Dissertations / Theses: 'Life care communities'

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Harper, Gillian Jane. "Stress and adaptation among elders in life-care communities /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487949150070604.

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Forrester, Margaret Vivienne. "Communities of practice for end of life care workplace settings : a case study." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620644.

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Communities of practice have been used as a way of sharing practice and developing knowledge. The End of Life Care Education Consortium was formed by three hospice education departments in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, with the support of the Strategic Health Authority, to provide education programmes for healthcare professionals in palliative care. As the Consortium worked collaboratively, I wanted to explore whether there was potential for it to evolve into a community of practice and whether there was scope for communities of practice being utilised in end of life care settings to share and develop practice. The literature review revealed there were no articles written on communities of practice in palliative care settings and demonstrated that the workplace is an important area for learning as new staff learn from more experienced members of the workforce. Communities of practice can be used for experienced staff to learn from each other and share practice with others from outside the community. Case study research was used to explore whether the Consortium had the potential to evolve into a community of practice and if its members learnt from each other. Members of the Consortium were interviewed using semi-structured interviews, documents including my research diary, reports and notes from meetings were also used as data. Although the findings showed that the Consortium was not functioning as a community of practice it did have the key characteristics of one and there is potential for hospices to form communities of practice to enable staff to share practice and support each other. The findings demonstrated that for a community of practice to be successful it requires the support of management to allow staff to take part in community activities, seen as an important part of the organisation’s culture and there needs to be leadership to enable the community to develop. Journal clubs, clinical supervision and multidisciplinary meetings are already in place and these could be ways of healthcare professionals sharing knowledge and learning together. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2015) state that all nurses and midwives are required to revalidate every three years to enable them to practise as registered nurses; one of my recommendations is that communities of practice could be used to keep staff updated. Inviting healthcare professionals from outside the hospice to take part in community activities would enable knowledge to flow in and out therefore enhancing patient care.

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Sallnow, Elizabeth Sian. "Collective social capital : a study of new public health and end-of-life care." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33037.

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Background: An appreciation of the broader social determinants of health and wellbeing has led to the inclusion of new public health principles and practice within health and social care. End-of-life care has been no exception and there exists a favourable policy context, significant body of theoretical work, substantial practitioner interest and numerous practice examples. Despite this context, there has been little empirical exploration and the approaches remain poorly characterised. Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to understand the impact a new public health approach to end-of-life care project can have when initiated through a hospice. Specifically this study sought to explore how a compassionate community project is experienced, what tensions exist, what processes support or impede the work, what specific challenges such a project developed from within this sector presents and what learning exists for the wider field. Methods: A mixed methods study employing multiple methods of data collection was performed. Data collection methods included: interviews; focus groups; participant observation; documentary analysis and service records. Ethics approval was obtained. Data were analysed according to modified grounded theory and using online software tool Dedoose. Results: Twenty-one interviews, two focus groups and 19 episodes of participant observation were conducted, 11 documents and service data on 180 Compassionate Neighbours and 173 Community Members were also included. Six key actions facilitated integration of new public health approaches with service provision approaches. Impacts from the work were wide ranging and included a reduction in loneliness, improvements in wellbeing and changes to hospice practice. Further to this, three underlying drivers emerged that underpinned the work as a whole. They were seen to translate the observed actions of the project into the impacts and included: altered power dynamics, expression of reciprocity in relationships and the development of agency. Discussion: The three drivers allow a deeper appreciation of the factors involved in the development of a compassionate community. The redressing of power dynamics within traditional provider-recipient relationships allowed for more equity, and created a space for reciprocal and mutual relations to emerge. Not only were these reciprocal relations observed between those at the end of life and those visiting them, but also between participants in the project and the hospice. In order to adequately capture these new perspectives offered through this study, a new term collective social capital is introduced. This moves beyond existing conceptualisations of social capital in end-of-life care to provide novel perspectives on the role of reciprocity and interdependency between the lay and professional worlds. Conclusion: This study provides a reflexive and critical account of the processes and impacts of compassionate communities work in practice. It situates reciprocal relationships as its foundation and forces an assessment of the nature of power and agency in all interactions. Through the presentation of the new concept of collective social capital, it presents a collaborative and interdependent path forward for new public health and end-of-life care in the future.

