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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Residential aged care"”.
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Are they really Cinderellas? Exploring residential aged care nursing in New Zealand
… of this research was to explore nursing in residential aged care in New Zealand since 1901. The aim was to identify the continuities and changes that occurred during this time. An initial literature review indicated that this was an area not previously researched. Nursing in residential aged …
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The PASS study: performance assessment system for success In residential aged care
… Improvement Activities on adverse events in residential care for older people (nursing homes); and (ii) to explore the effectiveness of a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) quantity/quality model in providing additional information. Design: A cluster randomised controlled trial, utilising …
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End-of-life care in residential aged care: The perceptions of bereaved family members
… including dementia. This increase in the aged population with complicated health issues has required governments and health care systems internationally to provide suitable accommodation and health care support such as residential aged care facilities. In residential aged care facilities …
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An exploration of strategies employed by residential aged care managers to implement person-centred care
… Kitwood, the founder of person-centred dementia care, called for a cultural change in care, focused on preserving the personhood of people with dementia. The person-centred model fosters a milieu where staff can provide supportive, encouraging and meaningful social relationships with care …
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Approaches to informing policy and planning in residential aged care: new knowledge from existing data
… needed to inform service provision for late-life care of older people. In New Zealand, residential aged care (RAC, equivalent to nursing homes and/or care homes elsewhere) is part of that service, but is not well described. Data such as administrative or transactional data are frequently used for …
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Risk factors associated with antimicrobial resistant organism carriage in residents of residential aged care facilities: a systematic review
… organism (ARO) carriage in residents of residential aged care facilities (RACF). Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) recognises antimicrobial resistance as a critical world health issue and acknowledges that with the reduction in the development of new antibiotics there is an …
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The experience of care assistants who care for residents in the final stage of life in residential aged care facilities
… of a study that explores the experience of care assistants who care for residents in the final stages of life in residential aged care facilities in metropolitan Perth. Care assistants, with little formal training and no regulation, play a pivotal role in the direct care of dying residents …
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Medication safety in collaborative health care settings: an investigation of the impact of information exchange processes in residential aged care facilities
Medication safety is a pressing concern for residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Although failures in information exchange (IE) between multiple providers have been identified as a primary cause of medication errors, there is limited evidence about the way IE impacts on medication safety. This …
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A technical feasibility study of an automated evaluation system for assessing the care needs of residents living in Australian residential aged care facilities
… government has realised that the existing healthcare system must be improved to provide better support longer-term for the healthcare needs of this population. This research examines one such opportunity by suggesting a reform on how the care needs of residents living in Australian residential …
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Governance and stewardship in the aged care industry : evaluating a model for corporate social entrepreneurship : the relationship of board culture to entrepreneurial behaviour.
… responsible opportunities in the provision of Aged Care, find themselves dependent on government grants and a major set of regulations to be complied with. Academic and empirical research has generally focused on issues of quality and compliance in meeting the physical needs of Aged Care …
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The Applied Epidemiology of Influenza and other Infectious Diseases in Victoria
… a response to an influenza outbreak in a residential aged care facility; a simulated poliovirus outbreak response to a laboratory containment leak that was conducted by the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office, to maintain response capability within the region; a data …
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An action research study to improve resident-centred continence care in a multi-purpose service
… assessment, treatment and management in the residential aged care section of a Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) in rural Australia. Given the 70.9% prevalence rates of incontinence occurring in Australian aged care residents, nurses and care staff consider incontinence to be inevitable in older …
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Explaining the relation between management control systems and managers' causal mental models
… embedded case study of a medium-sized residential aged care service provider in Australia, incorporating specific Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) techniques to elicit the causal mental models of individual study participants. First, I draw on theory and concepts from cognitive psychology …