Motivation is an essential component in mental health and well-being. In this area, researchers have identified four psychological needs that drive human behavior: attachment, self-esteem, orientation control, maximization of pleasure minimization distress. Various self-reported scales interviews tools been developed to assess these dimensions. Despite the validity these, they are showing limit...

Abstract Over the last decade, Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative (GPNC) has sought to improve care of older adults with mental health needs such as those dementia. nurses are well-poised deliver person-centered address psychosocial persons dementia, which may include behavioral expressions. In this interdisciplinary symposium, we will highlight approaches members GPNC taking mood and behavi...

In this study the authors investigated how satisfaction levels of affection, behavioral confirmation, and status, as three human social needs, relate to age, physical loss, and subjective well-being. Results (N=883, aged 65 to 98 years) revealed that (a) affection was relatively high and status was relatively low in all age and loss groups; behavioral confirmation showed negative age and loss e...

BACKGROUND Federally Qualified Health Centers are expanding to increase access for millions of more Americans with a goal of doubling capacity to serve 40 million people. Health centers provide a lot of behavioral health services but many have difficulty accessing mental health and substance use professionals for their patients. To meet the needs of the underserved and newly insured it is impor...

Improved building designs come from a better understanding of the behavioral needs of the dairy cow. The costs to provide for these needs in the facility must be offset by improved milk production, health, and longevity. Research is still required to more fully understand the health implications of many building design considerations and their impact on disease. Perhaps the most important end r...

Despite the technological advancement of modern hearing aids (HA), many users abandon their devices due to lack of personalization. This is caused by the limited hearing health care resources resulting in users getting only a default ’one size fits all’ setting. However, the emergence of smartphoneconnected HA enables the devices to learn behavioral patterns inferred from user interactions and ...