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Leung, Chun-sing Anthony. "Old People's community : care home /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25950368.

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Harvey, Nicholas Keller James M. "Estimation and tracking of elder activity levels for health event prediction." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6657.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 10, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. James Keller. Includes bibliographical references.

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Liu, Qiaoming. "Social support for the frail elderly at two kinds of retirement communities." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4098.

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As few studies focus explicitly on social support for residents by residents in retirement communities which have staff, this thesis is designed to explore the nature of informal social support among residents at planned, non-subsidized retirement care facilities: the types, the amount, the impact, the limitation and the appropriateness of such support. Our focus is to explore whether different organization of a retirement community affects social support among residents, so we compare two retirement care facilities. One provides single-level care for its residents and the other provides multiple-level care. We chose our two sites from retirement care facilities in the City of Portland, Oregon. We generated our data by interviewing residents who live independently in the two retirement communities.

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Mason, Jay Roger. "An elder care community." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52122.

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The following exploration represents a search for clarity and meaning in the formative work of a young architectural designer. Solving the design problem to create a viable community of elders integrated into the chosen site was merely the ostensible goal. The deeper task was to become more literate with the materials and tools of the architect's trade and develop a confidence with the language and grammar of architecture. I wanted to develop an understanding of not just a single building type or a particular site condition, but to grow in more fundamental terms toward learning a way of building. This desire may be inherent in every good design, but I wanted to bring the idea of it to the surface and focus on the principles behind the architectural decisions. I believe the confidence and vitality which the architect combines with the philosophical, technical and pragmatic constraints of a project to make great architecture are products of a thorough understanding of one's personal beliefs. My own attempt to organize thoughts and attitudes into a body of reference toward an understanding of that belief structure follows on the remaining pages. In the process as well as in the final result I have moved closer to a literacy in architecture, if only by gaining insight into the motivations which have guided my hand.
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Scott, Jacqueline L. "Role strain and employed mothers in rural communities /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924954.

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Fan, HaiYan (LingLing), and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Medical encounters in "closed religious communities" : palliative care for Low German-Speaking Mennonite people." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Anthropology and Health Sciences, 2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3079.

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This multi-sited ethnography focuses on beliefs and practices associated with death, dying, and palliative care among the Low German-Speaking (LGS) Mennonites. The qualitative data, collected through participant-observation fieldwork and interviews conducted in three LGS Mennonite communities in Mexico and Canada, show a gap between official definitions of palliative care and its practice in real life. The LGS Mennonites’ care for their dying members, in reality, is integrated into their community lives that emphasize or reinforce discipleship by promoting the practices of mutual aid, social networks, and brotherhood/sisterhood among community members. This study also offers ethnographic insights into some difficulties that healthcare providers face while delivering the “holistic” palliative care services to their patients in general, and to the LGS Mennonites in particular. Finally, it provides some suggestions that may aid healthcare providers in developing culturally safe and competent health care services for the LGS Mennonite people living in Canada.
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Hall, Kenneth B. "Fitness trails for continuing care retirement community residents: motivational cues to participation." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51912.

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The motivational elements necessary to encourage use of fitness trails by residents of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) was investigated. Previous research suggested that both the walking and exercise parts of these fitness trails are being used by only a small percentage of' the residents. A checklist was used to identify the number of motivational elements that were present in the design of the fitness trails at three CCRCs. A staff questionnaire was used to determine management involvement and fitness program specifics. This research investigates the extent to which Jane Jacobs’ (1961) work with sidewalks in cities can be applied to the fitness trail within the CCRC. The research questions generated for this study were: To what extent is the success of the fitness trail dependent on the intricate mutual support given it by its surrounding elements? Does a single activity or amenity contribute to the success of a fitness trail or is a variety of choices necessary for potential users to experience? Is this aspect of choice essential to participant satisfaction? The analysis identified several elements that may contribute to the use of a fitness trail by older adults. The use of the concept of tangible rewards by one of the CCRCs contributed to a significantly greater percentage of resident use.
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Reed, Kevin W. Skubic Marge. "Type-1 and type-2 fuzzy systems for detecting visitors in an uncertain environment." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6478.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 18, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Marjorie Skubic. Includes bibliographical references.

