Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018 Objective: Traditionally, nursing homes have been associated with suboptimal drug therapy and drug-related problems (DRPs). In contrast, less is known about drug safety in homecare.
Siri A. Devik +6 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 ...
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A novel approach to reduce sedentary behaviour in care home residents: the GET READY study utilising service-learning and co-creation [PDF]
, 2019 The GET READY study aimed to integrate service-learning methodology into University degrees by offering students individual service opportunities with residential care homes, to co-create the best suited intervention to reduce the sedentary behaviour (SB)
Chastin, Sebastien F.M. +5 more
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Protecting care home residents from mistreatment and abuse: on the need for policy
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2015 Amanda Phelan School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Ireland Abstract: With a rising older person population with increasing life expectancies, the demand for care homes will increase in the future.
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Investigating staff knowledge of safeguarding and pressure ulcers in care homes [PDF]
, 2016 Objective: To investigate whether nursing/care home staff regard pressure ulceration as a safeguarding issue; and to explore reporting mechanisms for pressure ulcers in nursing/care homes.
Kaye, Vicky +3 more
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How does the community COVID-19 level of risk impact on that of a care home?
PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectivesTo model the risk of COVID-19 mortality in British care homes conditional on the community level risk.MethodsA two stage modeling process ("doubly latent") which includes a Besag York Mollie model (BYM) and a Log Gaussian Cox Process.
Glenna Nightingale +2 more
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Enhancing the Capacity of Community Health Centers to Achieve High Performance [PDF]
, 2010 Based on a survey of community health centers, assesses access to care, care coordination, quality improvement efforts, health information technology adoption, and ability to serve as patient-centered medical homes.
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A co-created intervention with care home residents and university students following a service-learning methodology to reduce sedentary behaviour: the GET READY project protocol [PDF]
, 2018 Background: There is a growing demand for long-term care settings. Care-home residents are a vulnerable group with high levels of physical dependency and cognitive impairment.
Chastin, Sebastien +5 more
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Models for providing improved care in residential care homes: a thematic literature review [PDF]
This Annotated Bibliography is one output from a review of the available research evidence to support improved care in residential care homes as the needs of older people intensify. Key findings The review identified extremely little published evidence
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Effectiveness of an influenza vaccine programme for care home staff to prevent death, morbidity, and health service use among residents: cluster randomised controlled trial [PDF]
, 2006 Objective To determine whether vaccination of care home staff against influenza indirectly protects residents.Design Pair matched cluster randomised controlled trial.Setting Large private chain of UK care homes during the winters of 2003-4 and 2004-5 ...
Harling, R +7 more
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