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Consistency evaluation of nursing interns and nurses using the ICF-RS for rehabilitation assessment

open access: yesBMC Nursing
Objective This study sought to evaluate the consistency of functional level assessments conducted by nursing interns and an experienced nurse in elderly patients, using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health ...
Shufen Pan   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occupational Dysfunction as a Mediator between Recovery Process and Difficulties in Daily Life in Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: A Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling Approach

open access: yesOccupational Therapy International, 2022
Background. This study is aimed at verifying a hypothetical model of the structural relationship between the recovery process and difficulties in daily life mediated by occupational dysfunction in severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI).
Aki Watanabe   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home health care planning with considering flexible starting/ending points and service features [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
One of the recently proposed strategies in health systems is providing services to patients at home, improving the service quality, besides reducing the health system costs. In the real world, some services, such as biological tests or blood sampling, force the nurses to start or end his/her route from/at the laboratory instead of the depot, changing ...
arxiv  

The Impact of a Cycled Lighting Intervention on Nursing Home Residents: A Pilot Study

open access: yesGerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2019
Purpose: Achieving adequate levels of illumination to stimulate the circadian system can be difficult in a nursing home. The aim of this study was to examine the impact that a 4-week cycled lighting intervention had on activity, sleep, and mood in older ...
Oonagh M. Giggins PhD   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Providing nursing support within residential care homes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study examines a joint NHS-Local Authority initiative providing a dedicated nursing and physiotherapy team to three residential care homes in Bath and North East Somerset.
Nelson, S. (Sara)   +2 more
core  

Tramadol/Diclofenac Fixed-Dose Combination: A Review of Its Use in Severe Acute Pain

open access: yesPain and Therapy, 2020
Pain is a health issue affecting all populations, regardless of age, gender, economic status, race, or geography. Acute pain is the most common type of pain, with a complex aetiology.
Dilip D. Shah, Zubair H. Sorathia
doaj   +1 more source

Fall Detector Adapted to Nursing Home Needs through an Optical-Flow based CNN [PDF]

open access: yes42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC2020, Jul 2020, Montreal, Canada, 2020
Fall detection in specialized homes for the elderly is challenging. Vision-based fall detection solutions have a significant advantage over sensor-based ones as they do not instrument the resident who can suffer from mental diseases. This work is part of a project intended to deploy fall detection solutions in nursing homes.
arxiv  

A Proposal to Finance Long-Term Care Services through Medicare with an Income Tax Surcharge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Proposes expanding Medicare to cover comprehensive long-term care services, including home care and custodial nursing home care, and financing this expansion of benefits with a surcharge on federal income ...
Leonard E. Burman, Richard W. Johnson
core   +1 more source

Libraries of life: Using life history books with depressed care home residents [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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