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Hahn, Michael M. "Frail senior ministry with pastoral care (loss and transition : the decision-making process of independent living) /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Kao, Philip Y. "The victims of a sorted life : ageing and caregiving in an American retirement community." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3980.

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This thesis is an ethnographic analysis of a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in the American Midwest. I examine salient aspects of American culture, and how persons in the American Midwest understand relationships and themselves in the context of eldercare, and particularly, how issues of personhood and kinship are conceptualised in a long-term care facility. Rather than focusing exclusively on just the labour of caregivers, or how the residents in the CCRC receive care, my study is grounded in the interaction and relations that obtain during specific regimes of caregiving. Because the exigencies of ageing are met with certain exigencies of care, this study touches upon three dominant themes that make sense of the tensions that emerge when principles and practices do not square up. The first theme deals with how ageing and care are constituted, and made relational to one other. Secondly, I demonstrate that in the CCRC where I conducted fieldwork, ageing is constructed as a process and institutionalised, resulting in a distinctive way in which space and time are dealt with and unravelled from their inextricability. The resulting consequences affect not just the older residents and the CCRC staff, but also impacts how caregiving takes on specific forms and meanings. Thirdly, I investigate how formal (professional) caregivers and care receivers produce a type of social relation, which cannot be understood alone by conventional studies of kinship and economic relations. Ultimately, this thesis sets the frame for future debate on the ontological commitments involved in eldercare, and how the segregation of care and of the elderly in society relate to wider social norms regarding ageing and marginality.

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梁振聲 and Chun-sing Anthony Leung. "Old People's community: care home." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985919.

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Olson, Richard W. "The high ground at risk making a difference in the continuing care retirement community industry /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Faulkner, Briar Lee. "Chemical dependency treatment: An examination of following continuing care recommendations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2145.

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The purpose of this study was to determine what influence scheduled phone contacts would have on the extent of follow-through of continuing care recommednations by participants after treatment. Continuing care recommendations associated with ongoing sobriety include going to another level of care (individual therapy, group therapy, outpatient treatment), attending twelve-step meetings and communicating with a sponsor. Continuing care recommendations are typically written and referred to as a continuing care plan.

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Moody, Michelle Reid. "Final boundaries : a design for the fully-constructed body-subject." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23316.

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Crabb, Brooke Evangeline. "Perceptions of the transition to assisted living as a function of psychological well-being, instrumental activities of daily living, and coping: A prospective study." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2439.

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This study examined the influence of three predictor variables on perceptions of assisted living: psychological well-being, functional status, and coping strategies. A multiple regression analysis was used to examine the influence of these factors on perceptions of the transition to assisted living.

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Marquis, Ruth. "The meaning of quality in living service environments: An analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities, elderly people and service workers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/976.

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The purpose of the study was to examine the experiences of both people with disabilities and elderly people and to identify their perceptions of quality as it relates to living in a service or being supported by a service to live in the community. The study was naturalistic in design and used a phenomenological approach and inductive analysis. It involved immersion in living services for a two year period, in-depth interviews with people living and working in services and participant observation. Fifty service users between the ages of twenty-one and ninety-six, and twenty-six service workers between the ages of twenty-six and fifty-four were informants in the study. The study comprised of three phases, the first phase involved repeated in-depth interviews with service users in two disability and two aged care living services to examine the experiences of people living in services and their perceptions of quality. As a result of the consistency with which relationships with key staff members emerged in the context of quality experiences, selected service workers who were named by service users were also interviewed. The findings in this phase indicated that relationships experienced by service users in their encounters with service workers were more significant in service users' evaluation of quality than tangible acts of physical and environmental care. Relational experiences of people living in services were variable. Some informants experienced consistent validation and socio-emotional support, whilst others experienced role distancing and negative communication experiences. Service workers who were interviewed as a result of being identified by service users in the context of quality, attached importance to the relational domain in the acts and behaviours of providing a service. They also attached personal meaning to their roles as service workers and shared the view that their role as service worker was underpinned by an ethos of communality. The second phase of the study involved accessing another five disability and five aged care services to collect further data to support or refute the findings from phase one. As a result a large data bank was established to confirm the consistency with which relational experiences in living services were linked to perceptions of quality by both service users and service providers. Acts and behaviours which were consistently present in the context of quality were also identified and the need for emotional support in the living context was further confirmed. The third phase of the study involved an in-depth analysis and identification of commonly experienced categories of relationships between service users and workers. Relationships were categorised into ethical and technical living service experiences and exemplars used to illustrate findings. Data analysis indicated that service experiences lie on a continuum, with mutually supportive relationships between service users and workers at one end, and physical and psychological abuse at the other. Experiences were variable in singular service contexts. This highlighted the individual nature of service relationships between service users and workers and the need to articulate human service as relationship. It also highlighted the inadequacies of using standard measures to evaluate quality in living services.

