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Promoting mental well-being and resilience among older adults and their caregivers in Africa: Challenges and the way forward

And so, today, we're going to be looking at promoting mental well-being and resilience among older adults and their caregivers. We're going to address, you know, seven basic issues. We're going to try to define the concepts. We'll try to look at key issues about older adults and their caregivers. People will go, why caregiving? Why am I bringing in caregiving? Because that is what we know in Africa. It is what we do. That is how we take care of older adults. We give care. Then we'll also try to answer the question, why address mental well-being and resilience at this time? Why? Then we'll look at the problems. What are the problems that now impact on older adults that can bring about mental health issues? Then after that, we're going to look at the common mental health issues older adults have. How do we talk about them? Then we'll look at the strategies. We cannot just talk about challenges, barriers. What can we do? Because today you find that we can no longer call on government or call on people. We need to start doing something ourselves. Then we will conclude that is basically what we are, the business we have today. And so, we're going to start with defining some of the key terms. And we're going to look at older adults in this presentation, at persons who are 65 years and above. Persons who are 65 years and above in this presentation, we're going to regard as older adults. Then who are caregivers? Caregivers are individuals who provide paid or unpaid or informal care to older adults. Not all caregivers are paid. Many of them today are paid to provide care to older adults, while some are family members. So, these are the people we are going to talk about, the caregivers. Then when we talk about mental well-being, what do we mean by mental well-being? By mental well-being, we mean a combination of emotions, of all those issues that could make an older adult not to function very well or could make the caregiver not to function very well, not to have life satisfaction. That is what we mean. Issues that can affect their relationship, that can affect how they function in their day-to-day living. That's what we are going to mean whenever we talk about mental well-being in this presentation, just note that that is what we are talking about. Then we look at resilience. Here we're going to see resilience as the process or the outcome by which older adults and their caregivers successfully adapt to challenging life experiences. HOW TO REFERENCE USING ASWDNET STYLE Okoye U. O. (2024). Promoting mental well-being and resilience among older adults and their caregivers in Africa: Challenges and the way forward. Presentation during Wazee Day (Older Persons Day), 6 October 2023. African Journal of Social Work, 14(2), 140-148. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ajsw.v14i3.5 Visit journal website: https://ajsw.africasocialwork.net

What Brings You in Today? Sex, Race, Substance Type, and Other Sociodemographic and Health-Related Characteristics Predict if Substance Use is the Main Reason for a Clinical Encounter.

Background: Substance-related diagnoses (SRDs) are a common healthcare presentation. This study identified sociodemographic and health-related characteristics associated with having an SRD as the primary reason for a clinical encounter compared to those with an SRD who are treated for other reasons. Methods: Electronic health record (EHR) data on patients with an SRD (n=12,358, ages 18-90) were used to assess if an SRD was the primary reason for a clinical encounter from January 1, 2012-January 1, 2018. Patients were matched on key demographic characteristics at a 1:1 ratio. Adjusting for covariates, odds ratios, and 95% confidence intervals were calculated. Results: In the matched cohort of 8,630, most reported male sex (65.8%), White race (70.0%), and single marital status (62.7%) with a mean age of 47.2 (SD=14.6). Patient reported female sex, Black race, age 70+, married status, and low-income (<$50,000) were associated with a lower likelihood of presenting to care for an SRD as the primary reason for a clinical encounter. A nicotine-, alcohol-, opioid-, or stimulant-related diagnosis was associated with a higher likelihood of presenting to care for an SRD as the primary reason for the clinical visit. Conclusion: This is the first study to investigate whether sociodemographic and health-related characteristics were associated with having an SRD as the primary reason for a clinical encounter. Using rigorous methods, we investigated a unique clinical question adding new knowledge to predictors of patients seeking clinical care. Understanding these predictors can help us better align service provision with population needs and inform new approaches to tailoring care.

"What brought you in today?": Modeling patient-provider clinic visits to characterize rural providers' antibiotic treatment decisions.

