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Less than half of administrators found it feasible to close indoor common areas, all community types reported a challenge organizing group activities for safe distancing, and more than half of residents with dementia did not wear a face covering or maintain physical distance from other residents when indicated.
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About 40 000 individuals depend on assisted living in long-term care facilities in Norway.
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Most people with dementia live at home and rely on family and friends who provide unpaid care and support.
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41/100
A qualitative study was conducted to examine the experiences of informal caregivers of persons with dementia pertaining interprofessional collaboration with and among healthcare professionals in home care (HC), nursing homes and during home to nursing home transitions in palliative care.
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41/100
People living with dementia (PLWD) have voiced a desire to remain in their home environment as long as possible; unfortunately, there is limited integrated person-and family-centered community support.
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Older adults are at an increased risk of loneliness.
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While advance care planning (ACP) can help elicit preferences and is associated with improved end-of-life outcomes, persons living with dementia (PLWD) in nursing homes are rarely included in ACP.
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A formal evaluation of the health equity impact of a new intervention is hardly ever performed as part of a health technology assessment to understand its value.
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Dementia is a progressive, incurable condition that causes limitations in life and should be recognized as a life-limiting condition.
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Older people with dementia have multiple palliative care needs, with pain, agitation, dyspnoea, aspiration and pressure ulcers being common and persistent in advanced dementia.
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41/100
Health screening is an important component of health promotion programs, and countries have promoted general health screening targeting the prevention and early management of common chronic diseases.
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Nursing leaders have a responsibility to promote and facilitate social engagement and connectedness to mitigate social isolation in long-term care (LTC).
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Hispanic family caregivers of people with dementia experience higher levels of stress compared to non-Hispanic white caregivers.
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We identified the centrality of "being out in the world and negotiating connections," which characterizes residents' experiences with the outside world as a process of "working out" engagement with nature, others, and the community.
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The objectives of this study are (1) to identify beneficiary-level characteristics associated with skilled nursing facility (SNF) length of stay (LOS), and (2) to determine if significant differences in LOS exist for vulnerable populations at the individual level or among nursing homes that serve a disproportionate share of vulnerable populations.
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Hispanics and Asians diagnosed with dementia had 40% lower mortality risk and African Americans had 13% lower mortality risk than Whites.
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Coupled with aging, chronic stress experienced by dementia caregivers often leads to deteriorating health.
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Almost half of patients of nursing home residents experience one fall per year.
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41/100
Dementia is a progressive, irreversible illness and leading global cause of death defined by cognitive and subsequent functional decline.
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Advance care planning (ACP) is an essential element of neuropalliative care for persons living acquired brain injuries or progressive, neurodegenerative conditions like dementia.
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Recognizing that the "healthcare sector perspective" can be too limited in some situations, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), and the U.S. Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine all recommend a "societal" perspective in "reference case" cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs).
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Extensive literature in the United States documents racial/ethnic and gender disparities in the incidence and prevalence of dementia yet few studies have examined how race/ethnicity and gender intersect to shape inequalities in the risk of dementia.
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Patients in Group 1 were on statistically significant fewer medications than Group 2 at both week 4 and weeks 7-12 following admission.
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We identified 6 themes regarding financial issues, staffing, appointment logistics, care provision during and after the memory evaluation as well as features of an ideal clinic.
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Care of the dementia patient continues to be challenging.