scholarly journals The Experience of Residential Care from the Perspective of Adolescents and Caregivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (Spec. Iss.) ◽  
pp. 36-61
Author(s):  
Ivana Gazilj ◽  
Ivana Borić ◽  
Andrea Ćosić
Keyword(s):  
Residential Care ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Multiple Risks ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
Methods Of Treatment ◽  
Insight Into

Aim of the study is to provide an insight into the experience of residential care from the perspective of beneficiaries and experts. The data was collected in two male residential units. The results show that adolescents and caregivers tend to have a negative attitude toward residential care. Adolescents are even more skeptical about the purpose of treatment since they experience shortcomings in the activities and the methods of treatment, as well as monotony and stigmatization by the local community. Caregivers highlight their disappointment regarding the inadequate intervention system and the complexity of working with children with multiple risks and problems.

Managing health changes for people with a learning disability in a residential care home setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Sharon Scott ◽  
Lilette Denton ◽  
Frances Conway ◽  
Julie Kinley
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Health Changes ◽  
Residential Care Home ◽  
Insight Into

People with learning disabilities frequently have complex comorbidities, and the identification, assessment and management of these conditions in a care home setting is important but is often challenging. Researchers from St Christopher's Hospice offer insight into their specially developed programme for managing residents' health needs and any sudden declines

scholarly journals “Being in-Between”: Spouses That Cohabit With and Provide Care for Their Partners in Nursing Homes

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Joy Torgé
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Role Transition ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Spousal Caregiving ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Staff Experiences ◽  
Insight Into

It is increasingly possible for couples with differing care needs to move to nursing homes together. To our knowledge, this is the first study about spousal caregiving in this context. This study explores spouse and staff experiences when relatively healthy spouses cohabit with and provide care to their partners in Swedish nursing homes. The overarching theme, “being in-between,” reflects the spouse’s overlapping role transition and the staff’s unfamiliarity with the spouse’s role. The spouses are both “insiders” and “outsiders” and are torn between maintaining and letting go of caregiving. Meanwhile, the staff express concern about the spouse’s need for respite yet being constantly present, and struggle to balance the staff’s and the spouse’s control of the caregiving situation. This article provides insight into the challenges experienced by spouses who accompany their partners to residential care and how to best support them in this unfamiliar role.

scholarly journals Community Participiation in Village Development: the Scale of Latvia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Edgars Pudzis ◽  
Sanda Geipele ◽  
Ineta Geipele
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Access Methods ◽  
National Planning ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The research provides an insight into village development planning, as well as considers village planning from the perspective of the national planning framework. Local settings of village development have also been taken into account. The research provides information about possible approaches for local community involvement in development decision-making. The article aims at considering the current situation of the involvement of local communities in the advancement of local territories and at presenting the proposals for public involvement models. Analysis, logical and historical data access methods, induction and deduction have been used in the present research.

scholarly journals They Cannot Be Left to the Brutality of a Cruel Group: An Ottoman Scholar’s Treatise on Dogs

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Necmettin Kızılkaya (نجم الدين كزيلكايا)
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
History Books ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Several studies have been written on the subject of animals in the Ottoman Empire, with a focus on dogs in particular. Most of these studies cover the subject through various sources, including history books, biographies, travelogues, and diaries. Although studying the issue via these sources is important, several works written in the Ottoman period, especially distinct treatises, provide more concrete information on the subject. These treatises have the unique quality of providing insight into many points, especially with relevance to the concepts on which the scholars and thinkers of the period examined the human-animal relationship, and also the arguments they advanced to establish this relationship. One such treatise was written by Mustaqīmzāde (d. 1202/1788) in the 12th/18th century. This treatise deals with many issues, especially the human-dog relationship, the characteristics dogs have, why people should be compassionate towards dogs, and the problems of having a negative attitude towards dogs. In this article, I give a brief biography of Mustaqīmzāde, summarize the changing attitude of Ottomans towards dogs, discuss the content of Mustaqīmzāde’s treatise, and finally translate it into English and present an edition of the text.

scholarly journals One Step Forward, Two Tweets Back: Exploring Cultural Backlash and Hockey Masculinity on Twitter

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Daniel Sailofsky ◽  
Madeleine Orr
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rule Changes ◽  
One Step ◽  
Professional Hockey ◽  
Political Realm ◽  
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Between 2000 and 2018, the number of fights in professional hockey decreased by more than half, reflecting rule changes intended to preserve player health. A 2019 playoff fight ignited debate on social media over the place of fighting in hockey. This research involved a content analysis of an incendiary tweet and the 920 replies it solicited. Content analysis confirmed that cultural backlash exists in sport and provided insight into manifestations of backlash. Comments exhibiting backlash varied by subject (i.e., what or who is being discussed in the tweet) and attitude (i.e., positive approval for fighting and negative attitude toward change), with many defending hockey masculinity. Connections are drawn to manifestations of backlash in the political realm, the extant hockey masculinity literature, and implications for sociological theory and the sport of hockey are discussed.

scholarly journals “Saying yes to everything”: Slung Low’s mission in a time of rapid change

