Nursing home residents attending the emergency department: clinical characteristics and outcomes

R Briggs, T Coughlan, R Collins… - … Journal of Medicine, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Nursing home (NH) residents represent the frailest group of older people, and providing
gerontologically attuned care that addresses these frailties is often a challenge within the …

Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people …

C Goodman, SL Davies, A Gordon, T Dening, H Gage… - 2017 - researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk
The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different
models of health-care provision that are important for residents' health care. Objectives: To …

Provision of NHS generalist and specialist services to care homes in England: review of surveys

S Iliffe, SL Davies, AL Gordon, J Schneider… - Primary health care …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe number of beds in care homes (with and without nurses) in the United
Kingdom is three times greater than the number of beds in National Health Service (NHS) …

COVID-19 highlights the need for universal adoption of standards of medical care for physicians in nursing homes in Europe

D O'Neill, R Briggs, I Holmerová, O Samuelsson… - European Geriatric …, 2020 - Springer
The nursing home sector has seen a disproportionately high number of deaths as part of the
COVID-19 pandemic. This reflects, in part, the frailty and vulnerability of older people living …

Staff training interventions to improve end-of-life care of nursing home residents: a systematic review

PJ Lamppu, KH Pitkala - Journal of the American Medical Directors …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim was to review evidence from all randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
using palliative care education or staff training as an intervention to improve nursing home …

Caring for cognitively impaired older patients in the general hospital: A qualitative analysis of similarities and differences between a specialist Medical and Mental …

SE Goldberg, KH Whittamore, K Pollock… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Around half of people aged over 70 years admitted as an emergency to general
hospital have dementia, delirium or both. Dissatisfaction is often expressed about the quality …

Socially assistive robots (SAR) in in-patient care for the elderly

J Kriegel, V Grabner, L Tuttle-Weidinger… - dHealth 2019–From …, 2019 - ebooks.iospress.nl
In-patient care of the elderly is currently being put to the test in all developed industrial
nations. The aim is to make the resident-centered and nursing-related care more …

Changes in prevalence of loneliness over time in institutional settings, and associated factors

AH Jansson, N Savikko, H Kautiainen, HM Roitto… - Archives of gerontology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim of this study was to examine changes in the prevalence of loneliness
over time from 2011 to 2017 in long-term care facilities; and its related factors. Material and …

Establishing primary care physician commitment in Canadian long-term care homes: a protocol for a modified e-Delphi study

D Dash, M Potter, HYH Siu, P Quail, P Katz… - BMJ open, 2025 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction The delivery of medical services by primary care physicians (PCPs) in long-term
care (LTC) homes lacks consistency. There is no Canadian standard for PCP commitment in …

Cost analysis of mobile radiography services for nursing home residents in Southeast Norway

E Kjelle, L Kleven, HM Olerud… - Journal of evaluation in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale, aims, and objective Telemedicine applications, such as a mobile radiography
service, provide a new way of organizing healthcare services. In order to provide safe and …