BACKGROUND Integrated care for older persons with complex care needs is widely advocated. Particularly professionals and policy makers have positive expectations. Care outcome results are ambiguous. Receiver and provider satisfaction is relevant but still poorly understood. METHODS During implementation of integrated care in residential homes (The MOVIT project), we compared general satisfact...

Residential satisfaction is a multi-dimensional concept that the degree to which residents feel their place of residence helps them achieve desired goal. The research aims develop holistic model can predict and measure residential in regenerated housing post-socialist cities. for postulates objective subjective measurements after brief review theories gaps within literature. This paper reports ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of an activity programme in improving function, quality of life, and falls in older people in residential care. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial with one year follow-up. SETTING 41 low level dependency residential care homes in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS 682 people aged 65 years or over. INTERVENTIONS 330 residents were offered a goal setti...

The burden of paper-based nursing documentation has led to increasing complaints and decreasing job satisfaction amongst aged-care workers in Australian nursing homes. The automation of nursing documentation has been identified as one of the possible strategies to address this issue. A major obstacle to the introduction of IT solutions, however, has been a prevailing doubt concerning the abilit...

formation and expantion of informal settlements are concequences of urban growth and zanjan isn't an exception to this regulation. najaf abad informal settlement has been formed and expanded on the bases of uncontrolled and exceeding rural immigration. this study aims to investigate role of social security in empowerment as well as elimination district problems of zanjan najaf abad. in the empo...

BACKGROUND The use of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV-PCA) has been increasing because it has advantages such as improved pain relief, greater patient satisfaction, and fewer postoperative complications. However, current research has not considered the patients' thoughts about IV-PCA's cost-effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to investigate the willingness to pay (WTP) for...

AIM To report quantitative evidence of the effectiveness of advanced practice nursing roles, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, in meeting the healthcare needs of older adults living in long-term care residential settings. BACKGROUND Although studies have examined the effectiveness of advanced practice nurses in this setting, a systematic review of this evidence has not been ...

BACKGROUND To assess the utilization of and satisfaction with ophthalmic healthcare provided by integrated delivery system (IDS) since 2000 and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) for residents of an offshore island of Taiwan. METHODS Facilitators interviewed residents (age ≥ 50 years) with the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25) for VRQoL and a questi...

This article addresses the relation between antisocial behaviour and social resources in a 2-year longitudinal study of 100 high-risk adolescents in residential care. Problem behaviour was measured with the Externalizing Scale of the Youth Self Report. Social resources were recorded using semi-structured methods. Hierarchical regression analyses showed interactions suggesting that the same vari...

Many service users and professionals are not satisfied with current hospital care: they call for a safer and more friendly environment, with greater freedom and less social distance between staff and patients. Phase 2 of the Alternatives Study was designed to improve the evidence base for such residential alternatives. Findings suggest that offering a more acceptable environment increases satis...