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Scaling Deep with Local Community Champions in Living Labs

  • Oliver Weberg,
  • Vaike Fors and
  • Jesper Lund

26 June 2025

Living Labs are collaborative, real-world environments for co-creating sustainable innovations that rely on trust-based engagement with local communities. However, while many studies emphasise scaling up or out of such innovations, the potential for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,193 Views
16 Pages

This study explored the impacts of five types of community support services (i.e., center-based care, home-based care, respite care, caregiver assistance, and financial subsidies) on self-efficacy for continuous community living among individuals wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,885 Views
26 Pages

With the development of urban population aging in China, enhancing the quality of community living environments for the elderly has become crucial. Traditional residential planning focused on functionality, neglecting the elderly’s active parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,076 Views
12 Pages

Deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care has been associated with increased homelessness, crime, and suicide, partly owing to insufficient, adequate, and accessible community resources. Therefore, appropriate resource placement is a key deinstituti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
148 Views
43 Pages

14 January 2026

Spontaneous living spaces are public activity venues within cities that emerge through residents’ autonomous creation and informal planning. Although these spaces may appear disorganized, they serve vital functions: fostering social interaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,560 Views
18 Pages

27 December 2022

Public health problems, such as the spread of COVID-19 and chronic diseases, are mainly caused by the daily life activities of community residents. Therefore, there is a need to build a healthy and safe community living circle through the evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,552 Views
19 Pages

People with intellectual disability (ID) and extensive support needs experience poorer quality of life than their peers whose disability is not as severe. Many of them live in residential settings that limit community participation and prevent them f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
9,905 Views
18 Pages

There is increasing interest in integrated and coordinated programs that intervene in multiple community settings/institutions at the same time and involve policy and system changes. The purpose of the paper is to analyse three comparable cases of Mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,593 Views
9 Pages

2 April 2024

It is recommended that health promotion activities in the community focus on residents’ strengths. Hence, this study explored the community strengths perceived by older adults living alone in a semi-mountainous rural region of Japan. A qualitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,319 Views
13 Pages

10 July 2020

Recent advance of biotechnology enabled development of various living modified microorganisms (LMMs) uses in the field of environmental remediation, food industry, biopesticide, and so on. Consequently, such LMMs have the potential to be released int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,076 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2023

The senior life circle is the basic unit space for building a high quality of senior living in the city, and the service level of the community senior facilities within it is directly related to the daily quality of life of the elderly residents. Fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
469 Views
29 Pages

12 December 2025

Living Labs (LLs) are key for collaborative and value-based innovation, though their relational and governance mechanisms are still being explored. This study focuses on examining how relational dynamics and community leadership influence the design,...

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  • Open Access
1,144 Views
10 Pages

Effect of a Living–Learning Community on Nursing Student Outcomes—A Prospective Cohort Study

  • Mary Bennett,
  • Melissa Travelsted,
  • Vickie Shoumake and
  • Matthew Atkinson

28 April 2025

Background/Objectives: Prior studies have shown that most students seeking entry into a nursing program (also known as pre-nursing students) do not make it into the nursing profession, mostly due to failing one or more science courses in their first...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,804 Views
22 Pages

17 December 2021

Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of Pakistan’s essential staple food crops. Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are a significant restraint in maize production. However, free-living nematodes (FLNs) provide crucial ecological functions such as suppressi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,666 Views
12 Pages

The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of social health and its association with resilience among older adults living alone excluded from the public care service due to their relatively good health. For this cross-sectional stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,993 Views
13 Pages

Severity of Dementia Is Associated with Increased Periodontal Inflamed Surface Area: Home Visit Survey of People with Cognitive Decline Living in the Community

  • Ayako Edahiro,
  • Tsuyoshi Okamura,
  • Yoshiko Motohashi,
  • Chika Takahashi,
  • Ayami Meguro,
  • Mika Sugiyama,
  • Fumiko Miyamae,
  • Tsutomu Taga,
  • Chiaki Ura and
  • Shuichi Awata
  • + 2 authors

No studies have measured the periodontal inflamed surface area in people with dementia, although periodontal disease is a major health issue in this group. This study aimed to determine the relationship between dementia severity and periodontal infla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,184 Views
9 Pages

We examined the predictive validity of a newly developed scale—the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology Activities of Daily Living (NCGG-ADL)—to measure instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) ability. We tested the scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,313 Views
30 Pages

31 October 2019

The Hua-Zhai Ancient Settlement is located in Wang-An Township, Peng-Hu County, Taiwan. The Ministry of Culture of the Taiwanese government announced that the Wang-An Hua-Zhai Ancient Settlement had been registered as an essential settlement construc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,846 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2019

High-molecular-weight (HMW) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminate a wide range of ecosystems, including soils, groundwater, rivers and harbor sediments. The effective removal of HMW PAHs is a difficult challenge if a rapid remediation t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
883 Views
15 Pages

