Importance The adverse effects of COVID-19 containment policies disrupting child mental
health and sleep have been debated. However, few current estimates correct biases of …

Background With global aging on the rise, the number of older adults with disabilities was
also increasing exponentially. There has been growing international interest in home …

The first M of the 4Ms Framework for Age-Friendly Healthy Systems (what matters,
medications, mentation, and mobility) refers to understanding the values of older adults and …

Objectives In April 2012, the Japanese government launched a new nursing service called
the nursing small-scale multifunctional home care (NSMHC) to meet the nursing care …

Objectives To assess adherence to personal protective equipment (PPE) use among home
care workers during usual care at the agency level during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan …

Abstract Introduction: The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) ensures that
individuals with irreversible cessation of circulatory, respiratory, or brain functions receive …

Context Investigators in palliative care rely heavily on routinely collected data, which carry
risk of unobserved confounding and selection bias.'Natural experiments' offer opportunities …

More than 80% of Americans would prefer to die at home, but only 20% do. Paramedics
have a role in caring for terminally ill patients, especially when involved in a community …

We spend a large proportion of our lives in our home environment, so on face value it is a
natural assumption to consider dying at home an important goal for quality end-of-life care. 1 …

How can we improve in-home care for the elderly with medical treatment needs? The
purpose of this study is to investigate medical treatment and examine the use of home care …