As long-term psychiatric hospitalization options have been reduced throughout the Western world, and community-based services have not kept pace with demand, adults with schizophrenia have increasingly been admitted to nursing homes despite the fact that they are often considerably younger than other ...
It has been found that radiographic progres- sion of disease is more likely to occur in older adults hospitalized with pneumonia (in 48% of those over age 65 years), than in younger adults (11% in those less than 65 years of age; P < 0.001) (Marrie et al., 1985). Slower ...
Most nursing home residents are elderly, but younger persons with severe disability are also part of the nursing home population. Multimorbidity is frequent. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are predominant (Seitz, Purandare & Conn, 2010), as are stroke, cardiovascular disease, and neurologic...
The term “elder abuse” can refer to several forms of abuse and occurs in homes, relatives’ homes and even in nursing homes of elderly adults. As men and women age and become dependent on others’ care, there are unscrupulous caregivers out there who take advantage of the situation. In ...
Du found that compared with home nursing, long-lived old people are more inclined to support professional institutions than younger people. With the increase of age, the physical fitness of the old people will decline, and professional nursing homes can manage their daily life [12]. Some ...
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Long-stay nursing home residents experience frequent transfers to the hospital. Dispelling the assumption that as individuals age and become more frail, higher rates of transfer from nursing homes to hospitals occur, a groundbreaking ...
This hidden form of abuse constitutes less than one percent of all cases reported and substantiated by Adult Protective Services (APS), typically the agency of first report of the mistreatment of vulnerable younger and older adults. Both researchers and practitioners stress that this estimate ...
nursing home residents fall disproportionately compared to people the same age. Even though only 5% of adults ages 65 and older live in nursing homes, 20% of the people in that age group who fall are nursing home residents. That’s partly because they tend to have health conditions that mak...
nursing homes by the older adults and other stakeholders; 5) challenges and recommendations to implement information technologies that facilitate medical services in nursing homes. Other articles irrelevant to the study objectives or not in nursing home settings were excluded, for example, the smart ...