Designing clinical decision support (CDS) tools is challenging because clinical decision-making must account for an invisible task load: incorporating non-linear objective and subjective factors to make an assessment and treatment plan. This calls for a cognitive task analysis approach. The objectives of this study were to 1.) understand healthcare providers' decision making during a typical clinic visit, and 2.) explore how antibiotic treatment decisions are made when they arise. Two cognitive task analysis methods were applied - Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) and Operations Sequence Diagramming (OSD) - to 39h of observational data collected at family medicine, urgent care, and emergency medicine clinical sites. The resulting HTA models included a coding taxonomy detailing ten cognitive goals and associated sub-goals and demonstrated how the goals occur as interactions between the provider and electronic health record, the patient, and the physical clinic environment. Although the HTA detailed resources for antibiotic treatment decisions, antibiotics were a minority of drug classes ordered. The OSD shows the sequence of events and when decisions are made solely at the provider level and when shared decision making occurs with the patient. Qualitative data from the observations informed a constructed vignette case example portraying select tasks from the HTA. These findings emphasize that the scope of disease states presenting to a generalist clinical setting is broad and could include acute exacerbations of rare diseases within a time-pressured environment. CDS must be accessible, time efficient, and fit within the resource gathering task before treatment decisions are made.

The Law of the Gospel: Shifting Interpretations of a Temple Covenant throughout Latter-day Saint History

The Law of the Gospel: Shifting Interpretations of a Temple Covenant throughout Latter-day Saint History

“Blessed to be a Blessing” RINGKASAN KHOTBAH

irst, we are people who are blessed by God. Maybe we think that at times like this, it is difficult for us to feel God's blessings in our lives. However, do we realize that the Lord Jesus never stops blessing us? If you can come to church today with a healthy body, that is God's blessing. If today you can still have breakfast in the morning, it is God's blessing. If today we can still live, it is God's blessing. Second, God blesses us with a purpose. God never does anything without a lofty purpose. Peter said that let us serve according to the gifts that God has given us. Dear friends, this is what we as Christians to do in difficult times like these. We must be a blessing to others.

Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts

Urban Taxi Slogans: The People's Arts

An Interesting Case.

An Interesting Case.

U.S. Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Funders' Briefing Program, January 19, 2021.

U.S. Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Funders' Briefing Program, January 19, 2021.

