Organizing Process for Long-term Preventive Care in Community Groups

Long Term Cost Effective Preventive Maintenance Scheduling

Preventive maintenance scheduling of generating units is addressed as a long-term scheduling in power system studies aiming to increase the reliability incorporating cost reduction. It consists of knowing which generating units should be shut down for regular safety inspection. In this paper, a new formulation of preventive maintenance scheduling associated with cost reduction index (CRI) is pr...

Community Organizing for Health Care: An Analysis of the Process

This article examines the community organizing process for better health services for disenfranchised populations that cannot afford medical care in an affluent community. In response, concerned citizens and voluntary organizations have attempted to organize to transform policies and to implement new healthcare services. The author adopts a researcher participant role and examines the organizin...

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

Current Status of Long-term Care in Taiwan: Transition of Long-term Care Plan From 1.0 to 2.0

Long--term catheter care in the community.

Increasing numbers of people in the community have long-term urinary catheters, but catheterisation is not a risk free option and it can be associated with increased morbidity1. It is an invasive procedure that is sometimes unjustifi ed and can be neglected when in place2. When used appropriately though, it can add to a patient’s quality of life. In this article, Linda Nazarko discusses the ris...