Falls among older adults (OAs) living in retirement homes (RHs) in Canada are a major public health concern due to high morbidity and mortality as well as significant healthcare expenditures. This quality improvement (QI) initiative, conducted for the author's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) ...
but many low-value procedures are also routinely performed by nurses [4,9]. Well-known examples of low-value nursing procedures include the use of physical restraints in patients with a delirium, the use of bandages for wounds closed by primary intention, and performing a bladder ...
Keywords older people, hospital bed use, admissions avoidance, integrated care, systematic review Background There is an emerging consensus about the definition of frailty in older people and its association with increased hospital admissions due to falls, confusion and loss ...
Preventing falls in older people: Impact of an intervention to reduce environmental hazards in the home To evaluate the impact of an intervention to reduce fall hazards in the homes of older people. The intervention was administered to the 570 subjects in the... M Stevens,CD Holman,N Bennett...
According to the latest Human Development Report, though West Bengal improved its HDI score in 2017–18 over 2011–12, it still falls in the medium HDI category (Govt. of India 2020). In West Bengal, 14% of the people are below the poverty line compared to the national average of 23%...
Objectives of the fall prevention initiative; Factors necessary for the success of the program; Several measures adopted by the committee in order to reach its goals.Christopher, RondaNursing Homes Long Term Care Management
MEASUREMENTS At 2 and 4 weeks following intervention: change from baseline drug class–specific milligram‐equivalent daily dose (MEDD); at 2 weeks: patient falls and restraint use. RESULTS Within each intervention/drug‐class cohort, intervention patients and matched controls had similar baseline ...
nursing homespatient-centred careDehydration may increase the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs), which can lead to confusion, falls, acute kidney injury and hospital admission. We aimed to reduce the number of UTIs in care home residents which require admission to hospital. The principal ...
Older people in care homes living with frailty are less likely to benefit from tight glycaemic control in the management of type 2 diabetes with increased risk of adverse effects for example hypoglycaemia, falls and hospital admission. We wished to ascertain the scale of the problem and reduce ...
in Spanish nursing homes reported that in the first year of the pandemic, an increase in falls was observed, resulting in a higher severity of the consequences, i.e., fractures. This could be due to the residents’ activity restriction and consequently their higher SB levels, risk of ...