Connecting to Home-Place through Community-focused Heritage Interpretive Planning

Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within The Community

At first glance this book is a collection of chapters about a somewhat obscure subject with the usual balance between offerings of excellence and those with impenetrable prose. On closer inspection however this is a deeply subversive book which attempts to undermine the " twin towers " of healthcare in the industrialised world: that hospitals are veritable temples of healing and that community ...

Home telehealth: connecting care within the community

A variety of forces are driving the use of technology in the health care field—population ageing, chronic illness, quality outcomes, self-care, patient empowerment, consumer convenience, and rising costs. From an integrated care perspective, mobile communications, remote monitoring and other innovative technologies—the core applications of what is increasingly known as telehealth, telemedicine ...

World Heritage Paper 31 - Community development through World Heritage

Heritage, health and place: The legacies of local community-based heritage conservation on social wellbeing.

Geographies of health challenge researchers to attend to the positive effects of occupying, creating and using all kinds of spaces, including 'green space' and more recently 'blue space'. Attention to the spaces of community-based heritage conservation has largely gone unexplored within the health geography literature. This paper examines the personal motivations and impacts associated with peo...

Update about the International Home Care Nurses Organization--a functional home care nurse-focused "meeting place".