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Acceptability and tolerability of alcohol-based hand hygiene products for elderly residents in long-term care: a crossover study
... the elderly residents in our study were willing and even enthusiastic about using ABHR for hand hy- ...the elderly, and the increased staff to resi- dent care often required for elderly with ...
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Promotion of health and quality of life of elderly residents in a long term institution of a city of the north of minas gerais
... institutionalized elderly is even more serious, as they experience greater losses, are deprived of their home, their natural environment, often abandoned by their families, being forced to live with different ...
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Prevalence of automedication in elderly residents in the urban area of almeida license city before risk factors of this practice
... the elderly population such as gastrointestinal disorders, kidney and liver diseases, poisoning, adverse reactions, and the possibility of hypersensitivity reactions, momentarily relieving camouflage ...in ...
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Associated factors of abdominal obesity in elderly residents in a community
... The high prevalence of SH in the present study resembles the one that was found by Jacinto et al. (2014) in Minas Gerais. This is one of the main risk factors for several chronic diseases and it is considered as the most ...
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Perceptions of physical activity among elderly residents and professionals in assisted living facilities
... may also include that you as old may be regarded as, you are weak, sick, and do not want and cannot be physically active [35]. This view could be a result of professionals not believing that older residents can or ...
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Prevalence and Predictors of Unmet Needs among the Elderly Residents of the Rural Field Practice Area of a Tertiary Care Centre from Northern India
... of elderly, it is important to identify the target elders who need the service the most (predictors of unmet need) in order to provide the home based and community care services so that we can “Add life to the ...
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The effect of social relationships on survival in elderly residents of a Southern European community: a cohort study
... The evidence provided by numerous observational studies on the protective effects of social relationships on mortal- ity is solid enough to develop and evaluate interventions which promote social networks and support of ...
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Nursing Staff’s Experiences of Providing Toilet Assistance to Elderly Nursing Home Residents with Urinary Incontinence
... imagine elderly residents’ situation showed that empathy is vital to ensuring that the elderly’s needs re- garding visiting the lavatory are ...the elderly dignified and respectful care, en- sure the ...
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Nutritional status among older residents with dementia in open versus special care units in municipal nursing homes: an observational study
... 120/1,000 residents, while the corresponding number in Oslo was 150/1,000 ...of residents living per unit should be less than 12 for residents with dementia and between 4 and 8 for residents ...
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Factors associated with physiotherapy provision in a population of elderly nursing home residents; a cross sectional study
... analysis, residents with dementia are less likely to receive PT, leaving all other predictor var- iables ...Furthermore, residents admitted for rehabilitation and residents living on a somatic ward ...
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Association among activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living and health-related quality of life in elderly Yi ethnic minority
... rural elderly in the same prov- ince after the flood disaster ...the elderly residents from urban areas re- vealed that the elderly residents living with a spouse alone obtained better ...
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Eating Patterns and Physical Activity in Older Adults Carpio Córdoba, Spain and Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico
... Aging is a complex phenomenon and obvious, old age in Mexico is compared to disability, vulnerability, complexity and discrimination in our country’s life expectancy is not very long compared to other countries. “Diet is ...
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Effects of Tai Chi Exercise on depression in older adults: A randomized controlled trial
... Introduction: Depression is a chronic but curable disease that early diagnosis and treatment can lead to a higher life quality. A supplementary treatment such as exercise can reduce depressive symptoms. Tai Chi exercise ...
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The effect of religious intervention on depressive symptoms and quality of life among Indonesian elderly in nursing homes: A quasi-experimental study
... Indonesian elderly in nursing homes ...Sixty elderly residents at three NHs in three districts in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score of 5–11 were recruited and ...
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The Psychometric Properties of Falls Efficacy Scale in the Elderly Iranian Residents of Nursing Homes
... The current study was designed to translate FES and investigate its validity and reliability of in the elderly Iranian residents of nursing homes. The obtained results suggested that this scale has a ...
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Screening for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a residence home for elderly in Germany
... avoiding any inconvenience to working time or nega- tive impact on nursing quality. In similar studies, suc- cessful point-of-care testing for MRSA and other bacteria using real time PCR has already been dem- onstrated ...
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the nutritional form for the elderly (NUFFE) in nursing home residents
... The MNA is composed of 18 items relating to anthro- pometric measurements (BMI, MAC, and CC), questions about appetite, weight loss, mobility, psychological stress or acute diseases, neuropsychological diseases, type of ...
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Do Geriatric Home Visits Enhance Learning of Post Graduate Trainees? A Qualitative Study from Pakistan
... of elderly patients in their home/nursing home environment, “In one of the visits we saw a patient who was blind and her son had fixed a rope from her bed to the bathroom to allow her to walk there on her own, ...
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Relationships between orthostatic hypotension, frailty, falling and mortality in elderly care home residents
... of frailty through assessments of gait speed and handgrip strength [13, 14]. The FI also per- mits some flexibility in deficits considered, as long as at least 30–40 deficits are included, and provides a con- tinuous ...
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Being Dignified: The Lived Experience of Elderly Chinese Residents in a Private Nursing Home in Hong Kong
... The last step was to engage in phenomenological writing, which included writing and rewriting. This phase in this research process was to create a phenomenological text which included describing the lived human ...
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