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J Bösch

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PubMed1990

[Social background and the importance of organized, voluntary neighborhood support].

For some years we have been trying to promote projects providing for social support and a social network to improve the health and the social situation of persons who lack a supporting network of their own. The following article explains the social background and the social importance of the work done by an office for mediating voluntary neighbourhood support in a city district. The voluntary helpers and the persons who come for aid are compared with matched, representative random samples taken from the same district. The empirical study shows that persons seeking aid are socially underprivileged since they have only few resources, a low income, a social network that fails to support them, and a low sense of self-esteem. The mediating office for neighbourhood help has been successful in so far as its target group of persons in need of aid was actually reached. Neighbourhood help exercises a preventive action by the possible avoidance or alleviation of stress-conditioned diseases.

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PubMed1990

[Possibilities and limitations of public relations activities in the development of organized neighborhood assistance].

The article deals with the question how well known a new social service becomes which is completely based on voluntary and honorary work. The new service, organized neighbourhood help in Zürich-Altstetten, has been in existence since three years. To find out to what degree this new social service was known, a representative survey was carried out by telephone in which 208 persons living in the district referred to were interviewed one and a half years after the organized neighbourhood help had started working. --50% of the people living in the district Zürich-Altstetten were aware of the organized neighbourhood help, twice as many women than men knowing about it. The same relationship was observed between people who were fully occupied and people occupied in part-time jobs or not working: twice as many people of the latter group knew about this new social service. --About half of the people interviewed were interested in receiving more information about the service and 36% could even imagine participating in it. Although more information about the neighbourhood help was sent to these people, one year later still no one had applied. --The findings hint at a division of labour between the different channels of information: newspapers provide general information whereas pamphlets and recommendations from other social services are more likely to lead to registration.

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PubMed1988

[Burden and possibility of respite for family caregivers].

70 family caregivers and non related supporters at home of impaired elderly in urban conditions were interviewed regarding the burdens imposed on them and the kind of relief that would help them. Strain connected with the physical and mental deterioration of the supported and with their insecure future is more often mentioned than physical or financial burdens. The wishes most frequently expressed concern more and better available information, personal counseling, and more substitution in the evenings, night and weekends.

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PubMed1987

[Can layman volunteers for the elderly be mobilized?].

In order to improve the informal support system to the aged population it is necessary to improve the knowledge of the disabilities that burden everyday life and to gather information on specific needs. A pilot study in an urban area hints at the need for voluntary support by one third of the aged population. 88% declare their willingness to give voluntary support to others. The process of actual mobilization is then described.

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PubMed1984

[Family medicine].

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PubMed1978

[Principles of growth in the acetabulum. Consequences for the shelf operations (author's transl)].

Not unlike a Mercedesstar the arms of the Y-growthzone divide the cup of the acetabulum into three equal segments. The three branches of the Y-zone are spheroid. So the socket can expand evenly and conform to the head by feed back. Otherwise the socket would fill up. For the cartilage of the concave acetabulum proliferates by apposition to its uppermost layers, exactly as the hyaline cartilage does in the convex condyles. The trend of the socket during growth goes outwards, forwards and downwards. It moves away from a metal mark, set into the ileum flush with the shelf. It is precisely this increasing distance, that happens to a surgical shelf in a child. Failure will be inevitable. 614 shelf operations checked.

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PubMed1977

[Can bone growth be stimulated (author's transl)].

UNLABELLED: Stimulation of bone growth by heterologous (bovine) bone grafts may help in leg length discrepancies. Arrest of epiphyseal growth plates or leg lengthenning by osteotomy may be necessary to a lesser extent or be entirely unnecessory. MATERIAL: 72 cases, 88 stimulations in 16 years.

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