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BMC Public HealthBackground Despite frequently providing care to adults with cardiovascular (CV) disease in the home, home health aides and attendants (HHAs) have poor CV health (CVH) themselves, which is problematic for their own health and potentially their patients ...
Madeline Sterling +14 more
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Lack of protections for home care workers: overtime pay and minimum wage [PDF]
, 2012 This brief examines overtime hours and hourly wages among home care workers (home health aides and personal care aides) and compares them with hospital and nursing home aides. These aides engage in similar work for their clients, even though they work in
Smith, Kristin
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BMC Medicine, 2020 Background To estimate excess mortality for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, exploring associations with care home characteristics. Methods Daily number of deaths in all residential and nursing homes in England notified to the
M. Morciano +4 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2017 AIMS OF THE STUDY Patients with an acute or chronically negative nutritional balance are at nutritional risk. Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) are simple and effective medical treatments of nutritional risk.
Julie Mareschal +8 more
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Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022 Background Each year, approximately 100,000 individuals receive home health services after a stroke. Evidence has shown the benefits of home-based stroke rehabilitation, but little is known about resource-efficient ways to enhance its effectiveness, nor ...
Penny H. Feldman +4 more
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Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2011 The home is composed of many different devices, services and technologies. These rarely communicate with one another, and require various different computer systems and applications to be able to interact with them all remotely. A challenge within telecare is being able to exploit the functionality of these devices within the home and offer a common ...
Maternaghan, Claire, Turner, Kenneth J
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A Comparison of Home Care Quality Indicator Rates in Two Canadian Provinces [PDF]
, 2014 Background. Home care is becoming an increasingly vital sector in the health care system yet very little is known about the characteristics of home care clients and the quality of care provided in Canada.
Guthrie, Dawn M., Mofina, Amanda M
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Family experiences with palliative care for children at home: a systematic literature review
BMC Palliative Care, 2020 Background The main goal of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is to improve or maintain the best possible quality of life (QoL) for the child and their family.
Anette Winger +5 more
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AAA+ protein unfoldases—the Moirai of the proteome
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.AAA+ unfoldases are essential molecular motors that power protein degradation and disaggregation. This review integrates recent cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) structures and single‐molecule biophysical data to reconcile competing models of substrate translocation.
Stavros Azinas, Marta Carroni
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