Nursing Home Residents' Perceptions on Ego-Integrity Achievement in Nursing Home

Nursing Home Residents

Nutritional Status and Related Factors in Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Introduction: A challenge for health care providers is that there will be a distinct rise globally in the number of elderly people aged 80 years and over. Malnutrition is a well-known problem among elderly people. The aim of this study was to determine nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly nursing home residents in Tehran, Iran.  Methods: The cross-sectional st...

Immunosenescence and vaccination in nursing home residents.

The elderly population continues to increase in most countries. Concomitantly, the number of individuals who are institutionalized is also increasing, unfortunately, with more and more individuals being institutionalized at greater ages. These elderly individuals are very different from healthy, community-dwelling elderly individuals, in that many are considered to be frail and have various chr...

Urinary incontinence in nursing home residents.

Spontaneous fractures in nursing home residents.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate spontaneous long bone fractures occurring in nursing home residents and to identify what factors put them at risk for fractures. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of a pubic hospital in Hong Kong. PATIENTS A total of 30 nursing home residents who developed spontaneous long bone fractures between 1994 and 2005 were review...