BACKGROUND Climacteric stage women experience significant biological, psychological and social changes. With demographic changes being observed in the growing number of climacteric stage women in Mexico, it is important to improve their knowledge about the climacteric stage and its potential associated problems, encourage their participation in screening programs, and promote the acquisition of...

Human-centered computation is characterized by at least three features: it must be adaptive, reactive, and it must empower the user to configure and extend the behavior of the systems using her natural modes of interaction. In our previous work we have proposed systems that address the first two features. In this paper we present Alfred – a natural end user programming interface for Intelligent...

BACKGROUND Several residential aged-care facilities have replaced the institutional model of care to one that accepts person-centered care as the guiding standard of practice. This culture change is impacting the provision of aged-care services around the world. This systematic review evaluates the evidence for an impact of person-centered interventions on aged-care residents and nursing staff....

social capital has received considerable attention in all branches of social sciences, and has recently been the focus in the field to explain about procreator elements. trust is one of the social capital elements and plays an important role in specifying consequences incidental to social capital. nearly two decades ago, robert putnam proposed an explanation of trust relying on associational li...

We examine the patient networking site PatientsLikeMe relative to current trends in medicine toward patientcentered care and empowerment. We focus on both patient and institutional demands for personal medical data. Given PatientsLikeMe’s mixture of social networking and health management tools, we consider the role of online health communities in the changing patient/provider relationship, and...

background: family-centered care is an essential concept in cancer but there is no consensus about its meaning and it remains an abstract concept. this study was conducted with the purpose of analyzing the concept of family-centered care in cancer. methods: concept analysis of family-centered care was conducted using hybrid model that has 3 phases: theoretical, field work and final analytical p...

BACKGROUND The prioritization of sustainable patient-centered care in contemporary health care has resulted in an increased focus on patient empowerment, which in turn is considered to facilitate patient independence, self-management, and self-efficacy. However, a definitional consensus of empowerment remains elusive, impeding efforts to translate the conceptual ideals of empowerment into a mea...