OBJECTIVES This study explored the disruption of gender identity and gender role as a result a traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHOD Four adults (two men, two women) who sustained a TBI between the ages of 18 and 30 years and were at least 1 year postinjury participated in six 1-hr interviews concerning changes in (a) perceived masculinity or femininity, (b) involvement in intimate relationshi...

The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continu...

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly leaving its academic home and moving into the marketplace. There are few precedents for an arcane academic subject becoming commercialized so rapidly. But, genetic engineering, which recently burst forth from academia to become the foundation for the hot new biotechnology industry, provides useful insights into the rites of passage awaiting the commercializat,...

Van Gennep's work on rites of passage can be viewed as part the rise anthropology in period prior to First World War, and has been very influential conceptually practice churches ever since. This article examines how his own historical work, taking baptism an example a rite passage, compares with church history at time. It then seeks assess van assumptions comparison about past used writing tod...