Older patients see their general practitioners (GPs) relatively often and so recognition of their preferences can lead to improvement of quality of care in general practice. This study aimed to identify which aspects of GPs' behaviour are the most important for older people in their assessment of the quality of their visits and to explore the application of Jung's taxonomy differentiating task ...

Most of the previous works that disambiguate personal names in Web search results employ agglomerative clustering approaches. However, these approaches tend to generate clusters that contain a single element depending on a certain criterion of merging similar clusters. In contrast to such previous works, we have adopted a semisupervised clustering approach to integrate similar documents into a ...

OBJECTIVES to describe the views of healthcare workers on the facilitators of communication with people with dementia in a care setting. DESIGN thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews. SETTING all participants were interviewed in their place of work. PARTICIPANTS sixteen healthcare workers whose daily work involves interacting with people with dementia. RESULTS four overarching ...

The aim of this study was to list the medicinal plants known by residents Rural Settlements Araras (SP), as first step implement vegetable garden in their community area. Data were obtained through a semi-structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics. had main informant key informant, totaling 17 people interviewed, obtaining 77 species plants. settlers emphasize importance...

BACKGROUND Conservation of biodiversity is primary important of today's critically vulnerable environment. Efficient conservation can be possible only with the long-term participation and understanding of the communities. Ritual beliefs of the indigenous people are one of the important tools to understand the local communities and aid the nature conservation. In this paper, we documented contem...

BACKGROUND Increased life expectancy and the accompanying prevalence of chronic conditions have led to the focus and delivery of health care migrating from the hospital and into people's homes. While previous studies have investigated the integration of particular types of medical devices into the home, it was our intention to describe how medical devices are integrated into the lives of older ...

BACKGROUND People with learning disabilities have become increasingly exposed to health risk with the move to community living. Yet, health promotion is poorly developed with a heavy reliance on primary care. OBJECTIVES To elicit the perceptions of people with learning disabilities, carers and care workers regarding risk factors associated with cardiac disease. METHODS A qualitative approac...