Major renovations were carried out in occupied dementia care units at the Lodge at Broadmead, Victoria, British Columbia. A 32-bed lodge was divided into two, requiring the relocation of three sets of doors. Home-like kitchens and living and dining rooms were built and furnished in each unit. A silent resident call system was installed. Nursing stations were moved off the unit. Murals added atm...

If Thomas Lodge, the doctor and poet, appears to have been somewhat quarrelsome and definitely litigious as his years increased, he came by those qualities honestly. His father was a merchant of consequence, having been successively Warden and Master of the Company of Grocers and Alderman, Sheriff, and Lord Mayor of the City of London. He was also, and this is more important, a man given to spe...

The earth’s environments and ecosystems are not fi xed but vary over a wide range of space and time scales (Delcourt, and Webb 1982; see also fi g. 6.1). At the scale of tens of thousands of years, the wobble of the Earth on its axis causes variation in the solar radiation received at the earth’s surface, driving variation in climate. On shorter time scales, the Southern Oscillation of sea surf...