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BMJ Open
June 2024
Fakultät V - Department Psychologie, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
Introduction: Dementia Care Management is an evidence-based model of care. It has proven its efficacy and cost-effectiveness and has been applied to different settings and different target groups. However, it is not available in routine care in Germany.
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August 2023
Site Witten, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE), Witten, Germany
Introduction: Dementia care management is a complex intervention intended to support persons with dementia and their (caring) relatives in home-based care arrangements. Dementia care management was developed in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany and subsequently adapted for the German region of Siegen-Wittgenstein, where it will now be implemented. Four different service providers will carry out the implementation process.
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May 2023
Division 3 Work and Health, Unit 3.5 Evidence-based Occupational Health, Workplace Health Management, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Nöldnerstr. 40-42, Berlin, 10317, Germany.
Background: Mental disorders (MDs) are one of the leading causes for workforce sickness absence and disability worldwide. The burden, costs and challenges are enormous for the individuals concerned, employers and society at large. Although most MDs are characterised by a high risk of relapse after treatment or by chronic courses, interventions that link medical-psychotherapeutic approaches with work-directed components to facilitate a sustainable return to work (RTW) are rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this paper is to enhance doctors' awareness of implicit understandings between doctors and patients in the context of pre-operative communication of risks. This paper draws on insights from the philosophy of language - in particular pragmatic analysis tools - that make explicit the implicit understandings of the interaction. Mastering not only what is said but also what is unsaid allows doctors to improve their communication with their patients.
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December 2022
Vienna Institute of Demography (OeAW), Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), Vienna, Austria.
Unlabelled: We propose a new summary measure of population health (SMPH), the well-being-adjusted health expectancy (WAHE). WAHE belongs to a subgroup of health-adjusted life expectancy indicators and gives the number of life years equivalent to full health. WAHE combines health and mortality information into a single indicator with weights that quantify the reduction in well-being associated with decreased health.
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