THIS ANALYSIS COMPARED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION (VNS) THERAPY AMONG PATIENTS WITH INTRACTABLE SEIZURES: a group living in residential treatment facilities (RTF) with a group not living in RTFs (non-RTF). Among a constant cohort of patients with baseline, 3-month, and 12-month data, the RTF group had significantly (P < 0.05) larger numbers of patients with generalized seizure...

A lthough national data show that 25% of nursing home residents and 31% of home health patients have diabetes (1,2), little is known about diabetes among older adults living in residential care facilities (RCFs). The 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities (3) provides nationally representative data on this population. Resident information, including demographics, health conditions,...

OBJECTIVE There is a growing body of research that investigates how the residential neighbourhood context relates to individual diet. However, previous studies ignore participants' time spent in the residential environment and this may be a problem because time-use studies show that adults' time-use pattern can significantly vary. To better understand the role of exposure duration, we designed ...

Decreasing qualitative aspects of residential environments is a real problem in recent public housing of Kerman. This article is concentrated on surveying the impact of in-between spaces on residential environments quality (REQ), to evaluate different kinds of it and to determine interrelation of two main components: residents individual characteristics and characteristics of in-between spaces....

Key findings: Municipal governments can have a major influence on building design, and local officials can play a much stronger role in fostering security planning. Because parking facilities are more likely settings for crime—both violent and property—than all other real estate except residential, security is one of the most critical issues facing the owners and operators of parking facilities...

This paper estimates the intangible benefits of a two sports facilities in Columbus, Ohio on residential property values. We estimate a spatial hedonic model that avoids biased and inconsistent estimates in the presence of uncorrected spatial autocorrelation. The results suggest that the presence of sports facilities in Columbus have a significant positive distance-decaying effect on surroundin...

Social, political and economic changes have generated processes of revitalization the built environment in post-socialist countries since beginning 1990s; these are related to physical structure city, its facilities functions, as well city landscape. Urban planning affects people’s quality way life, residential satisfaction with environment, especially that older people, who make up a significa...