Ariel MagnusChess with My Grandfather by Kit Maude

0 written, and nothing mars the undeniable power of this poignant and very intelligent novel. Rita D. Jacobs New York Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza Intensive Care Trans. Arthur Dixon. Columbia, South Carolina. Alliteratïon. 2020. 213 pages. “POETRY IS THAT WHICH is worth translating,” says Eliot Weinberger in 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, his 1987 treatise on the difficulties of just such an enterprise. “Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation : the poem dies when it has no place to go.” In other words, translating poetry from one language to another requires a kind of transformation in which the poem succeeds on its own terms not only in its source language but also in the target language. Otherwise, to paraphrase the American poet and translator Robert Bly, the poem is what gets lost in translation. Arthur Dixon’s translation of Venezuelan poet Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza’s Cuidados intensivos succeeds brilliantly as both translation and English- language poetry. Gutiérrez Plaza’s voice in Spanish, his diction and rhythms, are those of everyday speech—earthy, gleaming like a rock in the sunlight. Yet at the same time it is visionary and incantatory, carrying with it poetry’s power to bring something momentous into being. To be at once straightforward on the surface but suggest the deepest human dilemmas and emotions is a hallmark of this book, a paradox Dixon’s translation brings out beautifully. For example, in “A True Story,” Gutiérrez Plaza’s speaker tells us, “It’s true, today you know nothing / for certain, / except that from one dawn to the next / things happen.” This gesture toward the mystery of existence—that our lives are disorderly, random, and mostly unfathomable—is rendered in the most straightforward diction, without the kind of embellishment that would weaken the gravity of the realization. The major themes of Intensive Care accumulate and dovetail throughout the book through such oracular pronouncements . The book’s title suggests illness and mortality but also the vocation of the poet to impose order through language on chaos, even though language has the power both to bring us closer and to separate us. In “Written at the Wrong Time,” the speaker tells us, “Had it been said before, / had it been said without pause, / then maybe, just maybe, all writing / would be in vain and time would do the talking.” Other themes of the book include the mysterious interventions of fate and the difficult situation of contemporary Venezuela at this particular historical moment. Intensive Care is Gutiérrez Plaza’s fifth book of poems but the first to be translated into English. He has won major awards in both Venezuela and Mexico and is currently a professor emeritus at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. Given the high quality of both the poems and the translation , here’s hoping Dixon will bring us other of Gutiérrez Plaza’s books in English. Steve Bellin-Oka Tulsa, Oklahoma Ariel Magnus Chess with My Grandfather Trans. Kit Maude. Kolkata. Seagull Books. 2021. 312 pages. WHAT IS CHESS if not a metaphorical microcosm of a myriad of human institutions , conflicts, and systems? In Chess with My Grandfather, Argentine novelist Ariel Magnus (with the help of Kit Maude, his infinitely talented translator), descendant of German immigrants, shows just how honed a tool this tabletop theater has been in acting as a proxy for a vast number of human endeavors, specifically war. And what better war to allegorize than the Second World War, whose star hegemons resemble the command the King and Queen pieces have over the fate of the game? Ariel Magnus’s grandfather, Heinz Magnus , was a German Jew who managed to escape (along with his mother, father, and sister) likely death by fleeing to Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the first rumors of Hitler’s ascent and the ensuing transcontinental conflict. The plot of Heinz’s relatively languid life in Argentina crescendos when the 8th Chess Olympiad takes place between WORLDLIT.ORG 93 BOOKS IN REVIEW Frances Larson Undreamed Shores:The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology London. Granta. 2020. 352 pages. FRANCES LARSON IS AN anthropologist at the University of Durham and the...

Arturo Gutiérrez PlazaIntensive Care by Arthur Dixon

0 written, and nothing mars the undeniable power of this poignant and very intelligent novel. Rita D. Jacobs New York Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza Intensive Care Trans. Arthur Dixon. Columbia, South Carolina. Alliteratïon. 2020. 213 pages. “POETRY IS THAT WHICH is worth translating,” says Eliot Weinberger in 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, his 1987 treatise on the difficulties of just such an enterprise. “Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation : the poem dies when it has no place to go.” In other words, translating poetry from one language to another requires a kind of transformation in which the poem succeeds on its own terms not only in its source language but also in the target language. Otherwise, to paraphrase the American poet and translator Robert Bly, the poem is what gets lost in translation. Arthur Dixon’s translation of Venezuelan poet Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza’s Cuidados intensivos succeeds brilliantly as both translation and English- language poetry. Gutiérrez Plaza’s voice in Spanish, his diction and rhythms, are those of everyday speech—earthy, gleaming like a rock in the sunlight. Yet at the same time it is visionary and incantatory, carrying with it poetry’s power to bring something momentous into being. To be at once straightforward on the surface but suggest the deepest human dilemmas and emotions is a hallmark of this book, a paradox Dixon’s translation brings out beautifully. For example, in “A True Story,” Gutiérrez Plaza’s speaker tells us, “It’s true, today you know nothing / for certain, / except that from one dawn to the next / things happen.” This gesture toward the mystery of existence—that our lives are disorderly, random, and mostly unfathomable—is rendered in the most straightforward diction, without the kind of embellishment that would weaken the gravity of the realization. The major themes of Intensive Care accumulate and dovetail throughout the book through such oracular pronouncements . The book’s title suggests illness and mortality but also the vocation of the poet to impose order through language on chaos, even though language has the power both to bring us closer and to separate us. In “Written at the Wrong Time,” the speaker tells us, “Had it been said before, / had it been said without pause, / then maybe, just maybe, all writing / would be in vain and time would do the talking.” Other themes of the book include the mysterious interventions of fate and the difficult situation of contemporary Venezuela at this particular historical moment. Intensive Care is Gutiérrez Plaza’s fifth book of poems but the first to be translated into English. He has won major awards in both Venezuela and Mexico and is currently a professor emeritus at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. Given the high quality of both the poems and the translation , here’s hoping Dixon will bring us other of Gutiérrez Plaza’s books in English. Steve Bellin-Oka Tulsa, Oklahoma Ariel Magnus Chess with My Grandfather Trans. Kit Maude. Kolkata. Seagull Books. 2021. 312 pages. WHAT IS CHESS if not a metaphorical microcosm of a myriad of human institutions , conflicts, and systems? In Chess with My Grandfather, Argentine novelist Ariel Magnus (with the help of Kit Maude, his infinitely talented translator), descendant of German immigrants, shows just how honed a tool this tabletop theater has been in acting as a proxy for a vast number of human endeavors, specifically war. And what better war to allegorize than the Second World War, whose star hegemons resemble the command the King and Queen pieces have over the fate of the game? Ariel Magnus’s grandfather, Heinz Magnus , was a German Jew who managed to escape (along with his mother, father, and sister) likely death by fleeing to Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the first rumors of Hitler’s ascent and the ensuing transcontinental conflict. The plot of Heinz’s relatively languid life in Argentina crescendos when the 8th Chess Olympiad takes place between WORLDLIT.ORG 93 ...