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Lindberg, Schlegel Lena, and Helena Ohlsson. "Att vara äldre i Värmland - en studie om hur personer mellan 80 och 99 år i två kommuner uppfattar sin livssituation, hälsa, livskvalitet samt vilket förtroende de har för vården : To be old in Värmland – a study of how older persons between 80 and 99 years perceive living conditions, health, quality of life and confidence in care in two communities." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1212.

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Åldersgruppen 80 år och äldre är den snabbast växande åldersgruppen i världen. Förbättrade levnadsförhållanden gör att chanserna till att leva ett långt liv förbättrats men det är oklart om utvecklingen går mot en förbättrad hälsa hos den äldre befolkningen eller en förlängd tid med ohälsa. Syftet med undersökningen var att beskriva aspekter av äldre personers livssituation, hälsa och livskvalitet samt vilket förtroende de äldre har för vården. Ett frågeformulär besvarades av 67 personer (svarsfrekvens 64 %), 80 år och äldre i två värmländska kommuner. Data har bearbetats med deskriptiv och analytisk statistik. Resultatet visar att flertalet av de äldre är födda i Sverige och medelåldern är 87,7 år. Mer än hälften är änkor/änklingar och mindre än hälften bor med make/maka/sambo. Flertalet av de äldre har barn och barnbarn och mer än hälften har syskon kvar i livet. De trivs bra med sitt boende och sin omgivande boendemiljö men några känner rädsla för att bli ofredade. Ett fåtal uppger att de fallit en eller flera gånger. De har god aptit och äter minst ett mål dagligen. Majoriteten av de äldre upplever sitt psykiska välbefinnande något bättre än det fysiska välbefinnandet, har ett starkt KASAM, upplever det dagliga livet bra och har en känsla av att bli uppskattade samt instämmer i påståendena för gerotranscendens. De klarar med viss hjälp städning och matlagning. Mer än hälften har inte hemtjänst. Läkare är den yrkesgrupp som de äldre har haft mest kontakt med i vården. Förtroendet för vården är ganska stort. Statistiskt signifikanta skillnader framkom för ålder, kön, kommuner och för äldre som bor ensamma eller tillsammans med någon annan. Äldre med bättre fysisk respektive mental hälsa känner sig signifikant mindre ensamma, har bättre självuppskattad fysisk hälsa och psykiskt välbefinnande, uppfattar det dagliga livet bättre och har starkare KASAM.

The group of 80 year olds and older are the most growing age group in the world. Improved conditions of living makes it possible to live a long life but it is uncertain if this development gives improved health in older people or an extended time of illness. The aim of this study was to describe aspects of very old people’s life, health and quality of life and the confidence they have for health care and home-service care. 67 people aged 80 years and older in two communities in Värmland replied a questionnaire (respond frequency 64%). Data was adapted with descriptive and analytic statistics. The finding shows that most of the elderly are born in Sweden and the mean age was 87, 7 years. More than half are widows/widowers and almost half are living with their wife or husband. Several of them have children and grandchildren and half have still brothers and sisters living. They like their living standard and just a few are feeling afraid of being attacked. A few have been falling one or just a few times. Many have a good appetite and are eating at least one square meal a day. The majority of the elderly experience their mental well-being a bit better than the physical well-being, having a strong SOC (Sense of Coherence) and experiencing a good day to day life and have a feeling of being appreciated. They agree with the statements of gerotranscendence. They managing to clean and prepare meals with help. Almost half of them have home-help service. The occupational group that the old people mostly have met is physicians. Their confidences in health care and home-service care are quite good. Statistically significant differences where found for age, gender, community and elderly living alone or together with somebody. Older with a better physical respective mental health are feeling significantly less alone, have a better self reported physical and mental well-being, experience the day to day life better and have a stronger SOC.

