Managing complex long-term conditions (LTC) and multi-morbidity

Coding long-term care services—eDESDE-LTC

Introduction: Semantic variability is a barrier to effective networking of long-term care (LTC) services. The same name may be used for services providing different activities (i.e. day centres), and services with different names may have a similar pattern of care delivery. Furthermore, services are complex constructs which depend on local characteristics, vary over time and do not allow compar...

Mental health and long-term conditions 2: Managing depression.

This second article in a two-part series on mental health and long-term conditions discusses the complex area of comorbid physical health and mental health problems. It focuses on depression--one of the most common mental illnesses--examining its prevalence and symptoms in people with long-term conditions, and how it can affect the ability to self-manage them. It also examines how nurses can su...

Managing long-term risks

the effects of keyword and context methods on pronunciation and receptive/ productive vocabulary of low-intermediate iranian efl learners: short-term and long-term memory in focus

از گذشته تا کنون، تحقیقات بسیاری صورت گرفته است که همگی به گونه ای بر مثمر ثمر بودن استفاده از استراتژی های یادگیری لغت در یک زبان بیگانه اذعان داشته اند. این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر دو روش مختلف آموزش واژگان انگلیسی (کلیدی و بافتی) بر تلفظ و دانش لغوی فراگیران ایرانی زیر متوسط زبان انگلیسی و بر ماندگاری آن در حافظه می پردازد. به این منظور، تعداد شصت نفر از زبان آموزان ایرانی هشت تا چهارده ساله با...

Managing long-term sickness absence

 Prevention of long-term work absence by planning and anticipating return to work in co-operation between different stakeholders is crucial INTRODUCTION Managing long-term work absence due to sickness continues to be a priority of many EU-countries. Direct and indirect costs to organisations and companies are extremely high. These costs include sick pay, social insurance payments, costs of tem...