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Original Source: Aggression exhibited by older dementia clients toward staff in Japanese long-term care.
This study examined the experiences of staff members from seven Japanese hospitals who had been treated aggressively by older dementia clients. Altogether, 170 questionnaires were analyzed. In the past year, 75.3% and 63.5% of staff members had experienced physical and verbal aggression, respectively. Working numerous night shifts, working shifts other than 3-shifts, and being allotted assignments with clients who had a lower average level of physical capacity were the factors associated with recurrent clie...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Early aggressive treatment doesn't appear to offer better outcomes overall than initially conservative treatment in elderly patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute...
The Extreme Elderly Suffer Nearly Two-Thirds Of American Osteoporotic Hip Fractures
A new American study presented at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, calls for more aggressive management of osteoporosis in the extreme elderly as the true im...
Study calls for more aggressive management of osteoporosis in the extreme elderly
A new American study presented today at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, calls for more aggressive management of osteoporosis in the extreme elderly as the tr...
Study: Hospice Use On The Rise, But After Late-Stage Aggressive Care
A study released Tuesday found that, although the number of elderly people who died in a hospice setting is increasing, it usually came late in the process and after highly aggressive care near the en...
COMPLY-Rising dementia among US clients seen risky for brokers
Sept 21 (Reuters) - Taking direction from elderly clients whose mental capacity is on the decline causes some sticky problems for Wall Street's brokers.
Nearly two-thirds of American osteoporotic hip fractures are seen in the extreme elderly
(European League Against Rheumatism) A new American study presented today at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, calls for more aggressive management of osteopor...
End-Of-Life Care For Elderly Often Too Aggressive
There has been an increase in hospice usage and ICU utilization over the last ten years among elderly patients, researchers from Brown University reported in JAMA. The authors added that with more la...
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PURPOSE: To validate the ICECAP-O capability measure in psycho-geriatric elderly in nursing homes, we compared the capability scores of restrained and unrestrained clients. Both nursing staff and fami...
Subjective Distress Associated with Sudden Loss in Clients with Severe Mental Illness.
Data from interviews with 276 community mental health clients diagnosed with a severe mental illness were used to examine the association between clients' subjective distress from sudden loss of a clo...
Doxorubicin-containing chemotherapy is the standard regimen for elderly patients with aggressive lymphoma. However, many of them cannot receive it due to severe associated comorbidities. Toxicity and...
We conducted a cross-sectional survey in a hospital in Shanghai, China, to investigate the demographic and behavioral characteristics of clients seeking voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT). The...
Emergency department use among end-of-life home care clients.
Emergency department (ED) use is a quality-of-care indicator for community-based end-of-life (EOL) care. This study examined ED use by EOL home care clients. The sample included all EOL home care clie...
