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    Creative Management Thinking Final Assignment Women in leadership positions - How German companies can overcome the double burden IMBA 2013 Section A1 Group F Ievgen Forostovets Sushant Kumar Jon-Dagan Mallace Denny Morawiak Andrea Salati Antonella Squadrito All members of our group contributed equally to this report. September 15th 2012 This paper seeks to suggest strategies that companies should adopt to retain female talent‚ especially for top management positions. Our

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    espouse the imperial ideology and he came to be recognized as a "prophet of the British imperialism"(Orwell 116). And this is well manifested in his poem "The White Man’s Burden" published in 1899. It ideologically justifies the process of colonization and empire naming it a "burden". It urges the colonial power to take up the burden of colonialism representing the West as the superior whose responsibility is to civilize the backward colonized nations. Thus‚ in analyzing the issue of representation

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    Outline Mary Ainsworth’s ‘strange situation’ study and discuss how this has influenced our understanding of the importance of a child’s attachment to the primary caregiver. In 1970 Mary Ainsworth expanded greatly upon Bowblys original work and devised an experiment called the Strange situation. The study focused on the behaviour ‚in relation to attachment‚ of infants who were 12-18 months of age when their mother left the purpose built lab play room. The infants were watched through video cameras

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    everyone involved? This article explores exactly these questions. Caregiver burden refers to the effects of fatigue‚stress and other distressing psychological symptoms that parents‚ siblings‚other family members‚or even friends of an individual in need of care face as non-professional caregivers. The burden experienced is subjective in nature and can often signal negative outcomes in a caregiving situation‚ for both the caregiver and the person being cared for.

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    Exploring the impact of caring for a spouse with dementia on the older adult Caring for a spouse with dementia poses significant challenges and many studies report considerable impacts on both the physical and mental health of caregivers. DSM-IV criteria for dementia: “Memory deficit that can be demonstrated objectively on cognitive testing. At least one other cognitive deficit such as aphasia (abnormal speech)‚ executive function impairment (difficulty with planning‚ judgment‚ mental flexibility

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    by using problem solving and planning. Examples of task-focused coping include coming up with a plan to get rid of the problem and thinking of a plan of action (Carver‚ Scheier‚ & Weintraub‚ 1989). Task-focused coping can be effective in reducing burden‚ and is negatively correlated

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    Abstract—Individuals with cognitive impairment have difficulty successfully performing activities of daily living‚ which can lead to decreased independence. In order to help these individuals age in place and decrease caregiver burden‚ technologies for assistive living have gained popularity over the last decade. In this work‚ a context-aware prompting system is implemented‚ augmented by a smart phone to determine prompt situations in a smart home environment. While context-aware systems use temporal

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    people don’t want to be a burden to their family. In-home care helps the elderly resume responsibility and be independent with their daily lives. This gives the elderly a good sense of self-worth and wellbeing. They can become more dependent on themselves then others. It also helps them by being included in the process of in-home care. Keeping the elderly active with the caregiver doing daily routines‚ boosts morale. It also creates a common bond between patients and caregivers. Due to physical or mental

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    WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN ADULTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND HOW SHOULD MEDICINES BE USED TO REDUCE THAT ECONOMIC IMPACT? Dementia is a progressive disease that associates with memory impairment and cognitive deficit. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. In AD‚ brain is damaged by the presence of beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. There are an approximately 820‚000 people (1.3% of population) with dementia in UK. Among them‚ population

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    Dementia is a progressive disorder that is characterised by the deterioration of memory and one of the other cognitive abilities such as language or skilled movements[1]. Lewy body dementia is a type of dementia that has many similar features to other forms of dementia. However it is characterised by a distinct set of clinical symptoms such as visual hallucinations‚neuroleptic sensitivity‚ sleep disorders and parkinsonism. Lewy body dementia is a common form of dementia that come only second to

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