Abstract Recent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly family members. A large proportion Muslim attach great importance caring the as a tradition prefer take care their own members at home. Nevertheless, fact morality, incentives, obligations relation may legitimized and/or contested with ref...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the difficulties that homecare nurses face in practicing nutritional support for terminally ill clients with cancer at home. Semi-structured interviews were conducted 12 working area A Osaka Prefecture, and analysis using Krippendorff content analysis. As a result, found that, as providing receiving treatment home, already had “difficulties dietary accor...

Patients (n=395) with terminal-stage cancer receiving attention from palliative care services (PCSs) were recruited over a period of 15 consecutive days from 171 participating PCS units. Resource consumption and costs were evaluated for 16 weeks of follow-up, and the findings were compared with a study conducted in 1992 so as to assess change over time. The most frequent health care interventio...

BACKGROUND Delirium is an acute cognitive impairment among older hospitalized patients. It can persist until discharge and for months after that. Despite proof that evidence-based nursing interventions are effective in preventing delirium in acute hospitals, interventions among home-dwelling older patients is lacking. The aim was to assess feasibility and acceptability of a nursing intervention...

INTRODUCTION Québec's rapidly growing elderly and chronically ill population represents a major challenge to its healthcare delivery system, attributable in part to the system's focus on acute care and fragmented delivery. DESCRIPTION OF POLICY PRACTICE Over the past few years, reforms have been implemented at the provincial policy level to integrate hospital-based, nursing home, homecare and...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a preoperative exercise/education program on functional recovery, health related quality of life (HRQOL), health service utilization, and costs following primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS One hundred thirty-one subjects were randomized to either the control (n = 66) or treatment (n = 65) group 6 weeks before TKA surgery. Patients in the...

PURPOSE: Although the hospital remains dominant site for delivering most pediatric cancer care, home-based care is increasingly provided. To effectively deliver comprehensive, relevant, and acceptable in children's homes, voices of these key informants must be considered. We examined views children with cancer, their family caregivers, clinicians on to identify necessary strategies improve deli...