There is abundant evidence that, following community transition or deinstitutionalization, persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities experience improvements in quality of life and well-being. However, very little research in this area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,295 Views
13 Pages

Changes in the Pneumococcal Vaccination Uptake and Its Determinants before, during, and after the COVID-19 Pandemic among Community-Living Older Adults in Hong Kong, China: Repeated Random Telephone Surveys

  • Paul Shing-fong Chan,
  • Josiah Poon,
  • Soyeon Caren Han,
  • Danhua Ye,
  • Fuk-yuen Yu,
  • Yuan Fang,
  • Martin C. S. Wong,
  • Phoenix K. H. Mo and
  • Zixin Wang

7 August 2024

Pneumococcal vaccination (PV) is effective in preventing vaccine-type pneumococcal diseases. This study investigated the changes in PV uptake and its determinants before, during, and after the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic among commun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,664 Views
14 Pages

2 August 2023

This study investigates the association between sustainable living knowledge and the intention to live sustainably among university students in the UAE. Using a survey method, the research examines students’ perceptions, attitudes, and intentio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,851 Views
17 Pages

Characterizing Free-Living and Particle-Attached Bacterial Communities of a Shallow Lake on the Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Plateau, China

  • Yanjun Wang,
  • Xiaohong Shi,
  • Shengnan Zhao,
  • Biao Sun,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Wenbao Li,
  • Haifeng Yu,
  • Zhiqiang Tian,
  • Xin Guo and
  • Hao Zhang
  • + 2 authors

21 February 2023

Bacteria play a critical role in the material and energy-cycling processes of lake ecosystems. To understand the characteristics of the bacterial community in Wuliangsuhai Lake in spring, we explored the influence of environmental factors on the comm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,630 Views
12 Pages

15 February 2023

The geography, histories, and ethnic composition of the Latin American continent pose a great challenge when attempting to identify and describe the region’s constitutive religious traditions and experiences. This task is further complexified b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,167 Views
9 Pages

Background and Objectives: This study developed a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm-based prediction model with considering influence factors associated with the swallowing quality-of-life as the predictor variables and provided baseline informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,094 Views
20 Pages

21 July 2025

The aging of China’s population has created significant challenges for the mental health of older adults. However, limited research has examined how public sports facility availability in living communities supports older adults’ mental h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,834 Views
20 Pages

29 February 2024

Visual impairment (V.I.) has been associated with a negative impact on activities of daily living (ADL) and navigation outside the home. Adults from minority ethnic communities are projected to make up an increasing proportion of the V.I. population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,661 Views
17 Pages

24 November 2019

The population is getting older in Mainland China, which presents a huge challenge of how to support these increasing elders to enjoy a high quality of life (QoL). Due to the limited nursing institutions and Chinese traditional culture, aging in plac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,904 Views
27 Pages

11 August 2024

E-commerce live streaming has become a lucrative global industry. As the main carrier to convey information in live broadcasting, user-generated content (UGC)—and especially bullet screens—are crucial in influencing users’ purchase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,915 Views
10 Pages

Functional Differences Found in the Elderly Living in the Community

  • Estela Calatayud,
  • Beatriz Rodríguez-Roca,
  • Javier Aresté,
  • Yolanda Marcén-Román,
  • Carlos Salavera and
  • Isabel Gómez-Soria

25 May 2021

Introduction: Successful aging lies in cognitive and functional maintenance, and in the optimal performance of daily tasks that keep the elderly free of disability and dependence. However, there is little evidence for functional differences for gende...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,559 Views
13 Pages

The New Zealand Ministry of Health reported that respiratory disease affects 700,000 people, annually costs New Zealand NZ$7.05 billion, and is the third-highest cause of death. The hospitalisation rate for asthma of Māori communities is 2.0 higher t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,057 Views
22 Pages

24 June 2025

Rapid digital transformation demands educational approaches that effectively equip students with competencies crucial for addressing real-world sustainability challenges. This study introduces and evaluates a Living Lab-based collaborative problem-so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,195 Views
27 Pages

26 January 2024

In contemporary society, a notable trend of diminishing family sizes has led to an increasing number of elderly individuals living in solitude, often facing the end of life alone. This phenomenon underscores a critical challenge: addressing the perva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,556 Views
11 Pages

Aims: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the perceived coercion of people with mental illness living in a community on their therapeutic satisfaction and life satisfaction, mediated by therapeutic relationships. Methods: We evaluat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,311 Views
12 Pages

Community-based day care centres play an important role in service delivery for Chinese seniors. Little research has examined how community living infrastructure has influenced the establishment of these day care centres in rural communities. The pur...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,748 Views
10 Pages

Bacteria are remarkably associated with the growth of green algae Tetraselmis which are used as a feed source in aquaculture, but Tetraselmis-associated bacterial community is characterized insufficiently. Here, as a first step towards characterizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,295 Views
16 Pages

