Access to paid sick days (PSD) differs by workplace size, race/ethnicity, gender, and income in the United States. It is not known to what extent decisions to stay home from work when sick with infectious illnesses such as influenza depend on PSD access, and whether access impacts certain demographic groups more than others. We examined demographic and workplace characteristics (including acces...

investigation of the elderly women practice in nursing   home regarding to prevention of lower   uti infection, 1383     p. amini [1] , m. hemmati [2] , h. khalilzadeh [3] , m. nosrati [4] , m. kiani asl [5] , z. moshiri [6]     abstract:   introduction: the incidence of lower urinary tract infection in women is more than men because of anatomical differences. the research showed one of every f...

As the elderly population increases, more elderly persons are living alone. The well-being of the elderly population is becoming an important social issue. It is envisioned that the sensor network technology can provide necessary assistance to elderly persons living alone. Sensor networks can be used to collect useful behavioral and biological information to monitor the wellness of an elderly p...

In the current study, nursing home staff were taught to administer functional analyses to determine the variables maintaining aggression by an elder with dementia. The results indicated that aggression was evoked during bathroom routines and that escape maintained aggression. Staff then reduced aggression to near-zero levels with noncontingent escape. Implications for the assessment and treatme...

background: increasing hospital costs and its social and cultural problems has led to the idea of providing healthcare services at home. because of infrastructural and implementation problems, providing healthcare at home in iran has not been initiated yet. therefore, this study set out to elaborate the need for a comprehensive system in order to provide this service in iran. methods: all artic...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The process of transferring older, vulnerable adults from an elder care facility to the hospital for medical care can be an emotionally and physically stressful experience. The recent development of modern mobile radiography may help to ease this anxiety by allowing for evaluation in the nursing home itself. Up until this point, no health economic evaluation of th...