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Creating sustainable home care services for older people
… increases in expenditure and demand for home care services. However, provision of home care is fraught with quality issues such as high staff turnover rates, inadequate staff training, a lack of coordinator support and reduced continuity of care. Consequently, ensuring the sustainability …
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Examining Variation in Access to Long-term Home Care Services for Ontario Seniors
… of seniors will require formal and informal care to remain in their homes. To effectively maintain seniors in their homes, equitable access to home care services is required. However, variations in access to these services have persisted in Ontario for decades. Purpose: The purpose of this …
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Economic Evaluation of Hospital？]based Home Care Services for Patients with Diabetic Foot Diseases
본 연구는 당뇨병성 족부질환자를 대상으로 가정간호서비스 연계군과 비연계군간의 비용-효과비를 비교함으로써 가정간호서비스에 대한 경제적 타당성을 규명하기 위해 시도된 후향적 조사연구이다. 연구 대상자는 2개 상급종합병원에서 당뇨병성 족부질환으로 조기퇴원한 가정간호서비스 연계 대상자 33명, 가정간호서비스 비연계 대상자 27명이며, 2008년에서 2009년 사이 의무기록상 진단코드가 E11.5 또는 E14.5로 등록된 입원환자 중에서 두 그룹간 치유기간과 비용에 대한 영향요인이 유사하게 편의 추출하였다. 자료 수집은 의무기록, 환자 …
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Planning home care services for the elderly : variations in perceived needs and their costs
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1979.
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Developing and testing a pain management program for family caregivers of advanced cancer patients
… advanced cancer patients are receiving care in the community supported by families and hospice home care services. However, little or no preparation is provided to family caregivers who assume this supportive role, often 24 hours per day. Pain management is consistently identified by …
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Türk Silahlı Kuvvetlerinde görevli hekim öğretim üyelerinin evde bakım hizmetleri konusundaki görüşleri
… Working in Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) About Homecare Services The purpose of this descriptive study is to determine the opinions the academic physicians working in the Turkish Armed Forces on home-care services. The population of the study consists of 486 physician instructors working at …
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Individual differences in interpersonal dependency in older adults: Development of a measure and its evaluation in health care services
… examined variables (such as the responses of carers to-the dependent behayiours of older people) that exacerbate dependent feelings and behaviours (Baltes, 1996), but it has not included an individual difference measure of interpersonal dependency. According to Rosowsky~ Dougherty, Johnson and …
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Factors in Predicting the Number of Home Care Physical Visits
… a significant increase in the utilization of home health care during the past decade. Medicare has attempted to control home care costs by 1) allowing Medicare beneficiaries to join Health Maintenance Organizations, and 2) requiring the use of the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) …
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Patterns of in-home care service use among older adults: a rural-urban comparison
This study investigated how patterns of in-home care utilization and predictors of service use differ for older adults based on whether they live in a rural or an urban environment and whether the service is provided from an informal, a formal, or a combination informal/formal source. The specific …
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Long-term Outcomes Following Emergency General Surgery in Older Adults
… large and growing burden for patients and healthcare systems alike, particularly among older adults (age ≥ 65). While the short-term risks of EGS among older adults have been studied, little is known about long-term functional outcomes in this population. This knowledge gap raises questions about …
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Examining the Relationship Between Home Care Rehabilitation Therapy Services and Healthcare Utilization Among Those with Multimorbidity in Ontario, Canada
… that experience multimorbidity are higher healthcare users and at an increased risk for poor health outcomes and functional decline. Rehabilitation therapists (occupational and physical therapists) can help these individuals with complex health challenges to address their functional needs and …
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An examination of the presence of social work intervention with home health care recipients of related home health care outcomes
… the dramatic changes that have occurred in the home health care arena as a result of managed care policies. Social work has been part of home health care since its inception, but the current cost constrained market threatens the viability of social work in providing servies to elderly, ill, …
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Family ties and care for aged parents at home
… the meaning of their responsibility to care for the parent, how they learned to be responsible to family members, and what experiences inside and outside the family shaped their sense of responsibility. They expressed their views about how family caregiving labor should be divided …
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Place of death correlated to socio-demographic factors in a South African hospice
Background: The palliative care literature continually supports the view that home remains the preferred place of death of most patients with terminal illness. However, it also reports that in many countries, palliative care patients sometimes change their minds with regard to this preference. A …
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A national profile and review of services and interventions for children and young people with high support needs in Australian out-of-home care
… major challenges currently being faced by out-of-home care services is the issue of placement breakdown and multiple placements, and the psychological effects of these experiences. Previous longitudinal research by Barber and Delfabbro (2004) indicates that approximately 15-20% of young people in …
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Home Healthcare Patients Regarding End of Life Treatment Decisions
… conducted is the rapidly growing population of home healthcare patients.<br> The purpose of this study was to describe the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of home healthcare patients and to determine if a recent hospitalization makes a difference in their knowledge, attitudes or behaviors. …
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Making the invisible visable : an analysis of the Home and Community Care Program : a socialist-feminist perspective
… and human service practice in the field of aged care is increasingly important and relevant. The Home and community Care (H.A.C.C.) Program was established in 1985 by the Labor Government as a response to a demand for more community services for the frail aged and was designed to reduce the …
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Disparities in oral health status within institutional settings: the increasing need for oral health professionals that are prepared to serve these populations
… institutionalized facilities (including nursing homes and correctional facilities) has a created a need for health care providers that are adequately trained to provide them with comprehensive care. This has subsequently created a need for more oral health providers that are trained to serve this …
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The Catholic Church and its Healing Mission: A case of our lady, mother of mercy and mother Teresa Hospices' care for HIV and AIDS patients in Zambia
… on medical treatment of HIV and AIDS than on the care for AIDS patients. As such, the Catholic Church introduced hospice palliative care services in Zambia in the 1990s to alleviate the sufferings of AIDS patients. These hospices operate on principles of combining teaching and clinical research, …
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