STAGES AND CONDITIONS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF STEM EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Every year, despite our desires and preferences, innovative processes take place in the world, new technologies are created that permeate all spheres of social life. Thus, the last couple of years have been marked by the emergence of 3D printers, the creation of supermarkets of the future, modernization of production through robotic prefabricated systems, testing of robot buses, the development of virtual reality and artificial intelligence and more. Various innovations also affected the education system of Ukraine. Forms, methods, teaching aids, the role of teacher and student, curricula and assessment systems are changing. With the modernization of the educational process, new directions in education appear. Yes, today you can hear about mixed, inverted, mobile, social learning, video scribing, cloud technologies, inverted classroom, storytelling, start-up challenge, etc. Due to the spread of coronavirus infection and the introduction of quarantine, distance education has become relevant. Thus, at the present stage there is a global reform of Ukrainian education, aimed at changing conceptual priorities, finding ways to integrate into the European education system. One of the promising areas is the introduction of STEM-education, which provides for the integration of natural sciences, which focuses on the development of new technologies, mathematical calculations, innovative thinking. In this context, there is a reorientation of the educational process to the development of personality, and such a reorientation involves the improvement of the entire education system, and consequently the teaching methods of individual disciplines, including natural sciences. To do this, it is necessary to calculate the conditions and stages of implementation of STEM-education in the educational process of general secondary education in Ukraine, which in the future should meet the needs of the country for well-trained engineers and specialists in STEM education.

The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 by James D. Jenkins Ryan Cagle Richmond

