PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Japan introduced a nationwide long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in 2000, making long-term care (LTC) a right for older adults regardless of income and family availability. To shed light on its implications for family caregiving, we investigated perceived filial obligation norms among coresident primary family caregivers before and after the policy change. DESIGN AND ...

BACKGROUND Acute care facilities are connected via patient sharing, forming a network. However, patient sharing extends beyond this immediate network to include sharing with long-term care facilities. The extent of long-term care facility patient sharing on the acute care facility network is unknown. The objective of this study was to characterize and determine the extent and pattern of patient...

We investigate Leifer and Milner RPO approach for deriving efficient (finitely branching) LTS’s and bisimilarities for π-calculus. To this aim, we work in a category of second-order term contexts and we apply a general pruning technique, which allows to simplify the set of transitions in the LTS obtained from the original RPO approach. The resulting LTS and bisimilarity provide an alternative p...

The aim of this study was to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for long-term care insurance (LTCI) and to explore the determinants of demand for LTCI in China. We collected data from a household survey conducted in Qinghai and Zhejiang on a sample of 1842 households. We relied on contingent valuation methods to elicit the demand for LTCI and random effects logistic regression to analyze the fac...

We experiment Leifer-Milner RPO approach to CCS and to π-calculus. The basic category in which we carry out the construction is the category of term contexts. Several issues and problems emerge from this experiment; for them we propose some original solutions.

Many working memory (WM) models propose that the focus of attention (or primary memory) has a capacity limit of one to four items, and therefore, that performance on WM tasks involves retrieving some items from long-term (or secondary) memory (LTM). In the present study, we present evidence suggesting that recall of even one item on a WM task can involve retrieving it from LTM. The WM task requ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the feasibility, validity and responsiveness of an individualized measure--goal attainment scaling-in long-term care. DESIGN Prospective descriptive study. SETTING One academic and three community-based long-term care facilities. SUBJECTS 53 nursing-home patients seen in consultation between July 1996 and June 1997. INTERVENTION Specialized geriatric medicine consul...

This study used Monte Carlo simulations to examine the ability of the two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator and two-stage residual inclusion (2SRI) estimators with varying forms of residuals to estimate the local average and population average treatment effect parameters in models with binary outcome, endogenous binary treatment, and single binary instrument. The rarity of the outcome and th...

In May 2005, the “Report of the Auditor General on Seniors Care and Programs” (“the Report”) was released.1 The Auditor General examined services provided to seniors in long-term care facilities, the Seniors Lodge Program and the Alberta Seniors Benefit Program.2 In total, the systems of nine Regional Health Authorities (RHAs), 25 long-term care facilities, and 20 lodge operators were examined....