OBJECTIVE This research focuses on the role of informal networks in providing emotional support, instrumental aid, and assistance with chronic disease management for frail male veterans. METHODS Telephone interviews were conducted with nursing home eligible veterans living in the community. Name-generating questions were used to illicit network members. RESULTS Data on 198 frail male vetera...

Norms—that is, specifications of what we ought to do—play a critical role in the study of informal argumentation, as they do in studies of judgment, decisionmaking and reasoning more generally. Specifically, they guide a recurring theme: are people rational? Though rules and standards have been central to the study of reasoning, and behavior more generally, there has been little discussion with...

Software developers face numerous challenges in capturing and reusing knowledge during informal design sessions. While the knowledge that is brought to bear and generated during these sessions provides valuable insights that can ideally be reused, informal software design is a time when developers are gathered at the whiteboard working to solve problem and during which the developer must remain...

Objectives: This study identified specific personal factors and homeand community-based services (HCBS) that predict older adults’ residential transitions between community and institutional settings. Method: Logistic regression of interview data from 5294 participants in the Second Longitudinal Study of Aging identified predictors of three residential transition patterns and of frequency and d...

The main objective of database modelling is the design of a database that is correct and can be processed eeciently by a database management system. The eeciency and correctness of a database depends among other things on knowledge about database semantics because semantic constraints are the prerequisite for normalization and restructuring operations. Acquisition of semantic constraints remain...

Informal scholarly communication across the Web is a growing component of the scholarly communication infrastructure. This study describes the effects of three different interfaces on these informal channels. Interface design has a widely studied effect on user behavior, and new users often encounter barriers during accessing social media tools. Using a mixed methods approach, we collected and ...

Aim To examine care characteristics related to desirable care as reported by formal and informal caregivers in Dutch Psycho-geriatric nursing homes for patients with dementia. Design Qualitative exploratory study. Methods The sample consisted of four nursing homes. In each home, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a manager, a quality advisor or head nurse, a daily care superviso...

The main objective of database modelling is the design of a database that is correct and can be processed eeciently by a database management system. The eeciency and correctness of a database depends among other things on knowledge about database semantics because semantic constraints are the prerequisite for normalisation and restructuring operations. Acquisition of semantic constraints remain...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study examines (a) the association between being a care recipient and end-of-life care planning (EOLCP) and (b) the extent to which personality traits moderate the relationship between care receipt and EOLCP. DESIGN AND METHODS Data are drawn from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a survey of Wisconsin high school graduates from 1957 to 2004. We used data on EOLCP am...

The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely to be corr...