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Home care of the frail elderly
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2004Statistics indicate that as the population ages, there will be an increased need for home care. Despite this increased need and the legal, clinical, and ethical obligations for physicians to participate, little training is available to physicians in the area of home care.
Anna U, Loengard, Jeremy, Boal
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URINARY INCONTINENCE IN THE ELDERLY AT HOME
Lancet, The, 1981N J, Vetter, D A, Jones, C R, Victor
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Home telecare technologies for the elderly
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2008There are many home telecare technologies which have been developed specifically for chronic diseases and there are some more generic technologies that could be used as well. For home telecare, the equipment must be certified, the operational routines must be reformed, the infrastructure must be in place, the market must be prepared, the health ...
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Journal of Community Health Nursing, 1992
(1992). Are the Elderly Safe at Home? Journal of Community Health Nursing: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 13-19.
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(1992). Are the Elderly Safe at Home? Journal of Community Health Nursing: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 13-19.
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Psychiatric Home Care for the Elderly
Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1997This study summarizes descriptive information concerning an existing psychiatric home care service and lays the foundation for more sophisticated studies of elderly depressed persons who receive this type of long term care. Using existing medical record data, the demographic and clinical characteristics of the elderly patients using a multi-site home ...
C J, Farran +3 more
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Modeling a Smart Home for Elderly
2014In the near future, our homes will be equipped with many sensors, actuators and devices able to smartly interact in order to offer complex services providing even richer functionalities. Among the general population, those most likely to benefit from the development of these systems are the elderly and dependent people who wish to continue living ...
Yacine Kissoum +2 more
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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1991
Virtually any individual, when required to assume the role of a patient, prefers home care to institutional care of any kind not only for reasons of personal comfort but because even at their best, hospitals are foreign and inimicable environments. Institutional care is associated with a loss of autonomy and control. This is dramatically highlighted by
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Virtually any individual, when required to assume the role of a patient, prefers home care to institutional care of any kind not only for reasons of personal comfort but because even at their best, hospitals are foreign and inimicable environments. Institutional care is associated with a loss of autonomy and control. This is dramatically highlighted by
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Advances in Nursing Science, 1991
Family home care of the elderly has become a primary focus of nursing theory, practice, and research. Traditional study of home care of the elderly, particularly the cognitively impaired, has focused on the experience of the caregiver. There is a need for consideration of the perception of the care recipient and the entire family unit.
C, O'Neill, E S, Sorensen
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Family home care of the elderly has become a primary focus of nursing theory, practice, and research. Traditional study of home care of the elderly, particularly the cognitively impaired, has focused on the experience of the caregiver. There is a need for consideration of the perception of the care recipient and the entire family unit.
C, O'Neill, E S, Sorensen
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A ubiquitous smart home for elderly
4th IET International Conference on Advances in Medical, Signal and Information Processing (MEDSIP 2008), 2008One major challenge to successful aging is the capability to preserve health, or from another perspective to avoid disease. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the elderly people are living with chronic diseases or disabilities. Home care technologies and other emerging technologies have the potential to play a major role in home-based health care ...
M. W. Raad, Laurence Tianruo Yang
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Care of the Helpless Elderly at Home
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1977The family and gerontological ...
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