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Management of bowel problems in older people: an update.
Seventeen per cent of people over the age of 65 and 80% of people in care homes are constipated. Approximately 3-10% of older people in the community have faecal incontinence. Careful attention to assessment, based on an understanding of pathophysiology, will provide an explanation for bowel dysfunction. The causes are often multiple and may relate to local bowel pathology, systemic disease, co...
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The Irish community is the oldest minority ethnic community in Britain. Despite an older age profile than general or minority ethnic populations, as well as excesses of mental and physical ill-health and socio-economic disadvantage, the age, poor health and social profile of the community is largely ignored by policy makers and providers. Several of these factors predispose the Irish community ...
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Falls are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in older people with dementia, which in the Western World has a prevalence of approximately 5% in those aged over 65 years and 15% in those aged over 80. However, in comparison with the extensive research base in cognitively intact older persons, relatively little is known about the etiology of falls in older people with dementia or how to...
متن کاملThe care of older people with dementia in acute hospitals.
AIM To explore the experiences of patients and nursing staff of the care received by older people with dementia in acute hospitals. BACKGROUND The prevalence of dementia is steadily increasing as is the number of people with the condition requiring acute hospital care. Significant concerns about the quality of this care have been raised. There is a paucity of knowledge about the views of such...
متن کاملContributions of an artistic educational program for older people with early dementia: an exploratory qualitative study.
OBJECTIVE To describe a contemporary artistic educational program based on photographic cyanotype techniques and to present the results of the program carried out with older people with early dementia. We determined whether these people could participate in the program, their viewpoint about it, and what this program could contribute to their experience. METHOD Twenty-one people diagnosed wit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1444-0903
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12572