Participants 19 English speaking carers who attended the ward and 25 healthcare workers. Informal carers were those who provided physical or social care or assistance for another person. Without this help, the recipient would need health, social, or voluntary sector service intervention. Healthcare workers were nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, ambulance personnel, ...

Expatriate volunteers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, work in a country where many of their fellow expatriates are paid considerably more than they are. Such volunteers often find that the financial disparities affect the perceptions that people have of them. This paper explores the self-perceptions of volunteers working with Voluntary Service Overseas in Phnom Penh, and sets these perceptions within ...

Competent terminally ill persons have a right to choose the time and manner of their death. This choice is protected by the constitutional right to privacy. This Note contends that the protection afforded by the right to privacy extends to individuals whose assistance is necessary to help competent terminal patients end their lives. It proposes guidelines for both prosecutors and courts to ensu...

On 19 June 2019 the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) came into effect, making Victoria first state in Australia to permit practice of 'voluntary assisted dying'. As defined legislation, voluntary dying refers administration a substance and includes steps reasonably related such administration, for purpose causing person's death. In essence, model established is designed patients within f...

There is a substantial body of literature on psychosocial impacts of chemical and nuclear accidents. Less attention, however, has been focused on the program and policy issues that are connected with efforts to provide psychosocial assistance to the victims of such accidents. Because psychosocial assistance efforts are certain to be an essential part of the response to future environmental emer...

The Israeli Kibbutz movement is a voluntary cooperative based on equality, mutual assistance, partnership, and common ownership of property. It is one of the last socialist experiments that successfully survived for most of the twentieth century. How did a voluntary egalitarian institution exist in a more capitalist environment? What level of equality can be sustained as an equilibrium? I study...

Humans employ various control strategies to initiate and maintain bodily movement. In case that the normal gait function is impaired, exoskeleton robots provide motor assistance during therapy. While the robotic control system builds on kinematic gait functions, the patient's voluntary efforts to initiate motion also contribute to the effectiveness of the therapy process. However, it is current...