Inappropriate hospitalization of nursing facility residents: A symptom of a sick system of care for frail older people
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This article examines the medical care as applied to nursing facility residents. Data show that one of out every two acute hospitalizations can be considered inappropriate due to the prevailing poor management of health care and reimbursement systems.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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Prompted voiding for nighttime incontinence in nursing homes: is it effective?
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Nursing home patients with urinary incontinence where tested to see if they experienced nighttime incontinence when they received regular prompts during the night to use the bathroom. While these prompts have proved effective in the daytime, they were not effective at night, even with patients who responded to daytime prompts.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2001
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Urinary incontinence treatment preferences in long-term care
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Surveys were taken of home caretakers, nurses and cognitively sound aged patients as to which form of treatments they preferred for urinary incontinence. The older patients preferred drug treatment and prompted voiding, family caretakers preferred diapers and nurses preferred prompted voiding and diapers. None preferred catheters.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2001
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