Home-Based Physiotherapy for the Elderly: A Different World
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purpose: Recent changes in health service delivery have resulted in a shift in provision of services from the hospital to the community. These changes require an examination of the knowledge and skills used by physiotherapists working in the home setting. The purpose of this study is to understand the practice of physiotherapy within the context of the elderly client's home. Method: Using semistructured interviews with 12 home-based physiotherapists, a focussed ethnographic approach was used to explore the practice of home care physiotherapy in Ontario. Data were analyzed using a coding/categorizing approach. Results: The client's home as the context in which physiotherapy services are provided has meaning beyond merely the location where the therapeutic intervention occurs. Practicing in the world of the client requires a broad array of knowledge and skills that go far beyond notions of traditional physiotherapy. Physiotherapists in the community rely heavily on their tacit, professional craft knowledge, but, ironically, they often feel that these skills are not “really” physiotherapy. Conclusions: The findings highlight the need to expand our notions of professional knowledge beyond traditional propositional knowledge to include professional craft knowledge.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".