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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Nursing home placement"”.
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Individual and Geographic Predictors of Formal and Informal Care Patterns and Nursing Home Placement Risk among Rural Appalachian Elders
… of informal and formal care services and nursing home placement risk in a rural Appalachian population. The main goals of this research were to (a) examine the relationships among individual and geographic characteristics and determine how those relationships affect the utilization of …
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Long Term Outcome and Prediction Models of Cognition, Activities of Daily Living and Nursing Home Placement in Alzheimer’s Disease with Cholinesterase Inhibitor Treatment
… outcome and rates of decline, and the time to nursing home placement for ChEI-treated AD patients in clinical practice. Material Swedish Alzheimer Treatment Study - outpatients with a clinical dementia diagnosis, and probable or possible AD, were recruited from memory clinics across Sweden. …
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Long-term treatment response, predictors and biochemical markers in Alzheimer’s disease.
… positive response to tacrine treatment delayed nursing-home placement but did not influence survival. CSF T-tau and P-tau were possible markers for disease severity and P-tau for the abundance of symptoms in AD. A fast pre-treatment progression rate was a positive predictor for response to ChEI …
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Modeling Post Stroke Respiratory Dysfunction, Apneas and Cognitive Decline
… decline is a major contributor to disability and nursing home placement, therefore the cognitive consequences of Stroke Induced Respiratory Dysfunction (SIRD) need to be explored if we hope to enhance functional recovery. The first step towards treatment of the negative consequences of SIRD is the …
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Understanding Physicians’ and Non-Physician Practitioners’ Recommending Practices, Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Expectations Regarding Music as a Cost-Effective Complementary and Alternative Medicine Approach
… and anxiety levels resulting in an increase in nursing home placement), a need exists for a cost-effective alternative to the traditional medical approach. Specifically, Music Therapy, a form of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has been shown to decrease the severity of the problem …
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Factors Affecting the Utilization and Quality of Long-Term Care
… studies. The first study examined risk of nursing home (NH) placement in a frail sample of older adults receiving publicly-funded long-term care in two settings: home and community-based services (HCBS) or assisted living (AL). Specifically, it explored whether these settings of care modify …