نتایج جستجو برای: the elder women staying at nursing home

تعداد نتایج: 16416591  

2017
Laura Boland France Légaré Maria Margarita Becerra Perez Matthew Menear Mirjam Marjolein Garvelink Daniel I. McIsaac Geneviève Painchaud Guérard Julie Emond Nathalie Brière Dawn Stacey

BACKGROUND Many elders struggle with the decision to remain at home or to move to an alternative location of care. A person's location of care can influence health and wellbeing. Healthcare organizations and policy makers are increasingly challenged to better support elders' dwelling and health care needs. A summary of the evidence that examines home care compared to other care locations can in...

2014
Erica K. Salter Maura Waldron Miguel A. Paniagua

According to the United States Census Bureau, there was a 15.1% increase in the sixty-five and older population between 2000 and 20101 and is expected to climb to 16.3% by 2020.2 In addition, older adults have shown a greater need for health care resource utilization in America; while only 12.8% of the U.S. population in 2008, older adults accounted for 26% of office visits, 35% of hospital sta...

Introduction and purpose: Aging is a natural and inevitable process that every human being go thorugh. Elderly residing at nursing homes experience more stress and depression that eventually affect their quality of life compared to elderly living in their own home. Meanwhile, social support can promote elderly’s quality of life. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to compare quali...

Journal: :Emerging Infectious Diseases 1997
T. C. Heath M. C. Hewitt B. Jalaludin C. Roberts A. G. Capon P. Jelfs G. L. Gilbert

We investigated two fatal cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection in a community nursing home in western Sydney, Australia. Two elderly women had lived in the same room, and the onset of their illness was 5 days apart. Hib isolates from blood cultures showed identical profiles by pulsed field gel electrophoresis. These findings suggest that Hib infection was transmitted ...

Objectives: Elder abuse is a phenomenon that has become more apparent by increasing the older adults’ population but there are insufficient evidences about the prevalence of elder abuse and gender differences. This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of elder abuse and its’ pattern based on gender differences among elderly population. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 414 older...

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه تهران 1370

the subjects of the study are only the tefl teachers and students at gilan university. to obtain the desired data, a questionnaire which was based on the theories and disecussions gathered, was used as the main data gathering instrument. to determine the degree of relationship between variables, covariance and pearson product moment correlation coefficient were the formulas applied. the data we...

Journal: :The Gerontologist 2007
Celia Berdes John M Eckert

PURPOSE Using a conceptual framework from the field of care work and the theory of boundary work, we explore the use of family metaphors by nurse's aides to describe their affective care for nursing home residents. We focus on how nurse's aides can express affective care in spite of experiencing racial abuse. METHODS Using the technique of domain analysis, we present a secondary analysis of s...

2009
Mohammad Sami Walid

BACKGROUND Urinary incontinence (UI) is most common in older women. METHODS We studied the prevalence of UI among female residents of nursing homes and the influence of associated neuropsychiatric problems on the rates of UI using the results of the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS). RESULTS Analysis shows that 37% of female nursing home residents are incontinent, especially those wi...

Journal: :International psychogeriatrics 2010
Ioana Caciula Gill Livingston Rodica Caciula Claudia Cooper

BACKGROUND No previous studies have considered elder abuse in Eastern Europe. We aimed to determine the proportion of home care workers and older people receiving care in a Romanian home care service who correctly identified elder abuse in a vignette, and who had detected elder abuse at work. METHODS In 2009, care workers and clients of a non-government home care organization serving four are...

جان محمدی, سارا, جدیدی, علی, حقانی, حمید, فراهانی نیا, مرحمت,

Introduction and purpose: The dramatic increase in average life expectancy resulted in increasing number of old population. The importance of improving quality of life in elderly has been highlighted recently. Therefore, the first step to promote quality of life in elderly is to acquire comprehensive information on this field. The aim of this study was to assess quality of life for elderly resi...

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