The article discusses the benefits of residential aged care nurses being covered under an Enterprise Agreement at their place of employment. According to the author, aged care nurses who are not covered under an Enterprise...
The “Through Our Eyes” program was the winner of the 2016 National Aged Care Quality Pastoral and Spiritual Care Practice Award, presented by Meaningful Ageing Australia. In conjunction with Meaningful Ageing Australia, Carrington has launched a new Intergenerational Reminiscence Guide aimed at assistin...
The University of Pittsburgh’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approved all experimentation. Following acquisition, animals were habituated to pole and collar handling and placement in a behavioral primate chair (Primate Products, Immokalee, FL). Collars were fitted with compact ...
JAGES is a large-scale population-based longitudinal study about aging established in 2010, mainly collected through self-administered mail surveys, targeting older people aged 65+ who do not receive long-term care insurance benefits38. JAGES has conducted a joint survey with municipalities that are...
Exclusion criteria included an ina- bility to speak English and living in a residential care facility. After recruitment, there were 3,207 participants with a mean age of 66.3 years and 49.6% were male. Ethics approval for the study was obtained from the Hunter New England Local Health ...
The first ever collaborative team of 4 Aged Care Providers; Princes Court, Chaffey Aged Care, Jacaranda Village & Murray House co-win the LASA “Team Award”. Why we decided to collaborate? The organisation’s recognised they all struggle with the same concerns in accessing qualified and ...
Moreover, lack of safety may augment the social isolation of women who experience IPV through limiting contact with neighbors, impeding development of supportive relationships and thereby increasing childhood obesity risk by influencing caretaking ability. While there is a growing appreciation of the ...
Future work is needed to translate this information into clinical practice guidelines and disseminate this information to health care providers and the general public. While this review was limited to children and youth, similar work is needed to inform sedentary guidelines for young children aged 0-...
Dr Dublin reported receiving a Merck/American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award (honorarium paid directly to Dr Dublin) for unrelated work. Dr Andrade reported that the Meyers Primary Care Institute has received funding from GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis Pharmaceuticals, manufacturers of medications ...
Methods Participants A total of 69 parent-child dyads were recruited through advertisement at a children’s medical center and surrounding primary care clinics. Inclusion criteria were as follows: children aged 3 to 5 years, born at at least 36 weeks’ gestation, living in a household of native...