Examples of assistance

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Understanding why women have to apply for social assistance at the different life stages requires knowledge about their support situation during their entire life course.
All respondents had to be able to answer the complicated questionnaires without assistance and were interviewed in their homes.
The predicted corresponding rates of receiving neither formal nor informal assistance were 51.5, 44.3 and 37.1 per cent in the three municipal categories.
A dependency measure has been included as a way of indicating how much objectively-rated need for assistance there was.
Where problems were anticipated, the implementation of existing or potential coping skills was discussed, and assistance was given to participants in rehearsing and implementing these.
Convention ; nor are military aid and security assistance included.
There are no documented instances where inflows of foreign aid or humanitarian assistance were affected by a host state's policies towards refugees on its territory.
They focus for instance on training in conflict handling, the support of peace conferences, or the assistance of local women groups.
The national government offered no assistance on the matter.
All the participants used community-based health and social-care services and all needed assistance to attend meetings because they were unable to travel unaided.
Thus, there are several options for the receipt of publiclyfinanced home-care assistance.
Support from the public sector, particularly in terms of medical care and financial assistance, is needed so that people can age well.
They have the authority to decide who gets assistance, what kind and how much, and how the services and care are purchased.
We thus compared respondents who had filled out the questionnaire independently with those who received assistance.
Ombudsmen deal with consumer complaints, sometimes provide technical assistance to facilities, and report observed problems to the appropriate state agency.
Others may apply for a discretionary public assistance benefit (currently 15 per cent of the minimum wage).
As these middle-aged women frequently had to depend on social assistance for protracted periods, they experienced their situation as shameful and became very depressed.
Neither public nor private health insurance covers assistance provided by aged care services.
Respondents were interviewed in their homes and personal computer assistance was used in the data collection.
Subjects undergo the same procedure just described, but are asked to decide to which of the two faces they would more likely offer assistance.
Their suppor t and assistance in the conduct of this work is greatly appreciated.
To have the free assistance of an interpreter if he cannot understand or speak the language used in court.
Less than 1 per cent of those surveyed cited such assistance.
The criteria for assistance were in the first instance governed by political rather than humanitarian considerations.
Patients (or their surrogates) have a right to medical information about themselves, and assistance in understanding that information.
He receives no assistance for his care, but is intimidated by the family.
We may suppose that such assistance occurred both inside the same household and between separate households.
Help given between spouses is more similar to self-support than to family assistance.
The amount of the assistance to the poor household could be as much as half of the monthly income of the poor.
A widow's last recourse was to appeal to the tiaxcas for assistance.
If there was danger of contagion, these officials could ask for police assistance in having the cure completed.
Even if we could eradicate discrimination, we may not have ideal levels of assistance for those with impairments.
If justified, however, it would mean that eliminating discrimination does not necessarily entail the provision of optimal levels of assistance.
Species that provide each other mutual assistance have a survival advantage.
The second form of collective support is mutual assistance within the family.
Instrumental support refers to assistance with material tasks or meeting physical needs.
The higher levels of household assistance reported by married women compared with non-married women may reflect their younger average age.
The child emits signals to the caretaker that assistance is needed, and when the response is sensitive and reliable, the child's emotions are regulated.
The programme also provided technical assistance to the program beneficiaries.
The issue of financial assistance needs to be addressed independently of the flexibility mechanisms.
The local farmer identified each of the lots, and provided assistance to participants that could not recall the harvest of subsistence crops.
There has in addition been considerable assistance to coal producers that is not price related.
On one hand, social support surrounds individuals with emotional and instrumental assistance that promotes well-being.
A history of receipt of public assistance was characteristic of both groups: 95.0% of maltreating and 90.8% of nonmaltreating families.
The paper presents the research activities designed to address the two approaches and meet the original request for assistance.
The boy was treated for his physical injuries, but at the hospital he received no psychological assistance to help him deal with the trauma.
We will try to show that an account of market relationships as mutual assistance can still be coherent and credible.
