This should be the standard of care for nursing home residents with dementia, especially given prognostic difficulties of dementia's trajectory and the 6-month life-expectancy requirement for hospice (Meier et al., 2010). Nursing homes have a wide range of challenges in end-of-life care (e....
Bergland A, Kirkevold M. The significance of peer relationships to thriving in nursing homes. Journal of Clinical Nur- sing 2008;17(10):1295-302.Bergland A, Kirkevold M: The significance of peer relationships to thriving in nursing homes. J Clin Nurs 2008, 17: 1295-1302....
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rugby and Australian rules football. Considerable research also focuses on older adults with chronic diseases/geriatric conditions e.g. cancer and sarcopenia, with prostate cancer and residential aged care (nursing homes) being a focus. Some of the older adult research also uses quantitative and qual...
Nursing & Health Care Pharmaceutical Sciences View More Journal h-index: 30 Journal CiteScore: 11.83 Journal Impact Factor: 1.89 Average acceptance to publication time (5-7 days) Average article processing time (30-45 days) Editorial Board Satoshi Hayakawa, PhD Editor-in-Chief Clinician...
Chan School of Public Health, Population Services International, the WHO, and the Indian Council of Medical Research. The protocol was reviewed and re-approved on an annual basis. Consent for publication Not applicable. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests....
Volunteering is a great activity for us.We can volunteer at nursing homes,an elderly home or dirty places.(1) EThese activities improve our social skills while helping others. ◆Role play Role play is a tried-and-true activity that practices social skills.Come up with some...
Collectivisation, as a socio-innovation, is an incremental part of history that has much to teach on questions of asset commoning. Such notions can provide renewed perspectives in understanding today’s peer-to-peer (p2p) economy and its influence on hou
Despite the increasing popularity of peer-led and peer-staffed interventions, and the subsequent increase in research on peer involvement, interventions that specifically address the intersection of homelessness and problem substance use have not been systematically reviewed. This ‘state of the art’ re...
The results of our study point to a remarkably low use of analgesics in nursing home residents in Poland and indicate a need to introduce pain evaluation and monitoring of drug treatment appropriateness as a standard procedure in the geriatric assessment in nursing homes.Agnieszka...