Leverton, Monica Samsi, Kritika Woolham, John Manthorpe, Jill
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Health & social care in the community
Social care Personal Assistants (PAs) are directly employed by individuals to assist with activities of daily living such as help or support with personal care, shopping, household tasks and community participation. This option is encouraged by UK public funding. In England, disabled people's support organisations initially offered assistance with ...
Dieckelmann, Mirjam Schütze, Dania Gerber, Meike Siebenhofer, Andrea Engler, Jennifer
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Health & social care in the community
General practices are rooted in the local community and considered to be particularly well-positioned for engaging in preventive and health-promoting activities. The overall aim of the scoping review is to identify priorities and gaps in research published in the past 20 years on preventive and health-promoting activities provided by general practi...
Lucindo Zucoloto, Miriane Meneghini, Andrea Cristina Zangiacomi Martinez, Edson
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Health & social care in the community
In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic remained uncontrolled in Brazil, with more than 17.6 million cases diagnosed and more than a half a million deaths in total. It is known that an accurate risk perception by populations and a consequent adherence to preventive measures can increase the effectiveness of policies to contain the transmission of infectious...
Green, Daniel C Parra, Luis A Goldbach, Jeremy T
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Sexual minority people in the United States are less likely to have access to health services when compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Less is known about the within-group sociodemographic memberships among sexual minority people regarding access to health services. Using data from a nationally representative sample, a series of univariate...
Lee, Eunyoung
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Due to cultural influences, people from some ethnic minority groups expect to provide caregiving for their family members who suffer from illness. Little is known about the expectations about caregiving and the help-seeking process among the Korean population in Canada. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine perceptions of caregiving for peo...
de la Piedra-Torres, Antonio J López-Martínez, Alicia E Ramírez-Maestre, Carmen
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Previous studies on palliative care have assessed the phenomenon of Information Concealment (IC), confirmed its relevance and emphasised the need to have a scale for its assessment. The aim of this study was to design and validate such an instrument. The sample comprised 150 palliative caregivers (23 men and 127 women). The dimensionality of the it...
Green, Rachael Hatzikiriakidis, Kostas Tate, Ruby Bruce, Lauren Smales, Madelaine Crawford-Parker, Anna Carmody, Sarah Skouteris, Helen
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The Healthy Eating, Active Living Matters (HEALing Matters) program is being scaled up across residential out-of-home care (OOHC) in Victoria, Australia and is providing young people with the knowledge, skills and resources to promote better health through healthy eating and activity. HEALing Matters was piloted as the HEAL program, a dual-interven...
Backhouse, Tamara Ruston, Annmarie Killett, Anne Ward, Renée Rose-Hunt, Julia Mioshi, Eneida
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Policy guidance promotes supporting people to live in their own homes for as long as possible with support from homecare services. People living with dementia who need such support can experience a range of physical and cognitive difficulties, which can increase the risks associated with homecare for this group. We aimed to examine risk and safety ...
Lau, Siew Tiang Liaw, Sok Ying Lau, Ying Lopez, Violeta
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Rapidly ageing populations are putting a strain on healthcare due to their increasing chronic conditions and complex comorbidities. Community care is an important part of the healthcare system and community healthcare workers are under pressure to care for the growing ageing population. It is crucial to recruit healthcare workers in community care ...
Hindi, Ali M K Willis, Sarah C Schafheutle, Ellen I
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The Pharmacy Integration Fund commissioned 95 cross-sector pre-registration trainee pharmacist placements across England, which incorporated trainees spending 3-6 months in general practice (GP), whilst employed in hospital or community pharmacy. Delivery models varied (blocks or split weeks/days); trainees had pharmacist tutors at the employing/ba...
