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Record W2884719449 · doi:10.1177/1936724418785414

Quality of Life at an Elder’s Collective Dwelling Community: A Case Study of a Toronto Seniors’ Residence

2018· article· en· W2884719449 on OpenAlex

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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

VenueJournal of Applied Social Science · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsResidenceGerontologyAging in placeFocus groupQuality of life (healthcare)Subsidized housingEthnic groupMedicinePsychologySubsidyNursingSociologyBusinessPolitical scienceMarketingDemography

Abstract

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Canada is aging rapidly in recent years. Today, about 17 percent of the Canadian population is 65 or older. Although most seniors are aging at home (93 percent), an increasing number of elders are living in collective dwelling facilities or waiting for a vacant spot in such a community. Knowing the challenge in providing elders with satisfactory services in a multicultural society, we conducted a case study to explore elders’ quality of lives in an elders’ residence in Toronto. As the first such study in Canada, our goal is finding evidences for improving the quality of life of the elders. This project employed a qualitative case study method. Face-to-face interview and focus group discussion were the main data collection methods. The data analysis perspective is quality of life. The residence provides the elders an age appropriate lifestyle and socializing activities. Thus, most of its tenants feel at home and satisfied. However, some ethnic minority members experience communication barriers; and there are unmet service demands that require the support of societal resources. These findings are important for developing strategies to close the gaps. Collective dwelling has positive effects on elders’ general health. More resources are urgently needed for improving the seniors’ quality of lives and their subjective well-being. Elder residents’ communities require vital services such as social workers, basic health care, and a subsidized meal plan.

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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)0.008
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.324
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.078
GPT teacher head0.395
Teacher spread0.318 · 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