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Abandoned minds : the escalating crisis of geriatric mental illness
Older adults are susceptible to the same mental afflictions that affect other age groups; depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other illnesses affect all adult age groups to varying degrees. Yet despite recent improvements in the research attention given to mental disorders and …
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Attendance at Activities with a Geriatric Population: Antecedets and Consequences
… attendance at activities of residents in geriatric facilities, but few of these strategies have been empirically evaluated. This study investigated the effectiveness of various intermittently programed and delayed consequences to activities and antecedents to activities in maintaining …
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A self-help behavioral activation treatment for geriatric depressive symptoms
The present study investigated behavioral activation (BA)bibliotherapy as a treatment for late-life depressive symptoms. BA bibliotherapy was administered using Addis and Martell's (2004) Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time as a stand-alone treatment that was completed by participants over a …
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Are long-term hospitalized geriatric patients abandoned by their families?
… with relatives have been exhausted for long-term geriatric patients in public institutions, and second, whether there is a significant difference in family contacts for the State Hospital patient as compared to the County Hospital patient. Are the reasons for changes in the family contacts …
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Assessment of Geriatric Depression: Construction of a New Screening Inventory
<p>Geriatric depression is strongly associated with increased healthcare costs, poor treatment outcomes, and mortality. Existing measures of depression in this population do not adequately account for more recent literature describing the presentation of depressed older adults, and thus may result …
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Assessing interpersonal communication in Dental Hygiene students providing geriatric care
… skills between dental hygiene students and the geriatric population. The educational module assessed students’ perceived abilities and confidence in communicating with the geriatric population. Subsequently, a standardized rubric determined if there is a difference between how faculty assess …
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Psychological Effects of Exercise Therapy Upon Institutionalized Geriatric Mental Patients
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Increasing the effectiveness of horticultural therapy activities in a geriatric setting
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Increasing the effectiveness of horticultural therapy activities in a geriatric setting
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Reliability of measurements of level of intellectual functioning of geriatric patients
… primary purpose of this study was to measure geriatric patients’ levels of intellectual functioning in order to determine the reliability of several specific test instruments. From the battery of measurements used in the study, it was an additional objective to recommend which of these test …
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The relationship of personality traits to depression in a geriatric population.
In later life, adverse life events, disability, health problems, inadequate social support, and personality traits hypothesized to be important risk factors for depression. Sample included 35 older (65-84) physical rehabilitation patients in a large metropolitan hospital. Statistical analysis …
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A nutrition study involving twenty-eight geriatric subjects in declining families
No abstract available
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Knowledge Domains of Geriatric Case Managers in the State of Illinois
… extant data concerning the current knowledge of geriatric case managers in Illinois who contracted with the Illinois Department on Aging in 2010 in order to provide case management services to adults age 65 and older. In examining the self-reported importance and frequency of geriatric case …
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A Retrospective Study of Fall Prevention Programs in Geriatric Nursing Facilities
… study was to identify the differences between geriatric nursing facilities with a Fall Prevention Program and geriatric nursing facilities without a Fall Prevention Program on the Total Staff Present, Medicaid reimbursement, proprietary for-profit geriatric nursing facility ownership, physical …
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Enrichment Assessment for Geriatric African Old World Monkeys under Human Care
… determines whether enrichment regimes used for geriatric African Old World monkeys living under human care are effectively eliciting affiliative and active behaviors. I wanted to determine if alternating enrichment types used by the zoo staff were eliciting different social behaviors and …
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Patient Safety Culture and Management Activities Perceived by Geriatric Hospital Nurses
본 연구는 노인 요양병원에서 근무하는 간호사가 지각하는 환자안전문화와 환자안전관리 활동 정도를 조사하고 환자안전문화와 환자안전관리 활동 간의 관계를 파악하여 보다 안전한 의료서비스 제공의 기초 자료로 활용하고자 시도된 서술적 상관관계 연구이다. 본 연구의 대상자는 건강보험심사평가원이 1∼3등급으로 평가한 경기도 지역의 6개 노인 요양병원에 근무하는 간호사 137명이며, 자료조사는 2012년 9월 4일부터 10월 5일까지 설문지를 이용하여 조사하였다. 환자안전문화는 AHRQ(2004)에서 개발한 Hospital survey on …
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Application Of The Green House Model To The U.s. Geriatric Veteran Population
… that have adopted the Green House model for the geriatric Veteran population: Illinois, Alabama, and Wisconsin. This paper presents a synthesis of recent studies on Green House model implementation. This synthesis was then compared with the experience of three state VA Medical Centers’ adoption …
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