[PDF] Top 20 Gerontological contributions to the care of elderly people in long-term care facilities

... Objective: To analyze Brazilian scientifi c productions from the last 11 years which show the contributions of nursing to elderly people in ... See full document

... aimed to identify the degree of dependence of institutionalized older adults in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, ...consists of a cross-sectional descriptive study, developed ... See full document

... Practice of sport or participation in various forms of ...Leisure term is considered as a set of occupation to which the individual may surrender of his own free ... See full document

... Ageism in long-term care is pervasive, but it is not easy to define ageism, to identify it and to fight it in ...capable to conceptualize, detect, measure ... See full document

... living in the community in the studied regions did not inluence QOL in the analysis ...models. In turn, factors such as age, education, self- assessment of health ... See full document

... aimed to estimate the prevalence of elderly using potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) and with occurrence of potentially hazardous drug interactions (PHDI); to identify ... See full document

... undertaken of the possible associations between the QoL scores from the generic instrument, plus that specific to older adults, and the variables: age, sex, age group, having ... See full document

... conducted. The sample was composed by active healthcare professionals of long-term care institutions for the elderly, accredited by the Conselho Municipal do Idoso ... See full document

... undertaken in the Rio de Janeiro Regional Nursing Council. Of these, 159 (6%) were Long-Term Care Institutions for the ...Elderly. The final sample consisted ... See full document

... Despite the importance of LTCI as care alter- natives worldwide, in Brazil, there is still no valid and reliable instrument to monitor their ...instruments in these institutions ... See full document

... number of women living at the long-term care insituion in this study may be explained by the fact that they comprise the main parcel of the ... See full document

... a long-term activity directed towards the recovery process of patients and towards the support of everyday life functions of people in need of ... See full document

... on the group of patients with an initial negative MRSA carriage pattern who do not meet criteria for being at low-risk for MRSA ...are in long term care, greater than 70 years ... See full document

... Objective: To describe the profile of informal careers of elderly patients in health facilities in the city of João ...Study of quantitative, ... See full document

... In the second step, titles and abstracts retrieved were reviewed according to the inclusion criteria in or- der to be selected for full-text ...as the population of ... See full document

... cause of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly, and accounts for the majority of the pneumonia deaths among the ...study to evaluate the immune ... See full document

... aware of several limitations to this study that should be ...so the associations found in the study should be interpreted ...Second, the self-reported data were used as ... See full document

... describes the history, methodology and evolution of the Forum of NonProfit Long-Term Care Facilities for Older Adults (LTCF – Fórum das Instituições Filantrópicas ... See full document

... contract to participate. A national nursing guideline on fall prevention in long-term care was published after the first study in ...increased the receptiveness ... See full document

... whether to take action to prevent, screen for, and control ...that people are ready to act if they: believe they are susceptible to the condition (perceived susceptibility), ... See full document