This study presents a joint model system of residential location and activity time-use choices that considers a comprehensive set of activity-travel environment (ATE) variables, as well as sociodemographic variables, as determinants of individual weekday activity time-use choices. The model system takes the form of a joint mixed Multinomial Logit–Multiple DiscreteContinuous Extreme Value (MNL–M...

Long-term care for older people is provided in both residential and non-residential settings, with residential settings tending to cater for individuals with higher care needs. Evidence relating to the costs and effectiveness of different workforce structures and care processes is important to facilitate the future planning of residential aged care services to promote high quality care and to e...

BACKGROUND frail older people often require tailored rehabilitation in order to remain at home, especially following a period of hospitalisation. Restorative care services aim to enhance an older person's ability to remain improve physical functioning, either at home or in residential care but evidence of their effectiveness is limited. OBJECTIVE to evaluate the effectiveness of a restorative...

For residents in long-term care facilities, falling is a major concern requiring preventive intervention. A prospective cohort study measured the impact of falls reduction following the implementation of evidence-based fall prevention interventions in 9 Australian residential care facilities. An external project team provided a comprehensive audit of current practice. Facilitated by an action r...

The downsizing and closing of state mental health institutions in Philadelphia in the 1990’s led to the development of a continuum care network of residential-based services. Although the diversity of care settings increased, congestion in facilities caused many patients to unnecessarily spend extra days in intensive facilities. This study applies a queuing network system with blocking to analy...

OBJECTIVE To study precipitating factors for falls among older people living in residential care facilities. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Five residential care facilities. PARTICIPANTS 140 women and 59 men, mean age +/- SD 82.4 +/- 6.8 (range, 65-97). MEASUREMENTS After baseline assessments, falls in the population were tracked for 1 year. A physician, a nurse, and a physiot...

Realization of satisfaction in residential environments is shaped by several factors; one of these factors is the economic elements of the city. Economic indicators, along with other factors such as physical, cultural, social, etc., is effective on the inhabitants’ assess of their place of residence and it is introduced as one of the effective factors on the motivations of households to move fr...

Resilience is often regarded as an attribute of communities rather than of individual buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure facilities. Previous research to support development of resilient infrastructure has considered, for the most part, actions and policies to achieve resilience objectives at the community level. While it is clear that a community cannot be resilient without resi...

Demographic projections made in the 1980s suggested that the aging of the population would produce a surge in the number of persons needing long-term facility care as we approached the year 2000. Based on the existing stock of nursing home beds, it appeared that there would be a shortage of beds to accommodate these persons. However, this expected large increase in the number of nursing home pa...