PURPOSE OF THE STUDY There is growing enthusiasm for community-level efforts to strengthen supportive relationships among neighbors to enhance aging in place. However, there is little research on how older adults perceive support from neighbors in terms of helping them to remain in their own homes and communities safely and comfortably, particularly in the face of later life challenges. There a...

Dementia care is quite rightly the focus of much attention. Guidance on the treatment and care of people with dementia has recently been jointly agreed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2006). This recommends as a key priority for implementation that ‘Carers of people with d...

SUMMARY When a new version of a sonware system is created, the current version of the system must be shut down while the new version is installed, resulting in software 'downtime'. There are application domains where such downtime is undesirahle if not wholly unacceptable. A dynamic program updating system replaces, or updates, a computer program with a new version while the program continues t...

Introduction Problematic substance use is rising, and other mental health conditions like anxiety depression correlate with abuse. Diverse interventions to reduce this effect are emerging. Supportive text messages offer the prospect of improving symptoms drug misuse associated comorbidities. Objectives The study aims evaluate impact Text4Hope-Addiction program in mitigating craving, anxiety, su...