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A Latent Survival Analysis Enabled Simulation Platform For Nursing Home Staffing Strategy Evaluation [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Nursing homes are critical facilities for caring frail older adults with round-the-clock formal care and personal assistance. To ensure quality care for nursing home residents, adequate staffing level is of great importance. Current nursing home staffing practice is mainly based on experience and regulation.
arxiv  

Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors: Reflections on a John A. Hartford Foundation-funded Nursing Education Program [PDF]

, 2015
This brief will describe the work and assess the impact of the NLN Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors initiative, or ACE.S, which the John A. Hartford Foundation supported from 2009 to 2012.

core  

Chinese Expert Consensus on Standardized Outpatient Management of Sarcopenia in the Elderly (2024)

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
In China, specific sarcopenia clinics are not sufficient for outpatients. This consensus combines the professional advice of domestic geriatrics experts, summarizes the existing domestic experience in the establishment of sarcopenia clinics, and provides guidance for the management of sarcopenia clinics.
Zhang Qin, Kang Lin, Wang Jianye, Xi Huan, Yu Pulin, Zhang Cuntai, Hidenori Arai, Tuo Xiping, Yang Yunmei, Liu Xiaohong, Chen Chan, Chen Huaihong, Chen Xujiao, Cheng Lijuan, Deng Linzi, Ding Yi, Dong Birong, Dong Juan, Gao Yue, Gu Haifeng, Guo Yan, Han Hui, Hidenori Arai, Hu Fang, Shangcheng District, Hu Jian, Hu Yao‐min, Hu Yixin, Huang Gairong, Jian Zaijin, Jiang Wenjing, Kang Lin, Li Fuchao, Li Jian, Li Jing, Li Tianlang, Lin Fan, Liu Juan, Liu Xiaohong, Liu Xuejun, Lou Huiling, Luo Lan, Luo Man, Ma Lina, Mao Yongjun, Nie Jing, Ouyang Xiaojun, Qi Guoxian, Qiao Wei, Shi Hong, Tian Tao, Tuo Xiping, Wang Chaohui, Wang Jiaqiu, Wang Jianye, Wang Peng, Wang Quan, Wang Xiaonan, Wang Yuan, Wang Zhaodi, Wei Yanan, Wu Jun, Wu Shuhua, Wu Xiaohe, Xi Huan, Xin Xiaofeng, Xu Meiqun, Yang Yunmei, Yin Shi, Yu Plin, Zhang Cuntai, Zhang Qin, Zhang Xiaoyan, Zhang Ying, Zhao Xiaohong, Zhong Yuan, Zhou Baiyu, Zhou Houguang, Zhou Xiaohui   +78 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Comparison of Geriatric‐Associated Variables in Major Gastroenterological Surgery Between National Clinical Database and American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Geriatric surgical risk factors and outcomes were compared between the US and Japanese databases. Geriatric‐associated preoperative variables and outcomes similarly increased with age. Mobility and functional domains differed between the two databases. ABSTRACT Backgrounds Incidence of malignant disease in older patients has been increasing.
Yasuhide Kofunato, Xane Peters, Arata Takahashi, Mark E. Cohen, Hiraku Kumamaru, Mitsukazu Gotoh, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Yasuyuki Seto, Yuko Kitagawa, Ken Shirabe, Hideki Ueno, Hiroaki Miyata, Clifford Y. Ko, Shigeru Marubashi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nursing administration in the geriatric department in the epidemic of COVID-19

Journal of Integrative Nursing, 2020
In order to strengthen the prevention and management in the geriatric department during the pandemic of COVID-19 and to explore how to implement nursing measures to control the spread of COVID-19 to elderly patients, our geriatric department established ...
Hui Fan, Pei-Bei Duan, Cai-Yun Nie, Chun-Xia Ma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of hospitalized elderly patients at risk for adverse in-hospital outcomes in a university orthopedics and trauma surgery environment. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
As a consequence of demographic changes, hospitals are confronted with increasing numbers of elderly patients, who are at high risk of adverse events during hospitalization.
Janine Gronewold, Christian Dahlmann, Marcus Jäger, Dirk M Hermann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Phase II Trial of Geriatric Assessment‐Guided Selection of Treatment Intensity in Older Adults With AML

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How to select the appropriate intensity of chemotherapy in older adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains an unanswered question. In a phase II trial of older adults ≥ 60 years with AML (n = 73), we used geriatric assessment (measures of comorbidity burden, physical and cognitive function) to determine fitness for intensive ...
Vijaya R. Bhatt, Christopher S. Wichman, Thuy T. Koll, Alfred L. Fisher, Tanya M. Wildes, Michael Haddadin, Ann M. Berger, James O. Armitage, Sarah A. Holstein, Lori J. Maness, Krishna Gundabolu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acute care models for hip fracture treatment vs post-acute rehabilitation services in older adults after hip fracture: A comparative claims data analysis from Germany

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020
Objective: Acute geriatric care (geriatric early rehabilitative treatment) and sub-acute (inpatient) geriat-ric rehabilitation are delivered to geriatric patients in Germany after hip fracture.
Clemens Becker, Kilian Rapp, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Claudia Schulz, Hans-Helmut König, Gisela Büchele   +5 more
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Characteristics, hospital referrals and 60-day mortality of older patients living in nursing homes with COVID-19 assessed by a liaison geriatric team during the first wave: a research article

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background The infection by SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been especially serious in older patients. The aim of this study is to describe baseline and clinical characteristics, hospital referrals, 60-day mortality, factors associated with hospital referrals ...
Lorena García-Cabrera, Noelia Pérez-Abascal, Beatriz Montero-Errasquín, Lourdes Rexach Cano, Jesús Mateos-Nozal, Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing the Future of Nursing: A Report by the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing [PDF]

, 2013
In the United States, the number of older adults will double during the next 25 years (United States Census Bureau, 2008). This dramatic demographic shift is changing the landscape of health care practice as more people live longer with multiple chronic ...
Bellot, Jennifer L, Carthron, Dana, O\u27Connor, Melissa, Rose, Karen, Shillam, Casey, Van Cleave, Janet, Vogelsmeier, Amy   +6 more
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