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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Care-homes"”.
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A curriculum for administrators of residential care homes for the aging
… to recognize the importance of the residential care home administrator by providing him or her with a training curriculum in order to have additional knowledge upon which to base program planning. Perhaps, someday, a unique type of care outside as well as inside California.
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Approaches to accountability in city of Toronto long-term care homes
Within the context of healthcare accountability are concepts such as quality and safety of care, resource allocation and the notion of value for money. When understanding accountability, questions such as who is accountable for what and how is accountability demonstrated arise. As the number of …
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Disability's Encounter with Legislation and Governance: Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario
… of the new legal framework for the long-term care (LTC) sector (also known as nursing homes) in Ontario, Canada. The research sought to answer the following question: What are the potential implications for persons with disabilities of the changes made by the Government of Ontario between 2004 …
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A critical realist evaluation of end of life care in care homes.
Numbers of advance care plans and unnecessary admissions to hospital at the end of life are outcomes commonly used to determine the quality of end of life care in UK care homes. However, there is currently a sparsity of research systematically exploring the underlying processes behind these …
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Understanding the Current State of Health Information Exchange in Long-Term Care Homes
… (HIE) processes within the Canadian long-term care (LTC) setting and identify opportunities to improve these processes through the proliferation of health information technology (HIT). Methods: The first study undertook a scoping review following Levac et al’s. approach to the methodology. …
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FOCES: An experimental expert system to select appropriate foster care homes for children
The FOster Care Expert System (FOCES) was developed to provide advice to social workers of the Roanoke City Department of Social Services who must select foster care homes for children who cannot remain with their own families. It was implemented using the General pUrpose Expert Shell System …
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Determining the Relationship between Quality and Staffing Characteristics in Ontario Long-term Care Homes
… characteristics and quality in Long-Term Care (LTC) settings is needed to inform how staffing relates to quality. The present thesis addresses this research gap using a systematic review and two Ontario-based empirical studies exploring the relationship between LTC quality of care outcomes …
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Antimicrobial stewardship in care homes for older people: development of a core outcome set
… to improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in care homes has impeded synthesising evidence and producing definitive conclusions. This thesis aimed to develop a core outcome set (COS) for use in trials focusing on improving AMS in care homes.<br/><br/>Methods:<br/>The research presented in this …
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Medication Administration In Family Child Care Homes: A Comparison Of State Regulations With National Standards
… to compare the 50 state and D.C. family child care home regulations with standards regarding medication administration in Caring for Our Children- National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs, 3rd edition (CFOC, 2011). A data collection …
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An Ethnographic Study of Pre-Graduate, Precepted Nursing Student Clinical Placements in Long-Term Care Homes
Long-Term Care (LTC) home recruitment challenges and nursing student disinterest in such clinical placements and careers, underscore this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty advisor, and pre-graduate student beliefs, values, and practices …
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Differences in Quality Environmental Rating Subscales between Family Child Care Homes and Facilities in West Virginia
Quality of family child care homes and facilities in the state of West Virginia was investigated for differences in quality and provider education and training. Data was collected through the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources grant titled, "Quality Rating and Improvement for …
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Meanings of social exclusion and inclusion in relation to older people with dementia in care homes
… in relation to older people with dementia in care homes. Its central objective is to identify the main influences shaping meanings of exclusion and inclusion in this context, and to understand how these influences are personally encountered and countered. The social model of disability …
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Between paradox and prescribing: Understanding anticipatory prescribing at the end of life in UK care homes
… of anticipatory prescribing, especially in care home-based palliative care. Early and appropriate prescribing and administration of anticipatory medicines for patients who require end-of-life symptom control has become established good practice in palliative and end-of-life care policy. In …
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My home your workplace: the impact of health and safety regulation on care homes for older adults
… been argued that concepts of independence and care are often interpreted differently and more restrictively for older adults. Services are typically more concerned with issues of safety than with enabling participation or inclusion. Whilst the rhetoric of housing and care for older adults tends …
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An Evaluation of Sensor Technology Reliability and Plausibility of its use in Private Care Homes for Incontinence Management
… respond to incontinence, may need more frequent care from carers, and in some cases this can be described as the carer’s ‘burden’. Although there have been numerous studies that have addressed the management of incontinence in people with dementia through the approach to traditional techniques in …
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Promoting wellbeing for individuals living with dementia in care homes by improving opportunities for engagement in meaningful activities.
… that individuals living with dementia in care homes spend the majority of their time in a state of passivity and inactivity. This thesis considers how it might be possible to improve the wellbeing of people with dementia living in care homes by improving opportunities to engage in positive …
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Facilitation of the Gold Standards Framework Programme for End-of-Life Care in Care Homes : A Mixed Methods Study.
The implementation of end-of-life care interventions is promoted within English healthcare policy to improve care delivery within different settings. How these interventions are best implemented is less clearly promoted. The role of facilitation in the implementation of one end-of-life care …
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Navigating the nutrition information landscape for healthcare providers of residents in long-term care homes at the end of life
Introduction: End of life (EOL) care is provided to residents in long-term care (LTC) homes and aims to support quality of life until death. EOL care does not always meet the expectations of caregivers as they often receive inconsistent and inadequate information about the resident’s care at EOL. …
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Not just a simple dressing: A practitioner inquiry exploring the complexity within residential care homes and the district nursing response
People living in residential care homes are older, frailer and sicker than ever before. Levels of dependency and co-morbidity are increasing, with neurodegenerative diseases, and dementia in particular, having a significant impact. Previous research has reported high levels of unmet needs, …
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