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The Socrates Cafe: Philosophy as an integrated therapeutic tool in social care settingss

, spiritual and philosophical dimensions of old age as components of integrated healthcare are often ignored. There is an argument that philosophy is, in fact, one of the keys to a happy old age.Every old ... provides encouragement and also challenges for other health and social care practitioners in the development of integrated healthcare in the broadest sense. Keywords: philosophy; learning; wellbeing

Creating an Enabling Political Environment for Health and Social Care Integration

clinical lead who supported the development and implementation of national policy on older people, long term conditions and integrated care in Scotland describes how political, policy and professional

Neuroelectrical Correlates of Trustworthiness and Dominance Judgments Related to the Observation of Political Candidates

The present research investigates the neurophysiological activity elicited by fast observations of faces of real candidates during simulated political elections. We used simultaneous recording of ... candidates for political elections in the USA Senate were presented for less than a second [1]. Judgments based on such a “superficial” observation could predict the election results, being linearly correlated

Neuroelectrical Correlates of Trustworthiness and Dominance Judgments Related to the Observation of Political Candidates

The present research investigates the neurophysiological activity elicited by fast observations of faces of real candidates during simulated political elections. We used simultaneous recording of ... candidates for political elections in the USA Senate were presented for less than a second [1]. Judgments based on such a “superficial” observation could predict the election results, being linearly correlated

Inter-Sectoral Collaboration in Municipal Health Centres: A Multi-Site Qualitative Study of Supporting Organizational Elements and Individual Drivers

as facilitators of collaboration partly due to a lack of political and managerial attention. At the operational level, inter-sectoral collaboration was limited to ad hoc interactions between ... Copenhagen, DK X close Karsten Vrangbæk Centre for Healthy Aging, Centre for Health Economics and Policy, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, and Department of Political

Realist Research Design and Evaluation for Integrated Care RIC SIG - Part 1: Establishing a Special Interest Group

Background: Realist philosophy and methodology is increasingly being explicitly used in the field of integrated care to research the extant context, structure and mechanisms at play, and to design ... the realist philosophy underpins much of modern health and social science, it is only recently that this philosophical approach has been popularised within main stream health and social science

Using a new matrix to describe real-life integrated care innovation for older persons in primary care

targeted professionals both individual and group. A few activities targeted the organizational level, whereas none targeted the policy level, or the patient, or the ‘social, political and legal’ domain ... . However, the resulting changes in care delivery arrangement had consequences for professionals, patients, organizations, and the social, political and legal domain. Conclusion: A structured process

Improving specialist accessibility and involvement in treatment management planning for rural and remote mental health services using Lean practices

emanating from the downturn in the mining sector; some of which were unnecessary. Therefore, the impetus of the project was to apply Lean philosophy to improve mental health accessibility for consumers ... were open to the services Conclusion: The findings are indicative that Lean philosophy can be applied in rural and remote mental health services to improve the specialists? accessibility and involvement

New Labour's state of health: political economy, public policy and the NHS

Economics, University of Oslo , Norway This book is about New Labour's health policy and the impact political economy has on public policy. As in other areas of the public sector, reforms based on ideas ... New Labour's policy and dismantles what he sees as the fundamental problems. - In the first part of the book, Paton presents a theoretical framework where the focus is on political economy. He argues

GPVu: Your Practice Insight

philosophy has been to development measures for general practice teams about their enrolled patients, with a view that if we deliver the right information for general practice, the PHO can access a rich data ... enabling a framework to measure change. Targeted population and stakeholders: The approach has seen us develop measures of care across our enrolled population (380,000 Cantabrians). Our philosophy has been

Healthcare access of immigrants: An integrated ecological framework

and social networks level, 5) Socio-political Level.The results are presented by level:1) Patient-level: the factors determining a role in healthcare access are gender inequities, country of origin ... community, developing and providing services plays a key role to guarantee the accessibility. 5) Socio-political Level: Racism are cultural elements that promote the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants

Opening the windows: Integration as a means to improve the quality of life of people with a learning disability and/ or autism

structures, good practice guidance, care co-ordination processes and additional investments. Unusually for such policy developments there was a general consensus across political parties and stakeholder groups ... levels of a system, and the connected policy (goals and objectives), process (including causal, technical and political feasibility) and resources (financial and human). It will draw upon policy documents

Integrated Acute Healthcare Commissioning Pathway in Ireland

collating and furnishing service outputs and outcomes information in an annualised recursive input to commissioners and to the political system as part of the fiscal resource allocation decision-making ... the political system in Ireland, top-down bloc grant funding flows to hospital service providers from which blocs critical care funds currently emerge. Capacity And Capability: The critical care

The influence of political processes of health systems reforms based on primary health care in institutional and organizational innovations and health services performance: a case study of three municipal settings in Argentina and Bolivia / La influencia

community-centred services. Many initiatives have been implemented with different objectives and results. Little attention has been paid on the underlying political processes which is a key factor for ... successful implementation. This work aims to analyze how the political processes of the PHC reforms influenced the institutional and organization innovation and the health services performance in three Latin

How (not) to create value based integrated maternity care: Lessons from the Netherlands

maternity care is the result of an uneasy relationship between midwives and obstetricians, unsound science, critical reports in the media, and the differential political power of the ... Netherlands have sided with the obstetricians. Stories of harm to mothers and babies capture the attention of the public and are more interesting than stories of the success of integrated care. Political power

New Labour's state of health: political economy, public policy and the NHS

. 2007;7(3):None. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.195 250 Views 193 Downloads   Published on 01 Jul 2007  CC BY 4.0 New Labour's state of health: political economy

Safer transitioning Optimising Frail Elderly Patients Care From Hospital to Home

; integrated care planning from hospital to home embodies this philosophy. Spanning the last 3 months the Occupational Therapy (OT) Department in Beaumont Hospital and North Dublin have collaborated to deliver

Family experiences with palliative care of people with severe dementia in Norwegian nursing homes

members experience being taken care of.Method: To describe the phenomenon under investigation we used a phenomenological research approach grounded in the philosophy of Husserl. Data was collected using in

National Clinical Programme for Older People: National Frailty Education Programme "Fundamentals of Frailty"

understanding of frailty and frailty assessments, thereby ensuring earlier recognition , improved healthcare management and better health outcomes for frail older adults. The programme philosophy is based on the