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‘Making the best of things’: relatives' experiences of decisions about care-home entry
Despite the growing awareness of the significance of helping a relative to relocate to a care home as a key phase in the care-giving career, relatively few British studies have explored this experience in depth. Informed by a constructivist perspective, this study sought a better understanding of nursing home placements from the viewpoint of relatives. Data were collected in 37 semi-structured interviews involving 48 people who had assisted a close relative to move into a nursing home.
Analysis revealed three perceived phases to the transition: ‘making the best of it’, ‘making the move’ and ‘making it better’. The relatives' experiences through these phases had five perceived elements, all of which were continua, from absent to very strong, reflecting the extent to which they were felt. They were: operating ‘under pressure’ or not; ‘in the know’ or ‘working in the dark’; ‘working together’ or ‘working alone’; ‘in control of events’ or not, and ‘supported’ or ‘unsupported’ both practically and emotionally. This paper reports findings about the first phase of the transition, ‘making the best of it’, and documents the experiences of decision-making about nursing home placements. It is argued that health and social care practitioners have enormous potential to influence whether or not helping a relative to move into a nursing home is perceived as a positive choice
The Senses Framework: improving care for older people through a relationship-centred approach. Getting Research into Practice (GRiP) Report No 2.
A point mass in an isotropic universe: III. The region
McVittie's solution of Einstein's field equations, representing a point mass
embedded into an isotropic universe, possesses a scalar curvature singularity
at proper radius . The singularity is space-like and precedes, in the
expanding case, all other events in the space-time. It is shown here that this
singularity is gravitationally weak, and the possible structure of the region
is investigated. A characterization of this solution which does not
involve asymptotics is given.Comment: Revtex, 11pp. To appear in Class.Quant.Grav. Paper II appeared as
Class. Quant. Grav. 16 (1999) 122
Health-related quality of life in the WA HIV Cohort: 2008
Quality of life (QOL) is an important outcome of HIV treatment and a priority in the management of HIV. A new Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) questionnaire to measure the QOL in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) from different cultures and language groups has been developed. The instrument, PROQOL-HIV, has undergone psychometric validation in 791 individuals from 8 countries including 99 people from the WA HIV Cohort Study
A note on behaviour at an isotropic singularity
The behaviour of Jacobi fields along a time-like geodesic running into an
isotropic singularity is studied. It is shown that the Jacobi fields are
crushed to zero length at a rate which is the same in every direction
orthogonal to the geodesic. We show by means of a counter-example that this
crushing effect depends crucially on a technicality of the definition of
isotropic singularities, and not just on the uniform degeneracy of the metric
at the singularity.Comment: 13 pp. plain latex. To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravit
Bacterial RNase P holoenzyme crosslinking analysis reveals protein interaction sites on the RNA subunit
Association between low 25(OH) vitamin D levels, antiretroviral therapy and metabolic profile in a cohort of treated ahd therapy naive HIV positive patients in Western Australia
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A Possible Bifurcation in Atmospheres of Strongly Irradiated Stars and Planets
We show that under certain circumstances the differences between the
absorption mean and Planck mean opacities can lead to multiple solutions for an
LTE atmospheric structure. Since the absorption and Planck mean opacities are
not expected to differ significantly in the usual case of radiative
equilibrium, non-irradiated atmospheres, the most interesting situations where
the effect may play a role are strongly irradiated stars and planets, and also
possibly structures where there is a significant deposition of mechanical
energy, such as stellar chromospheres and accretion disks. We have presented an
illustrative example of a strongly irradiated giant planet where the
bifurcation effect is predicted to occur for a certain range of distances from
the star.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Ap
CCD photometry of 2060 Chiron, 1991 January
Observations of 2060 Chiron was performed on 7 to 8 Jan. 1991 with the Mt. Palomar 1.52 m telescope in the Gunn-R passband. On-chip field stars were used to perform differential reductions. The repeatability of the 5.9 hour light curve was excellent, both within a night and from night to night. No evidence for short-term secular variations similar to those seen last year by both Luu and Jewitt (1990) and Buratti and Dunbar (1991) is seen in the new light curve. Chiron's rotational light curve appears strikingly similar to that obtained a year earlier by Luu and Jewitt (1990), both in amplitude and shape. Both light curves show strongly correlated changes over a timescale of perhaps 15 minutes. These same features were marginally visible in the 1986 light curve. Such behavior is believed to be evidence that Chiron may be more aspherical than the 4 percent intensity variation might otherwise indicate, and favors a viewing geometry where the subearth latitude is rather low. Chiron was much fainter in 1985, when a partial light curve was obtained by Marcialis. Due to the lower sampling rate of these early data, no conclusions can be made regarding the high-frequency light curve structure back then. All three of these light curves differ significantly from that obtained by Buratti and Dunbar (1991), one week before the observations of Luu and Jewitt. The Chiron field was calibrated using Landolt standards on Ut 15 Mar. 1991. A mean R-magnitude of 15.6 + or - 0.1 was found. Variability of 2060 Chiron was demonstrated over timescales of minutes, hours, and years. An intense campaign was urged to monitor the photometric behavior of Chiron throughout the 1990s
General properties of cosmological models with an Isotropic Singularity
Much of the published work regarding the Isotropic Singularity is performed
under the assumption that the matter source for the cosmological model is a
barotropic perfect fluid, or even a perfect fluid with a -law equation
of state. There are, however, some general properties of cosmological models
which admit an Isotropic Singularity, irrespective of the matter source. In
particular, we show that the Isotropic Singularity is a point-like singularity
and that vacuum space-times cannot admit an Isotropic Singularity. The
relationships between the Isotropic Singularity, and the energy conditions, and
the Hubble parameter is explored. A review of work by the authors, regarding
the Isotropic Singularity, is presented.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
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