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Older people and preventive home visits

, 2006
Preventive home visits, functional limitations ...
Avlund, Kirsten, Vass, Mikkel, Hendriksen, Carsten   +2 more
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Locomotion difficulty and need for home care: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE To investigate home visits by physicians or nurses for consultations and procedures and associated factors in families with people with mobility difficulties and need for home care.
Rogério da Silva Linhares, Elaine Thumé, Maria Laura Vidal Carrett, Everton José Fantinel, Maria Aurora Dropa Chrestani Cesar, Elaine Tomasi   +5 more
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The workload for home visits by German family practitioners: an analysis of regional variation in a cross-sectional study

BMC Family Practice, 2019
Background In Germany, home visits account for a considerable workload for many family practitioners, substantial rural-urban disparities are assumable with regards to home visit frequency and duration.
Maik Pochert, Karen Voigt, Martin Bortz, Alessa Sattler, Jeannine Schübel, Antje Bergmann   +5 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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Virtual Visits in Home Health Care for Older Adults [PDF]

, 2014
Background. This review identifies the content of virtual visits in community nursing services to older adults and explores the manner in which service users and the nurses use virtual visits. Design. An integrative literature review. Method.
Marianne Storm, Husebø, Anne Marie Lunde, Storm, Marianne, Anne Marie Lunde Husebø   +3 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Potentially preventable emergency department visits by nursing home residents; United States, 2004 [PDF]

KEY FINDINGS: Data from the National Nursing Home Survey, 2004. In 2004, 8 percent of U.S. nursing home residents had an emergency department (ED) visit in the past 90 days.

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The experience of Malaysian occupational therapists in conducting home assessments and home visits with older clients [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction: Home visits are complex processes for clients and occupational therapists. Despite the benefits of home visits, the numbers of home visits being conducted are decreasing in international settings due to service constraints or client ...
Clemson, Lindy, Romli, Muhammad Hibatullah, Tan, Maw Pin, Mackenzie, Lynette, Lovarini, Meryl   +4 more
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Cancer causes emergency home visits

Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2022
Koki Kato, Masaya Tomita, Moe Kato, Takaaki Goto, Kyukei Nishizono   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source