Dissatisfaction with mainstream modern medicine particularly with regards to patient-physician relationship, concerns about the side effects of chemical drugs, and personal beliefs favouring a more holistic orientation to health care are often quoted as possible explanations [ 3- 5].
Our pilot project is informing the new holistic orientation of WoLAC as it evolves into a "Healthy Homes-Healthy Communities" Collaborative.
The findings that follow must be understood against the tension OT and PT test administrators experience in the test situation [ 16] as they navigate between the standardized procedures and the holistic orientation characteristic of best practice in geriatric patient care.
Dependence may not, however, be at the root of complicated and long-standing problems, and holistic orientations more appropriate for mainstream rather than specialist services may be called for when issues such as broken relationships, employment, housing, violence, physical health complications and co-occurring mental health issues come into play.
The avoidance of natural science (such as pure biochemistry) and the orientation towards a holistic science of the living is the red line in my biography.
This group was the only one that pinpointed the need for a process orientation and a holistic approach, including the entire value system, which they denoted a lean hospital.
Thus, companies in a higher long term orientation culture will take a holistic approach to balancing their economic, environmental, and social sustainability performance.
Current image and position estimate of the robot are interrelated to landmark images and position estimates stored in the map nodes through a holistic visual homing method which provides bearing and orientation estimates.
The elaborated system of sustainability indicators provides a theoretical link between normative orientation and empirical needs and a holistic and differentiated picture of the complex German energy system and its dynamic transition.
Activists and political leaders must commit to a holistic approach to human rights that transcends race, class, nationality, sexual orientation and gender identity.
