scholarly journals Families, Work and Home Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Repo
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Family Time

This article discusses the Finnish child home care allowance. It describes the main features of the allowance and positions it into the broader picture of Finnish childcare policies. The article approaches the home care allowance also from the perspective of daily life and asks how the beneficiaries themselves assess the use of the benefit. This discussion is based on interviews of 20 parents. The interviews were conducted as part of the research project Contradictory Reality of the Child Home Care Allowance funded by the Academy of Finland. The article pays attention to the contradictory nature of the child home care allowance and brings out possible problems related to it. It highlights three themes through and in relation to which parents make sense of their choice of home care. These are family time, the best interest of the child and manageable daily life.

Physical environment and daily life in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros. The bioarchaeological remains

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Penttinen ◽  
Dimitra Mylona
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Over Time

The section below contains reports on bioarchaeological remains recovered in the excavations in Areas D and C in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia, Poros, between 2003 and 2005. The excavations were directed by the late Berit Wells within a research project named Physical Environment and Daily Life in the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia (Poros). The main objective of the project was to study what changed and what remained constant over time in the everyday life and in both the built and physical environment in an important sanctuary of the ancient Greeks. The bioarchaeological remains, of a crucial importance for this type of study, were collected both by means of traditional archaeological excavation and by processing extensively collected soil samples. This text aims to providing the theoretical and archaeological background for the analyses that follow.

scholarly journals The Association Between Electronic Device Use During Family Time and Family Well-Being: Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

10.2196/20529 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. e20529
Author(s):  
Sheng Zhi Zhao ◽  
Ningyuan Guo ◽  
Man Ping Wang ◽  
Daniel Yee Tak Fong ◽  
Agnes Yuen Kwan Lai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Adjusted Odds Ratio ◽  
Electronic Device ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Communication Quality ◽  
Family Time ◽  
Family Dinner

Background Electronic devices (eDevices) may have positive or negative influences on family communication and well-being depending on how they are used. Objective We examined eDevice use during family time and its association with the quality of family communication and well-being in Hong Kong Chinese adults. Methods In 2017, a probability-based 2-stage random sampling landline telephone survey collected data on eDevice use in daily life and during family time (eg, family dinner) and the presence of rules banning eDevice use during family dinner. Family communication quality was rated from 0 to 10 with higher scores being favorable. Family well-being was calculated as a composite mean score of 3 items each using the same scale from 0 to 10. The associations of family communication quality and well-being with eDevice use in daily life and during family time were estimated using beta-coefficient (β) adjusting for sociodemographics. The mediating role of family communication quality in the association between eDevice use and family well-being was analyzed. Results Of the 2064 respondents (mean age 56.4 [SD 19.2] years, 1269/2064 [61.48%] female), 1579/2059 (76.69%) used an eDevice daily for a mean of 3.6 hours (SD 0.1) and 257/686 (37.5%) used it for 30+ minutes before sleep. As much as 794/2046 (38.81%) often or sometimes used an eDevice during family time including dinner (311/2017, 15.42%); 713/2012 (35.44%) reported use of an eDevice by family members during dinner. Lower family communication quality was associated with hours of eDevice use before sleep (adjusted β=–.25; 95% CI –0.44 to –0.05), and often use (vs never use) of eDevice during family dinner by oneself (adjusted β=–.51; 95% CI –0.91 to –0.10) and family members (adjusted β=–.54; 95% CI –0.79 to –0.29). Similarly, lower family well-being was associated with eDevice use before sleep (adjusted β=–.26; 95% CI –0.42 to –0.09), and often use during family dinner by oneself (adjusted β=–.48; 95% CI –0.83 to –0.12) and family members (adjusted β=–.50; 95% CI –0.72 to –0.28). Total ban of eDevice use during family dinner was negatively associated with often use by oneself (adjusted odds ratio 0.49; 95% CI 0.29 to 0.85) and family members (adjusted odds ratio 0.41; 95% CI 0.28, 0.60) but not with family communication and well-being. Lower family communication quality substantially mediated the total effect of the association of eDevice use time before sleep (61.2%) and often use at family dinner by oneself (87.0%) and by family members (67.8%) with family well-being. Conclusions eDevice use before sleep and during family dinner was associated with lower family well-being, and the association was substantially mediated by family communication quality. Our results suggest that interventions on smart use of eDevice may improve family communication and well-being.

Attributing Blame in Human-Robot Teams with Robots of Differing Appearance

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
Cecelia Henderson ◽  
Douglas J. Gillan
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Human Operator ◽  
Automated Systems ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Robot Teams ◽  
The Future ◽  
Attribution Of Blame ◽  
Levels Of Automation

As automation becomes increasingly common in daily life the importance of understanding how we interact with automated systems increases, especially attribution of blame for accidents involving a human-automation team. The current research project looks at how humans attribute blame in an accident involving a human operator and a robot worker and is based on a previous study (Furlough et al., 2019). Participants will read two scenarios detailing an accident while being shown both the operator and robot. The robot’s appearance is manipulated to imply varying levels of automation, ranging from a simple robot to one with a human appearance. Results showed no significant effects, however, this research still has the potential to contribute to the understanding of interactions between humans and automated systems and could inform design in the future to facilitate a positive working environment with robots and humans.

scholarly journals L'utilisation des services de centre de jour par les personnes âgées qui présentent des incapacités