and was repeatedly revised until 1969, the year before Ungaretti’s death. Although selections from it appeared in half a dozen English-language editions of Ungaretti’s poetry (Allen Mandelbaum, 1958 and 1975; Patrick Creagh, 1971; Charles Tomlinson, 1983; Kevin Hart, 1990; Diego Bastianutti, 1997; and Andrew Frisardi, 2002), Geoffrey Brock’s is the first complete translation of the 1931 edition, “Ungaretti’s first full-length volume of poetry and a seminal work of Italian modernism.” In a brief and informative section of “Afterthoughts,” Brock explains that “its title is most often rendered as Joy, though tin-eared dictionaries may prefer merriment , gaiety, or mirth.” Joy is indeed Brock’s choice, as it was Mandelbaum’s and Frisardi ’s before him (while Creagh and Bastianutti refer to the collection by its Italian title but do not translate the poem “Allegria di naufragi”). It is also the best if not the only choice, even though allegria is more distinctly an external manifestation of an inner feeling, and one which may involve and unite multiple individuals (as in the case of a shipwreck). Plus, the orthographic similarity between allegria and allegoria suggests “Allegory of Shipwrecks” as a plausible and, indeed, fascinating alternative for the title of both the poem and the eponymous 1919 collection. Written between 1914 and 1919, during Ungaretti’s active service on the Italian and the western fronts, most of these poems burn like sparks of emotion, flashes of understanding, splinters of insight. However , despite their diaristic form, intensified by the horrors of war in the trenches, there is nothing fragmentary or unfinished about them; on the contrary, they aim to represent the totality of experience in the infinite and fathomless details of its unfolding, and they are carved and polished like the Karst Plateau on which they were originally crafted. As an editor and translator of Italian poetry who is also a poet in his own right, Brock is uniquely qualified to meet the challenges presented by one of the most difficult poets to render in any language. For the most part his versions improve upon those of his predecessors (except perhaps Frisardi), keeping close to the text, avoiding the pitfalls of interpretation, and generally striving for a middle ground between faithfulness and clarity. Occasionally, one feels that he could have cut closer to the bone of Ungaretti’s compact and parched poetic diction, instead of domesticating the text both syntactically and lexically, and making it “friendlier” to the anglophone reader than it is to an Italian. But if the latter may ask, cynically, “Why bother translating at all?” (Ungaretti or, for that matter, any other poet), the former will be grateful to Brock for a version that outlines and occasionally transcends the limits of what translation can do. Graziano Krätli New Haven, Connecticut Editorial note: While our mandate is focused on literature written in the twenty-first century, I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to have Ungaretti’s first collection, published in its entirety for the first time and sporting a fresh English translation, reviewed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the poet winning the inaugural Neustadt Prize in 1970. – Rob Vollmar The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 Ed. James D. Jenkins & Ryan Cagle Richmond, Virginia. Valancourt. 2020. 428 pages. TODAY YOU CAN watch horror films from just about everywhere. We are truly living in a golden age of horror films, not only in terms of global availability but also of artistic quality and thematic versatility. Horror fiction, however, is another story entirely. The US market rules the anglophone horror world and is almost entirely white, with a few authors like Stephen Graham Jones, Victor LaValle, or Gabino Iglesias accumulating a respected but still small readership. Though scholarship has recovered a great deal with regard to the gothic in German, French, Italian, and Spanish literature (mostly in the period prior to World War II), and some anthologies like the VanderMeers’ thousand-page The Weird (2012) have collected a wider view of the genre, what’s going on in horror outside the anglophone world is virtually unknown to English monolinguals. Volume 1 of The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories changes that. Founded by...

Modern Wooden Construction System Comparison

Wood-based construction is a rapidly growing branch of construction in the world, it is slightly worse on the Polish field. In the era of care for the environment, it is important that newly constructed building objects, including buildings, not only use as little energy as possible, but are also made of materials received as ecological. Wood-based construction combines both of these aspects. There are, however, two other market aspects: price and availability of materials and technological solutions. Wooden buildings are more environmentally and human friendly than other material solutions, and with proper insulation, finishing and well-chosen installation systems, they can also be tempted to become a zero-energy building, i.e. one whose energy balance is zero per year. Among the architectural design offers today you can find a large number of residential or public building designs (low or large volume) with a wood-based structure, both in terms of bar solutions (generally seen through the prism of skeletal objects), as well as massive structures (today mainly seen through the prism plate objects). Each of them has different design assumptions, but in principle the goal is common. The right kind of construction, insulation and finishing materials should be chosen for each. For structural elements, various types of protection should be taken, e.g. in the field of fire safety or against technical wood pests, etc. In the field of insulation, analyses of thermal issues, waterproofing and wind protection are undertaken. The choice of finishing materials should also take into account solutions that are the least burdening the environment and minimize energy losses, among others by avoiding possible thermal bridges. This article attempts to present the topic in a synthetic way, outlining global trends and possibilities of the Polish wood-based construction market. The calculation example illustrates the heat balance and environmental loads of a single-family wooden building with thermal insulation selected so that the building envelope meets the current requirements given in the Technical Conditions.

