The Adelaide Dental Study of Nursing Homes

Creating the Right Sort of Ship to Achieve Integrated Care: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network (KTCN) Model: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts - A Response to Recent Commentaries

Achieving Integrated Care for Older People: Shuffling the Deckchairs or Making the System Watertight For the Future?

Integrated care has been recognised as a key initiative to resolve the issues surrounding care for older people living with multi-morbidity. Multiple strategies and policies have been implemented to increase coordination of care globally however, evidence of effectiveness remains mixed. The reasons for this are complex and multifactorial, yet many strategies deal with parts of the problem rathe...

Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation

Many representations of the movement of healthcare knowledge through society exist, and multiple models for the translation of evidence into policy and practice have been articulated. Most are linear or cyclical and very few come close to reflecting the dense and intricate relationships, systems and politics of organizations and the processes required to enact sustainable improvements. We illus...

The Political Economy of Nursing Homes By MARY ADELAIDE MENDELSON AND DAVID HAPGOOD

Mary Adelaide Mendelson is the author of Tender Loving Greed, a study of the nursing home industry, published this year by Alfred A. Knopf. Mrs. Mendelson graduated from Radcliffe and received her Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She has been a consultant to the Federation for Community Planning of Cleveland since 1964. David Hapgood is a journalist. His most...