Browse
Recent Submissions
Item Open Access Talking to people with dementia: a guide for caregivers(2023) Davis, Boyd; Maclagan, Margaret; Troutman-Jordan, MeredithWelcome to the Graphic Caregiver Guides. The number of people with memory loss or dementia increases as the global population ages. By 2050, the United Nations (www.un.org) projects that one out of every six persons will be 65 or older and the World Health Organization (www.who.int) suggests that, by that time, the number of people with dementia will have tripled. Initially people with memory loss or those living with dementia are usually cared for by members of their families. As the memory loss increases, the burden on the carers increases, whether these carers are family or paid caregivers. In addition, there is very little training available for the carers, and what training there is focuses on practical skills such as bathing or lifting the person. There is very little information that focuses on the needs of carers themselves or on ways to communicate with those they care for. These guides are designed to provide simple and useful information both to help carers look after themselves and to help them interact more fruitfully with the people for whom they are caring. They focus on compassionate care – both for the carer and for those cared for and it is suggested that they may help to lessen elder abuse. Please note there are guides in many languages - select "Show More" on the left to see them allItem Open Access Speech, Noise, and the Matrix: Tests of Hearing and Auditory Processing at UC.(2020) O'Beirne, GregItem Open Access Item Open Access Gating mechanism in tinnitus : explored in surgery-induced unilateral deafness in adult humans.(2022) Park, MinChul; O'Beirne, Greg; Maslin, Michael; Bird, PhilipItem Open Access The Getting Around Survey 2021: OCHT Brougham St.(2022) Fitt H; Curl A; el Orfi Y; Dares C; Russel E; Kingham, SimonTransport and housing are very closely linked. Where you live influences the things you can do and where you can go. This can affect your health and wellbeing. Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust has put shared cars and e-bikes in your community. We’ll repeat our survey next year to see whether using the cars and bikes has led to any changes in your life. This year’s results are about how things were before most people had used the shared cars and bikes.Item Open Access What is dark matter?(Otago Daily Times, 2020) Gordon, ChrisItem Open Access “Rapid, accessible, and equitable”: Trends in speech perception testing(2021) O'Beirne, GregItem Open Access How might future transport technologies impact urban planning in New Zealand(2020) Kingham, SimonItem Open Access The (possible) impacts of future transport technologies on planning in Christchurch(2020) Kingham S; Kingham, SimonItem Open Access Future transport in Christchurch(2019) Kingham, SimonItem Open Access Transport, wellbeing and community: learning from recovering Christchurch(2018) Kingham, SimonItem Open Access What role does transport have in achieving Sn5 of the RMA(2019) Kingham, SimonItem Open Access Do more motorways reduce congestion and emissions?(2021) Kingham, SimonItem Open Access Item Open Access The importance of transport: more than moving people and things(2021) Kingham, SimonItem Open Access Item Open Access What are resilient communities?(2021) Kingham, SimonWhat did we learn from post-EQ Christchurch in terms of: - Building more resilient, healthy and sustainable urban communities? - Role of built and social environment? - Community development?Item Open Access Item Open Access Can we create sustainable, resilient and healthy communities, or do they just happen?(2020) Kingham, SimonStructure • What is a Sustainable, Resilient, Healthy Community? • How we do get there? Do they just happen? • Outcomes of Sustainable, Resilient, Healthy Communities • The futureItem Open Access Beachgoers’ ability to identify rip currents at a beach in situ(2020) Pitman S; Thompson K; Hart D; Moran K; Gallop S; Brander R; Wooler ARip currents (“rips”) are the leading cause of drowning on surf beaches worldwide. A major contributing factor is that many beachgoers are unable to identify rip currents. Previous research has attempted to quantify beachgoers’ rip spotting ability using photographs of rip currents, without identifying whether this usefully translates into an ability to spot a rip current in situ at the beach. This study is the first to compare beachgoers ability to spot rip currents in photographs and in situ at a beach 5 in New Zealand (Muriwai Beach) where a channel rip current was present. Only 22% of respondents were able to identify the in situ rip current. The highest rates of success were for males (33%), New Zealand residents (25%), and local beach users (29%). Of all respondents who were successful at identifying the rip current in situ, 62% were active surfers/bodyboarders and 28% were active beach swimmers. Of the respondents who were able to identify a rip current in two photographs, only 34% were unable to translate this into a successful in situ rip identification, which suggests that the ability to identify rip currents by 10 beachgoers is worse than reported by previous studies involving photographs. This study highlights the difficulty of successfully identifying a rip current in reality and that photographs are not necessarily a useful means of teaching individuals to spot rip currents. It advocates for the use of more immersive and realistic education strategies, such as the use of virtual reality headsets showing moving imagery (videos) of rip currents in order to improve rip spotting ability.