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commitment from work actually performed." }, { "name": "Uncovered care interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Duration in minutes, hours, or days relative to an explicitly recorded care requirement", "why_it_matters": "Exposes periods when a required form of care lacks coverage." }, { "name": "Observed recipient response", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Improved, stable, worsened, mixed, or unknown relative to a named outcome and observation period", "why_it_matters": "Supports reassessment while keeping observation distinct from claims that care caused the change." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a care need while distinguishing requests, observations, and assumptions.", "Connect proposed care activities to intended recipient benefits and applicable boundaries.", "Identify gaps between required care and available caregiver capacity.", "Compare delivered care with commitments and observed recipient responses.", "Propose reassessment, adaptation, or escalation when care is insufficient, unwanted, or burdensome.", "Prepare a handover or completion review that preserves unresolved needs." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ilo-care-work-2018", "title": "Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Treats care as labour (paid and unpaid); documents the split between health, social, childcare and domestic care work and how it is counted in employment and time-use statistics." }, { "id": "uk-care-act-2014", "title": "Care Act 2014 (c. 23)", "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/contents", "what_it_supports": "English statutory frame for adult care and support: wellbeing duty, needs eligibility, and recognition of unpaid carers as people with their own assessment rights.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "who-icf-2001", "title": "International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)", "url": "https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/international-classification-of-functioning-disability-and-health", "what_it_supports": "Classifies functioning, activity limitation and environmental support; the usual clinical-policy vocabulary for why care is needed and what assistance is doing.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "tronto-moral-boundaries-1993", "title": "Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard care-ethics account of care as a practice with phases (caring about, taking care of, care-giving, care-receiving), used across nursing, social policy and political theory." }, { "id": "who-ageing-health-2015", "title": "World report on ageing and health", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "WHO account of long-term care as a system of activities that maintain function and dignity in later life, distinct from acute curative services." }, { "id": "oecd-health-at-a-glance", "title": "Health at a Glance (recurring statistical report)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Comparable OECD figures on long-term care recipients, informal carers, staffing and public expenditure as a share of GDP." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "recipient-and-care-needs", "name": "Recipient and care needs", "description": "Establishes who or what needs attention and what makes the proposed work care for that recipient.", "rationale": "Care cannot be judged from activity alone; its relevance depends on the recipient and the need being addressed.", "layers": [ { "id": "recipient-in-context", "name": "Recipient in context", "description": "Identifies the recipient and circumstances relevant to attending to them.", "findings": [ { "id": "recipient-and-dependencies", "name": "Recipient and dependencies", "description": "Records the recipient, the context of care, and dependencies that affect their ability to meet the relevant need.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who or what receives this care, and is the recipient an individual or a group?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recipient-and-dependencies-q01" }, { "text": "Which relevant needs can the recipient meet independently, and which depend on assistance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recipient-and-dependencies-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "need-and-intended-benefit", "name": "Need and intended benefit", "description": "Connects the basis for care to the condition it aims to support.", "findings": [ { "id": "grounded-care-need", "name": "Grounded care need", "description": "Distinguishes an expressed need from an assessed or inferred one and records the intended benefit without assuming agreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who expressed or identified the need, and what observation or account supports it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "grounded-care-need-q01" }, { "text": "What would adequate care achieve or preserve for this recipient, and whose judgement defines that outcome?", "kind": "definition", "id": "grounded-care-need-q02" }, { "text": "Which parts of the need or intended benefit remain uncertain or disputed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "grounded-care-need-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recipient-voice-and-care-boundaries", "name": "Recipient voice and care boundaries", "description": "Records how the recipient participates and what constrains intervention.", "rationale": "Providing care can affect autonomy, dignity, and access to the recipient; beneficial intent does not settle what is permissible.", "layers": [ { "id": "preferences-and-participation", "name": "Preferences and participation", "description": "Captures how the recipient communicates what care is acceptable and participates in its delivery.", "findings": [ { "id": "recipient-account", "name": "Recipient account", "description": "Preserves expressed preferences and distinguishes them from interpretations made on the recipient's behalf.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the recipient communicate preferences, discomfort, or refusal concerning this care?", "kind": "definition", "id": "recipient-account-q01" }, { "text": "Which preferences were expressed directly, and which were interpreted by someone else?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recipient-account-q02" }, { "text": "What support would enable the recipient to participate in the care or decisions about it?", "kind": "action", "id": "recipient-account-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "permission-and-limits", "name": "Permission and limits", "description": "Connects each proposed intervention to the permission or other applicable basis for undertaking it.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-intervention", "name": "Bounded intervention", "description": "Records the scope and limits of permission, including uncertainty when the recipient cannot provide it or permission is not applicable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What permission or other established basis applies to this activity, and where is it recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "What limits, refusals, or changed circumstances restrict further care?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-intervention-q02" }, { "text": "What must be clarified before an activity with unresolved permission can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-intervention-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-work-and-caregiver-capacity", "name": "Care work and caregiver capacity", "description": "Connects actual care activities to the people, capabilities, and resources needed to perform them.", "rationale": "A care commitment is credible only when the required work has capable and available providers.", "layers": [ { "id": "attention-and-intervention", "name": "Attention and intervention", "description": "Describes what caregivers undertake, including attentive presence when it serves an identified need.", "findings": [ { "id": "purposeful-care-activity", "name": "Purposeful care activity", "description": "Records proposed and performed work, its intended benefit, and any timing requirement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What attention, assistance, treatment, or upkeep is undertaken, and which need does it address?", "kind": "definition", "id": "purposeful-care-activity-q01" }, { "text": "What was actually provided, when, and for how long or at what frequency?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "purposeful-care-activity-q02" }, { "text": "Which timing requirements have an established basis, and which are provisional?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "purposeful-care-activity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capability-and-sustainable-provision", "name": "Capability and sustainable provision", "description": "Examines whether caregivers can deliver the required work over the relevant period.", "findings": [ { "id": "caregiver-capacity-fit", "name": "Caregiver capacity fit", "description": "Records assigned responsibilities, relevant capability, and constraints that could make care unreliable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who has accepted responsibility for each activity, and what supports their capability to perform it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "caregiver-capacity-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Where do available time, resources, or caregiver capacity fall short of the recorded care requirement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "caregiver-capacity-fit-q02" }, { "text": "What support, reassignment, or additional provision is needed to sustain care?", "kind": "action", "id": "caregiver-capacity-fit-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recipient-response-and-adjustment", "name": "Recipient response and adjustment", "description": "Assesses how care is experienced and whether it remains appropriate as the recipient's condition changes.", "rationale": "Task completion does not establish that care helped, was tolerable, or should continue unchanged.", "layers": [ { "id": "benefits-and-burdens", "name": "Benefits and burdens", "description": "Records recipient responses and the costs or discomfort associated with receiving care.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-care-response", "name": "Observed care 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caregiver has accepted responsibility and has the information needed to continue care.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who covers the next required period of care, and have they accepted that responsibility?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-care-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What unmet needs, preferences, recent responses, and pending activities must accompany the handover?", "kind": "action", "id": "accepted-care-continuity-q02" }, { "text": "Is any interval of required care uncovered, and how long is it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accepted-care-continuity-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "completion-and-withdrawal", "name": "Completion and withdrawal", "description": "Distinguishes meeting a care need from stopping provision for another reason.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-care-ending", "name": "Justified care ending", "description": "Records why care ends and what happens to needs that remain.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is care ending because the need is met, responsibility 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"name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Informal unpaid care (family, friends, neighbours)", "Clinical health care (diagnosis, treatment, nursing)", "Social and personal care (assistance with daily living and household tasks)", "Long-term care (ongoing support for chronic illness, disability, or frailty)", "Childcare and early childhood care", "Palliative and end-of-life care", "Self-care (the person's own attending to health and daily needs)", "Veterinary and animal care" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of care this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q31207", "note": "Health care - the clinical subset, not the whole activity of attending." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q553079", "note": "Caregiver - the person who does care, not the work itself." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D010817", "note": "Patient Care." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D002135", "note": "Caregivers." }, { "scheme": "ISCO-08", "value_or_pattern": "5311 / 5321 / 5322", "note": "Child care workers; health care assistants; home-based personal care workers (ILO occupation codes for paid care labour)." }, { "scheme": "NACE Rev. 2", "value_or_pattern": "86 / 87 / 88", "note": "Human health activities; residential care activities; social work activities without accommodation." }, { "scheme": "NAICS", "value_or_pattern": "623 / 624", "note": "Nursing and residential care facilities; social assistance." }, { "scheme": "ICNP (International Council of Nurses)", "value_or_pattern": 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Participation - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (USA): conditions under which providers may receive Medicare/Medicaid payment.", "Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Kaigo Hoken Hō) - Japan: public long-term care insurance since 2000.", "Aged Care Act (1997, replaced by the Aged Care Act 2024) - Australian Parliament: funding and regulation of aged care.", "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) - United Nations: independent living and support as rights, not charity.", "ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) - International Labour Organization: labour standards covering much paid household care.", "ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses - International Council of Nurses: professional duties in nursing care.", "ISO 7101:2023 Healthcare organization management - ISO: management-system requirements for quality in healthcare organisations.", "ICF (2001) - World Health Organization: classification used to describe care need and assistance, not a regulatory code." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of care this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "A relative helps an older parent wash, dress, eat, and take medicines at home, often for years and without a contract.", "Hospital and clinic staff assess, treat, monitor, and nurse patients through an episode of illness.", "A home-care worker visits under a local-authority or insurance package to assist with bathing, meals, and household tasks.", "A nursing home or residential facility provides 24-hour personal and nursing care to people who cannot live safely alone.", "Nurseries and childminders provide childcare so parents can work.", "Hospice and palliative teams manage pain and accompany dying people and their families.", "Veterinarians and animal keepers treat and tend companion, farm, and zoo animals.", "Labour-force surveys, time-use surveys, and national accounts record paid care occupations and estimate unpaid care hours for policy and budgeting." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of care this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Informal care intensity", "typical_range": "a few hours to 20 for light help; 20-50+ for intensive care of a highly dependent person", "unit": "hours per week" }, { "quantity": "Nurse-to-patient ratio (acute wards)", "typical_range": "about 1:4 to 1:8 on general medical/surgical wards; near 1:1 in intensive care", "unit": "patients per nurse" }, { "quantity": "Long-term care public expenditure", "typical_range": "roughly 0.5-3.5 of GDP across OECD countries with mature systems", "unit": "percent of GDP" }, { "quantity": "Basic activity-of-daily-living need", "typical_range": "0-6 limited domains on the Katz ADL set (bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, feeding)", "unit": "count of ADL domains" }, { "quantity": "Residential long-term care fee (high-income countries)", "typical_range": "on the order of several hundred to about 1,500+ per week in England-type markets, highly local", "unit": "currency per week" }, { "quantity": "Care episode duration", "typical_range": "hours to days for acute care; months to decades for long-term and informal care", "unit": "days" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of care this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Neglect or abuse of the person being cared for, including in institutions and private homes.", "Missed care from unsafe staffing: delayed medicines, falls, pressure ulcers, unnoticed deterioration.", "Carer burnout, musculoskeletal injury, poverty and lost employment, especially among unpaid women.", "Unmet need (care poverty): people who need help with daily living do not receive it.", "Iatrogenic harm and overtreatment when attending becomes uncritical medicalisation.", "Fragmentation between health and social care, especially at hospital discharge.", "Inappropriate institutionalisation when home or community support would have been sufficient.", "Infection outbreaks in congregate care settings.", "Moral distress when workers cannot give the care they judge necessary." ], 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family-care expectations.", "Germany funds Pflege through social long-term care insurance, and ordinary language splits Pflege (hands-on nursing care), Betreuung (supervision/support) and Sorge (concern/care as an ethical relation).", "Nordic systems provide a large share of care as universal public services; many lower-income countries leave almost all long-term attending to unpaid household labour." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of care this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Cure", "difference": "Cure aims to resolve a pathology; care continues when cure is unavailable, unwanted, or not the point, and includes attending that never 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cared-for group be expressed?", "Which domain-specific extensions are needed to assess permission, representation, and recipient preferences across people, animals, plants, and inanimate things?", "What evidence and recipient-specific criteria are sufficient to judge adequacy of care when improvement is impossible, responses are ambiguous, or accounts conflict?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 36 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a care, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: high colonic, brush, brushing, comb, combing, comb-out, teasing, shampoo, hair care, haircare, hairdressing, hairweaving.", "140 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a care, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "high colonic", "brush", "brushing", "comb", "combing", "comb-out", "teasing", "shampoo", "hair care", "haircare", "hairdressing", "hairweaving" ] } ], "standing": "140 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one care from another, and a care from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a care sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a care from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a care passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a care between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a care, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a care is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a care proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a care, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a care and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a care consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a care takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What care is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of care are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is care operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of care and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of care?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as care?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a care came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a care and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a care is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a care, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a care, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a care is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }