A Longitudinal Study Examining the Effects of COVID-19 on Refugees Four Years Postresettlement in the United States.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many refugee communities faced intensified economic and social challenges. This longitudinal study began three years prior to the COVID pandemic and examined the effects of COVID on refugee outcomes in the United States including employment, health insurance, safety, and discrimination. The study also examined participant perspectives on COVID-related challenges.

Thermophysiologies of Jurassic marine crocodylomorphs inferred from the oxygen isotope composition of their tooth apatite.

Teleosauridae and Metriorhynchidae were thalattosuchian crocodylomorph clades that secondarily adapted to marine life and coexisted during the Middle to Late Jurassic. While teleosaurid diversity collapsed at the end of the Jurassic, most likely as a result of a global cooling of the oceans and associated marine regressions, metriorhynchid diversity was largely unaffected, although the fossil record of Thalattosuchia is poor in the Cretaceous. In order to investigate the possible differences in thermophysiologies between these two thalattosuchian lineages, we analysed stable oxygen isotope compositions (expressed as δO values) of tooth apatite from metriorhynchid and teleosaurid specimens.

Palliative care training.

This article discusses a project that explored and addressed the palliative care education needs of staff working in two nursing homes, using a practice development framework. This has enhanced the provision of palliative care to residents in both homes, and provided ongoing training and awareness sessions for staff.

Dying with dementia: the views of family caregivers about quality of life.

Objective: To document the views of family caregivers of persons with dementia about quality of life for their relative during the late and terminal stages of the disease, as part of an exploratory study of best quality care and support.

Methods: Fifteen former caregivers (five wives, five husbands, two sons, three daughters) participated in in-depth semistructured interviews.

Results: Participants identified three main sets of indicators of quality of life: the physical body, the physical and social environment and treatment with respect and dignity.

Exploring the aetiology and management of venous eczema.

Many older people living at home or in residential settings in the community suffer from inflammation of the skin of the lower legs, or venous eczema. Management of this condition may depend on the background of the professional who carries out the initial assessment. Those with a tissue viability background may plan their care based on an assessment of the patient for suitability for compression, to reverse the venous hypertension which may be a causative factor of the eczema.

Reintegrating seriously violent and personality-disordered offenders from a supermaximum security institution into the general offender population.

Offenders who have committed serious violent acts while incarcerated are often segregated and housed in supermaximum security facilities. Given the highly restricted regime under which they are detained, it is often difficult to decide if they are safe enough to be discharged. However, there is a need to reintegrate them into the general offender population in a lower security institution for humane, correctional, and financial reasons.