Download or read book Activities of Daily Living Outcomes of Hospital Discharge Planning for People 55 Years of Age and Over Living in Yukon written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Activities of Daily Living Outcomes of Hospital Discharge Planning for People 55 Years of Age and Over Living in Yukon written by Valerie Ann Hedstrom and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursing Theories written by Julia B. George and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nursing Theories' incoporates the latest theories and research methods in nursing today. Designed as a tool to help nurses apply concepts and theories to practice, this book considers the ideas of well-known nursing theorists and relates the work of each to the nursing process.
Download or read book Satisfaction with Hospital Discharge Planning and the Ability of the Elderly to Cope with Activities of Daily Living in the Home Setting written by Ethel Clara Denniston Olson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readiness of Older People for Discharge from Acute Hospital to Home and Use of Post discharge Support and Services written by Alice Coffey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital discharge is a critical and vulnerable period for older patients and a transition that extends beyond hospital to the home. Older patients{u2019} readiness for discharge is important, as management of recovery can be complex. However, shorter hospital stays mean less time for patients, families and health professionals to prepare for the transition. Readiness for discharge involves physical, psychological dimensions and support. Person centred discharge planning includes patient perspectives, however little research has examined patients{u2019} perception of their readiness for discharge with older populations. No research examined perception of readiness, measures of function and support at discharge in relation to support post-discharge. Aim: To examine older patients{u2019} readiness for discharge from hospital to home and to determine whether relationships existed between readiness at discharge and post-discharge use of community supports and services. Method: The research design was quantitative descriptive and correlational, guided by Meleis{u2019}s middle-range theory of transition. A sample of 335 patients over 65 were accessed at two time periods: in hospital at discharge and by telephone interview six weeks post-discharge. Data were recorded using the Demographic and Community Resource Questionnaire; Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale; Barthel Index; Mini-mental State Examination; and Charlson co-morbidity index, and analysed using SPSS version 15. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were employed to test relationships between variables at discharge and post-discharge. Findings: At discharge respondents perceived themselves reasonably ready (RHDS Mean 7.31, SD 1.18); however lower readiness was recorded for those over 80 (median 6.83). Forty eight percent were moderately dependent in activities of daily living and 12% indicated some cognitive impairment. Informal support in place was mainly with household and transport. Formal services in place were General Practitioner, Public Health Nurse and home help. Post discharge, informal support increased. Lower perception of readiness, longer hospital stay, higher co-morbidity, higher dependence in ADL and lower cognitive function were significantly more likely to use informal support. Older age, living alone, lower perception of readiness and shorter stay in hospital were significantly related to formal support. Lower perception of readiness for discharge was also statistically associated with readmission. Conclusion Although older patients{u2019} perception of their readiness may not reflect their clinical preparedness, the inclusion of the patient{u2019}s perception encourages participation in discharge. Results have relevance for clinical nursing practice, education and research.
Download or read book Discharge Planning Organization and Outcomes for Short Stay and Same Day Surgery Patients Aged 55 and Over written by Iryna A. Dulka and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaving the Hospital written by Bascom W. Ratliff and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discharge Planning Organization and Outcomes for Short Stay and Same day Surgery Patients Aged 55 and Over written by McGill University. Centre for Applied Family Studies and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patient Discharge Disposition Based on Activities of Daily Living Measures of the Functional Independence Measure written by Jennifer L. Krusi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improved Targeting of Long Term Care Discharges During Hospitalization written by Barbara J. Roberge and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Mothers Say written by Sharon Bartholomew and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Portrait of Seniors in Canada 2006 written by Martin Turcotte and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aging of the population is probably one of the most discussed and debated subjects in Canada today.
Download or read book Profile of Canada s Seniors written by Joseph A. Norland and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are Canada's senior citizens? This report provides comprehensive information on this growing segment of our population. The composition and changes in the group are presented by age, sex, marital status, education, employment, and income. Special attention is given to living arrangements, including those of people who are institutionalized or living alone. The final chapter looks to the future, identifying the health promotion movement and the kind of services our seniors will require.
Download or read book Comparative Quantification of Health Risks Sexual and reproductive health written by Majid Ezzati and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific evidence on prevalence and the resulting health effects of a range of exposures that are know to be hazardous to human health, including childhood and maternal undernutrition, nutritional and physiological risk factors for adult health, addictive substances, sexual and reproductive health risks, and risks in the physical environments of households and communities, as well as among workers. This book is the culmination of over four years of scientific equiry and data collection, know as the comparative risk assessment (CRA) project.
Download or read book Transportation in an Aging Society written by and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2004 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Age friendly Cities written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2007 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guide is aimed primarily at urban planners, but older citizens can use it to monitor progress towards more age-friendly cities. At its heart is a checklist of age-friendly features. For example, an age-friendly city has sufficient public benches that are well-situated, well-maintained and safe, as well as sufficient public toilets that are clean, secure, accessible by people with disabilities and well-indicated. Other key features of an age-friendly city include: well-maintained and well-lit sidewalks; public buildings that are fully accessible to people with disabilities; city bus drivers who wait until older people are seated before starting off and priority seating on buses; enough reserved parking spots for people with disabilities; housing integrated in the community that accommodates changing needs and abilities as people grow older; friendly, personalized service and information instead of automated answering services; easy-to-read written information in plain language; public and commercial services and stores in neighbourhoods close to where people live, rather than concentrated outside the city; and a civic culture that respects and includes older persons.
Download or read book Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One Summary written by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