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Raats, Claudia. "Investigating the relationship between hope and life satisfaction among children in low and middle income communities in Cape Town." University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4167.

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An extensive literature review on child well-being has signified a dearth in relevant South African research on the current topic. It has been established that the interplay of hope, life satisfaction and income level exerts a great impact on the well-being of children. Hence, this study aims to investigate the relationship between hope and life satisfaction among children in low and middle income communities in Cape Town. More specifically, the study aims to ascertain the moderating effect of income level on the relationship between hope and life satisfaction. The 3P Model of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) was used as a theoretical position conceptualising this study. The model categorizes the components of subjective well-being under temporal states of the Past, the Present and the Prospect (future), and therefore proposes that we evaluate our lives across these temporal states. The study used secondary data from the Children’s Worlds: International Survey on Children’s Well Being (2012). Data was collected across all 12 year old participants, within each participating school, by means of purposive sampling, with a total of 1004 participants. The questionnaire administered, incorporated Huebner’s (1991) Student Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS) and Snyder’s et al. (1997) Children’s Hope Scale. Data was analysed by means of correlational analysis and results revealed that there is a significant relationship between hope and life satisfaction for both low and middle income communities. The Process Tool for Moderation Analysis revealed that income level moderates the relationship between hope and life satisfaction. Moreover, this relationship appeared to be stronger for the low income group than for the middle income group. Hence, this finding suggests that hope has a more pronounced impact on life satisfaction for the low income group than for the middle income group.

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Alexander, Leonieke Franziska. "The effect of a movement programme on selected psychological variables among adolescent girls from previously disadvantaged communities." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49737.

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Thesis (PhD) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine if the participation in a movement programme, utilising 21 life skill development strategies would make a significant contribution to adolescent girls' self-esteem. The adolescent girls participating in the programme were from a previously disadvantaged community in the Western Cape, South Africa, and considered to be at-risk youth. The movement divisions through which the life skill strategies of the five and one half month programme were presented to the experimental group, were designed by the investigator, and included: modern dance, swimming, self-defence and an individual session of team building. Harter's (1985) Self-perception Profile for Children was used to measure the six subscales of self-competence/esteem of a control group (n = 8) and an experimental group (n = 13) of girls between ages 13 - 16. The six dimensions of self-esteem measured, included: global self-worth; scholastic competence; social acceptance; athletic competence; physical appearance, and; behavioural conduct. On completion of the movement intervention programme by the experimental group, all the girls (N = 21) were post tested, using the same quantitative measurement instrument. The experimental group completed an additional open-ended Life Skill Questionnaire, designed by the investigator, to see if there had been a cognitive transferral of the life skills used in the movement programme from the movement experience to everyday life activities. Following the comparison between the pre- and post-test data of Harter's (1985) Se/fperception Profile for Children, it was concluded that participation in the movement programme had an overall positive and significant affect on the six sub-scales of the girls' self-esteem. On analysis of the girls' responses to the Life Skill Questionnaire it was found that they had been able to utilise all 21 life skills in the various movement components offered in the programme, and that cognitive transferral of the skills had taken place to their everyday environment. Conceming the movement division, the statements revolving around the utilisation of the skills predominantly revolved around ii Stellenbosch University http://scholar.sun.ac.za the swimming, followed by dance and lastly self-defence. The life skills that were most widely used in their everyday environment were highlighted by the themes of perseverance, commitment and academics.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om vas te stel of die deelname aan 'n bewegingsprogram, waartydens 21 lewensvaardigheid-ontwikkelingstrategiee gebruik word, beduidende bydrae tot die selfagting van die adolessente meisie sou lewer. Die adolessente meisies wat aan die program deelgeneem het, kom vanuit 'n voorheenbenadeelde gemeenskap in die Wes-Kaap, Suid-Afrika, en word as hoe-risiko jeug beskou. Die bewegingsverdelings waarmee die lewensvaardigheidstrategiee van die vyf en 'n half maandelange program vir die eksperimentele groep aangebied is, is deur die navorser ontwerp en sluit die volgende in: mode me dans, swem, selfverdediging en 'n individuele sessie van spanbou. Harter (1985) se "Sett-perception Profile for Children" is gebruik om die ses sub-skale van self-bevoegdheid/agting van 'n kontrolegroep (n = 8) en 'n eksperimentele groep (n = 13) van meisies tussen die ouderdomme van 13 - 16 te meet. Die ses dimensies van selfagting wat gemeet is, het die volgende ingesluit: globale selfwaardigheid, akademiese bevoegdheid, sosiale aanvaarding, atletiese bevoegdheid, fisieke voorkoms en gedragsbeheer. Na die afhandeling van die bewegings-intervensieprogram deur die eksperimentele groep is al die meisies (N = 21) getoets met behulp van dieselfde kwantitatiewe meetinstrument. Die eksperimentele groep het In addisionele Lewensvaardigheidsvraelys voltooi, wat deur die navorser ontwerp is om te sien of daar 'n kognitiewe oordrag van die lewensvaardighede was wat in die bewegingsprogram vanaf die bewegingservaring tot daaglikse aktiwiteite gebruik is. Na die vergelyking van die voor- en na-toetsdata van Harter (1985) se "Self-perception Profile for Children" is gevind dat deelname aan die bewegingsprogram 'n algehele positiewe en beduidende effek het op die ses sub-skate van die meisies se selfagting. Die analise van die meisies se terugvoer op die Lewensvaardigheidsvraelys het getoon dat hulle instaat was om al die 21 lewensvaardighede in die verskeie bewegingskomponente te gebruik wat in die program aangebied is en dat kognitiewe oordrag van die vaardighede plaasvind na hul daaglikse omgewing. Wat die bewegingsverdeling betref, het die stellings aangaande die gebruik van die vaardighede hoofsaaklik gehandel oor die swem, gevolg deur dans en laastens selfverdediging. Die lewensvaardighede wat die meeste gebruik is in hul daaglikse omgewing is sterk na vore gebring deur temas soos deursetlingsvermoe, verpligting en akademie.

