Foster home care for the frail elderly as an alternative to nursing home care: an experimental evaluation.

Augmented home nursing as an alternative to hospital care for chronic elderly invalids.

A scheme of augmented home care for disabled elderly invalids is compared with long-stay hospital care. Initial results suggest that selected patients may be suitable for home care if they can be left unsupervised at night or if a relative is available to provide supervision. The cost of such care is in most cases cheaper than keeping the patient in hospital, and schemes such as this might redu...

Nursing home care: an introduction.

Practicing nursing home medicine can be both rewarding and challenging. Nursing homes provide a low overhead, flexible, self-designed practice setting with varied, complex patients. With recent changes in the health care system, nursing homes have become places of increasing medical acuity, and are no longer only places of long term residential care. Increasing efforts by Centers for Medicare a...

Evaluation of Home Care Nursing for Elderly People in Cyprus

Background: Europe has the highest proportion of people aged 65 and older (16%). From 2000 until 2050, the world’s population aged 65 and over will be more than triple from 600 million to 2 billion. Elderly prefer to be cared at home. Aims: This article aims to present an evaluation of home care nursing of elderly people in Cyprus. It assesses whether the needs of the clients are met and discus...

Pet therapy: an effective strategy to care for the elderly? An experimental study in a nursing home.

BACKGROUND AND AIM There has recently been a growing interest towards patients' affective and emotional needs, especially in relational therapies, which are considered vital as to increase the understanding of those needs and patients' well-being. In particular, we paid attention to those patients who are forced to spend the last phase of their existence in residential facilities, namely elderl...

Nursing and care for the elderly at home.