Corona XXI – outside the frame

Corona XXI – outside the frame

SWOT Analysis of Top Two Online Shopping Companies of India

The world of the Internet is so big that the more you learn about the Internet, the less. Due to Internet, our life has become a lot easier. You may not even think that today you can get the exam results online with the help of the Internet, connect with friends online, earn money online from the internet, and still do much more online. But nowadays the most popular is online shopping. Because of online shopping we can buy anything from home. And the same thing we bought comes to the address we have provided. We don't have to go anywhere. Online shopping is convenient, and consumers also have a wider range of choice. But people need to understand that no company or trader can afford to hurt you by giving you cheap or free. So instead of being tempted to buy from free and discount schemes, it is important to consider such websites and their 'non-refundable' policy and the complicated and lengthy process of returning items. Nowadays everyone recommends shopping online because of their busy and fast life. The more convenient it is, the more troubles can arise.

Smart Storage with the Internet of Things and Voice Recognition

In the era of automation ruling the world by coming into each and every field, now it has entered into the field of Storage. Automation has reduced the time complexity and the manual power in the entire field it has intruded. And likewise it will reduce the time complexity and tracking of the stored items and retrieving the same from the storage. This model of storage can be done with the help of Internet of Things, Cloud computing and machine learning. Cloud computing plays a major role due to its robustness and its portability which does give an extra edge in the business. To survive in business today you need to make smart choices. Storage can be a small business savior. This model can be used in many fields like medicine, business etc. Tracking and retrieving in these large amounts of storage can be made easier with the help of database.

7 What Brings You in Today? Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Reasons for Emergency Department Utilization

7 What Brings You in Today? Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Reasons for Emergency Department Utilization

«Глас вопиющего в пустыне» - чому?

У статті зазначається, що вся історія цивілізації – це повсюдне подолання одвічного упередження: «цього не може бути, тому що не може бути». Незважаючи на відомі свідчення ефективного застосування в слідчій практиці нетрадиційних методів доказування, і сьогодні спостерігається їх ігнорування та відсутність інтересу в необхідності експериментального підтвердження чи спростування цього. Причому сучасний науково-технічний рівень дозволяє дослідним способом підтвердити чи спростувати вказані в статті способи отримання інформації. Підтвердження описаних фактів дозволить підвищити ефективність попередження та припинення, а також розслідування злочинів. Спростування ж цього факту назавжди позбавить від марних дискусій.

The Digitalization of the Russian Financial Market: The Use of Technologies of the Distributed Ledger by the Institutions of Custodian Infrastructure

Over the past 30 years financial markets have moved from a highly centralized to a globalized system that includes all the world's stock exchanges and other financial institutions. The global stock architecture has united the world market. Traditionally, trading in financial instruments took place between stock brokers and traders who made personal transactions on trading platforms. At that time, stock brokers were monopolists of the market, only their information, their recommendations were the only source of information for investors. This was before the dotcom revolution, when communication became simple and accessible to everyone. Trade has been transformed from physical to electronic form, today you can buy securities, currencies and any derivatives in any quantity, at any time and from anywhere in the world. Development of blockchain technologies is integrated into financial transactions. Financial intermediaries are forced to follow the market and actively introduce new technologies in their processes. This article will consider the possibility of using the technology of the distributed ledger by institutions of custodian infrastructure. Today, a number of Russian financial institutions are developing their own projects using blockchain.

From Buddy to Boss Transitioning From “One of Us” to “One of Them”

Yesterday you were my peer…today you report to me! Whether transitioning from staff RN to charge nurse, nurse manager to director to vice president, chief nursing officer (CNO) or beyond, expanding roles are both exciting and terrifying! Receiving a promotion at work is excellent recognition and presents opportunities for growth, better compensation, and further career advancement; yet moving up within an organization often presents unique challenges. Yesterday you were my peer…today you report to me! Whether transitioning from staff RN to charge nurse, nurse manager to director to vice president, chief nursing officer (CNO) or beyond, expanding roles are both exciting and terrifying! Receiving a promotion at work is excellent recognition and presents opportunities for growth, better compensation, and further career advancement; yet moving up within an organization often presents unique challenges.