Meanings and experiences of assistive technologies in everyday lives of older citizens: a meta-interpretive review.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the available qualitative studies on the meaning of assistive technologies (AT) in elderly people's everyday lives in order to identify central concepts, themes, and findings from existing research.

Method: A systematic search of the literature was conducted, using predetermined search strategies. Exclusion criteria were, in accordance with the meta-interpretive approach, developed iteratively during the reading of abstracts and articles.

Intercomparison of oil spill prediction models for accidental blowout scenarios with and without subsea chemical dispersant injection.

We compare oil spill model predictions for a prototype subsea blowout with and without subsea injection of chemical dispersants in deep and shallow water, for high and low gas-oil ratio, and in weak to strong crossflows. Model results are compared for initial oil droplet size distribution, the nearfield plume, and the farfield Lagrangian particle tracking stage of hydrocarbon transport. For the conditions tested (a blowout with oil flow rate of 20,000 bbl/d, about 1/3 of the Deepwater Horizon), the models predict the volume median droplet diameter at the source to range from 0.

[COPD symptom screening can identify patients who require palliation].

This study developed and tested a collaboration model to improve the quality of palliative care for all patients with life-threatening illness who require palliation. Journal audit was performed on 79 in-hospital patients. European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Quality of Life Question-naire (EORTC-QLQ-C15-PAL) symptom screening was found to be applicable to all patients with life-threatening illness.

How cancer survivors experience their changed body encountering others.

Background: Psychosocial cancer research illustrates how women treated for breast cancer experience physical changes in their bodies and the way they perceive, that, others see their body. But how patients with other types of cancer have experienced changes in their bodies and how this affects their relationship with others is less researched.

Objectives: To explore how cancer survivors with different types of cancer and cancer treatment, experience and handle their changed body, especially when meeting others, and how this influences their everyday life of survivorship, i.

The meaning of work and working life after cancer: an interview study.

Background: Cancer survivors have diverse and complex patterns of return to work, but little attention has been given to individual experiences of returning to work.

Objectives: To analyse the meaning of work and working life for cancer survivors over time.

Methods: Participant observation was carried out at a cancer rehabilitation centre.

Cancer survivors' experience of time: time disruption and time appropriation.

Aim: This paper reports a study to explore how cancer survivors talk about, experience and manage time in everyday life.

Background: There is an increasing interest in specific physical and psychosocial aspects of life after cancer diagnosis and treatment, but hardly any research follows cancer survivors over time to explore how perceptions and experiences change.

Methods: An exploratory study was carried out in 2002-2004 with a purposive sample of adults who had experienced various forms of cancer.