Institutionalization processes have an ambivalent effect on organizational long-term success. Even though they foster organizational stability and permanence, they also bring about rigidity and resistance to change. As a result, successful organizations are likely to lose their competitive advantage over time. The paper addresses this issue through the investigation of the institutionalization ...

Geriatric Psychopathology 2 The elderly represent nearly a third of the population in public psychiatric facilities. The social and physiological changes associated with aging can lead to a variety of psychiatric disturbances which necessitate institutionalization of the elderly individual. Treatment of these disturbances is likely to be based on the medical model of psychopathology, although f...

AIM to illustrate demographic differences and recent trends in the provision and structure of long-term care systems in the 10 countries participating in the Resident Assessment Instrument studies (Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA). METHOD data were assembled from government documents, statistical yearbooks and articles from jour...

OBJECTIVES Nonmarital cohabitation has increased substantially among older adults. Our objective was to enhance understanding of cohabitation by comparing elderly cohabiters with the married according to socioeconomic status and union dissolution. METHODS We used population registration data on Finns aged 65 years and older living with a cohabiting partner or a married spouse in 1997 (n = 140...

BACKGROUND Information on the time until institutionalization and its predictors in demented subjects has so far been based on studies with selected samples or prevalent dementia cases. Thus, the aim of the study is to analyze the time until institutionalization and associated patient-related factors in incident dementia cases. METHODS Data were derived from the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of ...

During the past 10 years researchers studying children adopted from Romanian orphanages have had the opportunity to revisit developmental questions regarding the impact of early deprivation on child development. In the present paper the effects of deprivation are examined by reviewing both the early and more recent literature on studies of children who spent the first few years of life in insti...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether implementation of discharge management by trained social workers or nurses reduces hospital readmissions and institutionalizations of geriatric patients in a real-world setting. DESIGN Quasi-experimental design. SETTING Six general hospitals in Belgium. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 824 patients, 355 of whom were assigned to the experimental group r...

After beginning with a brief introduction of the state of the legal skills training in contemporary Chinese law schools, this paper analyzes the slow development of legal skills training in China from the following perspectives: the rational choice of relevant actors in legal skill training, the impact of traditional institutionalization of knowledge, and most importantly, the lack of sufficien...