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Towards specialised and differentiated long-term care services: a cross-sectional study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Numerous forces drive the evolution and need for transformation of long-term care services. During the previous decade, primary health care has assumed increased responsibility for developing and providing care services, but there is still ...
Hanne Marie Rostad, Marianne Sundlisæter Skinner, Ragnhild Hellesø, Maren Kristine Raknes Sogstad   +3 more
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Patterns of home care assessment and service provision before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada.

PLoS ONE, 2022
ObjectiveThe objective was to compare home care episode, standardised assessment, and service patterns in Ontario's publicly funded home care system during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., March to September 2020) using the previous year as
Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn, Heebah Sultan, Luke Andrew Turcotte, Caitlin McArthur, John P Hirdes   +4 more
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Use of covered services in Medicare home health care

, 1995
Click on the DOI link below to access the article (may not be free).Using data on 295 patients entering Medicare home health care at discharge from Medicare hospital stays, we explain receipt of Medicare home health nursing, PT and OT visits, and length ...
Black, Linda B., Benjamin, A. E., Fox, P., Swan, James H.   +3 more
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“If you understand you cope better with it”: the role of education in building palliative care capacity in four First Nations communities in Canada

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background In Canada, there is a growing need to develop community-based, culturally appropriate palliative care for Indigenous people living in First Nations communities.
Holly Prince, Shevaun Nadin, Maxine Crow, Luanne Maki, Lori Monture, Jeroline Smith, Mary Lou Kelley   +6 more
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Home hospital as a disposition for older adults from the emergency department: Benefits and opportunities

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
The $1 trillion industry of acute hospital care in the United States is shifting from inside the walls of the hospital to patient homes. To tackle the limitations of current hospital care in the United States, on November 25, 2020, the Center for ...
Kei Ouchi, Shan Liu, Daniel Tonellato, Yonatan G. Keschner, Maura Kennedy, David M. Levine   +5 more
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

HOME-BASED CARE PROVIDERS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: CHARACTERISTICS AND MODELS

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2019
This article presents the data of the home care mapping survey. The research was conducted in the Republic of Moldova and was based on a methodological approach centered on the knowledge of the situation in the field of home care services, based on the ...
Diana CHEIANU-ANDREI
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Home based primary care services in Singapore

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: In the World Report on Ageing and Health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) described the type of health care needed for ageing populations as “integrated health care for older people”.
Stephanie Q Ko, Serene Wong
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Elderly Care: A Study on Community Care Services in Sleman, DIY, Indonesia

Journal of Aging Research, 2020
Elderly care services are important to provide in response to the rapid growth of the elderly population. In developing countries like Indonesia, the speed of growth of the elderly population does not simultaneously occur, so the needs for care services ...
Sumini, Sukamdi, Evita Hanie Pangaribowo, Yeremias T. Keban, Muhadjir Darwin   +4 more
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Let There Be PEACE: Improving Continuous Symptom Monitoring in Hospice Patients

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 2020
Objective: To ensure that a standardized method of continuous symptom monitoring was available to hospice patients enrolled at our institution. Patients and Methods: The Palliative/End-of-Life/Assessment/Care Coordination/Evidence-Based Program (PEACE ...
Cory Ingram, MD, MS, Charles J. Bruce, MD, Erin L. Shadbolt, MSN, RN, Erin Mahnke, MHA, Adam Darkins, MD, Sheri Dodd, MS, Lindsay M. Streeter, RN, BSN, CHFN, ICST   +6 more
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