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Record W2019181847 · doi:10.1177/1084822303015004012

Positive Outcomes and Adult Day Care

2003· article· en· W2019181847 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueHome Health Care Management & Practice · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGeriatric Care and Nursing Homes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLonelinessCaregiver burdenMedicineGerontologyPopulationAnxietyFamily caregiversDay careDepression (economics)PsychologyFamily medicineNursingDementiaPsychiatryDisease

Abstract

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More community-based long-term resources are needed to support the aging population and especially to facilitate independence in this population. Adult day care centers are a resource that is becoming more popular, but little research has been done to evaluate the positive effects of such a program on the participant and the family caregiver. A very current study (Baumgarten, Lebel, Laprise, Leclerc, & Quinn, 2002), explores the impact of adult day care centers on the frail elderly (age of 60 years or older) in the province of Quebec, Canada. The participants in the study who were alert enough to be interviewed felt that their participation in the day center’s activities reduced their symptoms of loneliness, anxiety, and depression. Family caregivers perceived a decrease in their caregiver burden, and this was directly proportional to the amount of time that the elder attended the day center. This positive opinion by the participants and family caregivers was not validated by statistical significance with any of the formal research measures. A portion of the lack of statistical significance may be explained by methodological issues. The cost of such adult day centers is less than institutional care and equal to or less than services needed to maintain the elder at home, depending on the number of services needed in the home. Home care providers may find the results of this study useful even though they are not conclusive, when counseling families about options for care that will benefit all involved. Based on this study, there are certain factors that should be considered when a home care nurse is talking with families about options available for their elderly family members. These factors focus on the well-being of the elderly family member, caregiver burden for the primary caregiver in the family, family dynamics, and cost. Each of these factors can be discussed when deciding whether a community resource such as an adult day center may be valuable, and they can be used as comparison points when assessing whether the new resource has made a difference. Well-being of the elder family member who is attending the adult day center should include but not be limited to

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.890
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.396
Teacher spread0.379 · 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