Day care

بررسی وضعیت سالمندآزاری در سالمندان تحت پوشش برنامه Day Care

Introduction and purpose: Elder abuse is an important health problem that is becoming a major social issue in the near future due to increase number of older population.  The purpose of this study was to assess elder abuse and its dimensions in day care centers.  Materials and Methods:This cross sectional study was conducted among elderly utilizing day care services in rehabilitati...

District paediatric day care.

Although there have been several recent papers published on the results of day case surgery in children, little has been written on hospital-based day care for medical problems; in spite of this lack of information we believe many paediatric units provide this service. This paper describes our attempts to organize medical day cases on a general paediatric ward, and analyses some problems encoun...

The day-care dilemma.

Psychiatric day-care in Birmingham.

The first psychiatric day-hospital in the United Kingdom was established in 1946 through the initiative of Bierer. This innovation was received with some scepticism (Bierer, 1955) and five years passed before a second day-hospital was created. Interest gradually increased, and by 1959 there were at least 38 psychiatric day-hospitals (Farndale, 1961). In the early sixties the movement received a...

Problems in day care surgery.

In-patient admission represents a failure of a day care service. The hospital records of 105 patients transferred from the day ward to the in-patient wards were studied retrospectively. Of 2,039 patients treated in the day care ward, 105 (5%) required in-patient admission over a 12 month period. Of these 105 admissions, 17% did not fulfil the criteria for day care patients, 46% had surgical pro...