Awareness of factors affecting the place of death could improve communication between healthcare providers and patients and their families regarding patient preferences and the feasibility of dying in the preferred place.This study aimed to evaluate factors predicting home death among home palliative care recipients.This is a population-based study using a national representative sample retriev...

Home network service area increases and different types of service hardware are used for each service, as a result complexity also increases. It is necessary to develop a convergence service platform for home network. In this paper, a modular type home network service platform is proposed and implemented for different types of services. This platform is equipped with sufficient interface and ex...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the differences in the characteristics of mothers having planned and unplanned home births that occurred at home in a 19-state reporting area in the United States in 2006. METHODS Data are from the 2006 U.S. vital statistics natality file. Information on whether a home birth was planned or unplanned was available from 19 states, representing 49% of all home births nation...

The two patients in this case series had experienced long-term difficulty controlling lymphedema at home. Both patients had used numerous home therapies, including older-generation intermittent pneumatic compression devices, without success. The Flexitouch system, an advanced pneumatic device, was prescribed to assist them with in-home efforts by providing therapy to their affected limbs in add...

A couple of years ago, Dr. Mason and myself, in collaboration with Home Based Primary Care and Care Coordination Home Telehealth Services at the Oklahoma City VA medical center began a journey to use technology to improve access to care for older Veterans living in rural Oklahoma. With funding from the VISN 16 Office of Telehealth and Office of Rural Health, we set out to evaluate the benefits ...

extract today home health care is implementing in many countries. in iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable. home health care not only causes decreasing length of hospitalization and rapid offloading of hospital's beds for the use of other patients, but also presenting direct health services in home based on individual need...

Development of low-cost and inter-operable home sensing products in recent years has motivated the development of consumerlevel energy and home monitoring software solutions to exploit these new streams of data available to end-users. In particular, this opens up the home energy space as an area of high potential for the use of consumerlevel energy optimisation with home-owners actively engaged...

Navigation in cluttered environments is an important challenge for animals and robots alike and has been the subject of many studies trying to explain and mimic animal navigational abilities. However, the question of selecting an appropriate home location has, so far, received only little attention. This is surprising, since the choice of a home location might greatly influence an animal's navi...

The intelligent home research requires understanding of the human behavior and recognizing patterns of activities of daily living (ADL). However instead of understand the psychosomatic nature of human early projects in this area simply employed intelligence to the household appliance. This paper proposed an algorithm for detecting ADL. The proposed method is based on two opposite state entity e...

ali hossein najafi abrand abadi associate professor, shahid beheshti university mohammad jafar habibzadeh associate professor, department of law, tarbiat modares university abulfat'h khaleghi ph.d. student of criminal law, tarbiat modares university the imprisonment (custodial sentences) is the most common and expensive sanction in the criminal law, which has enjoyed hardly any success on ...