FAMILY HEALTH AND HOME NURSING

Family caregivers' attitudes toward aging, caregiving, and nursing home placement.

Nursing home placement (NHP) is stressful both for older adults and for their family caregivers. This descriptive survey research investigated family caregivers' attitudes toward aging, their emotional appraisal of nursing home placement, and their reactions to caregiving roles. Eighty-eight survey packets were mailed and 35 usable packets were returned for a response rate of 39.5%. Sixty-four ...

Resident contact with family and friends following nursing home admission.

PURPOSE This study explored factors that are related to the level of contact (number of visits and calls) between newly admitted nursing home residents and their family and friends. In addition to reexamining factors studied previously, several new factors were explored: contact level prior to nursing home placement, dementia status, and resident race. DESIGN AND METHODS Interviews were condu...

Health promotion for the nursing home patient.

BACKGROUND The current nursing home population numbers at least 1.5 million and is growing. Although care of the nursing home patient has been emphasized recently, health promotion activities for these patients appear underused. Current recommendations for health promotion are based on expert opinion, because well-controlled studies to support such activities in the elderly are lacking for most...

Health Information Technology in the Nursing Home

Standards of home health nursing practice.