Manaaki Mana: Excellence in emergency care for Māori

MANA for the Ageing

We present a family of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) using Talking Head technology, along with a program of associated research and user trials. Whilst antecedents of our current ECAs include “chatbots” desgined to pass the Turing Test (TT) or win a Loebner Prize (LP), our current agents are task-oriented Teaching Agents and Social Companions. The current focus for our research includes...

Creating excellence in patient care.

Occupational therapists are working in health care organizations that operate from an efficiency perspective. There is growing criticism that this approach can put quality patient care at risk. This article proposes the excellence perspective as a way to address quality as well as productivity. The excellence perspective is one that occupational therapists can use as a guide to program innovati...

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Excellence and equity in eye care

th General Assembly was 'Excellence and equity in eye care' – superlative sound bites perhaps, but when those words are considered in the context of VISION 2020, they take on a meaning that should define all our efforts to combat avoidable blindness. Striving for excellence Allen Foster, in his inspiring 'Sir John Wilson' oration, urged that excellence should mean more than simply quality in cl...

Excellence in dementia care: research into practice

As clearly expressed by the title, this book investigates care for dementia considering all aspects of these pathologies, whilst attempting to provide the reader with the very latest information, often stemming from recently published research. The reading of this book forges a direct link with integrated care insofar as these pathologies are not approached from an exclusively biological, psych...