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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 20, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSome patients with end-stage dementia cannot or will not eat. One reason for this may be neurological dysphagia with an inability to co-ordinate the muscles involved in swallowing. Alternatively, it could be because the...
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From:Aging Health (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Lon S Schneider 1 Keywords : Alzheimer's disease; atypical antipsychotics; clinical trials; dementia; risperidone The diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease (AD) requires the presence of...
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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedChristopher Dobson (above), a service user from Nottingham, told delegates attending a concurrent session about some key episodes in his life. Mr Dobson, 58, lived with his parents until ten years ago, when he was...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 45) Peer-ReviewedFamily-style mealtimes maintain quality of life, physical performance and body weight in nursing home residents with chronic somatic diseases. Mealtimes in nursing homes provide an opportunity to integrate and...
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From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article demonstrates a method for evaluating the predictive validity of nursing home pre-admission screens (PAS) by using measures of predictive validity adapted from the field of epidemiology. Our approach...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjectives The aim of this data paper is to provide the data set of a sub-analysis of the DEMDATA study data. In the DEMDATA study, epidemiological data on the prevalence and severity of dementia, as well as...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOpen-hearted means generous, warm, but open-heart surgery is a scalpel slicing deep into your chest, a surgeon reaching in to extract your heart. In your beeping hospital room, bags of saline hang like the bags in which...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 38, Issue 9)SALT LAKE CITY -- Even among nursing home residents receiving substantial vitamin D supplements, half or more show deficiencies in the nutrient, according to two separate posters presented at the annual symposium of the...
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From:Review of Optometry (Vol. 142, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedOne in three nursing home residents who have Alzheimer's disease doesn't use or doesn't have glasses strong enough to correct eyesight, according to a study in July's Journal of the American Medical Directors...
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From:Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (Vol. 11, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Depression has a substantial negative impact on quality of life. Underdiagnosis and undertreatment of depression are major problems in nursing home residents. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to determine the...
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From:The Hastings Center Report (Vol. 32, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedLike everyone else inside the nursing home--or out--Mary Schmitz always hoped to avoid having to go to the hospital. She had been hospitalized twice in her life: once for a mastectomy when she was forty-two, and again,...
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From:Contemporary Long Term Care (Vol. 23, Issue 4)92-year-old Spanish instructor puts pen to paper Betty Otis believed in December 1998 that she had come to the Maryville Nursing Home in Beaverton, Ore., to die. After living independently since her husband's death...
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From:Contemporary Long Term Care (Vol. 23, Issue 1)Forty years ago, Loretta's [*] world was full of opportunity: trips to New York and Europe, interesting work, marriage, a family. Dressed in her strapless gowns and glittering jewels, she could have doubled for...
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From:Journal of Gerontological Nursing (Vol. 47, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedSocial network analysis (SNA) uses quantitative methods to analyze relationships between people. In the current study, SNA was applied in two nursing homes (NHs) to describe how health care teams interact via text...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 25, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedSummary Wound and pressure ulcer prevention are key quality indicators of nursing care. This article describes a collaborative project between a community skin care service and a nursing home. The aim of the project...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To examine the impact of a scaled implementation of workforce training intervention on value-based payment measures in a large home-based Medicaid managed long-term care plan population in New York. Data...
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From:Journal of Diabetes Nursing (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Diabetes is a common condition in older people but there is little information available about people living in care homes who have diabetes (British Diabetic Association, 1999). Older people can often...
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From:Journal of Social Work Education (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNURSING HOME RESIDENTS are among the most vulnerable individuals in the country. Approximately three quarters require help with three or more activities of daily living or have memory impairment, and as many as two...
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From:The Hastings Center Report (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNo matter how principled, the denial of butter cookies to a bedridden woman--one of the few joys of her life--appears at first blush to be a form of cruel and unusual punishment. Nevertheless this choice may have to...
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From:Families, Systems & Health (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFam Syst & Health 17:337-340, 1999 Working with aging family groups is not really much different from working with any other family with the complications of medical concerns. There are the same types of challenging...