I ate everything, including oysters, and I came home full of knowledge, like the fact that meat tastes nicer when it's bloody.
We see our children bringing home paragraphs of knowledge that have suddenly been deemed essential and then, at a later stage, not essential.
"Like a terrific school field trip where you come home so full of knowledge and adventure that you stun your friends and family into glazed silence with great bursts of enthusiasm," raved the Chicago Tribune.
The findings identified cultural impacts on oral health beliefs, behaviours and knowledge such as avoidance of tap water due to experience of unsafe drinking water in home countries, lack of knowledge of water fluoridation; and frequent consumption of high sugar, high fat foods and drinks which were considered 'luxury items' in their homeland and therefore were not a regular part of the diet.
Through analysis of interviews with adult care recipients and field observations, it examines the micro-scale processes through which the home is reconstructed as caregiving space, highlighting the negotiation of meanings of bodies and homes as fields of knowledge.
These barriers to successful performance measurement include the: complex nature of quality in nursing homes [ 2], diversity of the nursing home population [ 3], lack of knowledge about how homes, as organizations, generate quality [ 4], validity of comparisons among homes using current quality indicators [ 5].
The survey also obtained data on patient's gender, weight, height, waist circumference, educational level, marital and socio-economic status assessed by the investigator, home blood pressure monitor (possession of any validated sphygmomanometer at home) and knowledge of the patient of his target blood pressure.
Our own study, and a separate survey by Nottingham and Oxford Universities on care home staff knowledge of the needs of older LGBT people, have revealed a distinct lack of awareness of these resources.
To describe Chinese nursing home residents' knowledge of advance directive (AD) and end-of-life care preferences and to explore the predictors of their preference for AD.
Her mother calls her "the sponge" because every day she comes home with new nuggets of knowledge.
