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The significance of the psychosocial work environment for care workers`perceived health, presenteeism, rationing of care, and job satisfaction: a sub-study of the Swiss Nursing Home Human Resources Project (SHURP) [PDF]

, 2016
Healthcare is a high-risk industry, not only for patients, but also for staff, whose health and wellbeing can be affected. While research has extensively examined the health of care workers in hospital settings, nursing homes have been less researched in
Dhaini, Suzanne R.
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Can Older Women Residing in Nursing Homes Feel Empowered? An Exploration of Narrative [PDF]

, 2003
It is assumed that those individuals residing in nursing homes have poor health and little control over their lives. As a consequence there has been little research on this group of people in connection with empowerment.
Swindle, Jennifer
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IN THE SWISS NURSING HOMES INDUSTRY [PDF]

, 2008
This paper examines the cost efficiency in the nursing home industry, an issue of concern to Swiss policy makers because of the explosive growth of national expenditure on elderly care and the aging of the population.
Nursing Homes, Diego Lunati, Mehdi Farsi
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Prescribed medicines for elderly frail people with diabetes resident in nursing homes : issues of polypharmacy and medication costs [PDF]

, 2011
Aims To describe the numbers and costs of medications prescribed to people living with diabetes resident in nursing homes in one primary care trust in the UK. Methods A retrospective case notes review of 75 people with known diabetes who were resident in
A. Sinclair, M. Galloway, R. Gadsby, Sinclair, A., Barker, P., Galloway, Mark, Gadsby, R., Barker, Peter, Sinclair, Alan (Alan J.), P. Barker, Gadsby, Roger, Galloway, M.   +11 more
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Nursing home staff’s experiences with the implementation of an automated blister packaging system for solid, orally ingestible drugs: a qualitative study in Northern Italy

BMJ Open
Objectives To explore nursing home (NH) staff’s experiences implementing an automated blister packaging system for solid, orally ingestible drugs.Design This was a descriptive qualitative study.
Dietmar Ausserhofer, Waltraud Tappeiner, Heike Wieser, Rita Obkircher, Jessica Pigneter, Jacob Roth   +5 more
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White Matter Hyperintensity Burden and Short‐Interval Change Associated With Sleep Apnoea in the UK Biobank

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Purpose White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a core neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Sleep apnoea (SA) is a recognized vascular risk factor, but its associations with regional WMH burden, short‐interval WMH change and cognitive performance in population‐based cohorts remain incompletely defined. We
Peng Cheng, Diego Z. Carvalho, Shahid Karim, Anwar Chahal, Virend K. Somers   +4 more
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Falls in nursing homes: challenges from a nursing perspective [PDF]

, 2019
Falls are very common among older people. Previous literature has reported a mean fall rate of 1.7 falls per person-year (range, 0.6–3.6) for those who live in nursing homes (Rubenstein et al, 1994) and a rate of 0.65 (range, 0.3–1.6) for those living in
Chan, Daniel Kam Yin, Chan, Luke Kar Man
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Digital Cognitive Phenotyping for Differential Diagnosis and Monitoring in Neurological Conditions

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the utility, accessibility, and equivalence to supervised scales of online cognitive assessment in older individuals with cognitive impairment. Methods Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD, n = 31), idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH, n = 26), and traumatic brain injury (TBI, n = 23) completed online cognitive ...
Martina Del Giovane, Valentina Giunchiglia, Michael C. B. David, Magdalena A. Kolanko, William R. Trender, Peter J. Hellyer, Harmeena Kaur, David J. Sharp, Christopher Carswell, Paresh A. Malhotra, Adam Hampshire   +10 more
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Variation in emergency department visits among residents of Swedish nursing homes between 2019 and 2020, a population-based cohort study

BMC Health Services Research
Background Nursing homes have limited capacity to provide medical care to clinically frail residents and therefore rely on transferring residents to hospital-based emergency departments when acute medical needs arise.
Wilhelm Linder, Douglas Spangler, Megan Doheny, Alfons Grönström, David Isaksson, Ulrika Winblad   +5 more
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