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-218
Author(s):  
Rachel Perry
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Interpretive Study ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This study explores what it means to be a mission-driven arts organisation (MDAO) in the UK. Drawing on literature relating to artistic risk and rupture, mission and vision, and arts participation, the purpose of this paper is to shed light on how Slung Low, a theatre organisation with a core staff of five, creates large and complex initiatives and seeks to make a difference to its local community. Design/methodology/approach Using a case study approach, this interpretive study makes use of qualitative data to offer context-specific knowledge about how MDAOs create new initiatives including: interviews with members of the Slung Low team; attendance at company meetings; analysis of internal organisational documents, company website and artistic director’s blog; and articles about Slung Low from the local, national and theatre industry press. Data was gathered through a research collaboration with Slung Low which is supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Findings The results offer fresh insight into how MDAOs take a positive approach to rupture and rapid change. The study finds that by embracing risk and committing to an ambitious and provocative mission, small-scale arts organisations can achieve artistic, cultural and social objectives which far exceed their size. Research limitations/implications This paper offers an organisational perspective on the research questions and so participants were not interviewed on this occasion. However, the participant view will be the subject of further research with Slung Low. Originality/value This research paper provides insight into one of the UK’s most innovative theatre companies during a period of monumental change, and advances knowledge on mission-driven organisations by offering reflections on what it means to be an arts organisation which places rupture, risk and usefulness at the heart of its mission.

A Survey of the Needs of an Urban High School's Community

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Solman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
School Community ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Comprehensive Literacy ◽  
Priority School

This project examined the needs of the community of a multicultural urban high school. A survey instrument was designed to find out what the school community thought of the school, and it was intended that the results be used to guide the school's future progress and enable it to increase its rate of student retention in Years 11 and 12. The questionnaire elicited responses to questions concerned with the things the school should do for the students, sought opinions on how the school should develop, and recorded information specific to teachers, parents and members of the local community, and present and past students. The return rates were generally good. The results of the survey are discussed under the headings of ‘Background Information from Respondents’ and ‘Areas of Community Concern’. An interesting background response was that 70% of present students stated that they wanted to complete Year 12, but only 21% of the past students said that they had stayed on until the end of this final year. The areas of community concern were divided into two categories. For the first, which comprised questions concerned with the responsibilities the school had towards its students, all school community groups recorded very strong support for what was described as basic literacy and numeracy, and for a practical application of the former. Also considered a high priority school task was sex and drug education. The questions in this category on which the school community groups differed generally showed the teachers to be less positive than the parents and students. A striking and important example of this was the teachers’ response to the matter of the school encouraging its students to remain after Year 10. Only 20% of them thought that this was an important or very important job of the school, compared with 66% of the rest of the school community. Consideration of these responses indicated that there was strong demand for the introduction of both a comprehensive literacy and numeracy program, and a sex and drug education program. The low level of teacher support for students staying at school after Year 10 was in sharp contradiction to the stated aims of the Participation and Equity Program, and it indicated a need to change this negative attitude if these aims were to be realized in this and similar schools. For the second category ‘How should your high school develop?’, all school community groups gave relatively strong support for more school-based career relevant courses. This indicated widespread community demand for the introduction of these courses, and their introduction might be expected to reduce the large gap between strong desire of students to complete Year 12 and the reality of a very low rate of retention.

Exploring the Preferences for Anticipated Use of Head-Mounted Displays

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niek Zuidhof ◽  
Somaya Ben Allouch
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
General Information ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Head Mounted Displays ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Insight Into

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) have been available for several years now, but uptake has been slow so far. The objective of this study was to gain insight into preferences on anticipated use in the early phase of HMDs with augmented reality. A survey was conducted among Dutch students following a nursing or social work education (N=100). Results showed that almost nobody had ever used a HMD. The areas of high interest of anticipated use of HMDs lies especially in receiving information regarding emergencies via the HMD if something is happening close to people's physical location and news and general information about physical location. For potential use functionalities, the most interesting functions reported by respondents were using HMDs for hands-free calling and receiving information about their behavioral patterns with regard to movement. The attitudes towards receiving non-visible cues in social interaction such as detecting stress levels or mood were all reported with a negative attitude. More than half of the respondents reported to have an intention to use a HMD in the future.

Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Felicity James ◽  
Rebecca Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Female Voices ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter explores the cultural and literary importance of a little-known network of women writers in the Midlands – significance which is rooted in, but extends far beyond, their local setting. Focussing on two Leicester writers and friends, the abolitionist and animal rights campaigners Susanna Watts (c.1768 - 1842) and Elizabeth Heyrick, née Coltman (1769-1831) it gives an insight into the rich culture of provincial women and restores a range of female voices to our understanding of Midlands society, religion, literature and reform. Collaboratively written itself, this chapter explores and contextualises collaborative practices, emphasising the importance of local community, worship, and friendship. While Heyrick, Watts and their circle should be seen as part of a larger anti-slavery network operating in the period, it is also important to recognise the subtle differences between groups which complicate our idea of the collective female voice in the period.

scholarly journals Management of Multiple Sources of Risk in Livestock Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Melissa G.S. McKendree ◽  
Glynn T. Tonsor ◽  
Lee L. Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Output Price ◽  
Multiple Risks ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractFirm operators continually manage multiple sources of risk. In an application to cattle feedlot operations, our objective is to determine if producers view output price and animal health risks separately or jointly. We conduct a survey with a choice experiment placing operators in forward looking, decision-making scenarios, and capture information on past risk management approaches. Evidence regarding a relationship between animal health and output price risk mitigation is mixed and depends on the decision being made. Combined, these results provide new insight into how managers approach multiple risks when facing resource constraints.

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