance of Life: Two Case Studies on Falls and Fall-Prevention in Older Persons

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Mahler Phstud ◽  
Tommy Svensson ◽  
Anneli Sarvimäki
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Fall Prevention ◽  
Older Persons

scholarly journals Experience Sampling and Programmed Intervention Method and System for Planning, Authoring, and Deploying mHealth Interventions: Design and Cases Report (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruna Carolina Rodrigues Cunha ◽  
Kamila Rios Da Hora Rodrigues ◽  
Izabela Zaine ◽  
Elias Adriano Nogueira Silva ◽  
Caio César Viel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Software System ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Intervention Method

BACKGROUND Health professionals initiating mHealth interventions may choose to adapt apps designed for other activities (eg, peer-to-peer communication) or to employ purpose-build apps specialized on the required intervention, or to exploit apps based on methods such as the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). An alternative approach would be professionals to create their own apps. While ESM-based methods offer important guidance, current systems do not expose their design at a level that promotes replicating, specializing, or extending their contributions. Thus, a two-fold solution is required: a method that directs specialists in planning a mHealth Intervention Program themselves, and a model that guides specialists in adopting existing solutions at the same time that advises software developers on building new ones. OBJECTIVE The main objectives of this study are to design the Experience Sampling and Programmed Intervention Method (ESPIM), formulated towards supporting specialists in deploying mHealth interventions, and the ESPIM model, that guides health specialists in adopting existing solutions and advises software developers on how to build new ones. Another goal is to conceive and implement a software platform allowing specialists to be users who actually plan, create, and deploy interventions (ESPIM system). METHODS We conducted the design and evaluation of the ESPIM method and model alongside a software system comprising integrated web and mobile applications. A participatory design approach with stakeholders included early software prototype, pre-design interviews with 12 health specialists, iterative design sustained by the software as instance of the method's conceptual model, support to 8 real case studies, and post-design interviews. RESULTS The Experience Sampling and Programmed Intervention Method comprises (a) a list of requirements for mHealth experience sampling and intervention-based methods and systems, (b) a 4-dimension planning framework, (c) a 7-step-based process, and (d) an Ontology-based Conceptual Model. The ESPIM system encompasses web and mobile apps. Eight long-term case studies, involving professionals in Psychology, Gerontology, Computer Science, Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy, show that the method allowed specialists to be actual users who plan, create, and deploy interventions via the associated system. Specialists’ target-users were parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, older persons, graduate and undergraduate students, children (age 8-12), and caregivers for older persons. The specialists reported being able to create and conduct their own studies without modifying their original design. A qualitative evaluation of the Ontology-based Conceptual Model showed its compliance to the functional requirements elicited. CONCLUSIONS The ESPIM method succeeds in supporting specialists in planning, authoring, and deploying mobile-based intervention programs when employed via a software system designed and implemented according to its conceptual model. The ESPIM Ontology-based Conceptual Model exposes the design of systems involving active or passive sampling interventions. Such exposure supports the evaluation, implementation, adaptation, or extension of new or existing systems.

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

Short-Form Application of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test to Latino Children

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
David L. Ratusnik ◽  
Carol Melnick Ratusnik ◽  
Karen Sattinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Data Application ◽  
York Metropolitan Area ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique

Short-form versions of the Screening Test of Spanish Grammar (Toronto, 1973) and the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (Lee, 1971) were devised for use with bilingual Latino children while preserving the original normative data. Application of a multiple regression technique to data collected on 60 lower social status Latino children (four years and six months to seven years and one month) from Spanish Harlem and Yonkers, New York, yielded a small but powerful set of predictor items from the Spanish and English tests. Clinicians may make rapid and accurate predictions of STSG or NSST total screening scores from administration of substantially shortened versions of the instruments. Case studies of Latino children from Chicago and Miami serve to cross-validate the procedure outside the New York metropolitan area.

Case Studies for Telepractice in AAC

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Rose Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Computer Experience ◽  
Access Methods ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Barriers To Service ◽  
Communication Needs

As the field of telepractice grows, perceived barriers to service delivery must be anticipated and addressed in order to provide appropriate service delivery to individuals who will benefit from this model. When applying telepractice to the field of AAC, additional barriers are encountered when clients with complex communication needs are unable to speak, often present with severe quadriplegia and are unable to position themselves or access the computer independently, and/or may have cognitive impairments and limited computer experience. Some access methods, such as eye gaze, can also present technological challenges in the telepractice environment. These barriers can be overcome, and telepractice is not only practical and effective, but often a preferred means of service delivery for persons with complex communication needs.

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