2 March 2023

Patients discharged from hospitals after an inpatient course of medical treatment for any ailment or traumatic injury that results in disabling conditions and are rendered mobility impaired require ongoing systematic sports and exercise programs to m...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,526 Views
23 Pages

This study aimed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the decision-making process among older adults regarding leaving their homes and relocating to senior living communities (SLCs) in the United States. Specifically, it explored various aspec...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
22,097 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2023

Living heritage runs the risk of being lost forever, or frozen as a practice of the past, if not promoted in the community. The preservation of this history, its transmission to following generations, and its ability to transform and adapt to any cir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,898 Views
14 Pages

Contribution of Live Video to Physicians’ Remote Assessment of Suspected COVID-19 Patients in an Emergency Medical Communication Centre: A Retrospective Study and Web-Based Survey

  • Robert Larribau,
  • Beth Healey,
  • Victor Nathan Chappuis,
  • Dominique Boussard,
  • Florent Guiche,
  • Tara Herren,
  • Birgit Andrea Gartner and
  • Laurent Suppan

The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on emergency medical communication centres (EMCC). A live video facility was made available to second-line physicians in an EMCC with a first-line paramedic to receive emergency calls. The objective of this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
618 Views
33 Pages

24 September 2025

Open-plan offices have established themselves as economically efficient working environments and promote communication. Zoned lighting concepts have proven to be particularly energy-efficient and are determined by the respective occupancy profile. Du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,006 Views
18 Pages

(1) Background: People living with spinal cord injury (SCI) face numerous challenges in their lives in terms of health conditions, everyday activity, and participation in society, which are not fully recognized. To address such issues, a community su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
455 Views
19 Pages

Biodiversity Performance of Living Wall Systems in Urban Environments: A UK Case Study of Plant Selection and Substrate Effects on Multi-Taxa Communities

  • Paul Henry Lunt,
  • James Buckley,
  • Suzanne Mitchell,
  • Gabriel Thomas,
  • Elek Churella and
  • Thomas Richard Murphy

6 December 2025

Urban densification threatens biodiversity, yet conventional greenspace expansion is constrained by limited land availability. Living wall systems (LWS) offer potential biodiversity enhancement through vertical green infrastructure, though their ecol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,136 Views
14 Pages

7 September 2021

Human–animal interactions may positively impact the health and well-being of older adults. Considering about one third of community-dwelling older adults report owning a pet, better understanding the benefits, challenges, and the role of pet ownershi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,780 Views
9 Pages

Background: Recently, the community rehabilitation model for schizophrenia patients has become increasingly popular, and the Shanghai Pudong New Area has developed a relatively complete community rehabilitation model. This study analyzed the correlat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,455 Views
10 Pages

Heavy Metals in California Women Living in a Gold Mining-Impacted Community

  • Julie Von Behren,
  • Ruiling Liu,
  • Jane Sellen,
  • Christine N. Duffy,
  • Ryszard Gajek,
  • Key-Young Choe,
  • Josephine DeGuzman,
  • M. Katy Janes,
  • Joanne Hild and
  • Peggy Reynolds

Gold mining activities occurred throughout the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, leaving behind persistent toxic contaminants in the soil, dust, and water that include arsenic and cadmium. Despite a high level of concern among l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,405 Views
20 Pages

An increase in population along the Indian River Lagoon has led to eutrophication, a decline in water quality, and overall degradation. The Living Docks program is a citizen–science initiative started at the Florida Institute of Technology for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,776 Views
15 Pages

Living Conditions and the Incidence and Risk of Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Multifactorial Study

  • Irene Escosura Alegre,
  • Eduardo José Fernández Rodríguez,
  • Celia Sánchez Gómez,
  • Alberto García Martín and
  • María Isabel Rihuete Galve

Old age represents a social group that is undergoing continuous expansion. The aging population will be prone to chronic diseases and falls, which is a marker of frailty and a public health problem. This study aims to examine the relationship between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,714 Views
24 Pages

Trace Mineral Intake and Deficiencies in Older Adults Living in the Community and Institutions: A Systematic Review

  • Zeynep Vural,
  • Amanda Avery,
  • Dimitris I. Kalogiros,
  • Lisa J. Coneyworth and
  • Simon J. M. Welham

13 April 2020

The global population is ageing with many older adults suffering from age-related malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies. Adequate nutrient intake is vital to enable older adults to continue living independently and delay their institutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,668 Views
20 Pages

Physical, Psychiatric, and Social Comorbidities of Individuals with Schizophrenia Living in the Community in Japan

  • Masaaki Matsunaga,
  • Yuanying Li,
  • Yupeng He,
  • Taro Kishi,
  • Shinichi Tanihara,
  • Nakao Iwata,
  • Takahiro Tabuchi and
  • Atsuhiko Ota

The physical, psychiatric, and social comorbidities interfere with the everyday activities of community-dwelling individuals with schizophrenia and increase the risk of their readmission. However, these comorbidities have not been investigated compre...

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