The prevalence, incidence and risk factors for delirium in Dutch nursing homes and residential care homes

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijke Boorsma ◽  
Karlijn J. Joling ◽  
Dinnus H. M. Frijters ◽  
Miel E. Ribbe ◽  
Giel Nijpels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Care Homes

The Incidence of Depression and Its Risk Factors in Dutch Nursing Homes and Residential Care Homes

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 932-942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijke Boorsma ◽  
Karlijn Joling ◽  
Martine Dussel ◽  
Miel Ribbe ◽  
Dinnus Frijters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Care Homes

scholarly journals Life and death in English nursing homes: sequestration or transition?

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHERINE FROGGATT
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Older People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

Nursing homes as care institutions seek to offer a home where people can live until their death. A potential conflict, therefore, exists as nursing homes are both a place where life is lived and where death is regularly encountered. It has been proposed that within residential care homes for older people, dying individuals are separated from living people. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in four English nursing homes the management of the dying process and the relationship between life and death is explored. There is much uncertainty inherent in the boundary between life and death for many residents in nursing homes. The relationship between life and death for these residents is less about the sequestration of dying people from living people, but rather the creation of transitional states between these two polarities.

scholarly journals Effect on secondary care of providing enhanced support to residential and nursing home residents: a subgroup analysis of a retrospective matched cohort study

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 534-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Lloyd ◽  
Stefano Conti ◽  
Filipe Santos ◽  
Adam Steventon
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Older People ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Rate Ratio ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Emergency Admissions ◽  
Hospital Use

BackgroundThirteen residential care homes and 10 nursing homes specialising in older people in Rushcliffe, England, participated in an improvement programme. The enhanced support provided included regular visits from named general practitioners and additional training for care home staff. We assessed and compared the effect on hospital use for residents in residential and nursing homes, respectively.MethodsUsing linked care home and administrative hospital data, we examined people aged 65 years or over who moved to a participating care home between 2014 and 2016 (n=568). We selected matched control residents who had similar characteristics to the residents receiving enhanced support and moved to similar care homes not participating in the enhanced support (n=568). Differences in hospital use were assessed for residents of each type of care home using multivariable regression.ResultsResidents of participating residential care homes showed lower rates of potentially avoidable emergency admissions (rate ratio 0.50, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.82), emergency admissions (rate ratio 0.60, 95% CI 0.42 to 0.86) and Accident & Emergency attendances (0.57, 95% CI 0.40 to 0.81) than matched controls. Hospital bed days, outpatient attendances and the proportion of deaths that occurred out of hospital were not statistically different. For nursing home residents, there were no significant differences for any outcome.ConclusionsThe enhanced support was associated with lower emergency hospital use for older people living in residential care homes but not for people living in nursing homes. This might be because there was more potential to reduce emergency care for people in residential care homes. In nursing homes, improvement programmes may need to be more tailored to residents’ needs or the context of providing care in that setting.

scholarly journals Mobile Remote Presence Robots for Medical Consultation and Social Connectedness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Lueg ◽  
Valérie Jungo
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Medical Consultation ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Media Richness ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Natural Medium ◽  
The World ◽  
Telepresence Robots

We demonstrate that Mobile Remote Presence systems (MRP) aka telepresence robots can be successfully used in certain types of medical consultation such as consultation from a distance with residents of nursing homes. We argue that MRP afforded media richness also allows for supporting social connectedness during medically recommended isolation regimes similar to the ones that are implemented in residential care homes around the world during the SARS-CoVID-2 pandemic. Specifically, our research found that MRP are perceived as a more natural medium compared to typical telephones or videoconferencing via computers or tablets. MRP allow conversations to become more dynamic and engaging since remote participants are able to adjust their remote position and perspective during a conversation. Participants in our experiments reported they would be willing to engage even in difficult or emotional topics when using MRP however there are also certain types of situations that would still ask for face-to-face conversations.

scholarly journals COVID-19-related deaths in residential care homes for elderly: The situation in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 102179
Author(s):  
Francesco Ventura ◽  
Andrea Molinelli ◽  
Rosario Barranco
Keyword(s):  
Residential Care ◽  
Care Homes
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