BACKGROUND Primary care-led dementia services are an increasingly common form of service delivery; however, little is known about how these services are understood by their main stakeholders: the patients, family members and health care professionals. A primary care-led dementia service was piloted in the South Gloucestershire area during 2012, in which general practitioners (GPs) led the proce...

Die kindersorgwerker, hoewel die primére versorger, word tot 'n groot mate deur die meeste ondersoeke na kindersorg misken. Hierdie studie t’okus op twaair kindersorgwerkers in ses kinderhuise. Hulle motivering, take, die wyse waarop hulle die wcrk hanteer asook die prohleme wat hulle ervaar is ondersoek. Die bevindinge het die van vorige navorsing bevestig, naamlik dat die kindersorgwerker aan...

background diaphragm of eventration is a defect of whole or a part of diaphragm muscle and replacing it with fibroplastic tissue. the incidence of eventration is uncertain. the article aims to report a newborn with congenital diaphragmatic eventration. case report the case is a dysmorphic male premature newborn which born at 33 gestational age. due to sever respiratory distress the patient admi...

Incorporating new healthcare technologies for proactive health and elder care will become a major priority over the next decade, as medical care systems world-wide become strained by the aging boomer population. We present MIThril LiveNet, a flexible distributed mobile platform that can be deployed for a variety of proactive healthcare applications. The LiveNet system allows people to receive r...

BACKGROUND The growing number of people with dementia, and the increasing cost of care, provides a major incentive to develop and test methods of supporting them in the community for longer. Most attention has been given to pharmacological interventions, but there is increasing recognition that psychosocial interventions may be equally effective, even preferable where medication has negative si...