REFINING A DIGITAL THERAPEUTIC PLATFORM FOR HOME CARE AGENCIES IN DEMENTIA CARE TO ELICIT STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK: FOCUS GROUP STUDY WITH STAKEHOLDERS

Refining a Digital Therapeutic Platform for Home Care Agencies in Dementia Care to Elicit Stakeholder Feedback: Focus Group Study With Stakeholders

BackgroundPersons living with dementia require increasing levels of care, and the care model has evolved.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is transitioning long-term care services from institutional care to home- or community-based services, including reimbursement for nonclinical services.Although home care companies are positioned to

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The weaponization of medicine: Early psychosis in the Black community and the need for racially informed mental healthcare

There is a notable disparity between the observed prevalence of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders in racialized persons in the United States and copyright and White individuals in these same countries, with Black people being diagnosed at higher rates than other groups.The consequences thereof bring a progression of lifelong punitive societal implic

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Accuracy, precision and robustness of different methods to obtain samples from silages in fermentation studies

The objective of this study was to evaluate accuracy, precision and robustness of two methods to obtain silage samples, in comparison with extraction of liquor by manual screw-press.Wet brewery residue alone or combined with soybean hulls and citrus pulp were ensiled in laboratory silos.Liquor was extracted by a manual screw-press and a 2-mL aliquo

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Evaluation of Cross-Protection between G1a- and G2a-Genotype Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Viruses in Suckling Piglets

To date, two genotypes, i.e., genotype 1 (G1) and genotype 2 (G2), of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) have been identified in swine, while the cross protection between the G2a and G1a subgenotypes is undetermined.Hence, in the present study, we attempted to observe a comparative pathogenicity and cross protection of G1a (CV777) and G2a (CH/J

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