INTRODUCTION At present, 7.2% of the population in Singapore is in the geriatric age group, which will increase to 18.4% in the year 2030. The frailest segment of the geriatric population live in nursing homes. They suffer from multiple co-morbidities requiring multiple medication use. Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use have been considered as quality indicators for nursing home care...

BACKGROUND Physical restraints are still frequently used in nursing home residents despite growing evidence for the ineffectiveness and negative consequences of these methods. Therefore, reduction in the use of physical restraints in psycho-geriatric nursing home residents is very important. The aim of this study was to investigate the short-term effects of an educational intervention on the us...

Geriatric nursing is the main course for cultivating elderly talents. The teaching quality of geriatric key element training Therefore, it great significance to improve classroom nursing. purpose this study construct a four-subject and four-dimension evaluation system explore its application effect in teaching. From February 2022 July 2022, an experimental was conducted on 185 sophomore student...

Aims and objectives. To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent and reduce the use of physical restraints in older people requiring long-term nursing care. Background. Physical restraints are commonly used in geriatric long-term care. However, they are associated with adverse outcomes. Therefore, freedom from physical restraints should be the aim of high-quality nursing care. Des...

BACKGROUND The extent of medical and financial problems of polypharmacy in the elderly is disturbing, particularly in nursing homes and nursing departments. OBJECTIVES To improve drug therapy and minimize drug intake in nursing departments. METHODS We introduced a geriatric-palliative approach and methodology to combat the problem of polypharmacy. The study group comprised 119 disabled pati...

BACKGROUND Transfer to an emergency room and hospitalization of nursing home residents is a growing problem that is poorly defined and reported. OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical effectiveness of a pilot project involving hospitalization of nursing home residents directly to an acute-care geriatric department. METHODS We retrospectively compared the hospitalization in an acute-care geriatri...

BACKGROUND Theories exist to challenge current practice, create new approaches to practice and remodel the structure of rules and principles. One question is whether nurses could find in psychosocial theories of ageing a theoretical foundation on which to base support of older people in their ageing process. AIM The aim of the present paper was to analyse five psychosocial theories of ageing ...

Continuing education (CE) is intended to enable nurses to pursue their professional development, be lifelong learners, and function in their roles safely and proficiently. The challenge for those providing CE programs for practicing nurses has been to establish the importance of these programs for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes. It is difficult to determine whether nurses who a...

BACKGROUND As a consequence of demographic changes, hospitals are confronted with increasing numbers of elderly patients, who are at high risk of adverse events during hospitalization. Geriatric risk screening followed by comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) and treatment has been requested by geriatric societies and task forces to identify patients at risk. Since empirical evidence on fact...

Dr. Srinivasan is a geriatric psychiatry fellow and Dr. Weinberg is Chief of Geriatrics and Extended Care at Dorn VA Medical Center; Dr. Weinberg is also Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia. A lthough behavioral symptoms associated with dementia in geriatric long-term care (LTC) residents living in nursing facilities are common, sexual inapp...