Long Term Care in Elderly
Detection of suicide among the elderly in a long term care facility
... Patients and methods: Seventy elderly residents in a long term care facility were included in this study. All of these patients completed a CSI and a geriatric depression scale (GDS), plus ...
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How European Nations Care for Their Elderly: A new typology of long-term care systems. ENEPRI Policy Brief No. 7, August 2011
... ENEPRI Policy Briefs extract the policy implications of research carried out by member institutes of the European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes. Initiated by CEPS in 1999, ENEPRI conducts research on ...
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Contribution of the long-term care insurance certificate for predicting 1-year all-cause readmission compared with validated risk scores in elderly patients with heart failure
... society, long-term care insurance (LTCI) has been successively introduced to provide social care for the frail and elderly to lead more independent lives in several countries including ...
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An ecological study on the relationship between supply of beds in long term care institutions in Italy and potential care needs for the elderly
... of elderly serv- ices is the use of acute care hospital beds ...in long term care institutions and potential care needs for the elderly, there was a high level of family ...
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Equity of access to long term care among the Korean elderly
... health care system leaves the people relatively unprotected in time of financial ...use long-term care ser- vices provide evidence that they do not have full finan- cial access to ...
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Patients' experiences of the quality of long term care among the elderly: comparing scores over time
... for long- term care for the elderly is called the ‘Quality Frame- work Responsible ...residential care facil- ities, and a mail questionnaire for assisted-living clients that receive ...
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Acceptability and tolerability of alcohol-based hand hygiene products for elderly residents in long-term care: a crossover study
... in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are at increased risk of colonization or infection with multi- drug resistant organisms (MDROs) [1, ...involving elderly patients at a post-acute ...
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The effects of socio-economic status and physical health on the long-term care needs of Japanese urban elderly: a chronological study
... Secondly, although the direct effect of SES on LTC needs was not strong, the direct effects of SES on physical health in 2001 and an indirect effect on physical health in 2004 were stronger. The impact of SES on physical ...
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Behavioral cues to expand a pain model of the cognitively impaired elderly in long-term care
... to assess resident cognitive status. The CPS instrument is a MDS-RAI item scale derived from sections B, C, and G of the resident assessment form. Seven levels of cognitive function- ing can be determined, ranging from a ...
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Assessment of nursing home residents in Europe: the Services and Health for Elderly in Long TERm care (SHELTER) study
... HOme Care (ADHOC) study contributed to the creation of a cross- national database on community care for older people, enabling the possibility of examining quality, outcomes, and trends in home care ...
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The Long-Term Care Insurance Program in Israel: solidarity with the elderly in a changing society
... formal care- givers for no fewer than 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, and they present a signed contract with a formal caregiver who is not a family ...of care as did beneficiaries who receive services from ...
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A study of longitudinal data examining concomitance of pain and cognition in an elderly long-term care population
... cues, verbal complaints, facial expressions, and protective body movements were added as additional assessment items to more fully convey pain in this population. The use of federally-mandated resident assessment surveys ...
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Development of a periodic health examination form for the frail elderly in long-term care
... LTC. Long-term care physi- cians might also recognize that monitoring function and assessing items that would negatively affect the function and quality of life of an LTC resident are of top impor- ...
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Relationships between orthostatic hypotension, frailty, falling and mortality in elderly care home residents
... as long as at least 30–40 deficits are included, and provides a con- tinuous scoring system with identifiable cut-points for frailty severity [3, 10, 15, ...acute care hospital setting, but has not been ...
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Perspectives of families and health professionals about the experience of elderlies women who live in a long term care institution
... These elderly women here represent a small portion of what I call lucky in Brazil. They have reached a stage in their lives that has lived everything they wanted, planned and decided to live here because of the ...
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Physical and mental health aspects of elderly in social care in Poland
... 300 elderly individuals in care in Poland were included in the ...of long-term care institutions (group I), resi- dents of adult day-care homes (group II), and community-dwelling ...
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Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for older patients in long-term care
... American long-term care ...of care may vary from one setting and one region to another ...community-dwelling elderly in the United ...the long-term care context in ...
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Improving long term care provision: towards demand based care by means of modularity
... and elderly clients to find and use the options ...of care and service ...case, care and service modules had been identified that together formed the main building blocks of a menu of choice ...‘ ...
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Health measurement using the ICF: Test-retest reliability study of ICF codes and qualifiers in geriatric care
... 788 elderly patients (age> = 65 years) using LTCI services were selected from 5 hospitals, 29 long-term care institu- tions, 11 day-care centers, and 14 visiting nursing service ...
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Needs of fundamental care in elderly with dependence on self carein Long term context: a scoping review
... some elderly people, especially when a new situation of dependency occurs or the previous dependence is aggravated, without a sufficient diagnosis of their needs of ...the long-term care needs ...
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