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacinthe Savard ◽  
Nicole Leduc ◽  
Paule Lebel ◽  
François Béland ◽  
Howard Bergman
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Home Care Services ◽  
Adult Day Care ◽  
Catchment Population ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Care Services ◽  
University Degree

ABSTRACTThis study consists of a secondary analysis of data collected during the SIPA demonstration project. Its purpose is to identify the proportion of Adult Day Care (ADC) users as well as the determinants of use in this group of persons 65 years old and over receiving home care services in Montreal. Results show that 18.8% of the sample have at least one ADC presence during a 6 months study period. The following factors increase the probability of ADC use: being younger; not having a university degree; being born outside of Canada or for persons born in Canada, living with a caregiver; receiving help from the CLSC for daily life activities more than once a week; being in the catchment population of an ADC which fees are lower; and for men only, having had a stroke or presenting more functional incapacities.

scholarly journals Mirarse a uno mismo: Acerca de la afectación como engranaje clave de las políticas de reforma curricular

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Carla Andrea Villagran
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Curriculum Policies ◽  
Better Than

This article presents the results of a research project that seeks to describe and analyze the curricular policies of reform in the daily life of schools, paying particular attention here to the processes of regulation and self-regulation that they produce and impose on their subjects. From the Foucauldian notion of governmentality we understand that curriculum policies and regulations, technologies, and behaviors produce performative effects (Ball, 2002, 2012), which affect not only the life of the institutions but also of the subject (Ahmed, 2004, Berlant, 2011). Thus, the question that orientates this article is woven around the articulation of the government of others and self-government (Foucault, 1988, 2009) as a key mode of school reform technologies and the modes of social affectation. The processes of reform cross subjects through performative technologies (Ball, 2002) and constitute a part of what Rose (2012) called the ethopolytic, that is, these processes act at the level of feelings and beliefs, and put the self in check. As a hypothesis, it is argued that judgment, self-reflection and self-responsibility are attached to questions that teachers ask themselves in the call to become better than they are. 

scholarly journals Failure of Care in State Care: In-Care Abuse and Postcare Homelessness

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stian H. Thoresen ◽  
Mark Liddiard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Care Outcomes ◽  
Housing Outcomes ◽  
Funded Research Project

This article reviews initial findings from an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute [AHURI]-funded research project examining housing outcomes among Australian young people who have been in state out-of-home care. Our findings suggest a linkage between incidents of in-care abuse and poor postcare housing outcomes among our research participants, including primary homelessness. Not attending school when leaving care was also highly associated with having experienced in-care abuse. The authors postulate that adverse in-care experiences may have contributed to poor postcare housing outcomes among the research participants; and this article raises a number of specific concerns related to neglect, abuse and assault while in care. It is also argued that support in the transition from care needs to be strengthened to mitigate poor post-care outcomes, as does accountability for in-care adversities.

scholarly journals Being cared by a family member: the existential feelings of cancer patients

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Wakiuchi ◽  
Anna Maria de Oliveira Salimena ◽  
Catarina Aparecida Sales
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Primary Health

The present article aimed to understand the daily life of cancer patients under palliative care while experiencing home care provided by family members. This was a Heideggerian phenomenological study with 20 patients being treated at the primary health care service of Northeast Paraná, Brazil, between November 2012 and February 2013. Data collection was based on the following research guiding question: What has been your experience of being cared for by your family? Phenomenological analysis was conducted by selecting units of meaning from statements and then selecting ontologic themes, namely: "being alone in the presence of the other" and "finding the foundation of care in love." In conclusion, when based on love and solicitude, home care coupled with palliative practices can give "wings" to those who are suffering and perceive their lives as threatened.

scholarly journals Contextualización del proceso enseñanza-aprendizaje de las matemáticas en ingeniería y el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico matemático en estudiantes

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
José Alfredo Aguirre-Puente ◽  
Ariana Gómez-Contreras ◽  
Verónica de Jesús Morales-Félix ◽  
Humberto Ramos-López
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Mathematical Conception

Currently in the process of teaching-learning of mathematics, a panorama of a science with an abstract nature is glimpsed. In such a way that the acquisition of knowledge is in a mechanized way and the teacher's word is taken as dogma. The problems and equations formulated to the student are formulated under a mathematical conception with strong cohesion towards the nature of the operation to be solved, under a perspective that is irrelevant to the student within the process of assimilation of knowledge, leaving even more the aspect of its application within the context of their daily life and therefore how relevant their learning can become. From this area of opportunity arises the concern of this research project based on the improvement of the teaching-learning process based on the contextualization of scenarios that facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, mathematical critical thinking and the ability to locate the field of application of The same, developing their own methodologies, taking into account the teacher and student expertise, thereby trying to achieve a meaningful teaching-learning process, simpler acquisition and retention for the student and to achieve for the teacher.

scholarly journals Outcomes that Matter © for Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thom Garfat ◽  
Leon C. Fulcher
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Life Space ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Corporate Parenting

Child, youth and family services require that outcomes are measured, although confusion persists around which outcomes really matter. Inputs, outputs and outcomes are frequently used interchangeably, while carers are rarely given voice and recognition for what they are doing in daily life-space encounters with young people in out-of-home care. An Outcomes that Matter recording format is introduced, which attends to developmental outcomes achieved by young people from week to week, positioning carers alongside these young people at the centre of corporate parenting endeavours.

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