Wisconsin's Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes

Down stairs that are never your own: supporting people with developmental disabilities in their own homes.

Supported living for people with developmental disabilities challenges many common service policies, practices, and assumptions. Until recently, professionals assumed that such people who did not reside with their families needed to live in some kind of service facility. Today, a growing number of people with developmental disabilities have challenged this assumption by living, with personalize...

"Mine own countree": quality of care in nursing homes.

Patterns of abuse of the elderly in their own homes as reported by district nurses.

This study aimed at describing patterns of abuse of elderly persons living in their homes as experienced by district nurses in a county of Sweden. 12% of the district nurses (n = 153) reported 30 cases. Those abused were 78.7 years old (mean) and half of them had disturbed memory and mental state and were mostly isolated. The abuser was a relative of the abused person and 64.2 years old (mean)....

Residents’ perceptions of their own sadness - a qualitative study in Norwegian nursing homes

BACKGROUND Mood symptoms are highly prevalent among frail old people residing in nursing homes. Systematic diagnostics of depression is scarce, and treatment is not always in accordance with best evidence. The distinction between non-pathological sadness and depression may be challenging, and we know little of the older peoples' perspectives. The aim of this qualitative interview study was to e...

A randomised trial of hip protector use by frail older women living in their own homes.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of hip protectors in frail community living older women. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Aged care health services in New South Wales, Australia. PATIENTS 600 women 74 years of age or more (mean age 83 years), who had two or more falls or one fall requiring hospital admission in the previous year, and who lived in their ...