The identification, evaluation, and spatial distribution of “Production–Living–Ecological” space (PLEs) have been widely studied, but there is still little attention paid to whether their characteristics will vary with scale changes. This article takes the organic whole PLEs composed production space, living ecological on Hainan Island as research object. Starting from perspective heterogeneity...

BACKGROUND Recent changes in home physical environments, such as decreasing outdoor space and increasing electronic media, may negatively affect health by facilitating sedentariness and reducing physical activity. As children spend much of their time at home they are particularly vulnerable. This study qualitatively explored family perceptions of physical environmental influences on sedentary b...

The Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) group is a consortium of eight longitudinal twin studies established to explore the nature of social context effects and gene-environment interplay in late-life functioning. The resulting analysis of the combined data from over 17,500 participants aged 25-102 at baseline (including nearly 2,600 monogygotic and 4,300 dizygoti...

BACKGROUND Population ageing is a global challenge and understanding the dynamics of living arrangements in later life and their implications for the design of appropriate housing and long-term care is a critical policy issue. Existing research has focused on the study of transitions into residential care in the UK. This paper investigates transitions into sheltered accommodation among older pe...

Resident involvement is a new trend in care homes. The PARTNER intervention aims to involve residents through collective action to improve their community life and wellbeing. The purpose of this article is to provide insights into the process of resident involvement via the PARTNER intervention, and into its perceived effects. A qualitative evaluation study was conducted, using participant obse...

The decline in the use of residential care options is not unique to Australian out-of-home care, as both the UK and the US have witnessed similar declines. One of the main reasons attributed to the decline is the view that the placement of a child or young person in residential care cannot provide the same quality of care as the placement of a child or young person in a family environment (i.e....

In this paper, we apply visual surveillance techniques to in-house abnormal event detection, where (elderly) persons are monitored in order to assure their well-being. By means of a camera installed in a living room, we are able to spot not only if the person falls, but also other, more subtle abnormal events. We summarize two existing methods and compare them on two video sequences. The approa...