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Kellehear, Allan. "Compassionate communities: caring for older people." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/10885.

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Wegleitner, K., K. Heimerl, and Allan Kellehear. "Compassionate Communities: Case Studies from Britain and Europe." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/10883.

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Yang, Ching-Hsun, and 楊靜薰. "A Study on Life Style of Residents in Continuing Care Restirement Communities." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14034608859261186012.

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A study on Life Style of Residents in Continuing Care Retirement Communities Student：Ching-Hsun Yang Advisors：Dr. Shuo-Tsang Tsai Graduate Institute of Business Administration Asia University Abstract In recent years, elderly population in Taiwan has increase steady, transforming Taiwan’s society into an elderly one. Right now, Taiwan’s elderly population to total population ratio is second amongst Asian nations, trailing only slightly to Japan. Despite increasing demand for long-term care in Taiwan, current existing CCRCs in Taiwan have not met their initial expectations of running at or close to full capacity. This phenomenon has prompt me to study different types of life-style among CCRC residents, in order to further understand what factors could affect one’s decision to live in CCRCs. Hopefully, this study could assist current and future CCRCs management to make sound marketing strategies that effectively target their intended consumers. This study used two steps cluster analysis to separate the resident into four different groups, with individuals in each group having same characteristics. The characteristics of each group are extrovert-aware, conservative-stubborn, gossip-guilable, rational-modern.Using Chi-Square test to distinguish and calculate two variables (subjects’ population statistics and present living conditions) with subjects’ life-style to find out whether there is a correlation between the two. Furthermore, with the variables that cause most variance in the test data, the study will do a cross analysis, to understand variance condition. Lastly, the study will use discriminant analysis to investigate factors that affect elderly wanting to live in CCRCs, in order to understand what factors that will achieve greatest marketing effect. The study shows, the extrovert-aware group is the biggest group living in CCRCs with 125 subjects falling under this category. The next largest group is rational-modern group with 104 subjects. Conservative-stubborn comes third with 85 subjects and gossip-guilable group has the fewest subjects with 73. Among the residents in CCRCs, most fall in the group of female, 65-74 years old, married, living alone, elementary education, worked in the service sector, and financially independent, with plans to continue living in CCRCs as their first option. Moreover, the study discover that residents put the greatest importance to living quarters amenities, service quality of CCRCs workers, residents’ food options, and group activities. Factors that did not carry a significant weight are nearby living amenities and methods to file complaints.

