AIM To identify aged care specific work health and safety management issues by applying James Reason's safety culture theory to one residential aged care provider in Australia. METHODS Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with frontline care staff at three residential care facilities - all operated by the same provider - garnered employee perceptions of the safety culture and aged care spe...

Communication difficulties associated with late-stage dementia can make it difficult for care staff in residential environments to get to know people with dementia. This lack of knowledge can have a negative effect on the social environment of residential facilities, which can have a detrimental effect on the health and well-being of the residents and the job satisfaction of the staff. In this ...

unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. EDITORIALS If Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain must go to Mohammed The health care of nursing home residents causes deep unease in every practitioner who works with older people. The problem for frail older people in many western countries is that once th...

BACKGROUND Shift work is considered necessary to ensure continuity of care in hospitals and residential facilities. In particular, the night shift is one of the most frequent reasons for the disruption of circadian rhythms, causing significant alterations of sleep and biological functions that can affect physical and psychological well-being and negatively impact work performance. OBJECTIVES ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between the physical and social attributes of the neighborhood environment and levels of total physical activity (PA), leisure time PA, and active commuting PA in adults. METHODS The present cross-sectional study comprised 1500 adults (51.1% women) aged 15-74 years from the Autonomous Region of Madrid (Spain). Data were collected through a structured telep...

Electricity provisioning has historically satisfied demand by centralized generation and pervasive distribution through an extensive transmission and distribution network. Once demand increases beyond a fixed threshold, however, the capacity of the generation, transmission and distribution can become crippled and the mal-effects of periodic brownouts and skyrocketing prices may ripple through t...

BACKGROUND The built environment might be associated with development of obesity and related disorders. We examined whether neighbourhood exposure to fast-food outlets and physical activity facilities were associated with adiposity in UK adults. METHODS We used cross-sectional observational data from UK Biobank. Participants were aged 40-70 years and attended 21 assessment centres between 200...