Last Chance For The Last Refuge

The theme of this article is the drastic reduction in residential care for the elderly which has met little opposition from within the health and social services despite the growing population of the very aged. The reasons for this professional compliance are examined and found to lie in a combination of mistaken confidence in community care policies and an uncritical acceptance of influential but largely outdated studies whose findings on the adverse effects of institutional care are seriously questioned by later research.     

最后一个皇族村落

这是一个神奇的村庄,一条玄菟古道贯穿东西,一栋栋房屋就面街排列开来.村子里的人也不太多,年轻人前赴后继远赴他乡务工,剩下老弱幼小守着土地与河流,还有前山后山的植物、动物,以及古老的故事.     

"就是这样"——最后的迈克·杰克逊

在MJ离开的第4个月零三天,比原定于伦敦举行的演唱会晚了3个月,但他还是来了,以影像的方式。10月28日,《迈克尔·杰克逊:就是这样》全球公映。MJ为那场将轰动全球的演唱会排练的工作画面,没想到成为了他生命最后时光的唯一记录。一个真实的MJ看着大银幕上的MJ一丝不苟地调试着每一个音,面带笑容地和工作人员沟通,对舞蹈和音乐的天才般的拿捏,即使不是MJ的歌迷,也免不了眼角点点地湿润。MJ不是一个人,他影响了几代人,代表了几代人的青春,他的陨落不只是一颗巨星的陨落,而是     

Residential Respite Care: The Caregiver's Last Resort

Understanding the beliefs that caregivers of people with dementia have in regard to the use of residential respite may inform strategies to address low service utilisation. In this article, the application of theory in qualitative research with 36 caregivers provides insight into why most delay service use. Although some believe that service use may increase caregiving longevity, others position service use in conflict with normative values, and may hold beliefs that negative outcomes will result from utilisation. To address caregivers' beliefs to support service use, improvements are required to service promotion, as well as to models of care.     

The Last Diagnosis. A Plausible Account That Needs Further Verification

On the 22nd of December 1927, Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev pronounced the word "paranoia."