This commentary essay discusses the findings of a study involving direct care workers of children in residential care and their perspectives regarding aspects of leadership in their institutions, in order to identify key implications for practice. The article is based on a large study conducted in Israel that examined perspectives from children, residential care workers and directors on various...

Accepted 25 September 1996 In the UK, there has been a rapid expansion in residential and nursing home care for elderly people with a corresponding reduction in long-term hospital care. Many of the residents are disabled and a large percentage are likely to have diabetes, although accurate information is not available. The needs of patients with diabetes living within institutions may be overlo...

Summary Structured observation can be valuable to complement self or parent reports used for diagnostic information risk assessment, although this method is hardly and understudied in residential forensic settings. To fill void an checklist social workers working juvenile justice institutions was developed, along with instruction manual a training program. Findings In the first two sections, pa...

This article provides information on Parkinson's disease, using the 2010/2011 Canadian Community Health Survey, the 2011/2012 Survey of Neurological Conditions in Institutions in Canada, and the 2011 Survey of Living with Neurological Conditions in Canada. An estimated 0.2% of Canadian adults in private households (55,000), and 4.9% of those in residential institutions (12,500), had Parkinson's...

BACKGROUND A revolution in health care is occurring as a result of changes in the practice of medicine and in society. Medical education, if it is to keep up with the times, needs to adapt to society's changing attitudes. Presently medical education has been criticised for its orientation and insensitivity to people's need. The MBBS curriculum of medical institutions of Nepal has been focusing ...