Oral health educational interventions for nursing home staff and residents

Coordinating the roles of nursing home staff and families of elderly nursing home residents.

This study examines families' and nurses' perceptions of the functions that should be performed by families of elderly nursing home residents and whether there is congruency between nursing staff and families' perceptions. This was a quasi-experimental study and was based on questionnaires distributed among 85 nurses and 68 families of nursing home residents. The findings indicated that the sta...

Educational interventions to empower nursing home residents: a systematic literature review

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Health education is essential to improve health care behavior and self-management. However, educating frail, older nursing home residents about their health is challenging. Focusing on empowerment may be the key to educating nursing home residents effectively. This paper examines educational interventions that can be used to empower nursing home residents. METHODS A syste...

Timing in the communication of pain among nursing home residents, nursing staff, and clinicians.

BACKGROUND The management of nursing home (NH) residents' pain requires adequate nursing assessment and clinician knowledge of pain therapies. However, the timely communication of pain from residents to nurses and from nurses to clinicians is equally necessary. Using a 4-step model (nursing assessment of pain, notification of clinicians regarding pain assessment, clinicians' assessment of pain ...

Nursing Home Residents

Protein-energy oral supplementation in malnourished nursing-home residents.

OBJECTIVES To validate a nutritional intervention programme for elderly people living in nursing homes. DESIGN In a prospective, randomized, controlled study of 88 residents, we determined nutritional status at day 0 and day 60 using a record of dietary intake, anthropometry, hand-grip strength and mini-nutritional assessment. Dietary intake, grip strength and body weight were also recorded a...