Dual-residences and Local Community

Health residences: legal aspects

Clinical and social background “The HR offers to dependent subjects, elderly and not, with an outcome of physical illnesses, mental or sensory mixed, not treatable at home, an average level of medical, nursing and rehabilitation, accompanied by a high level of protect and hotel assistance, modulated according to the model of care adopted by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces (DPR 14.01.97). T...

Planning Agent for Geriatric Residences

Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become increasingly relevant for developing distributed and dynamic intelligent environments. The ability of software agents to act somewhat autonomously links them with living animals and humans, so they seem appropriate for discussion under nature-inspired computing (Marrow, 2000). This paper presents AGALZ (Autonomous aGent for monitoring ALZheimer p...

Local Knowledge and Community Security

Intranets and Local Community: ‘Yes,

This paper arises from a three year research project examining the development and implementation of a residential community intranet in Melbourne, Australia. At the time of writing, the level of use of the intranet by residents is low, and the paper explores possible reasons why this may be the case. These reasons include: a) the possibility that the aggregation of potential users and content ...

Community engagement research and dual diagnosis anonymous.

Community engagement research is widely discussed but rarely implemented. This article describes the implementation of a community engagement research project on Dual Diagnosis Anonymous, a rapidly spreading peer support program in Oregon for people with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. After three years of discussions, overcoming barriers, and involving several institut...