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...social care A nurse had been working with a patient who had a chronic venous leg ulcer for several years. All options of treatment that the medical staff were aware of had been tried and the ulcer was not improving. They discussed this with the patient and explained that there might be other dressings or treatments available, suggesting that a photograph be taken and...

...social, the psychological and the structural environments. It is a concept that is more complex and says something about personal meaning and identity, about family and friends, our life history. It varies depending on our age, gender, culture and generation. Given this complexity there is a vast multi-disciplinary literature on the concept of home from many disciplines....

...social origin arose from the work of the 19th Century sociologist Emile Durkheim (1971). He found that the risk of suicide was much greater in certain types of society than others, and that events such as economic crises would lead to an increase in the suicide rate. Similarly, recent studies e.g. (McManus et al., 2009) have shown that the rate of psychotic disorders can...