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The increasing concern regarding chronic care, which is a consequence of the current demographic progression, and the need to decrease the costs associated with its care, places a focus on social care homes caring for highly dependent patients. Simultaneously, the residential facilities are progressing in order to care for fragile patients with increasingly complexity, even though, with some ex...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the suitability of a new eldercare robot (Guide) for people with dementia and their caregivers compared with one that has been successfully used before (Paro), and to generate suggestions for improved robot enhanced dementia care. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. A researcher demonstrated both robots in a random order to each staff member alone, or to each resident toge...

BACKGROUND The residential care system is rapidly developing and plays an increasingly important role in care for the elderly in Beijing. A noticeable disparity in the accessibility to existing residential care facilities, however, is demonstrated in existing studies. The spatial optimization of residential care facility (RCF) locations is urgently needed to promote equal access to residential ...

BACKGROUND Scarce attention has been paid to establishing benchmarks for tertiary care for adults with severe mental disorders. Yet, the availability and efficient utilization of residential resources partly determines the capacity of a comprehensive system of care to avoid clogging ever-shrinking acute care bed facilities. OBJECTIVES To describe the actual utilization of and projected needs ...

UTIs can result in significant symptoms. When these are present, antibiotic treatment is typically indicated. However, for many people, including those in residential aged care facilities, asymptomatic bacteriuria has not been shown to be harmful. For this reason, routine testing for, or treatment of, asymptomatic UTIs in residential aged care facilities is not beneficial, except in catheterise...

BACKGROUND Organisational culture is increasingly recognised as important for provision of high-quality long-term care. We undertook this study to measure organisational culture in residential aged care facilities in two Australian states. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Cross-sectional observational study in 21 residential aged care facilities in Western Australia (n = 14) and Queensland (n =...