Introduction & Objective: Hemodialysis as the most prevalent method of dialysis is a procedure for the elimination of fluid and toxic material especially the waste Uremic products from the body of patients with chronic renal failure. Since the frequent accomplishment of this treatment cause negative psychological changes especially hopelessness of patients with chronic renal failure in addition...

A longitudinal study was conducted at the Frank Porter Graham Center NC to explore the use of educational day care and related seryices as a mechanism for preparing socially disadvantaged children for success in later public schooling'. Infant children of mothers who met a criterion score on a high risk index were randomly assigned to either an experimental group which received educational day ...

OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes and the influence of emotional intelligence is the objective of this work. METHOD Nursing professionals answered a questionnaire that assessed the attitude towards suicide and emotional intelligence. RESULTS The results show a general adverse attitude towards suicidal behavior. The moral dimension of suicide makes the differences between mental health and emerg...

Discussions about the possibilities and limitations of the various approaches to the development of intelligent systems are too often based on vague concepts and assumptions. Intelligence is usually considered only in terms of behaviour; we point out that no behaviour can be considered "really intelligent" independently of its motivations. In this context, we introduce the concepts of authentic...

This paper describes last improvements made on ALZ-MAS; an Ambient Intelligence based multi-agent system aimed at enhancing the assistance and health care for Alzheimer patients. The system makes use of several context-aware technologies that allow it to automatically obtain information from users and the environment in an evenly distributed way, focusing on the characteristics of ubiquity, awa...

application of ict in health (ehealth) has become an integral part of modern healthcare systems. elec­tronic health information management has proven useful in improving quality of health care, reducing costs and facilitating health research. however, the increasing complexity of healthcare and the growing demand for high quality healthcare delivery has created a need for ehealth systems with t...

INTRODUCTION Ambient intelligence technologies are a means to support ageing-in-place by monitoring clients in the home. In this study, monitoring is applied for the purpose of raising an alarm in an emergency situation, and thereby, providing an increased sense of safety and security. Apart from these technological solutions, there are numerous environmental interventions in the home environme...