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Adult Day Care: Northern Perspectives

2003· article· en· W2006094704 on OpenAlex
Linda Ritchie

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Health Nursing · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRespite careFocus groupContext (archaeology)Qualitative researchExploratory researchNursingPerceptionPsychologyMedicineGerontologySociologyGeography

Abstract

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This qualitative study explores older adults', caregivers', and nurses' perceptions regarding adult day care (ADC). The study took place in two small towns and one small city in the northern interior region of British Columbia, Canada, with the intent to develop ADC programs that reflect the needs of older persons and their caregivers. The 32 participants contributed their perceptions in focus groups and individual interviews. The interviews, in this descriptive/exploratory study, were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using inductive, qualitative techniques. The participants acknowledged ADC services as essential to the health and well-being of older adults and their caregivers. The major themes that emerged were need for respite; aging in place; ADC programming; program characteristics; staff knowledge, skills, and attitudes; and northern perspectives. The study participants identified a number of possible reasons for underuse of ADC programming in the north. This study provides information that can facilitate the grounding of ADC policy within the clients' perspectives and a northern context. The participants' thoughts also highlight areas of policy that have broad applicability to the provision of services to the elderly in any setting.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.673
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.053
GPT teacher head0.408
Teacher spread0.355 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it