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Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life. [PDF]

, 2015
Background. Nursing home (NH) residents often experience burdensome and unnecessary care transitions, especially towards the end of life. This paper explores provider perspectives on the role that families play in the decision to transfer NH residents to
Bui, Nhat, Halifax, Elizabeth, Harrington, Charlene, Lee, Sei J, Ritchie, Christine, Shim, Janet, Stephens, Caroline   +6 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Components of peritonitis preventive self-care education programs associated with self-care knowledge and behavior among patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis in Japan: a cross-sectional study

Renal Replacement Therapy, 2023
Background Preventing peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis remains a major concern in continuing safe treatment and improving patient quality of life. This study aimed to determine the self-care education and quality care initiatives performed
Haruna Kugai, Ayumi Igarashi, Saori Anezaki, Chie Fukui, Nami Saito, Yoshifumi Hamasaki, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurses Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities [PDF]

, 2009
Summarizes discussions from a 2008 interdisciplinary panel convened to identify facilitators and barriers to nurses' involvement in culture change in nursing homes and actions to promote nurse competencies in resident-directed care.
Bonnie Kantor, Christine Mueller, Cornelia Beck, Donna Algase, Ethel Mitty, Joanne Rader, Kathryn Anderson, Malvina Kluger, Mathy Mezey, Sarah Greene Burger   +9 more
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Implementing physician‐led medication reviews for patients with diabetes and severe mental disorder: A randomized controlled trial

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Patients with severe mental disorder and diabetes may be exposed to inappropriate polypharmacy increasing the risk of side effects and drug interactions. Although medication reviews may facilitate short‐term deprescribing, they are not known to affect clinical outcomes.
Johan Frederik Mebus Meyer Christensen, Signe Wegmann Düring, Gesche Jürgens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multidisciplinary meeting for generating a personalized pharmaceutical plan for older adults at hospital discharge: the IATROPREV study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims The French government's IATROPREV program has been designed to assess the effectiveness and safety of medications prescribed to older adults discharged from acute geriatric units. IATROPREV includes the implementation of a personalized pharmaceutical plan validated at a multidisciplinary meeting attended by the patient's geriatrician, family ...
Chloé Cornille, Aurélie Lenglet, Bertrand Decaudin, François Puisieux, Lisa Mondet, Anne Toulemonde, Sophie Gautier, Grégory Tempremant, Jean‐Paul Kornobis, Mathilde Dambrine, Thomas Renoncourt, Frédéric Bloch, Jean‐Baptiste Beuscart, the IATROPREV collaborative group   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Care Practice of Community Dwelling Diabetic Elders

Journal of High Institute of Public Health, 2007
Diabetes is common chronic disease encountered by individuals in late life. Diabetes and its complications can impaire well being and quality of life of elders. Patient’s compliance and self-care practices are critical facors in appropriate management of
Somaya El-Shazly, Nahed M.S. Ayoub, Hanaa Shafic   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The association between nurses’ burnout and objective care quality indicators: a cross-sectional survey in long-term care wards

BMC Nursing, 2021
Background Worldwide, rather few studies have examined the association between burnout and care quality using objectively measured quality indicators, with most of the studies have relied on perceived quality outcomes.
Sameh Eltaybani, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani, Ayako Ninomiya, Ayumi Igarashi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Required clinical course in gerontology: The key to providing competent nurse caregivers for the elderly [PDF]

, 1994
In 1986 the faculty of the School of Nursing at UNCG began a major curriculum revision. Part of the new curriculum was an innovative and, for some of the faculty, a frightening course— a required clinical course in gerontological nursing. The decision to
Barba, Beth E., NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro   +1 more
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Epidemiology of hospitalized heart failure in France based on national data over 10 years, 2012–2022

ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1283-1294, April 2025.
Abstract Aims We aim to describe the incidence of HF hospitalization in France in the post‐pandemic era, the prevalence of HF cases and patients' characteristics, management and outcomes while focusing on sex, age and socio‐economic differences and to analyse time‐trends between 2012 and 2022.
Valérie Olié, Richard Isnard, Françoise Pousset, Clémence Grave, Jacques Blacher, Amélie Gabet   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source