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2012 Año Europeo Del Envejecimiento Activo Y La Solidaridad Intergeneracional Una Mirada Multidimensional A Un Fenómeno Global, Diego A. Bernardini
2012 Año Europeo Del Envejecimiento Activo Y La Solidaridad Intergeneracional Una Mirada Multidimensional A Un Fenómeno Global, Diego A. Bernardini
Diego Bernardini MD, PhD
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Care In Specialist Medical And Mental Health Unit Compared With Standard Care For Older People With Cognitive Impairment Admitted To General Hospital: Randomised Controlled Trial (Nihr Team Trial), Sarah E. Goldberg, Lucy E. Bradshaw, Fiona C. Kearney, Catherine Russell, Kathy H. Whittamore, Pippa E R Foster, Jil Mamza, John R F Gladman, Rob G. Jones, Sarah A. Lewis, Davina Porock, Rowan H. Harwood
Care In Specialist Medical And Mental Health Unit Compared With Standard Care For Older People With Cognitive Impairment Admitted To General Hospital: Randomised Controlled Trial (Nihr Team Trial), Sarah E. Goldberg, Lucy E. Bradshaw, Fiona C. Kearney, Catherine Russell, Kathy H. Whittamore, Pippa E R Foster, Jil Mamza, John R F Gladman, Rob G. Jones, Sarah A. Lewis, Davina Porock, Rowan H. Harwood
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Objective To develop and evaluate a best practice model of general hospital acute medical care for older people with cognitive impairment.
Design Randomised controlled trial, adapted to take account of constraints imposed by a busy acute medical admission system.
Setting Large acute general hospital in the United Kingdom.
Participants 600 patients aged over 65 admitted for acute medical care, identified as “confused” on admission.
Interventions Participants were randomised to a specialist medical and mental health unit, designed to deliver best practice care for people with delirium or dementia, or to standard care (acute geriatric or general medical wards). Features of …
Are Informal Carers And Community Care Workers Effective In Managing Malnutrition In The Older Adult Community? A Systematic Review Of Current Evidence, Skye Marshall, Judith Bauer, Sandra Capra, Elisabeth Isenring
Are Informal Carers And Community Care Workers Effective In Managing Malnutrition In The Older Adult Community? A Systematic Review Of Current Evidence, Skye Marshall, Judith Bauer, Sandra Capra, Elisabeth Isenring
Skye Marshall
Intergrative Review Of Palliative Care In End Stage Heart Failure, Joyce K. Kutin
Intergrative Review Of Palliative Care In End Stage Heart Failure, Joyce K. Kutin
Joyce K Kutin RN, MSN, MOL
The aim of this integrative literature review is to explore and discuss palliative care placement within the trajectory of heart failure in the end stage process. After an extensive search through 200 peer-reviewed studies published from 2009-2013 in the following databases: CINAHL, Academic Search Elite, Health Source Consumer Source Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE, Academic Collection (EBSCOhost), seven articles meeting the constraints were chosen.. Common themes of these studies concern symptom management, medication administration, and decision-making tools for assessing patient centered needs and future research regarding effective implementation of palliative care integration in end stage heart failure patients. Nurses …