Day hospitals for elderly people.

Systematic review of day hospital care for elderly people. The Day Hospital Group.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of day hospital attendance in prolonging independent living for elderly people. DESIGN Systematic review of 12 controlled clinical trials (available by January 1997) comparing day hospital care with comprehensive care (five trials), domiciliary care (four trials), or no comprehensive care (three trials). SUBJECTS 2867 elderly people. MAIN OUTCOME MEA...

Geriatric day hospitals--the future?

Hospitals and People

Elizabeth Barnes' starting-point was material from discussions by W.H.O. study-groups; the expert, in other words, interpreting the patient. Anne McGhee built up her picture of the patient by collating evidence from a typical acute ward. In my own study, the author and the patient were combined, with no claim to general validity beyond the shared experiences of fellow ward-companions. Dr. Cartw...

Review: enhanced oral hygiene prevents respiratory infection in elderly people in hospitals and nursing homes.

ED FROM Sjögren P, Nilsson E, Forsell M, et al. A systematic review of the preventive effect of oral hygiene on pneumonia and respiratory tract infection in elderly people in hospitals and nursing homes: effect estimates and methodological quality of randomized controlled trials. J Am Geriatr Soc 2008;56:2124– 30. Correspondence to: Dr P Sjögren, Oral Care AB, Göteborg, Sweden; petteri.sjogren@...

Managing Intelligent Services for People with Disabilities and Elderly People

Ambient Supported Living systems for people with physical, sensory or cognitive restrictions have to guarantee that the environment is safe, fault tolerant and universally accessible. In addition it is necessary to overcome technological challenges, common to ubiquitous computing, such as the design of a middleware layer that ensures the interoperability of multiple wired and wireless networks ...