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Positive Communication: Classroom, Workplace, And Parenting

Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education
Education provides students with the important, domain-specific skills required for their chosen career (e.g., nursing, engineering, etc). However, institutions of higher education are also tasked with developing transferable or “soft” skills which will
Lynne Kennette, Lisa Rausch
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The Interactive Relationship between Pain, Psychosis, and Agitation in People with Dementia: Results from a Cluster-Randomised Clinical Trial

Behavioural Neurology, 2016
Background. Neuropsychiatric symptoms are common in people with dementia, and pain is thought to be an important underlying factor. Pain has previously been associated with agitation, and pain treatment has been shown to ameliorate agitated behaviour. So
Torstein F. Habiger, Elisabeth Flo, Wilco P. Achterberg, Bettina S. Husebo   +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 health care

نشریه پرستاری ایران, 1999
EXTRACT Today home health care is implementing in many countries. In Iran, because of increasing population growth and hospital investments, home health care is not avoidable.
Porsa SH.
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Activity and Behavioral Recognition Using Sensing Technology in Persons with Parkinson’s Disease or Dementia: An Umbrella Review of the Literature

Sensors
Background: With a progressively aging global population, the prevalence of Parkinson’s Disease and dementia will increase, thus multiplying the healthcare burden worldwide.
Lydia D. Boyle, Lionel Giriteka, Brice Marty, Lucas Sandgathe, Kristoffer Haugarvoll, Ole Martin Steihaug, Bettina S. Husebo, Monica Patrascu   +7 more
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Breve Reseña de la Enfermería Domiciliaria: Una Perspectiva de la Atención Privada

Ciencia y Enfermería
La atención domiciliaria prestada a un sector de la comunidad santiaguina es descrita en este artículo. La selección de pacientes, la participación de la familia, los costos del servicio y cargas de trabajo de las enfermeras son discutidos como también ...
Angélica Orb, Alicia Santiagos
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The story of pain in people with dementia: a rationale for digital measures

BMC Medicine
Background The increasingly older world population presents new aging-related challenges, especially for persons with dementia unable to express their suffering. Pain intensity and the effect of pain treatment are difficult to assess via proxy rating and
Monica Patrascu, Line I. Berge, Ipsit V. Vahia, Brice Marty, Wilco P. Achterberg, Heather Allore, Richard R. Fletcher, Bettina S. Husebo   +7 more
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Wavelet-Based Tremor Quantification From Wrist-Worn Sensor Data in Home-Dwelling People With Parkinson’s Disease

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Objective: Tremor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are challenging to assess due to low resolution and subjectivity from standard clinical scales. To address this, wearable devices have been used, but algorithms have been relying on controlled
Haakon Reithe, Monica Patrascu, Juan C. Torrado, Elise Forsund, Bettina S. Husebo, Simon U. Kverneng, Erika Sheard, Charalampos Tzoulis, Brice Marty   +8 more
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Decoding death and dying in people with dementia by digital thanotyping: a longitudinal observational study protocol

BMJ Open
Introduction As individuals approach the end of life, physical, mental and social functions decline. However, reliable methods to detect and characterise symptoms of the terminal phase in people with dementia are lacking.
Jenny T van der Steen, Heather G Allore, Bettina S Husebø, Ipsit V Vahia, Kamilla G Haugland, Lydia Boyle, Anne Therese Hatle, Farzana Haque, Oda S A Isene, Monica Patrascu   +9 more
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Electronic frailty index based on comprehensive geriatric assessment in primary care: feasibility, validity, and reliability

BMC Geriatrics
Background To aid frailty management in primary care we developed an electronic Frialty Index based on a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (eFI-CGA). Here we report the feasibility, validity, and reliability of the eFI-CGA when conducted in primary care.
Xiaowei Song, Grace Park, Barry Clarke, Samuel D Searle, Belinda Robinson, Hilary Low, Jodie Penwarden, Kaitlin Harding, Sherri Fay, Margaret CM Lin, Melissa K Andrew, Anson Li, Valerie Lewis, Paul Fluit, Olga Theou, Kenneth Rockwood   +15 more
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