Geriatric assessment - lessons from personal experience

Geriatric assessment--lessons from personal experience.

The aim of this study was to develop a framework for comprehensive specialist geriatric assessment in rural settings. A protocol that used a number of standardised assessment instruments was developed and applied routinely. Data from two rural centres in South Australia over a two-year period were analysed. Study results offer important insights and have implications for clinical practice and p...

Comprehensive geriatric assessment: lessons in progress.

Systemic development at Hawkesbury: some personal lessons from experience

One of the most significant and enduring ideas associated with the systems initiatives at Hawkesbury has been the inter-connections that were made there between systemic acts of development in the ‘concrete world’ and the abstract ‘epistemic developments’ of the actors who participate in them. Each is seen to be constitutive of the other in a profoundly systemic manner, with ‘concrete events’ b...

Safety of doctors at work: lessons learnt from personal experience.

Lessons Learned from a Personal Sensing Architecture

For the past two years we’ve been using a personal sensing system we call SPEC. Because it has different goals it has a different design philosophy, and thus its architecture is quite different from the more common environmental sensing system. It was designed to monitor a user’s activities for their own purposes, in order to support everyday information processing activities. In other words, i...