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Craig, Margaret Anne. "Dispute resolution and the Retirement Villages Act 2003 a fair and independent process? /." 2007. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070718.132806/index.html.

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Simpson, Mary. "Organisational transformations in the New Zealand retirement village sector a critical-rhetorical and-discursive analysis of promotion, community, and resident participation /." 2007. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070719.171239/index.html.

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Sigaba, Avis Lumka. "A marriage enrichment programme : a study of the proposed contribution of a modern pastoral care and counselling model to urbanised Xhosa communities with special reference to the congregants at Umtata Methodist Church, Eastern Cape." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3359.

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This study was done to explore how modern Pastoral Care and Counselling models could be in dialogue with some valuable Xhosa traditional practices in the urbanised context around Umtata in the Eastern Cape. The intention is to provide a marriage enrichment programme to the congregants of the Methodist Church in this region. This has been offered in response to increase in the rate of divorce, separation and emotional distress experienced by many couples in the area. Chapter one offers the methodological framework for the entire theoretical and practical study. The second chapter explores various concepts of the family systems theory with particular focus on Murray Bowen's systems theory. This should bring forth a clear understanding of behavioural patterns which manifest in marriage when the system loses equilibrium. Grounded in the family systems theory is the concept of normal family processes. The third chapter looks into the understanding of normal family processes as brought across by various American authors. The chapter takes the interpretation further by looking into normal family processes in the original Xhosa cultural communities. The reason for the exercise is to bring awareness about what is normal before one can address what is abnormal. This is for widening the horizons so that what is culturally normal should not be labelled as abnormal. The fourth chapter prepares groundwork for the establishment of intervention and counselling strategies specifically within the Xhosa communities around Umtata. This chapter is field work done through interviews so as to gain an awareness about what the people of this region presently think, feel and say about marriage and family life experiences. The fifth chapter looks into the minister's uniqueness in marriage enrichment in comparison with his or her colleagues in medical, social work and family therapy or psychotherapy fields. A theological exploration is dealt with in the sixth chapter with a view to contend with biblical principles applicable to marriage. Chapter seven discusses a training model for a lay team of twelve members to promote the concept of the priesthood of all believers. The views of authors like Switzer, Clinebell, Colilns, Herbert Otto and others are consulted and opened to dialogue with Xhosa Traditional practices offered by oral sources. Chapter eight focuses on premarital education. Within this eduGative counselling, a hand-out on marriage contracts is prepared in both English and the vernacular language. Interdisciplinary work has been included through the engagement of resource personnel from the medical, financial and legal fields. Chapter nine actually presents the Marriage Enrichment Programme in a workshop form. Within the programme, theoretical and practical work is done in contextual bible study, communication and conflict resolution exercises as well as conscietisation about valuable Xhosa traditional marriage practices. The contextual model on marriage enrichment is offered to a group of forty-four congregants. The evaluation forms provide a positive result of this marriage enrichment model. The results express a need to address marital problems in our communities. This does give support to the Hypothesis that was tested. Modern pastoral care and counselling models can be adapted to traditional context with positive results. Lay involvement promotes maximum participation of the People of God in care giving. However, further results will be achieved with more workshops or retreats. More effectiveness will also come with the training of more lay teams. This demands large sampling in lay training, more interviewing and more involvement of the rural community elders for more information on traditional practices.
Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2000

