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Endocrine System
Community
The endocrine system refers to the collection of glands of an organism that secrete hormones directly into the circulatory system to be carried towards distant target organs.
Prostate
A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values. Although embodied or face-to-face communities are usually small, larger or more extended communities such as a national community, international community and virtual community are also studied.
Prostat, a gland surrounding the neck of the bladder in male mammals and releasing prostatic fluid.
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REM Sleep REM sleep, Rapid eye movement sleep, or REM, is one of the five stages of sleep that most people experience nightly. It is characterized by quick, random movements of the eyes and paralysis of the muscles.
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LTC LTC (Long-term care) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and nonmedical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods of time.
ISTAT The Italian National Institute of Statistics is a public research organisation. It has been present in Italy since 1926, and is the main producer of official statistics in the service of citizens and policy-makers. It operates in complete independence and continuous interaction with the academic and scientific communities.
Boomerang Generation Boomerang generation is a term applied to the current generation of young adults in Western culture. They are so named for the frequency with which they choose to cohabitate with their parents after a brief period of living on their own – thus boomeranging back to their place of origin.
Social Family Social Family: Living with not relative people in the same apartment. Forming a family-like relationship in the living space. Each of members offers the positive ability or facility they have and get what they need from others.
Badanti "Badanti" are immigration from other countries to Italy, who are doing the job of caring for elderly people.
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MeglioMilano is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in 1987 by the Camera di Commercio of Milan, the Confcommercio of Milan and the Automobile Club of Milan, and by all the Universities of the city of Milan.
"Hosting a Student Project" Prevent loneliness in the elderly people.Offer them a small income.Increase their feeling of safety, enabling them to remain independent and at home as long as possible. Facilitate the finding of accommodation at favourable financial conditions for students, offering them a new alternative to the lack of student housing. The organisation therefore offers to the young people their own room in the home of an elderly person, in exchange for company and a small fee.
Fondazione Housing Sociale Fondazione Housing Sociale was created in 2004 to develop the Social Housing Programme, conceived by Fondazione Cariplo to carry out real estate projects of a social nature.
Fondazione Cariplois Fondazione Cariplois a philanthropic entity that gives grants to third sector organizations for the realization of social projects.
Riken Yamamoto & Fieldshop Riken Yamamoto has already published several articles and ideas about collective living and the housing community, and has been working on this subject steadily from an early moment in his career onward. For example the designs for the Hotakubo Housing and the Inter-Junction City already show many of the ideas in the Community Area Model already. Also the Shinonome Canal Court housing projects try to deal with functional flexibility and communal spaces between private homes.
‘One House = One Family’ System The ‘One House = One Family’ system, or ideology, was first established in Europe in the 1920’s. This system assumes a single family unit to inhabit a single residential unit. In the 1920’s the aftermath of the First World War and the large number of working class labourers gravitating toward cities created a huge demand for inexpensive mass housing. 322