Families provide a considerable amount of informal care and support for older adults living with dementia. And when an older adult with dementia is hospitalized, family caregivers should be seen as important sources of information and included as valuable members of the health care team. This article describes a best-practice approach to working with families and includes recommendations for us...

background informal payments for health care, which are common in many countries, can have negative effects on health care access, equity and health status as they lead people to forgo or delay seeking care, or to sell assets to pay for care. many countries are putting reforms in place with the aim of reducing informal payments. in order to be successful, such policies should be informed by the...

BACKGROUND Few personalized e-interventions are available for informal and professional caregivers of people with dementia. The DEMentia Digital Interactive Social Chart (DEM-DISC) is an ICT tool to support customized disease management in dementia. The aim of this study was to improve and evaluate DEM-DISC, its user-friendliness and usefulness and to investigate the future implementation. ME...

This paper is about an innovative approach to informal, workplace related learning in do-it-yourself retail stores. Most organizations ignore informal learning as a strategic tool, although this kind of learning dominates the workplace in many organizations. The objective of the project described here was to facilitate informal learning practices by the sales people on the work floor with an ea...

Developers of interactive software are confronted by a variety of software tools to help them design and implement user interfaces. They often resort to ad hoc means of tool selection and subsequently are dissatisfied with their chosen tool. In this paper we describe a framework, evaluation methodology, and associated tool for investigating the suitability of user interface development tools (U...

Our entry for the VAST 2012 Mini Challenge #1 consisted of a homegrown visual analytic tool that displays the health and policy status of a large-scale network. By putting ourselves into the shoes of an analyst, we defined key dimensions of the data, and developed visualizations for each of them. Using our tool, we were able to identify several areas of concern within the provided data. We pres...

This demonstration shows the tool we have developed for hand-sketching user interfaces. Our motivation for developing this tool is to provide an environment where novice programmers can move freely along the design continuum from informal low-fidelity prototypes to completed formal designs. A low-cost digital whiteboard is used to provide a shared work space for Freeform. The tool is integrated...

Typical approaches to design patterns present them in the catalog form. For undergraduate students this abstract description of the pattern makes it even more difficult to understand its purpose and need. In this paper we describe a tool used at a university course to enable the students to learn architectural patterns by looking at code. The tool presented in this paper shows the solution to a...

The aim of this study was to compare the social capital indicators of members and non-members of cooperatives in Siahkal County.  The sample size was calculated by the Cochran formula to include300individuals (150 member cooperatives and 150 non-members of the cooperative) that were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The main tool employed in this study was a questionnaire that ...