this paper presents a new approach for assessing agricultural landscapes based on mixturemethods and the study and definition of aesthetic attributes as lines, forms, texture, spatial composition, scaleand color as they are the closest to human perceptual aesthetic attributes. a set of variables capable ofquantifying those attributes in a simple, objective and systematized way will be proposed....

OBJECTIVES To study the resuscitation preferences, choice of decision-maker, views on the seeking of patients' wishes and determinants of these of elderly hospital in-patients. DESIGN Questionnaire administered on admission and prior to discharge. SETTING Two acute geriatric medicine units (Southampton and Poole). PARTICIPANTS Two hundred and fourteen consecutive consenting mentally compe...

• Italian commercial breads were evaluated by an instrumental and sensory approach. Desirable mechanical properties of bread for the elderly studied. Elderly’s acceptance was mainly correlated to homemade appearance texture. Chewiness tasteless descriptors corresponded poor consumers’ satisfaction. The aim this study define desirable that a targeting consumers should have, understand whether pr...

Background: Most studies on cancer patient preferences and information needs have not focused specifically on elderly breast cancer patients. Objective: To determine factors which are taken into account by elderly breast cancer patients (>70 years of age) when deciding between primary endocrine therapy or surgery and between mastectomy or wide local excision. Methods: Cross-sectional study of 3...

The aim of this paper is to assess the role of culture in shaping individual preferences towards different long-term care (LTC) arrangements. The analysis uses Swiss data from two administrative databases covering the universe of formal LTC providers between 2007 and 2013. Switzerland is a multi-cultural confederation where state administrative borders do not always coincide with cultural group...

This article analyses the dynamics of family solidarity in Spain. The existing literature so far has defined the Spanish caring model as familistic due to the primacy of the family in the protection of dependants. However, this article shows that recent data on Spaniards’ preferences concerning the care of their family dependents might question the sustainability of the bases of such model. Thi...

BACKGROUND The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey-Minimum Dataset (TOPICS-MDS) collects uniform information from research projects funded under the Dutch National Care for the Elderly Programme. To compare the effectiveness of these projects a preference-weighted outcome measure that combined multidimensional TOPICS-MDS outcomes into a composite endpoint (TOPICS-CEP) was developed bas...

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BACKGROUND Elderly patients with multimorbidity who are treated according to guidelines use a large number of drugs. This number of drugs increases the risk of adverse drug events (ADEs). Stopping medication may relieve these effects, and thereby improve the patient's wellbeing. To facilitate management of polypharmacy expert-driven instruments have been developed, sofar with little effect on t...

PURPOSE To investigate physiotherapy entry-level students' preferences in prioritizing patients, specifically, patients with chronic pain. METHODS After a group discussion, 249 Canadian entry-level physiotherapy students completed a questionnaire that used five distinct scenarios (fictitious patient cases). Respondents were asked to prioritize the patients (P1=highest priority, P5=lowest prio...