This study aims to clarify the differences in psychological, social, and physical characteristics that influence preferences for nursing care by Japanese Chinese people. A questionnaire was conducted with seniors who were living at homes capable of independent self-care. At time, changes mental state before after spread COVID- 19 also examined. The participants divided into two groups based on ...

BACKGROUND The Papanicolaou (Pap) smear test is an effective screening test for the early detection of uterine cervical cancer. The Pap test still plays an important role in Korean elderly women, as uterine cervical cancer remains a frequent form of cancer and an important cause of death. However, the participation rate and other factors related to the Pap test in Korean elderly women have been...

The distinction between concrete and abstract concepts is psychologically valid but so far it can hardly be quantified in any objective way, which prevents it from being further studied in computational linguistics. This paper proposes a systematic way to measure concreteness from the surface structure of dictionary definitions. Comparing the scores from WordNet definitions with human ratings, ...

In most developed countries, gender equality and neutrality have been widely promoted and embraced— through public policy—as a socio-cultural goal since at least the mid-twentieth century. Accordingly, we predicted that a population of highly educated youth from a relatively wealthy developed country (mostly students from a Canadian university) would display little or no significant gender bias...

Food manufacturers need to understand the taste preferences of their consumers in order to develop successful new products. The existence of consumer segments that differ in systematic ways in their taste preferences can have important implications for product development. Rather than developing a product to please all potential consumers, the manufacturer may decide to optimize the product for...

Abstract As China’s elderly population grows, residential areas need to provide an outdoor environment for their physical and mental health in good condition. Many studies have found that better environments can improve the of increase happiness. The Seniors’ Outdoor Survey (SOS) tool was developed as effective reliable assessment evaluate needs preferences spaces. This study used SOS Shuiqingg...

BACKGROUND This study explored the effects of an integrated care model aimed at the frail elderly on the perceived health, objective burden, subjective burden and quality of life of informal caregivers. METHODS A quasi-experimental design with before/after measurement (with questionnaires) and a control group was used. The analysis encompassed within and between groups analyses and regression...

Abstract Rehabilitation robots are becoming an important means of assisted living for the elderly, and appearance rehabilitation directly affects willingness elderly to interact with robots. Much current research on robot preferences relies solely subjective evaluations, which relatively cheap, but do not reach deep into brain get accurate grasp how humans respond appearance. Using electroencep...

In this paper we introduce an in-hospital navigation system suitable for motor impaired, visually impaired and elderly people. GPS localisation and Wi-Fi triangulation are often not suitable in indoor environments due to poor signal or complicated calibration. We present a navigation system that does not depend on precise electronic localisation aids. User interfaces used are automatically accu...

Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement Structural models explaining retirement decisions of individuals or households in an intertemporal setting are typically hard to estimate using data on actual retirement decisions, since choice sets are for a large part unobserved by the researcher. This paper describes an experiment in which both perceived ret...