Introduction: We discuss knowledge and expectations of services and other help available in the community to informal caregivers of stroke patients in Portugal, and their perceptions on actual experience within the next six months after patient discharge from the acute care hospital. Theory and methods: Most stroke patients are supported by close kin members, the informal caregivers, who play a...

Section one consists of 5 chapters. In Chapter 1, Malinka Ivanova and Anguelina Popova explore " Formal and Informal Learning Flows Cohesion in Web 2.0 Environment. " The current state of the Web is recognized as " social " because of the multiple possibilities for participation, stimulation, and facilitation of interactions in groups, communities, networks, and among people with similar intere...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this analysis were to examine how patients' dependence on others relates to costs of care and explore the incremental effects of patient dependence measured by the Dependence Scale on costs for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Spain. METHODS The Co-Dependence in Alzheimer's Disease study is an 18 multicenter, cross-sectional, observational study among pati...

This paper presents a review on the two important aspects of Social Network, namely Link Analysis and Informal Network. Both of these characteristic plays a vital role in analysis of direction of information flow and reliability of the information passed or received. They can be easily visualized or can be studied using the concepts of graph theory. We have deliberately omitted discussing about...

Social connections in the community ("social capital") represent an important source of resilience in the aftermath of major disasters. However, little is known about how residential relocation due to housing destruction affects survivors' social capital. We examined changes in social capital among survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. People who lost their homes were r...

The article develops a process and control model for the analysis and design of inter-firm relations, in which both opportunism and trust play a role. Its aim is to develop a tool which helps to analyze combinations, balances and imbalances of trust and opportunism, formal and informal forms of governance, and viable sequences of strategies of governance, depending on different conditions. It e...

Recent scholarship shows that social capital has a large influence on political behavior. Social capital’s definition includes trust, norms of reciprocity, and social networks. Most studies, however, ignore the networking component. Here, we test the influence of social networks on political participation using new Japanese survey data. We separately test the effects of involvement in formally ...

Organizing and satisfying the increasing demand for social and informal care for older adults is an important topic. We aim at building a peerto-peer exchange platform that empowers older adults to benefit from receiving support for daily activities and reciprocally offering support to others. In situated interviews and within a survey we investigated the requirements and needs of 246 older adu...