Telephone conversational skills training with socially isolated, impaired nursing home residents.

Dressing of cognitively impaired nursing home residents: description and analysis.

PURPOSE Getting dressed is an activity that is of particular difficulty for many persons with dementia, given the need for hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and overall planning skills. Despite several studies concerning interventions to improve dressing behavior, very little is known about the dressing process as it is currently performed. The purpose of this study is to characterize t...

Nursing Home Residents

Communication skills training in a nursing home: effects of a brief intervention on residents and nursing aides

Effective communication by nursing home staff is related to a higher quality of life and a decrease in verbal and physical aggression and depression in nursing home residents. Several communication intervention studies have been conducted to improve communication between nursing home staff and nursing home residents with dementia. These studies have shown that communication skills training can ...

Assisting cognitively impaired nursing home residents with bathing: effects of two bathing interventions on caregiving.

PURPOSE When cognitively impaired nursing home residents exhibit agitated and aggressive behaviors during bathing, nursing home caregivers are in a unique position to improve residents' experience. This report addresses whether certified nursing assistants (CNAs) who received training in a person-centered approach with showering and with the towel bath showed improved caregiving behaviors (gent...

Impact of physician telephone management of nursing home residents before the initial assessment: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE To describe physician telephone management of newly admitted nursing home residents before direct evaluation by the physician, and the effect on resident outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective chart review of 111 consecutive discharge records from two proprietary community nursing homes in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. MEASUREMENTS Data regarding the admission process were collected, with ...