Families' perspectives on access to primary healthcare services for relatives living with dementia in Manitoba
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Abstract
This study purports to find out from family members of persons living with dementia about primary healthcare services available, challenges faced by relatives living with dementia when accessing these services, and their responses on how to improve access to these services in Manitoba. A literature review was conducted to describe what other scholars have reported on this matter or field of study. The researcher adopted the social model of disability as the underlying concept for this study. As this model holds that social and attitudinal barriers affect persons living with disabilities, it is incumbent on society to provide all the essential accommodations for persons living with dementia to improve their health and well-being. This study employed a qualitative methodology with a case study design. Through a working relationship with the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba, eight people who had relatives living with dementia were interviewed. Ethical procedures were followed and approval was given by the Joint-Faculty Research Ethics Board (JFREB). A consent form was given to each of the study participants who voluntarily agreed to engage in this project to sign. Based on the information shared by the family members, a case study approach was used to write their stories. The findings revealed that relatives living with dementia used various forms of primary healthcare services and other services such as specialists, home care, nursing homes, and personal care home services. In addition, relatives living with dementia faced difficulties when using primary healthcare and other services. As a result, the family caregivers made suggestions to improve access to primary healthcare and other services. Themes were created in order to discuss the results of this study. The researcher gave some recommendations that could be used to tackle dementia care and support for persons living with dementia in Manitoba and across Canada.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".