scholarly journals The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asako Ohinata ◽  
Matteo Picchio
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Household Savings

scholarly journals Capacity Market and (the Lack of) New Investments: Evidence from Poland

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 7843
Author(s):  
Przemysław Kaszyński ◽  
Aleksandra Komorowska ◽  
Krzysztof Zamasz ◽  
Grzegorz Kinelski ◽  
Jacek Kamiński
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Capacity Market ◽  
Term Energy ◽  
Demand Side Response

Capacity remuneration mechanisms operate in many European countries. In 2018, Poland implemented a centralized capacity market to ensure appropriate funding for the existing and new power generation units to improve long-term energy security. One of the declarations made while the mechanism was deployed was its beneficial influence on incentives for investments in new units. In this context, this paper aims to analyze the effects of the capacity mechanism adopted for investments in new power generation units that may be financed under the capacity market mechanism in Poland. The analysis is conducted for four types of capacity market units, the existing, refurbishing, planned, and demand-side response types, and includes the final results of capacity auctions. The results prove that the primary beneficiaries of the capacity market in Poland have been the existing units (including the refurbishing ones) responsible for more than 80% of capacity obligation volumes contracted for 2021–2025. Moreover, during the implementation of the capacity market in Poland, the planned units that signed long-term capacity contracts with a total share of 12% of the whole market were already at the advanced phases of construction, and the investment decisions were made long before the implementation of the capacity market mechanism. Therefore, they were not associated with the financial support from the capacity market. The study indicates that the capacity market did not bring incentives for investments in new power generation units in the investigated period.

The use of mystery guests by the Dutch Health Inspectorate: Results of a pilot study in long-term intramural elderly care

Health Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 119 (6) ◽  
pp. 821-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha A. Adams ◽  
Katharina T. Paul ◽  
Corry Ketelaars ◽  
Paul Robben
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Dutch Health

scholarly journals CARE: Context-awareness for elderly care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Klakegg ◽  
Kennedy Opoku Asare ◽  
Niels van Berkel ◽  
Aku Visuri ◽  
Eija Ferreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Integrated Technology ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Post Hoc

AbstractWe present CARE, a context-aware tool for nurses in nursing homes. The system utilises a sensors infrastructure to quantify the behaviour and wellbeing (e.g., activity, mood, social and nurse interactions) of elderly residents. The sensor data is offloaded, processed and analysed in the cloud, to generate daily and long-term summaries of residents’ health. These insights are then presented to nurses via an Android tablet application. We aim to create a tool that can assist nurses and increase their awareness to residents’ needs. We deployed CARE in a local nursing home for two months and evaluated the system through a post-hoc exploratory analysis and interviews with the nurses. The results indicate that CARE can reveal essential insights on the wellbeing of elderly residents and improve the care service. In the discussion, we reflect on our understanding and potential impact of future integrated technology in elderly care environments.

scholarly journals Studying robots outside the lab: HRI as ethnography

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Blond
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Abstract As more and more robots enter our social world, there is a strong need for further field studies of humanrobot interaction. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of the implementation of a South Korean socially assistive robot in Danish elderly care, this paper argues that empirical and ethnographic studies will enhance the understanding of the adaptation of robots in real-life settings. Furthermore, the paper emphasizes how users and the context of use matters to this adaptation, as it is shown that roboticists are unable to control how their designs are implemented and how the sociality of social robots is inscribed by its users in practice. This paper can be seen as a contribution to long-term studies of HRI. It presents the challenges of robot adaptation in practice and discusses the limitations of the present conceptual understanding of human-robot relations. The ethnographic data presented herein encourage a move away from static and linear descriptions of the implementation process toward more contextual and relational accounts of HRI.

Afghanistan in 2002: The Struggle to Win the Peace

Asian Survey ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A. Jalali
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
War On Terrorism ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Civil Strife ◽  
The U.S

The year 2002 was one of rebirth and rebuilding in Afghanistan following a drawn-out civil strife that ended with the downfall of the Taliban regime in the U.S.-led coalition war on terrorism. But the struggle for peace proved to be much tougher than winning the war. International financial support and political backing helped Afghanistan move toward creating a broad-based government, improving security across the country, and rebuilding its devastated economy. However, the enormous humanitarian and development challenges involved require a sustained and multifaceted response as well as a long-term international commitment to assist the war-torn country in restoring peace, normalcy, and economic stability.

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