"At home while you can." Discursive construction of home attachment in elderly people

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The prognosis of falls in elderly people living at home.

BACKGROUND there are few longitudinal studies of the prognosis of falling at home. OBJECTIVE to determine outcomes in older people who fall once and more than once. DESIGN longitudinal prospective cohort study. SETTING primary care in the UK. SUBJECTS 1815 subjects over 75 who had a standardized and validated health check. METHOD annual interviews over 4 years. Practice records were u...

Elderly people at home disabled by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

BACKGROUND We compared uptake of hospital and community-based support in elderly people disabled by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), normal controls (NCs) and patients with Parkinsons disease, stroke, amputation, or arthritis (disabled controls; DCs). METHODS There were 65 subjects (35 men) aged 70-93 years (mean 78) with COPD, 55 NCs [23 men; age range 71-90 years (mean 78)] and...

Caring for elderly people at home: the consequences to caregivers.

The emphasis on home-based care is one important aspect of health services restructuring initiatives in Canada. Fundamental to the preference for home-based care over institutional care is the expectation that family caregivers will be available in the home to support patients who would otherwise be in an institution. The authors explore the potential impact of this devolution of services from ...

"study on nutrition status and urinary tract infection in elderly people at nursing home"

malnutrition is a common problem among nursing home residents and encompasses adverse outcomes. this study was conducted to determine malnutrition and urinary tract infections as well as antibiotic resistance of isolated bacteria at kahrisak nursing home in tehran city, capital of iran. nutritional status was determined by direct detection of kitchen, checking the menue of weekly foods, quality...