Recruiting long-term healthcare missionaries

Recruiting long-term unemployed: lessons from wage subsidies

Long term care: the next healthcare frontier.

Long-term verifiability of healthcare records’ authenticity

The paper deals with the long-term validation of the authen-ticity of electronic healthcare records (EHR). Although the attributes of data authenticity, i.e. integrity and origin ve-ri-fi-a-bi-lity, can be pre-served by digital signatures, the necessary period for the re-ten-tion of EHR is far beyond the lifespan of a simple digital signature. This lifespan is restricted by the va-li-di-ty peri...

P19: Long-Term Potentiation

The term synaptic plasticity points to a series of persistent changes related to the activity of synapses. Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a reflection of synaptic plasticity that has an important role in learning and memory. LTP is a long-lasting increase of synaptic activity due to enhancement of excitatory synaptic transmission after a high-frequency train of electrical stimulations. Differe...

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...