Implementation science in psychogeriatrics

Qualitative research in psychogeriatrics.

Over the past twenty years, qualitative research has gained recognition as a useful approach to scientific inquiry on issues related to health and health care, including those of particular interest to psychogeriatrics. This is evidenced not only by the inclusion of health-related qualitative reports in exclusively qualitative publications but also by their acceptance in venues that have tradit...

Factors Affecting the Implementation of Citizen Science in Iranian Universities

Citizen science is a form of public participation research based on public participation that provides multiple benefits to researchers, citizens, policymakers, and society, as well as research and innovation cycles. Literature review indicates that universities have a significant role in management and implementation of citizen science projects. Despite the emphasis on citizen participation in...

Psychogeriatrics--an interdisciplinary specialty.

Psychogeriatrics and the neo-epidemiologists

A generation later, this verdict is difficult to reconcile with the widespread concern aroused by the lengthening human life-span. In retrospect, it is significant that the WHO report barely mentioned the epidemiological contribution to its subject-matter. Times have changed. The epidemiological perspective has now become indispensable not only for the psychiatrist concerned with the assessment...

Chronic disease: a core construct in psychogeriatrics.

Most trainees, whether social workers, physicians, psychologists or nurses, are attracted to their career choice by the desire and hope that they will “cure” people and restore them to full health. Cures do occur in all of these fields, of course, but it is a surprise to most people to learn that cures are the exception and that chronicity is the basis of the care needs for a majority of indivi...