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Preventive home visits for 75 year-old persons by the district nurse [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Action plans are needed to promote health and to prevent diseases amongst older persons so that they can remain with good health in their homes for as long as possible.
Sherman, Helena
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Current perspectives on pharmacist home visits: do we keep reinventing the wheel?

Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 2018
The scope of clinical pharmacy services available in outpatient settings, including home care, continues to expand. This review sought to identify the evidence to support pharmacist provision of clinical pharmacy services in a home care setting.
Priti S. Flanagan, Andrea Barns
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Frequency and predictors of emergency department visits among the oldest old in Finland: the Vitality 90+ Study

BMC Health Services Research
Background Emergency department (ED) visits increase with age. However, knowledge about the frequency and drivers of ED visits among the oldest old (90 years and above) is scarce, and neither is it known whether patterns differ between those living at ...
Sherin Billy Abraham, Jutta Pulkki, Mari Aaltonen, Esa Jämsen, Jani Raitanen, Linda Enroth   +5 more
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Are acceptance rates of a national preventive home visit programme for older people socially imbalanced?: a cross sectional study in Denmark

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Preventive home visits are offered to community dwelling older people in Denmark aimed at maintaining their functional ability for as long as possible, but only two thirds of older people accept the offer from the municipalities.
Yamada Yukari, Ekmann Anette, Nilsson Charlotte, Vass Mikkel, Avlund Kirsten   +4 more
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Exploring teachers’ perspectives on home visit practices in early childhood special education: A qualitative study from Türkiye

Journal of Childhood, Education & Society
This study explores preschool teachers’ perspectives on home visit practices as a means of strengthening school–family collaboration in early childhood education. Home visits are increasingly recognized as an effective tool for building trust, supporting
Ahmet İlkhan Yetkin, Özlem Yağcıoğlu Has, Furkan Akdağ   +2 more
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Motivation to take part in integrated care - an assessment of follow-up home visits to elderly persons

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2011
Objectives: The aim of follow-up visits by the general practitioner and district nurse (within a week after discharge from hospital) is to reduce hospital readmissions and improve the overall wellbeing of the patient.
Ulf Hjelmar, Carsten Hendriksen, Kirsten Hansen   +2 more
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Making home visits: Creativity and the embodied practices of home visiting in social work and child protection

Qualitative Social Work, 2016
Although the home is the most common place where social work goes on, research has largely ignored the home visit. Drawing on a participant observation study of child protection work, this article reveals the complex hidden practices of social work on ...
H. Ferguson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Medical Literary Messenger (Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2017) [PDF]

, 2017
Home Visit / Melissa Fournier -- Stiffness / Hannah Shea -- Exile / Lane Falcon -- Good Intentions / Laura Foley -- Resurrection / Les Cohen -- Visits / Craig W.

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Too Many Teens: Preventing Unnecessary Out-Of-Home Placements [PDF]

, 2015
The child welfare system was created to care for abused and neglected children. But too often, teenagers are landing in the system because they simply aren't getting along with their parents.
Anne Holton, Roque Gerald, Tamara Horne
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UK Breastfeeding Helpline support: An investigation of influences upon satisfaction [PDF]

, 2012
Background Incentive or reward schemes are becoming increasingly popular to motivate healthy lifestyle behaviours. In this paper, insights from a qualitative and descriptive study to investigate the uptake, impact and meanings of a breastfeeding ...
A Dean, A McEwen, Chris J Sutton, CL Dennis, CL Dennis, CL Dennis, CL Dennis, E McColl, Fiona Dykes, GD Meglio, Gill Thomson, GJ Coman, H Gilbert, J Boddy, J Dale, JM Lim, K Shandley, LB Chamberlain, Nicola Crossland, P Hugo, PA Janssen, PM Rutter, RA Bryant, RJ Reese, SF Wang, T Takabayashi, UK Young, V Schmied   +27 more
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