OBJECTIVE Professionals in dementia-care ought to be able to work within a Bio-Psycho-Social model. The objectives were to examine whether dementia-care is delivered in a Bio-Psycho-Social way, to explore the influencing factors and to evaluate the factorial validity of the 'Bio-Psycho-Social-Dementia-Care scale'. DESIGN AND SETTING 413 healthcare-professionals completed the 'Bio-Psycho-Socia...

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the nature of work by shifting most in-person to a predominantly remote modality as way limit spread coronavirus. In process, shift working-from-home rapidly forced large-scale adoption groupware technologies. Although prior empirical research examined experience within small-scale groups and for targeted kinds work, provides HCI CSCW researchers with...

Human geography is a major subdiscipline within the wider subject field of geography. Traditionally, geography is considered the study of the Earth’s environments and peoples, and the interactions between them. ‘Geography’ comes from ancient Greek origins (Eratosthenes was the first to use it), literally translating as ‘to write or describe the world’. In classical and Enlightenment geography, ...

INTRODUCTION Psoriasis is a common, long-term skin condition associated with high levels of psychological distress and considerable life impact. The impact of psoriasis, beyond the skin, is often not recognised and under-treated. METHODS This paper explores the relationship between psychological distress and psoriasis including reference to the 'brain-skin access'. The life impact of psoriasi...

slow-moving picture of the development of psychoanalysis'. The present volume has twelve new essays added to it while twenty older ones have been taken out to make room for them. Of the new additions, Dr. Jones' paper on 'jealousy' is one of the most striking. Besides an unusually good index, the book contains a copious glossary. It is to be hoped that this new edition will stimulate Indians in...

abstract background: lack of adequate training and support of primary caregivers of multiple sclerosis (ms) patients is the major factor in causing stress, anxiety, and increase of burden. therefore, the treatment team members such as psychiatric nurses can help these vulnerable people overcome psychiatric pressures effectively not only through their care and referral role but also through thei...

Mental processes are always accompanied by a varying amount of energy, i.e., are dynamic in nature. Excessive accumulation results in tension and discomfort. Discharge results in relief and pleasure. The process of repression plays an important part in his system. The term is applied to the conditions preventing mental processes entering consciousness. The ensuing mental conflict is responsible...

The increasingly widespread use of Geographical Information Systems (GISystems, widely known as GIS) has meant that a version of ‘geography’ has been exported to many other disciplines and walks of life where this technology has been found to be useful. As an undergraduate, one of us read Applied Geography by Dudley Stamp (Stamp, 1960). It is full of ideas and examples of the applications of ge...