Nursing homes
The economics of dementia-care mapping in nursing homes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.
... within nursing homes, because not all nursing homes participated in the study with more than one ...the nursing home, number of residents per unit, and ratio of formal caregivers to ...
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Depression and Cognitive Decline: Factors Related to Demographics and Psycho Pharmacotherapy on Elderly in Nursing Homes
... The research was performed in two nursing homes located in the city of Marilia-São Paulo, Brazil. The elders were selected after the initial interview, according to the eligibility criteria established, ...
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Microbiological quality of meals served in nursing homes in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná
... The aim of this study was to analyze the microbiological quality of meals served in nursing homes in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, before and after the training of food handlers. The first stage was to ...
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Variables associated with change in quality of life among persons with dementia in nursing homes: a 10 months follow-up study.
... 16 nursing homes with a total of 899 patients accepted the ...One nursing home dropped out before ...five nursing homes. Of them 118 resided in regular nursing home units (RU), ...
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Living with and Caring for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease in Nursing Homes
... One of the outstanding features of the care provided by the facilities we studied is that the caregivers live with the patients, both physically and mentally. Most of the caregivers in this study noted that because of ...
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Symptoms of depression, sadness and sense of coherence (coping) among cognitively intact older people with cancer living in nursing homes—a mixed-methods study
... The quantitative core component initially comprised 60 respondents with cancer, and we facilitated the collection of the survey data using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and SOC qu[r] ...
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Carolina Isabel Rêgo Récio Santos
... em nursing homes pelo que existe uma subestimação dos custos totais associado à não contabilização dos custos com consultas, medicamentos, sessões em hospital de dia e meios complementares de diagnóstico ...
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High prevalence of Clostridium difficile colonization among nursing home residents in Hesse, Germany.
... among nursing home residents in ...eleven nursing homes and a control group representing the general population outside ...the nursing homes that were asked for participation agreed and ...
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Rev. bras. epidemiol. vol.19 número1
... The estimation equations, when not applicable to a particular individual or population, can lead to estimation errors both in the clinical practice and in epidemiological surveys. Inadequate weight estimation can lead to ...
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Social inequalities in the self-rated health of the elderly people in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
... This study used data from SABE (Health, Welfare, and Aging), a longitudinal study that began in 2000 under the auspices of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The sample of this study consisted of elderly ...
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Reduction of femoral fractures in long-term care facilities: the Bavarian fracture prevention study.
... It has been often criticized that the knowledge we have from randomized controlled trials has not been disseminated into daily life [13;14]. This study is an example that a large-scale translation of an evidence-based ...
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Dement. neuropsychol. vol.7 número3
... [b] nursing homes or long-term care facilities as the setting; [c] changes in BPSD as the outcome; [d] staf training focusing on de- mentia care as the intervention; [e] English, Portuguese or Spanish as ...
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Concepção, percepção e entendimento do processo da morte e do morrer em idosos institucionalizados...
... in nursing homes see the dying process(Kayser-Jones, 2002)and the word “suffering” is included in this context, reason why they mentioned their fear of the manner of death in this ...
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HIGH PREVALENCE OF Strongyloides stercoralis INFECTION AMONG THE ELDERLY IN BRAZIL
... in nursing homes (n = 100) and those noninstitutionalized (n = 100) from Uberlândia, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, associated with data of epidemiological and socio-demographic ...
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Rev. LatinoAm. Enfermagem vol.18 número4
... and impeding nurses’ use of non-pharmacological measures to relieve the pain of children submitted to surgical procedures demonstrated that work overload does not allow these professionals to use non- pharmacological ...
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Stimulant and atypical antipsychotic medications for children placed in foster homes.
... foster homes experience higher rates of physical and emotional problems than those in the general population; approximately 60% have a chronic medical condition, and 25% have $3 chronic problems; and developmental ...
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Wild birds as pets in Campina Grande, Paraíba State, Brazil: An Ethnozoological Approach
... Birds are one of the animal groups most widely used by human populations. Many birds are kept simply for their beauty, but many of them are valued for their singing and are kept as pets or sold. It is a very common ...
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Evaluation of nursing practice and nursing education
... The third major type of criteria, outcome criteria, focus on mea- surable alterations in patient health status or student behavior resulting from health care or [r] ...
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FEELINGS AND PERCEPTIONS OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS AT HOMES FOR THE AGED
... Objective: Know experiences of elderly residents at asylum. Method: Qualitative and descriptive research. Participated 10 elderly residents at homes for aged of a municipality of northwest of Rio Grande do ...
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There are more asthmatics in homes with high cockroach infestation
... infestation is not often apparent to the dwell- ers. Gelber et al. (22) demonstrated that 20% of homes studied with no visible evidence of cockroach infestation exhibited levels of Bla g2 in at least one of the ...
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