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Bekwa, Bonisile Goodness. "Life experiences of multiparous teenage mothers in selected communities in the Eastern Cape." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26773.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the life experiences of multiparous teenage mothers at selected communities in the Eastern Cape Province. The population for this study was pregnant teenage mothers aged 12-18 years having at least one previous pregnancy, living in the catchment areas of the provincial hospital of Bizana in the Alfred Nzo District of the Eastern Cape Province. Data were collected through 12 semi-structured individual interviews using a selfdeveloped interview schedule. The transcribed interviews were analysed by means of thematic analysis, using the five stages according to Terre Blanche, et al. (2006), namely familiarisation, inducing themes, coding, elaboration, and checking. Subcategories were grouped into 12 categories and five main themes. Findings on the life experiences of the multiparous teenage mothers are described according to the main themes, namely the everyday life of the teenage mothers, cultural practices leading to pregnancies, factors contributing to pregnancies, challenges experienced by teenage mothers, and messages from the teenage mothers. Recommendations focus on the role of social services to engage the multidisciplinary team and the community to assist in the empowerment of young mothers to break the cycle of multiparous teenage pregnancies and the negative impact thereof on the lives of young mothers.
Health Studies
M. P. H.

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Hooper, Sally. "Small Spaces for Meaningful Participation in Democratic Life? A Community's Perspectives on tehir particiaptioin in an Early Education and Care program." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43594.

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Because the majority of children in many countries are being raised in the dual contexts of home and early childhood settings, early childhood education and care programs are an important site of inquiry not only because of their implications for children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development, but also for their influence on early childhood educators, parents, and the community at large. At the same time that researchers and practitioners were increasingly recognizing the importance of community involvement in early childhood programs, reforms in governance worldwide were giving rise to discourse on small participatory spaces that theorists contend are crucial to the health of a democracy and core to the idea of civil society. This study helps close the gap in the scarcity of research knowledge and educational practice that considers the perspectives of teachers, parents, and other members of a marginalized community in a non-western setting of their participation in an early childhood program. In particular, it sought to understand better whether parental and community participation in an early childhood setting in a South African township has the potential for constructing and strengthening citizenship. This study found generally that participation in this pre-school offered opportunities for meaningful participation in civil society; some participants, however, expressed disappointment and frustration at continuing disparities and inequities.

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Gosek, Gwendolyn M. "The aboriginal justice inquiry-child welfare initiative in manitoba: a study of the process and outcomes for Indigenous families and communities from a front line perspective." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8924.

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As the number of Indigenous children and youth in the care of Manitoba child welfare steadily increases, so do the questions and public debates. The loss of children from Indigenous communities due to residential schools and later on, to child welfare, has been occurring for well over a century and Indigenous people have been continuously grieving and protesting this forced removal of their children. In 1999, when the Manitoba government announced their intention to work with Indigenous peoples to expand off-reserve child welfare jurisdiction for First Nations, establish a provincial Métis mandate and restructure the existing child care system through legislative and other changes, Indigenous people across the province celebrated it as an opportunity for meaningful change for families and communities. The restructuring was to be accomplished through the Aboriginal Justice Initiative-Child Welfare Initiative (AJI-CWI). Undoubtedly, more than a decade later, many changes have been made to the child welfare system but children are still been taken into care at even higher rates than before the changes brought about by the AJI-CWI. In order to develop an understanding of what has occurred as a result of the AJI-CWI process, this study reached out to child welfare workers who had worked in the system before, during and after the process was put in place. Using a storytelling approach based in an Indigenous methodology, twenty-seven child welfare workers shared how they perceived the benefits, the deficits, the need for improvement and how they observed the role of Indigenous culture within the child welfare context. The stories provide a unique insight into how the changes were implemented and how the storytellers experienced the process, as well as their insights into barriers, disappointments, benefits and recommendations for systemic change.
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Martin, Ulrica Lizette. "Assessing the implementation of the hands off our children parental guidance programme in the Western Cape." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/558.

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The effort of this research was focused on the assessment of the implementation process of the Hands off our Children parental guidance programme by social workers in the Western Cape during 2005. This could be seen as an evaluation of the programme in order to adjust it for future implementation. The objective of this research was to explore the application, experience and implementation of the programme by social workers in the Western Cape. The universe in this study was all social workers that did the training in the HOOC parental guidance programme in the Western Cape. In this study the population was social workers that implemented the HOOC parental guidance programme training in the work place. Participants were selected until saturation of data was reached. The method used in selecting the participants was non-probability sampling. With-in non-probability sampling purposive sampling was used. Conclusions and recommendations on the programme were made in order to empower the Department of Community safety to implement a more effective and streamline project in the future.
Social Work
M.Diac. (Play Therapy)

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