Three components of the Alzheimer's disease care equation are considered : impairment, felt burden, and the institutionalization decision. Measurement and the results of existing studies are compared with field data on the descriptive organization of the caregiving experience. It is suggested that measurement is an inappropriate language for depicting the experience, empirically distorting what...

This is an integrative review of the literature on the working processes of professionals staffing the Psychosocial Care Centers (CAPS), reflecting on service practices, in particular social reinsertion of service users from the bio-psychosocial perspective. The literature review aims to show how working processes are being developed by CAPS professionals, and the repercussions for service user...

In his New Science,1 Giambattista Vico provided us with four axioms, which if followed, could help prevent us from falsifying our knowledge of history and our understanding of ourselves.2 Although all four axioms are relevant, the last two-"the conceit of nations" and "the conceit of scholars"-are particularly important as reminders to American legal scholars who all too often fall prey to the ...

The paper gives an analytical synopsis of the problem of developing medical ethics in the early half of the 1990s in China, as perceived by Chinese scholars and medical professionals interested in medical ethics. The views captured and analyzed here were expressed in one of the two major journals on medical ethics in China: Chinese Medical Ethics. The economic reform unleashed profound changes ...

Knowledge brokering is a promising strategy to close the "know-do gap" and foster greater use of research findings and evidence in policy-making. It focuses on organizing the interactive process between the producers and users of knowledge so that they can co-produce feasible and research-informed policy options. We describe a recent successful experience with this novel approach in the Netherl...

When being placed into more benign environments like foster care, children from adverse rearing backgrounds are capable of forming attachment relationships to new caregivers within the first year of placement, while certain problematic social behaviors appear to be more persistent. Assuming that early averse experiences shape neural circuits underlying social behavior, neurophysiological studie...

This study examined the role of women in politics and in the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria. It elicited their challenges, experiences and contributions to the democratic process. Strategies that can assist women realize their political leadership potentials were proffered. Questionnaires were administered on 700 randomly selected female politicians, activists and professionals in governmen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence exercised by institutionalization on the autonomy and perception of quality of life among the institutionalized elderly. METHOD The study is quasi-experimental (interrupted time series) and longitudinal. The sample is composed for 104 elderly people who went into a three nursing home in Santander, Spain. To assess the quality of life and dependence two scal...

The perception of biomedical achievements in the last century has led most Westerners and those in the rest of the world under the influence of Western scientific culture, to assume that their own representations of disease and of its causes are the most authentic, the «truest», on the assumption that such representations are the culmination of an historical process through which modern medical...