Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the last twenty five years the health of individuals worldwide has changed. Life expectancy has substantially increased and the proportion of older citizens is growing constantly. This growing population of elderly people will dominate the housing market in the coming years. An increased demand for housing and health care services for the elderly calls not only for much greater supply than we have ever experienced, but also for new approaches, one of which is based on the graduation of care. Provincial and local governments are looking for innovative options and design solutions which could meet the needs and expectations of a new wave of seniors at the end of this century. It is the intention of this thesis to identify and define what are the underlying principles in planning housing and services for the contemporary elderly. The Thesis has been developed as a research cycle based on a three-phase methodology of analysis-synthesis-evaluation. Analysis commences with comprehensive research into existing facilities and introduces the notion of multi-level care of the elderly. It investigates the real meaning of the quality environment within the elderly facility in terms of a continuum of his/her lifestyle. Synthesis defines the phenomenon of the continuum of care environment in the full scale facility program for the proposed Continuum of Care Complex (CCC) in West Point Grey in Vancouver, B.C. Evaluation investigates the feasibility of the program implementation on a test site. A basic premise of the thesis is that a multi-level care facility is a viable way of achieving an environment, which may fulfill a comprehensive array of needs of the elderly. It should include housing alternatives for the elderly, both in terms of tenure and supportive services, but above all should provide a specific ambiance equal to a home-like environment. The thesis has been structured as a hypothetical model of a programming system based on the principle of the continuum of care. This model includes four major functional components of the proposed complex: residential, long-term care, community services and outdoor activity spaces that blending together create a quality environment. This model has been developed in the real situation of the Point Grey Community on the principle of an active interaction. Subsequently this model has been tested on a selected site in terms of identification of opportunities and constraints which may affect successful program implementation. The thesis concludes that a hypothetical model of the Continuum of Care Complex can be successfully implemented on the selected test site of the Point Grey Community. "Continuum of Care" environment for the elderly developed in the model may satisfy a broad range of needs for the elderly: physical, physiological and sociopsychological.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".