Reading Activities to Enhance the Lives of Nursing Home PatientsInstitutionalized PersonsNursing HomesOlder AdultsParticipant SatisfactionPatientsReading ProgramsRecreational Readingunavailable]doi:10.1300/J016v01n01_04Terry Lovelace PhDActivities Adaptation & Aging...
The use of warfarin in the nursing home setting presents substantial safety concerns for patients. Adverse events associated with warfarin therapy are comm... DR Boulware,WM Stauffer,BR Hendelpaterson,... 被引量: 67发表: 2007年 Warfarin Therapy in the Nursing Home-Reply Background: Hospitalization...
Nearly one half (48.1 percent) of physicians not currently caring for nursing home patients would continue to treat their own patient if that person were admitted to a nursing home. As the number of years in medical practice increased, statistically significant increases occurred in (1) the ...
Disability, characterised by the loss of ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL), is a defining feature of dementia that results in growing caregiver burden and the eventual need for alternative care or nursing home placement. Functional decline in patients with dementia can also result...
Foodborne illnesses, with wide regional variations, affect particularly children under the age of five, people living in disadvantaged conditions and immunocompromized people: the elderly,pregnant women, people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), transplant recipients, cancer patients, ...
Moreover, the fundamental tasks of BADLs are essential for personal survival and independent living, and difficulty with BADLs often signifies the need for direct care assistance. In patients with dementia, impairment in IADLs occur soon after onset [15]. Therefore, it is particularly important ...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate the nursing intervention standards of home care to home care setting for a guide in giving quality care to home hospice patients. Methods: The developed nursing standards were applied to 79 home hospice patients at K hospital, C university. Da...
Taylor & Francis Online :: Relationship Between Executive Functioning and Activities of Daily Living in Patients With Relatively Mild Dementia - Applied Ne... (2007). Relationship Between Executive Functioning and Activities of Daily Living in Patients With Relatively Mild Dementia. Applied ...
for BADL.76Occupational therapists help develop plans of care that help the patient reach maximum functional independence. Thefunctional independence measure(FIM) is an objective scale used to document functional gains in brain tumor patients, and the patients have similar FIM change as TBI patients ...
A total of 136 patients in a psychogeriatric department (mean age 76.4) were evaluated by members of the nursing staff on behavioural variables (mobility, washing, dressing, eating, control of bladder and bowels, ability to communicate, orientation in space, recognition of persons, participation, ...