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Analysis on participation willingness and influencing factors of "1+X (geriatric care)" training in higher vocational nursing students

Huli yanjiu, 2021
ObjectiveTo understand the status quo of willingness of high vocational nursing students to participate in vocational skill training of geriatric care under the "1+X" certification system，and to analyze its influencing factors.MethodsTotally 2 611 high ...
ZHAO Guangfang, XING Aihong, ZHANG Shuxiang, DAI Lingyu, YAN Chunmei   +4 more
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How Do Health Care Professionals Perceive a Holistic Care Approach for Geriatric Patients? A Focus Group Study

, 2023
Background: Geriatric patients require holistic care in order to meet their complex care needs. The project RubiN (Continuous Care in a Regional Network) provides case and care management (CCM) for older people to address these needs in a primary care ...
Denise Wilfling, Jona Budke, Nicole Warkentin, Katja Goetz   +3 more
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The complex interaction between atrial fibrillation and heart failure in elderly patients

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2019
Heart failure (HF) and atrial fibrillation (AF) often coexist. Subjects with permanent AF show the highest prevalence of HF. Patients with incident AF have HF in a great number of cases and, reciprocally, in patients with incident HF, an AF can be ...
Stefano Fumagalli, Giulia Pelagalli, Marta Migliorini, Serena Boni, Francesca Nigro, Irene Marozzi, Simone Pupo, Niccolò Marchionni   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decision-making ethics in regards to life-sustaining interventions: when physicians refer to what other patients decide

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Health decisions occur in a context with omnipresent social influences. Information concerning what other patients decide may present certain interventions as more desirable than others. Objectives To explore how physicians refer to what other
Anca-Cristina Sterie, Ralf J. Jox, Eve Rubli Truchard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating exercise and medication management in geriatric care: a holistic strategy to enhance health outcomes and reduce polypharmacy.

The Lancet Healthy Longevity
Integrating exercise prescriptions with medication management represents a novel approach for enhancing health and function, optimising medication effectiveness, and reducing adverse drug reactions and polypharmacy in older adults (ie, those aged ≥60 ...
M. Izquierdo, R. Ramírez-Vélez, M. F. Fiatarone Singh   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inclusion of medication-related fall risk in fall risk assessment tool in geriatric care units

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Background Falls are common undesirable events for older adults in institutions. Even though the patient’s fall risk may be scored on admission, the medication-induced fall risk may be ignored.
Jana Michalcova, K. Vašut, M. Airaksinen, K. Bielaková   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Professional values, ageism, attitudes and willingness towards geriatric care among nursing students in China: a multiple path analysis

BMC Nursing
To address the challenges presented by an aging population, there is a high demand for a skilled nursing workforce. Nursing students, once considered auxiliary to the clinical nursing team, are now essential.
Rui Pang, Fang Liu, T. Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implementation of socially assistive robots in geriatric care institutions: Healthcare professionals’ perspectives and identification of facilitating factors and barriers

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
Introduction The successful integration of socially assistive robots in geriatric care settings hinges on the attitudes and opinions of healthcare professionals.
A. Rigaud, S. Dacunha, C. Harzo, H. Lenoir, Imad Sfeir, M. Piccoli, Maribel Pino   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitude and practice of dentists toward providing care to the geriatric patients

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Tooth loss, systemic diseases and medications add to the complexity of the oral conditions in geriatric popuation, making this age group a special group in need of specific preventive and curative oral health care.
B. Tahani, Skekoufeh Sedaghat Manesh
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Geriatric care physicians' perspectives on providing virtual care: a reflexive thematic synthesis of their online survey responses from Ontario, Canada.

Age and Ageing
BACKGROUND During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was widely implemented to minimise viral spread. However, its use in the older adult patient population was not well understood.
Victoria L. Chuen, Saumil Dholakia, S. Kalra, Jennifer A. Watt, C. Wong, J. Ho   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source