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Delirious Mania: Can We Get Away with This Concept? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2012
Background. Delirious mania (DM) as a clinical entity is well described, yet is often unrecognized in clinical practice. While most often misdiagnosed as acute psychotic episodes of organic delirium, these patients meet the criteria for mania with ...
Rajshekhar Bipeta, Majeed A. Khan
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Persistent geographic variations in availability and quality of nursing home care in the United States: 1996 to 2016

BMC Geriatrics, 2019
Background Availability of nursing home care has declined and national efforts have been initiated to improve the quality of nursing home care in the U.S.
Yun Wang, Qiuli Zhang, Erica S. Spatz, Yan Gao, Sheila Eckenrode, Florence Johnson, Shih-Yieh Ho, Shuang Hu, Chao Xing, Harlan M. Krumholz   +9 more
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Epidemiology of benign paroxysomal positional vertigo (BPPV) and risk factors for secondary BPPV: a population-based study

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2023
Background BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) is a disorder that causes sudden, spinning sensation for few seconds with specific head movements. Of all disorders of inner ear that causes dizziness, BPPP is the most common one. To understand this
Anirban Ghosh, Srinivas Dorasala
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Libraries of life: Using life history books with depressed care home residents [PDF]

, 2006
Depression is a common, and often undetected, psychiatric disorder in geriatric care home residents 1,2. Reminiscence, an independent nursing therapy used by a variety of health and social care professionals, can prevent or reduce depression 14.
Plastow, N A
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Access to Transition Planning and Support for Young People Who Self‐Place When in Out‐Of‐Home Care: The Perspectives of Young People and Practitioners

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the experiences of young people in Queensland, Australia, under child protection orders who leave approved out‐of‐home care placements (e.g., foster; residential care) to stay in unapproved locations (e.g., sleeping on the streets; staying with friends, family/kin, or strangers).
Jemma Venables, Laura Simpson Reeves, Kathy Ellem, Karen Healy, Joel Cullin   +4 more
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Perception of facing life's challenges in patients with spinal cord injury in Iran: a qualitative study

BMC Psychology, 2022
Background Spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most serious types of physical trauma and has become a major life-threatening condition in the recent decade.
Fateme Mohammadi, Khodayar Oshvandi, Mostafa Bijani, Seyed Reza Borzou, Masoud khodaveisi, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi   +5 more
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Care Leavers Into Parenthood: Support Needs and Effective Practice Approaches Through Transitions From Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is significant local and international evidence to show that young people transitioning from care have children by age 21 at far higher rates than the general youth population. Intergenerational child protection involvement is also far higher for this group.
Jade Purtell, Sarah Morris
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The consequences of COVID-19 lockdown for formal and informal resource utilization among home-dwelling people with dementia: results from the prospective PAN.DEM study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background COVID-19 isolated home-dwelling people with dementia (PwD) from home care services, respite care, and daytime activities. We aimed to investigate the consequences of these restrictions on informal (family, friends) and formal (homecare staff ...
Maarja Vislapuu, Renira C. Angeles, Line I. Berge, Egil Kjerstad, Marie H. Gedde, Bettina S. Husebo   +5 more
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Nursing Homes in the Crosshairs

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2020
COVID-19 exposes ongoing risks to residents.
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Depressive illness in institutionalised older people in Malta [PDF]

, 2015
Depression in older persons is associated with being placed in a nursing home. Depression is linked to increased medical morbidity in nursing home residents. 150 patients living in two nursing homes in Malta were included in the study.
Fiorini, Anthony, Zammit, Paul
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