Assistance is intentionally directed towards helping another person in her needs, towards being useful to others.
When the new practices to be adopted are complex, access to technical assistance may be an issue.
I will focus on the most relevant setting for the discussion of redistribution through devices such as taxes and benefits, social insurance, and public assistance.
I am grateful to the referee for all the assistance he gave in correcting this paper.
Consequently, many of these individuals may not seek assistance despite being in considerable distress.
They are ' ' caring communities ' ' that can offer spiritual comfort and some forms of assistance.
Military assistance was an essential part of this plan.
The right to assistance, in turn, conjured up images of impersonal bureaucracy.
We are not demanding mandatory assistance - merely the freedom [to set up systems of] optional assistance.
In approaching these questions, indirect assistance may be afforded by consideration of other forms of personal behaviour with a moral component.
From the interviews, a picture is obtained of the way the medical and social assistance functions as experienced by the consumer.
The motivation of the parents to look for other assistance was based on two factors.
With the unmarried, help also included assistance in establishing the responsibility of the father (13-6%).
The children were given no further prompting or assistance in the production of their narratives.
Machine-generated programs are particularly hard to penetrate without computer assistance.
The numerical computation was undertaken with the assistance of a computer programme which tallied each instance of every category.
We thank the staff members of both treatment centres for their assistance and support for this project.
As their names implied, mutual benefit societies preached self-help and mutual assistance.
Thus, in this map, a global optimal solution can be achieved with the assistance of a cost function.
Offering similar incentives for workmen's compensation programs was far less feasible because the program operated on social insurance rather than public assistance principles.
Second they influenced members' perceptions of mutual assistance through the nature of brotherhood that was constr ucted.
The first point has to do with the very limited responsibility assigned to and assumed by the political authority in the realm of social assistance.
Weaning countries abruptly from external financing and technical assistance might well have the opposite effect.
As part of refugee assistance packages, aid organisations also help the state cope with security problems.
They were in desperate need of assistance and thus amenable to the overtures of central government.
Providing assistance to the regrouped population may be regarded as a sign of support or endorsement of the regroupment policy.
Caregivers can provide assistance to patients using a variety of behavioural approaches.
Osteomyelitis is often difficult to distinguish from a simple ulcer, and radiology is rarely of additional assistance.
There are many ways in which people can reject or refuse assistance.
Options for responding to changes include acquiring new skills, using new equipment, using assistance services from other people, altering priorities or changing attitudes.
The first two, attempts at word retrieval and appeals for assistance, were used by some learners for a few words.
Thanks to this signi®cant ®nancial assistance, the garden was already considered a major success by 1940.
Their incorporation both expanded federal assistance to the poor and helped solidify the workfare paradigm.
A small but important element was economic and technical assistance.
We would like to acknowledge the following individuals whose advice and assistance throughout this project have been invaluable.
In fiscal year 2000, it provided health care assistance to an estimated 33 million persons, at a cost of about $118.6 billion to the federal government.
However, the expected assistance proved to be very disappointing.
Geographic isolation often makes it difficult for farmworkers to obtain legal assistance while they are employed.
Before a low-income person can receive appropriate legal assistance, that individual has to gain access to legal services system.
One is that few lawyers are experienced in poverty law and most are reluctant - without support and assistance - to handle such cases.
Vigorously promote those legal services programs that provide high-quality legal assistance holding them out as programs others should emulate.
Members received real-time assistance in response to problems.
In some instances employees were formally authorized to approve specified dollar levels of program assistance or procurements.
We have to add that although she had devoted all her own means to the enterprise, she still needs money and assistance.
Neutrality did not make a distinction between them, so it could end up further victimizing the victims by not coming to their assistance.
The second satisfied the civil authorities who saw it as the means to restrict the increase of those who might need their assistance.
Common examples of natural supports include assistance typically provided by families, friends, and coworkers.
Consequently, expert training and advice and financial assistance to maintain productivity and avoid descent into subsistence farming seem essential.
Further, on what basis can the future demand for domiciliary assistance and surveillance be known?
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