The aim of this study is to determine the effect of strategic management implementations on the institutionalization levels. In this regard a field study has been made over 31 stone quarry enterprises in cement producing sector in Konya by using survey method. In this study, institutionalization levels of the enterprises have been evaluated regarding three dimensions: professionalization, manag...

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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary healthcare policies are designed to shape the conditions that can help delay the institutionalization of patients with dementia. This can be done by developing support programs that minimize healthcare risks for the patients with dementia and their informal caregivers. Many support programs have been developed, and some of them are effective, but there has been no systematic review...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the 12-month institutionalization rate and to identify the associated predictors among functionally impaired elders with or without cognitive impairment. METHODS A cohort of Hong Kong community-dwelling elders aged 65 or older with functional and/or cognitive impairments was recruited and interviewed from 2007 to 2008. Twelve months after the baseline interview, the fam...

OBJECTIVE To investigate time-dependent predictors of institutionalization in old age using a longitudinal approach. METHODS In a representative survey of the German general population aged 75 years and older predictors of institutionalization were observed every 1.5 years over six waves. Conditional fixed-effects logistic regressions (with 201 individuals and 960 observations) were performed...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate predictors of change in household size and institutionalization in late life. METHODS The Duke Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly cohort (n = 3730) was assessed annually (1986-1996). Independent variables included home ownership, income, cognitive and functional ability, chronic illness, mood, household size, s...

1 Introduction Why do some international cooperations have solid structures governing interactions, whereas others are loosely united groups? For example, there are international organizations that have apparatuses for monitoring behavior of participant states, bureaucratic system, and so forth, such as World Trade Organization, while there also exists merely a series of meetings for cooperatio...

this article tries to design and explain a model through which tv programs can result in institutionalization of the twenty- year vision deed (iran 2025). since the influence of television on cognitive, normative and regulative frameworks of the societies has a consolidated theoretical base, this research is looking for the indirect influences of this media on the institutionalization process o...

BACKGROUND There is a lack of evidence on the contribution of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to institutionalization in older adults. This study aimed to evaluate a range of risk factors including MCI of institutionalization in older men. METHODS Men aged ≥70 years (n = 1705), participating in the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project, Sydney, Australia were studied. Participants complete...