Stroke remains a leading cause of serious long-term disability, with most stroke survivors returning home under the care of family members who are often unprepared for the caregiving role and lack training from healthcare providers. As a result, many stroke family caregivers experience burden, depressive symptoms, and reduced health-related quality of life. Aside from these individual issues, c...

Stroke remains a leading cause of serious long-term disability, with most stroke survivors returning home under the care of family members who are often unprepared for the caregiving role and lack training from healthcare providers. As a result, many stroke family caregivers experience burden, depressive symptoms, and reduced health-related quality of life. Aside from these individual issues, c...

This chapter presents a knowledge intensive support paradigm for platform-based product family design and development. The background and current research status related to platform-based product development and product family design is first reviewed. Then, the fundamental issues underlying the product family design are discussed. A module-based integrated product family design scheme is propo...

this study reviews the formations of the family in shahnameh; distribution of power in it; and its identity. therefore, we study the theoretical background related to the subject of the research, theories related to the topic of cultural theories of malinowski, radcliffe brown, ario and shlensky, ronard and proposed research and theoretical framework of the research were written according to th...

Within the medical home, understanding the family and community context in which children live is critical to optimally promoting children's health and development. How to best identify psychosocial issues likely to have an impact on children's development is uncertain. Professional guidelines encourage pediatricians to incorporate family psychosocial screening within the context of primary car...

BACKGROUND Surrogate decision making is common in public healthcare worldwide. In Israel any incompetent adult patient requires a Legal Guardian (LG), appointed by the court, for approval of invasive none-life saving procedures. Usually, the LG is a close family member of the patient. Nurses are the most available healthcare providers to the families and the LG during the process of appointment...

Negotiation, is in general very context sensitive. Since our research laboratory has successfully developed decision support systems in Australian Family Law, we have used our domain expertise to construct a variety of Family Law negotiation support systems. Family Winner uses a variety of artificial intelligence and game theoretic techniques to advise upon structuring the mediation process and...

background & aim: families of patients with schizophrenia face with stigma as the most challenging psychosocial pressure; due to its negative consequences on mental health of family and important role of family in a treatment of these patients, it is considered as important mental health issues. comparing the effect of in our own voice-family with psychoeducation on stigma in the families of pa...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper examines the use of structured Palliative Care Case Conferences in long-term care. The issues families bring to the Palliative Care Case Conference, their level of distress prior to the conference, the extent to which these issues are addressed by staff and family satisfaction with this process are described. BACKGROUND In most developed countries, up to 30% of ...