Pressure points: learning from serious case reviews of failures of care and pressure ulcer problems in care homesdoi:10.1108/JAP-11-2016-0029Serious Case Reviews (SCRs, now Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs)) may be held at local level in England when a vulnerable adult dies or is harmed, ...
offering a series of theoretical and practical recommendations on the topic. In this case it was a review of studies published in the last 5 years on serious games and older adults in an attempt to clarify what knowledge is available on the matter. This SLR specifically attempts to clarify th...
The range of difficulties experienced by DRM practitioners becomes even more evident if we take into account the current inequities in the flow and use of information. In the case of climate change, for instance, it is well known that those people who contributed least to it are paradoxically ...
Cognitive decline is common in the elderly. As a result, a range of cognitive rehabilitation games have been proposed to supplement or replace traditional rehabilitative training by offering benefits such as improved engagement. In this paper, we focus on mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an initial...
This virtualization encourages games nodes to get connected to the internet in either case. The connectivity of each game node can provide massive insight into the agent mode of playing and their expertise. In the following subsection, we critically analyze the architecture and characteristics of IoT...
This book is a study of another such case of policy failure in post-war children’s out-of-home care. The nature of ‘failure’ in policy contexts is, as recent studies have argued, at least to some degree in the eye of the beholder and depends on the criteria being used.Footnote 7...
So, her rich friend told her: “Hell, just live here. Why not? My husband is a bore and besides, he won’t even care or notice.” Her husband was a philanderer, often out womanizing in any case, very common practice in Mexico, married or not. But back to Cat. So, Cat stayed ...
Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do that when I drive! I turn on the radio find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the air and I am moving ...
Five of the twelve felt that it was important “particularly for the elderly” (Matthew), and especially to enable older adults to remain living in their homes and not enter care or hospital, for emotional and financial reasons. “You’re really highlighting the type of hazards that they have...
Thus, the aim of the present study was to assess CMHC providers’ perspectives on delivering a transdiagnostic treatment – the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TranS-C) – to adults diagnosed with SMI. In the context of a larger parent trial, providers were ...