Marina Gharibian Adra, John Hopton and John Keady
The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions, perspectives and meaning of quality of life for a sample of older residents, care staff and family caregivers in two nursing…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions, perspectives and meaning of quality of life for a sample of older residents, care staff and family caregivers in two nursing homes in Lebanon.
Design/methodology/approach
A classic grounded theory study was conducted between 2010 and 2011 in two nursing homes in Beirut. The semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a theoretical sample of 20 residents, 8 family caregivers and 11 staff. The constant comparative method was used to analyze the data.
Findings
Three distinct but interrelated properties of quality of life emerged from this process: “maintaining self,” “maintaining identity” and “maintaining continuity”. The dynamics that exist within and between each of these properties provide an indicator about shared and distinct meanings and the implications for care practice.
Research limitations/implications
The study was conducted in one city in Lebanon; accordingly, the transferability of findings may be challenging.
Practical implications
Implications for nursing and nursing policy – improving Lebanese national standards and regulations applicable to nursing home residents may help to enhance residents’ care needs and quality of life.
Social implications
There was limited guidance aimed at helping older residents to voice and increase their choice and control.
Originality/value
This paper provides new insights into the process of outlining the properties attached to the phenomenon of quality of life in nursing homes in Lebanon. It will be of interest to those in nursing home care as well as to policy makers.
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The volume and range of food law enforcement in the field of purity and quality control has grown dramatically in recent times. Only those able to recall the subject from upwards…
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The volume and range of food law enforcement in the field of purity and quality control has grown dramatically in recent times. Only those able to recall the subject from upwards of half a century ago can really appreciate the changes. Compositional control now appears as more of a closely knit field of its own, keeping pace with the advances of food processing, new methods and raw materials. It has its problems but enforcement agencies appear well able to cope with them, e.g. the restructuring of meat, excess water content, fat content, the application of compositional standards to new products, especially meat products, but the most difficult of all areas is that of securing and maintaining acceptable standards of food hygiene. This is one of the most important duties of environmental health officers, with a considerable impact on health and public concern; and one of the most intractible problems, comparable in its results with the insidious onslaught of the ever‐growing problem of noise, another area dependent on the reactions of people; to use an oft repeated cliche — “the human element”.
From October 5 1988 Durham Chemicals will, like its sister Harrisons and Crosfield chemical companies around the world, take on a single group identity and become known as a…
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From October 5 1988 Durham Chemicals will, like its sister Harrisons and Crosfield chemical companies around the world, take on a single group identity and become known as a member of the Harcros Chemical Group. This name and logo has been designed to portray a world force in chemicals.
Prompt response times have won CMB General Packaging an order to supply Manders Paints with Polycans for some of its fastest selling lines. Manders' ‘own brand’ Maestro Emulsion…
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Prompt response times have won CMB General Packaging an order to supply Manders Paints with Polycans for some of its fastest selling lines. Manders' ‘own brand’ Maestro Emulsion, its Trend Budget Emulsion and the Trend Kwik Coat range will all now be available in the lightweight polypropylene container.
In a recent poll commissioned by Rockwell, sponsors of opinion polls on the US civilian space programme for the last 16 years, an increasing percentage of Americans was shown to…
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In a recent poll commissioned by Rockwell, sponsors of opinion polls on the US civilian space programme for the last 16 years, an increasing percentage of Americans was shown to support the US space station.
Emma Tarpey, Zoe Stephenson and Richard Barker
The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for the use of risk formulation in forensic practice settings.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence base for the use of risk formulation in forensic practice settings.
Design/methodology/approach
Systematic literature review principles were adopted to identify literature exploring risk formulation in forensic practice settings in relation to offending behaviour.
Findings
Data were analysed using a narrative synthesis approach, and commonalities were observed across some of the studies in terms of definitions, outcomes, and implementation, of risk formulation; however, the findings of the review did not provide a definitive account of risk formulation practice in forensic settings. This is due to the narrow scope of the included studies, the small yet diverse samples, the heterogeneity in research aims and the methodological weaknesses apparent within the included studies.
Research limitations/implications
Further research is needed to understand the application and outcomes of risk formulation in forensic practice settings.
Practical implications
Practitioners should be clear about how they are defining, implementing and assessing the outcomes of risk formulation, alongside being mindful of the evidence base when utilising forensic risk formulation in practice.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to focus solely on the evidence base for forensic risk formulation in practice.
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In a recent issue of the Municipal Journal there appeared a short but apparently inspired article on the subject of London Government, in which is foreshadowed another drastic and…
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In a recent issue of the Municipal Journal there appeared a short but apparently inspired article on the subject of London Government, in which is foreshadowed another drastic and apparently imminent alteration of the system of local administration at present in operation in the Metropolis.
In the second part of this report the action of nitrogen peroxide on flour is discussed at some length in an account of a series of researches that have been carried out by DR…
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In the second part of this report the action of nitrogen peroxide on flour is discussed at some length in an account of a series of researches that have been carried out by DR. MONIER‐WILLIAMS. His conclusions may be briefly stated as follows. The maximum bleaching effect is obtained when each kilogram of flour is treated with from 30 to 100 cubic centimetres of nitrogen peroxide. The bleaching effect becomes more pronounced after keeping for several days. The amount of nitrous acid or nitrites that are present in bleached flour corresponds to about 30 per cent. of the total nitrogen absorbed, the proportion of nitrites present remaining nearly constant after the lapse of several days in the more slightly bleached samples. After the lapse of a short time it is still possible to extract about 60 per cent. of the nitrogen absorbed by the flour by means of cold water, but after several days the nitrogen that can be extracted by this means decreases. This may perhaps be attributed to the “absorption” of nitrous acid by the glutenin and gliadin. In highly bleached flour (300 cubic centimetres of nitrogen peroxide per kilogram of flour) a considerable increase in the amounts of soluble proteins and soluble carbohydrates takes place. In highly bleached flour, after some time, about 6 or 7 per cent. of the nitrogen introduced as nitrogen by the nitrogen peroxide is absorbed by the oil, which acquires the characteristics of an oxidised oil. No evidence is forthcoming as to the formation of diazo compounds nor the production of free nitrogen. Bleaching was found to exercise an inhibitory action on the salivary digestion of flour.
OUR articles are a return to an old theme. That two such writers consider the old problem of the central cataloguing of books worthy of ventilation at this time seems at first a…
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OUR articles are a return to an old theme. That two such writers consider the old problem of the central cataloguing of books worthy of ventilation at this time seems at first a paradox. But one of them recalls to us that planning in war‐time, even if that war is in its early Stage, for the inevitable peace, is a legitimate employment. When the figures are Studied which are submitted as sufficient for running an office where every new book could be catalogued adequately, and cards of the entries issued, we are surprised that we have never been able to bring so obvious a reform about. It would be interesting, and it might be chastening, to discover how much the total library service spends on the cataloguing of new books. When the Library Association has completed its war‐plans it might be persuaded to set up an enquiry into the subject. Meanwhile we hope our readers will send us their impressions of these articles.
In 1899 the medical practitioners of Dublin were confronted with an outbreak of a peculiar and obscure illness, characterised by symptoms which were very unusual. For want of a…
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In 1899 the medical practitioners of Dublin were confronted with an outbreak of a peculiar and obscure illness, characterised by symptoms which were very unusual. For want of a better explanation, the disorder, which seemed to be epidemic, was explained by the simple expedient of finding a name for it. It was labelled as “beri‐beri,” a tropical disease with very much the same clinical and pathological features as those observed at Dublin. Papers were read before certain societies, and then as the cases gradually diminished in number, the subject lost interest and was dropped.