Caring for older people was high on the agenda at the RCN's annual congress recently with the issue of long-term care charges proving the dominant theme.

ENEPRI Research Reports present the findings and conclusions of research undertaken in the context of research projects carried out by a consortium of ENEPRI member institutes. This report was produced by the ANCIEN project, which focuses on the future of long-term care for the elderly in Europe. Funding for the project is received from the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme ...

Word learning is studied in a multitude of ways, and it is often not clear what the relationship is between different phenomena. In this article, we begin by outlining a very simple functional framework that despite its simplicity can serve as a useful organizing scheme for thinking about various types of studies of word learning. We then review a number of themes that in recent years have emer...

The combination of growing demand for long-term care and higher expectations of care staff needs to be set in the context of long-standing concerns about the sustainability of recruitment and retention of front-line staff in the United Kingdom. Organisational and work environment factors are associated with vacancy levels and turnover rates. The aim of the current analysis was to investigate ch...

This study explores use of the principal inpatient diagnostic cost groups (PIPDCG) and hierarchical coexisting conditions (HCC) risk-adjustment methodologies for a population of dually eligible beneficiaries receiving chronic long-term care (LTC). Measures of individual predictive accuracy for this population compared with the total Medicare population were similar for the PIPDCG models but som...

The present study compared the metabolic responses between a single low-carbohydrate (LC) and low-fat (LF) meal followed by an aerobic exercise bout in females. Subjects included 8 active, premenopausal females. Subjects completed a LC and LF testing session. Respiratory gas exchange (RER) measurements were taken for 20 min fasted, for 55 min postprandial (PP), and during 30 min of exercise. Bl...

Lactoferrin (LF) is an iron-binding protein contained in the secretory fluids of mammals and secondary granules of neutrophils. LF is a key element in innate immunity and exhibits a wide spectrum of activity against pathogens. Although the effects of LF on the maturation and effector function of immune system cells are well recognized, its regulatory function on myelopoiesis has been a matter o...