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Supporting Rural nurses: Skills and Knowledge to Practice in Ontario, Canada

open access: yesOnline Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2015
Background: Nursing in rural settings requires the skill set of a multi-specialist who is adaptable to change and different ways of working. Maintaining skills needed for emergency management of complex health issues is difficult, and retention is ...
Jennifer Medves   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the incidence of falls and related factors in elderly patients based on comprehensive geriatric assessment

open access: yesAging Medicine, 2023
Objective To investigate the incidence of falls in elderly aged 65 years and above among outpatients and inpatients, and to analyze its related factors and identify prevention strategies.
Xun Xiao   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adherence to a healthy sleep pattern is associated with lower risks of incident falls and fractures during aging

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2023
BackgroundAutoimmune diseases are more common among people with unhealthy sleep behaviors, and these conditions have been linked to aging-related bone health.
Tao Zhou   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fallacious falls

open access: yesJournal of Neurology, 2005
Contains fulltext : 48478.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Voermans, N.C.   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB): A Quick and Useful Tool for Fall Risk Stratification Among Older Primary Care Patients.

open access: yesJournal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020
OBJECTIVES Evaluate fall risk with the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and examine its application within the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) tool advocated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sarah A. Welch   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"The Man of these Infinite Possibilities": Max Ernst’s Cinematic Collages

open access: yesContemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2011
On more than one occasion in his critical writings of the 1920’s, surrealist leader André Breton compared Max Ernst’s collages to cinema. In his first essay on the artist in 1921, Breton aligned Ernst’s collages with cinematic special effects such as ...
Abigail Susik
doaj   +1 more source

Fall Detection Based on Key Points of Human-Skeleton Using OpenPose

open access: yesSymmetry, 2020
According to statistics, falls are the primary cause of injury or death for the elderly over 65 years old. About 30% of the elderly over 65 years old fall every year. Along with the increase in the elderly fall accidents each year, it is urgent to find a
Weiming Chen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using Low-Resolution Non-Invasive Infrared Sensors to Classify Activities and Falls in Older Adults

open access: yesSensors, 2022
The population is aging worldwide, creating new challenges to the quality of life of older adults and their families. Falls are an increasing, but not inevitable, threat to older adults. Information technologies provide several solutions to address falls,
Gastón Márquez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sectional and Ricci Curvature for Three-Dimensional Lie Groups

open access: yesJournal of Mathematics, 2016
Formulas for the Riemann and Ricci curvature tensors of an invariant metric on a Lie group are determined. The results are applied to a systematic study of the curvature properties of invariant metrics on three-dimensional Lie groups.
Gerard Thompson, Giriraj Bhattarai
doaj   +1 more source

The Fall Risk Assessment and Correlated Factors Among Elderly Inpatients in 2020: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2023
Objectives: Patient falls are highly prevalent in hospitals, and are considered a complicated challenge. Thus, the present research assessed the prevalence of the fall risk assessment and the correlated factors among elderly inpatients.
Reza Noori   +7 more
doaj  

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