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Record W47313170

Retirement Home Accreditation in Ontario: In Whose Interest?

2006· dissertation· en· W47313170 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kerry Hopkins

Bibliographic record

VenueMacSphere (McMaster University) · 2006
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAccreditationGerontologyDemographic economicsMedicineEconomicsMedical education
DOInot available

Abstract

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In Ontario, we are currently dealing with a profound public policy void in the area of retirement home regulation. Ret1ecting the neo-liberal political context, much of this industry's growth has occurred with limited or no legal regulation and minimal, if any, involvement from the government. This paper discusses various possible options for addressing the issue of unregulated retirement homes, with a special emphasis on voluntary accreditation. This study sought the unique perspectives of retirement home administrators from both accredited and non-accredited homes. Conversations with participants converged around a number of key issues, including affirming the importance of regulation, affirming the need to compete and succeed in the retirement home market, emphasizing the negative aspects of accreditation, and the responsibility of being accountable to various stakeholders. Administrators also offered their perspectives on policy issues and the role of government. This study provides insight into the question of "In whose interest is the current retirement home system?" It became evident throughout this study that there is value in creating some level of government regulation beyond what currently exists. It is argued that future policy in this area must hold the interests of seniors as primary, and not the interests of the business community.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.110
Threshold uncertainty score0.798

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0140.006
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.222 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2006
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