Focus on dementia care: Continuing education preferences,challenges, and catalysts among rural home care providers

ABSTRACT

Home care staff who provide housekeeping and personal care to individuals with dementia generally have lower levels of dementia care training compared with other health care providers. The study's purposes were to determine whether the professional role of home care staff in a predominantly rural region was associated with preferences for delivery formats of dementia-specific continuing education (CE) programs, and challenges and catalysts to attending CE on any topic. From January through March, 2014, 82 of 111 eligible home care staff in one Saskatchewan health region completed a cross-sectional postal survey (73.9% response rate). The survey included 41 nurses/case managers (client care coordinators, assessors, and team managers) and 41 continuing care aides (home health aides). Nurses/case managers and aides were equally likely to report moderate to high interest in locally delivered CE and low interest in Internet-based and computer-based CE. Compared with nurses/case managers, aides were more likely to report challenges to CE attendance due to CE not being a requirement of their position or relevant to their work. Low staffing levels were the top challenge regardless of professional role. Nurses/case managers and aides were equally likely to identify locally offered programs and paid time off as the top two catalysts of CE attendance. Given the growing number of individuals with dementia receiving home care services, the current study suggests that continuing education should be offered locally and included in rural staff’s paid time in order to encourage attendance.     

AGING EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

From kindergarten to college, as today's students learn to see the world as a global village, they can also learn that aging is part of the human condition, that older people do exist, and that the increasing numbers of older people is both a national resource and a national problem. Students can develop an awareness of the interdependence not only of cultures and countries but also of generations. Still scarce, though increasingly available, are curricular materials and programs that help young people explore how we and other cultures deal with aging and the elderly.     

A Structural Equation Modeling of the Factors Affecting an Age-friendly Workplace

There has been a growing trend recently to examine the various factors affecting an age-friendly workplace. Through structural equation modelling (SEM), this study purports to test a model that shows the interaction between and among declining memories, wisdom, age discrimination, and an age-friendly workplace in Filipino elderly in a government setting. Two hundred elderly from a large government bank in the Philippines participated in this study. Data were obtained through a self-completion questionnaire and a one-on-one interview. Surprisingly, results revealed that declining memory has no significant effect on wisdom. However, wisdom has a positive impact on age discrimination as does age-discrimination on an age-friendly workplace. The authors discuss the implications of these results and highlight directions for future research.     

TM-WSN模型的智能化设计

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主要研究了无线传感器网络的路由安全,对无线传感器的自身特点进行了分析,并对传感器网络的攻击方式进行了总结与分类,建立了安全索引。     

凸约束非线性方程组投影L—M算法的收敛速度

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基于调制解调器的通信程序设计

在介绍Modem的基本原理和基本命令的基础上,探讨了如何在VC＋＋ 6.0环境下利用MSComm控件进行远程数据通信的编程;最后对利用Modem进行远程数据传输的利弊做了分析,提出了对未来Modem发展的一些看法。     

Overlay期刊:网络开放学术资源组织与利用的新方式

本文介绍了Overlay期刊的产生,给出了Oveday期刊的概念和特征,并提出了今后需要进一步研究的相关问题.     

某智能化办公大楼的音响广播系统设计

音响广播系统不仅可以给人们带来快乐,在建筑物发生紧急情况下,还可以起到防止和减少灾害损失的重要作用.本文针对办公大楼的音响广播系统的设计、施工方法,提出一种解决方案.     

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