No place like HOME.

No Place Like Home: Pet Reunification After Disaster

Pets are important household members, and their welfare and safety are imperative to the emotional welfare of the family. Displacement of pets after disaster events is a serious matter to families and for public safety at large. People are not willing to evacuate without their non-human family members; many will break through evacuation zones to recover animals left behind. In the 2005 Hurrican...

There's no place like home for the holidays.

Emotional Evaluation of Homelike Residence Halls Using Self-Assessment Manikins

Students’ residence halls have been studied repeatedly during the last decades from various perspectives (eg satisfaction). However, our knowledge is very limited in terms of students’ emotions towards various residence hall interior and exterior spaces. Besides, very little study exists on the impact of homelike furniture on students’ emotions. The question driving this research is whether the...

There’s No Place Like Home: Coordinating Care for Veterans

In VA, care coordination involves the use of telehealth, disease management, and health informatics technologies to enhance and extend care and case management activities. VA is initially focusing its care coordination effort on the home and using home-telehealth technologies. We describe this range of activities as care coordination/home telehealth (CCHT). We are finding these technologies par...

Chimpanzee Behavior: There's No Place like Home

During times of crisis, humans often seek the comforts of home. New observations indicate that, during periods of food shortage, male chimpanzees behave in similar fashion by returning to the areas they occupied with their mothers in youth.