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“Safety at Home”: Experiences From Testing of Video Communication Between Patients and Home Health Care Personnel

SAGE Open, 2017
The implementation of welfare technology in Norwegian municipals is a governmental priority, but there is little research on transfer of technological solutions into regular health care services.
Linda Rykkje, Gunhild H. B. Hjorth
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Protocol of the process evaluation of cluster randomised control trial for estimating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention to increase care home staff influenza vaccination rates compared to usual practice (FluCare)

Trials, 2023
Background Influenza (flu) vaccination rates in UK care home staff are extremely low. Less than 40% of staff in care homes are vaccinated for influenza (flu), presenting risks to the health of frail residents and potential staff absence from cross ...
Linda Birt, Thando Katangwe-Chigamba, Sion Scott, David J Wright, Adam P. Wagner, Erika Sims, Veronica Bion, Carys Seeley, Faisal Alsaif, Allan Clarke, Alys Griffiths, Liz Jones, Alison Bryant, Amrish Patel   +13 more
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Designing with Care - Interior Design and Residential Child Care Final Report [PDF]

, 2006
This exploratory study examined the attitudes to a range of design interventions in four residential care homes for children in South Lanarkshire. The project set out to identify the benefits and disadvantages to young people and staff of a change in ...
Lerpiniere, Jennifer, Docherty, Catherine, Sloan, Paul, Kendrick, Andrew   +3 more
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Research, recruitment and observational data collection in care homes: lessons from the PACE study

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Care homes are a common place of death for older adults, especially those with complex health needs or dementia. Representative, internationally comparable data on care home facilities and their residents is needed to monitor health and ...
Danni Collingridge Moore, Sheila Payne, Lieve Van den Block, Maud ten Koppel, Katarzyna Szczerbińska, Katherine Froggatt, PACE (Palliative Care for Older People in care and nursing homes in Europe) Consortium   +6 more
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Predicting Care Homes with Limited Residential Information

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction Research involving care homes is often difficult due to a lack of data and ethical issues. Wales (United Kingdom) contains approximately 1.3million residences, of these 717 are officially recorded as care homes for older people ...
Joe Hollinghurst, Ashley Akbari, Sarah E Rodgers, Ronan A Lyons, Alan Watkins, Richard Fry   +5 more
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A PROPOSED PROGRAM TO DEVELOP SOME ELEMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY TO THE HOME CARE INSTITUTIONS'SUPERVISORS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR FOR CHILD [PDF]

Journal of Environmental Science, 2022
The research aims to develop some elements of environmental Litreacy for the supervisors of social care homes, and also aims to identify the effect of acquiring elements of environmental Litreacy among supervisors on the environmental behavior of ...
A. S. Hagres Bulkis, A. Karm El-Din Liala, A. A. El-Smaloty Ikbal   +2 more
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The evidence-base for stroke education in care homes [PDF]

, 2008
<b>Summary.</b> <b>Research questions:</b> 1. What are registered care home nurses’ educational priorities regarding stroke care? 2. What are senior care home assistants’ educational priorities regarding stroke care? 3. How do
Smith, L.N., Weir, C.J., Craig, L.E., McAlpine, C.H.   +3 more
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Identification of depressive disorder among older people in care homes – a feasibility study [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Depression is common among older people but more common among those living in care homes. Depression is not easily detected among older adults because of the presentation, and the tendency for older people not to complain of depression ...
Shaik, K, Stephenson, John, C. Jane Morrell, Kauserjan Shaik, Muthukrishnan, Venkatesh, Curran, Stephen, Curran, S, Morrell, C. Jane, Venkatesh Muthukrishnan, Topping, Annie, Annie Topping, Morrell, CJ, Topping, A; id_orcid, John Stephenson, Muthukrishnan, V, Stephenson, J, Shaik, Kauserjan, Stephen Curran   +17 more
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Adaptation of the DEMQOL-Proxy for routine use in care homes: a cross-sectional study of the reliability and validity of DEMQOL-CH

BMJ Open, 2019
Objective To investigate the routine use of a measure of quality of life (QoL) in care homes and assess its psychometric properties when used by care staff.Design A cross-sectional two-phase study.Setting and participants Data were collected from care ...
Laura J Hughes, Nicolas Farina, Thomas E Page, Naji Tabet, Sube Banerjee   +4 more
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A world apart: Levels and determinants of excess mortality due to COVID-19 in care homes: The case of the Belgian region of Wallonia during the spring 2020 wave

Demographic Research, 2021
Background: In Western countries, COVID-19 has been particularly deadly for care home residents. Objective: To understand the role of age and sex structures, health frailty, and contamination dynamics in COVID-19 mortality in populations living inside
Olivier J. Hardy, Dominique Dubourg, Mélanie Bourguignon, Simon Dellicour, Thierry Eggerickx, Marius Gilbert, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Aline Scohy, Eline Vandael, Jean-Michel Decroly   +9 more
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