Visual impairment among older adults residing in long-term care (LTC) facilities and retirement homes is common and can have a significant adverse impact on their quality of life. Despite the burden ...of illness, they frequently receive inadequate eye care. We describe an optometrist-led eye care program serving this population, including a profile of participants and the program's educational role for optometry students.
An optometrist assessed residents of LTC facilities and retirement homes. Participants received their routine eye care, which included a report to the resident's family physician, through the program. A chart review was conducted for a consecutive series of patients; data were recorded on a standardized data abstraction form.
All residents examined had at least one (average 1.8) ocular condition. Challenges presented by residents in their assessment, such as confusion and/or impaired comprehension (14.3%), refusal or poor cooperation (13.2%), and physical limitations (8.8%), were common, indicating the necessity of adapting eye assessment procedures to the needs of this population.
This study supports the involvement of optometrists in the eye care for residents of retirement homes and LTC facilities, where optometrists can be an important clinical and educational resource. The program is a useful learning opportunity for optometry students.
The market for (intelligent) support systems for nursing of an increasingly aging population has grown rapidly in recent years. Nevertheless, only a few of these systems have found their way into the ...care of the elderly. An important point, in addition to the lack of refinancing structures in the health care system, is the reservations of those in need of care and those caring for them. With our study, we tried to get an insight into the everyday care work and to better understand the attitudes of caregivers towards the use of technology in elderly care, especially with a focus on artificial intelligence. In our paper, we present the results from a contextual inquiry, interviews, and a workshop for this purpose.
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The purpose of this study is to determine risks for hypo-nutrition among elderly people living in private retirement homes and to evaluate their needs for nutrition care. We studied 650 elderly ...people (mean age 84.6±6.3 yrs) in private retirement homes by evaluating the levels of risks for hypo-nutrition by using the method employed by nursing insurance facilities to assess nutrition care and management. The risk factor for those with BMI of less than 18 . 5 kg/m2 was examined by logistic regression analysis. In assessment of risks for hypo-nutrition, 31 . 1% of those with BMI>18 . 5 kg/m2 and 35 . 7 % of those with the meal intake of ≤75% were in the moderate to high risk groups. Those with moderate risks for weight losses were 12 . 3% and those with high risks 8 . 9% respectively. In this study, .those needing nursing care (≥level 4)., .those with high risks for weight losses., .those whose meal intake was ≤75%., .those needing medical care for bedsores. and .those needing medical management of intravenous drips. were significant factors for BMI of >18 . 5 kg/m2. Hypo-nutrition (BMI>18 . 5 kg/m2 and meal intake ≤75%) was found in 30% or more of residents in private retirement homes. These data suggest the need for creating a system for detecting nutritional deterioration among residents in retirement homes at an early stage.
Entrer en maison de retraite constitue bien souvent, pour une personne âgée, une transition brutale, car il lui faut faire le deuil d’un logement familier pour intégrer et s’adapter à un nouvel ...environnement que, trop fréquemment, elle n’a pas choisi. Cela passe par un processus de désappropriation–réappropriation de l’espace (Low et Altman, 1992) qui peut être considéré comme un indicateur d’adaptation aux lieux Rioux, L., 2004. Les stratégies adaptatives mises en œuvre par les personnes âgées vivant dans leur logement, premiers entretiens de la psychologie, Fédération Française des Psychologues et de Psychologie, Paris, 25 mai 2004. La recherche présentée dans cet article se décompose en trois études complémentaires : la mise en évidence d’un double processus d’appropriation (spatiale et territoriale) mis en œuvre par les personnes entrant en maison de retraite, l’élaboration d’un outil évaluant leur adaptation spatio-territoriale au nouveau lieu de vie et la vérification de la pertinence de cet instrument sur le plan appliqué. Les résultats sont discutés et, même si des recherches complémentaires sont encore nécessaires, permettent d’envisager une utilisation de cet outil d’évaluation de l’adaptation de la personne âgée à la maison de retraite par le personnel de santé et les gestionnaires des maisons de retraite.
Getting in a retirement home is often a violent transition for an elderly person as they have to be bereaved of a familiar home to fit in and adapt to a new environment which, too often, has not been chosen by them. This goes with a spatio disappropriation–reappropriation process (Low et Altman, 1992) which may be considered as a sign for adaptation to the premises Rioux, L., 2004. Les stratégies adaptatives mises en œuvre par les personnes âgées vivant dans leur logement, premiers entretiens de la psychologie, Fédération Française des Psychologues et de Psychologie, Paris, 25 mai 2004. The research presented in this article is split into three complementary studies: evidence of a double spatial and territorial appropriation process implemented by people getting in a retirement home is brought to the fore, development of a tool which assesses their spatioterritorial adaptation to the new space of living, verification of the relevance of this tool on the applied field. The results are discussed and, even if further research is still needed, they enable us to consider a use by the medical and management staff of this tool assessing the adaptation of the elderly person to their retirement home.
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By means of a case study we explore how the residents of a retirement home use mobile telephony. This is part of wider research on mobile communication among the elderly population in the ...metropolitan area of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). A qualitative approach, based on semi-structured interviews, allows the exploration of social perceptions, representations and use of the technology to better understand the processes in operation here. We analyze the position that mobile telephony occupies in the personal system of communication channels (PSCC) and we observe that the mobile phone has become a central channel and a strategic tool for seniors who have moved from their private household to a retirement home, while intensity of telephony use is kept low. Taking into account the available evidence on mobile appropriation in the golden age, the first results of the case study are presented and discussed here.
Cet article met en évidence les conditions d’apparition de postures réparatrices chez les spécialistes du soutien aux personnes âgées, c’est-à-dire ailleurs que chez les acteurs classiques du
cure. ...Une enquête en maison de retraite et dans une association de bénévoles souligne la tension entre la définition formelle du travail humanisé et les exigences réelles : dévouement, féminité de service et tolérance au gardiennage des corps, au niveau des savoir-faire ; autonomie relative des postes et cadences raisonnables, au niveau de l’organisation. Pour reconstituer le processus de construction de ces étroites marges de manœuvre humanistes, (1) il convient de prendre en compte la nature du dévouement en gériatrie, (2) puis les formes d’acquisition des savoir-faire professionnels, (3) pour enfin étudier l’accomplissement des actions réparatrices. La description d’un gardiennage des corps institutionnalisé, infiltré par des postures singulières construites comme réparatrices, révèle alors la dimension prescriptive de la distinction canonique entre
care et
cure, entretien et réparation.
Light is cast on the conditions for the emergence of “curing postures” among specialists who provide care to the elderly but are not involved in classical forms of curing. Fieldwork conducted in a retirement home and an association of volunteers who work with the elderly detected a tension between the formal definition of this humanized work and the real requirements in terms of know-how (devotion, the fact that these service workers are women, the ability to cope with handling bodies) and at the organizational level (relative job autonomy, the reasonable pace of work). To reconstitute the process whereby these narrow, humanistic margins of maneuver are formed, attention must be turned to the nature of “devotion” in geriatrics and to the acquirement of professional know-how; and then the performance of curing actions must be studied. This description of an institutionalized custody of bodies, which is infiltrated by “singular postures constructed in terms of curing”, reveals the prescriptive dimension of the classical distinction between cure and care, reparation and maintenance.
Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.- Move of the elderly from the retirement home at the Roeterstraat ...in Amsterdam to the new building Flevohuis near the Schellingwouderbrug. With the dining hall and the dormitories of the old building and the new individual rooms in the Flevohuis equipped with alarm bells, the nursing department, a room for fitness training, the restaurant and the delivery of a bread meal in a room. With comments (off screen) of residents of the home. With archive material of the fishing trip of the elderly in Ilpendam.- Bioscoopjournaals waarin Nederlandse onderwerpen van een bepaalde week worden gepresenteerd.- Verhuizing van bejaarden van het bejaardentehuis aan de Roeterstraat te Amsterdam naar het nieuw complex Flevohuis bij de Schellingwouderbrug. Met de eetzaal en de slaapzalen van het oude gebouw en de nieuwe individuele kamers in het Flevohuis met alarmbellen, de verpleegafdeling, een zaal voor conditietraining, het restaurant en het bezorgen van een broodmaaltijd op de kamer. Met commentaar (buiten beeld) van bewoners van het huis. Met archiefmateriaal van de visdag van bejaarden in Ilpendam.- Relocation of the elderly from the retirement home at the Roeterstraat in Amsterdam to the new complex Flevohuis near the Schellingwouderbrug. With the dining room and dormitories of the old building and the new individual rooms in the Flevo House with alarm bells, the nursing ward, a room for fitness training, the restaurant and the delivery of a bread meal to the room. With comments (off screen) from residents of the house. With archive material of the fishing day of the elderly in Ilpendam.- Cinema newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
Floratherapy is a creative arts technique involving the manipulation and use of flowers. It can be used to facilitate clients' awareness into inner issues, allowing them to view their life situations ...through a nonthreatening and often nonverbal means. This article presents one portion of a qualitative research project designed to explore the experiences of 6 women in a retirement home who participated in floratherapy group sessions. The intervention is fully explained and the lived experience of 1 woman from the study is relayed in detail.
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