The uneasy fate of nursing home residents: an organisational-interaction perspective.

Nursing Home Residents

Nursing home residents' views on dying and death: nursing home employee's perspective.

AIM To reveal nursing home employees' views on dying and death among older people they cared for. BACKGROUND Palliative care stakeholders recently included more groups in their definition of palliative care; older people constitute one such group. Consequently, palliative care systems, which will serve a large, aging cohort, will require new skills. The first stage in skills acquisition is to...

Preventing physical abuse of nursing home residents‐ as seen from the nursing staff's perspective

AIM This study aims to capture first-hand information from nursing home staff's own understanding regarding what they think and have experienced about prevention of physical abuse of nursing home residents and what measures they consider useful to implement in their daily work. DESIGN The design is qualitative. METHODS A convenient sample of staff in three nursing homes was used and data we...

The Effect of Laughter Yoga on the Quality of Life of Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Background: Old age is associated with the physical and psychological problems that affect the Quality of Life (QoL). Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of laughter therapy on the QoL of elderly people in nursing homes. Materials & Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with‌ pretest-posttest along with control and experimental group and one-month follow-up conducted...

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis.

OBJECTIVES To conduct a descriptive epidemiological analysis of external cause deaths (premature, usually injury-related, and potentially preventable) of nursing home residents in Australia. DESIGN Retrospective study of a cohort of nursing home residents, using coronial data routinely recorded by the National Coronial Information System. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Residents of accredited Aus...