Langley Environmental Partners Society

Dementia is a cognitive disease affecting how a person acts and thinks, with symptoms affecting their memory and other behavioural aspects. Eventually, someone with dementia becomes dependent on others to perform routine daily tasks. Families typically act as primary caregivers, but ultimately, they may realize that the required level of care exceeds what they can provide. Design work in dementia care frequently focuses on the design specific to institutional healthcare for people with dementia without considering their quality of life in terms of sociability. This thesis explores an innovative project for dementia care, hybridizing cohousing living conditions and dementia villages in Brampton, Ontario, to include families in care housing and offer people support while allowing them to be a part of a broader community that shares their values and interests. The project aims to alleviate family guilt while meeting residents’ needs for a high quality of life.

The value-based healthcare (VBH) concept is designed to improve individual healthcare outcomes without increasing expenditure and is increasingly being used to determine resourcing of and reimbursement for medical services. Radiology is a major contributor to patient and societal healthcare at many levels. Despite this, some VBH models do not acknowledge radiology's central role; this may have future negative consequences for resource allocation. This multi-society paper, representing the views of Radiology Societies in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, describes the place of radiology in VBH models and the healthcare value contributions of radiology. Potential steps to objectify and quantify the value contributed by radiology to healthcare are outlined.

Introduction: The articular eminence and condyle-fossa relationship reflects a secondary growth site and the morphology appears to be influenced by determinants of occlusal morphology which are subject to genetic variation of dentoalveolar bone metabolism. The Hypothesis: the articular eminence of the TMJ inclination is a function of sagittal, vertical and transverse determinants of occlusal morphology and therefore it may be possible to influence modeling of the articular eminence with orthodontic treatment at least in a transient way. Evaluation of the Hypothesis: The morphology of the articular eminence, dentoalveolar bone remodeling rates associated with IL-Beta and determinants of occlusal morphology are considered with respect to the etiology of articular disc displacement and internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint.