Nursing Home
Quality of life of nursing home residents with dementia: validation of the German version of the ICECAP-O.
... of nursing home residents in Germany suffer from dementia and require appropriate care ...at home due to social and familial circumstances or the severity of illness ...
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High prevalence of Clostridium difficile colonization among nursing home residents in Hesse, Germany.
... among nursing home residents in Hesse, and to compare it with the general population living outside LTCF in the same geographic ...in nursing homes in Germany (and is thus encountered in the ...
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A mobile health application to assist professionals: a case study in a portuguese nursing home
... Portugal, nursing homes have been getting a higher demand, and health professionals working in these facilities are overloaded with ...in nursing homes to clinically manage residents lead to more errors and ...
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Factors influencing psychotropic prescription by non-psychiatrist physicians in a nursing home for the elderly in Brazil
... Using a retrospective observational study design, we examined 108 elderly individuals living in a nursing home in the city of Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil, that caters for poor el- derly individuals living ...
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Changes in the personal dignity of nursing home residents: a longitudinal qualitative interview study.
... investigating nursing home residents’ views on dignity over a longer period of ...of nursing home residents had great difficulties to remember what the earlier interviews were ...impaired ...
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Serum zinc concentrations correlate with mental and physical status of nursing home residents.
... The relatively high number of individuals with symptoms of depression (48%) revealed in the GDS test is in concordance with the literature [1, 3], however, it should be noted that only 6% of the examined individuals had ...
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Factors associated with nursing home placement of all patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore community hospitals from 1996 to 2005: a disease stratified analysis.
... discharged home compared to the Chinese majority, even after adjusting for caregiver availability and other ...discharged home compared to the ...discharged home. Bhandari et al [42] reported a 70% ...
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Equivalência semântica, conceitual e de itens do Observable Indicators of Nursing Home Care Quality Instrument.
... Abstract Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) for the elderly are an important health care alterna- tive in the world, though Brazil does not yet have a valid instrument to monitor the quality of these institutions. This ...
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Effect of a high-intensity exercise program on physical function and mental health in nursing home residents with dementia: an assessor blinded randomized controlled trial.
... in nursing homes, and could be considered especially important since balance ability is crucial in most functional physical ...in nursing home residents with dementia [61, ...191 nursing ...
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An application of the anti-commons theory to an elderly nursing home project in Portugal
... a nursing home for the elderly - the respective licensing for the project was put aside, because three years later the economic situation had changed a lot and so the project was not feasible ...
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Decisions to withhold diagnostic investigations in nursing home patients with a clinical suspicion of venous thromboembolism.
... Participants and data collection. Within the VT-elderly study, we qualitatively focussed on physicians’ decisions to forgo referral for diagnostic investigations. By applying the ‘‘grounded theory’’ approach we set out ...
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IMPORTANCE OF NURSING HOME CARE FOR BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL IN PEOPLE WITH HYPERTENSION
... The findings regarding the characterization of the sample in this study corroborates other research on the topic, which identify women, married, over 50 years old, with primary and secondary income from 1 to 3 minimum ...
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Quality of care in one Italian nursing home measured by ACOVE process indicators.
... Objectives: To adapt the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders Quality Indicators (ACOVE QIs) for use in Italy, to assess the adherence to these indicators as reported in the medical recor[r] ...
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(São Paulo, online) vol.4 número1
... METHODS: One hundred and ifty-seven nursing home residents of seven diferent long-stay institutions underwent evaluation of body composition, cognitive function, grip strength, mobilit[r] ...
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Clinics vol.70 número9
... Even among the very old individuals in this study, the discrepancy rate was still not particularly high (17.2%). Conflicting beliefs about one’s living arrangements are believed to trigger emotional distress (8). ...
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Assessing quality of care of elderly patients using the ACOVE quality indicator set: a systematic review.
... NH: Nursing Home; QoC: Quality Of Care; QI: Quality Indicators; IHI BTS: Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Series; CHF: Chronic Heart Failure; GEM: Geriatric Evaluation and Manage- ment; ...
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Rev. Saúde Pública vol.40 número6
... a nursing home resident is multifactorial and it is based on factors such as illness severity, care facility infrastructure, family and/ or patient’s request and financial ...of nursing home ...
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Einstein (São Paulo) vol.14 número2
... Objective: To validate the Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate – Portuguese in demented elderly and to analyze its measurement properties. Methods: We evaluated 50 elderly with ...
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Jong Hoo Leea , Yee Hyung Kimb, ∗
... A total of 303 patients (189 patients at Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong and 114 patients at Jeju National Univer- sity Hospital) were evaluated during the study period. There were 96 patients (31.7%) with HCAP ...
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Nursing care at home: a critical look at the scientific
... the nursing care at home in order to determine the topics of ...to nursing home care: patients in special clinical conditions, categories and services; practical, legal and ...of ...
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