Barrett, Eva Burke, Megan Whelan, Sally Santorelli, Adam Oliveira, Barbara Luz Cavallo, Filippo Dröes, Rose-Marie Hopper, Louise Fawcett-Henesy, Ainna Meiland, Franka J M
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Journal of gerontological nursing
The current study focuses on the short-term effect of MARIO, a social robot, on quality of life, depression, and perceived social support in persons with dementia (PWD) and evaluates their acceptability of MARIO. Ten PWD in one nursing home took part in a 4-week pilot study, where each participant had up to 12 sessions with MARIO. Sessions comprise...
Lee, Myung Kyung Oh, Ji Hyun
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Journal of gerontological nursing
The current study investigated whether osteoarthritis pain was associated with physical function and aimed to identify possible multistep indirect pathways of the association between pain and physical function through sleep quality, depression, and fatigue. Using the survey method, data were collected from 222 adults age ≥65 years diagnosed with os...
Harrington, Candace C
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Evidence suggests the most crucial elements to successful heart failure (HF) management in long-term care (LTC) include improving staffs' HF knowledge to recognize and intervene in early symptom exacerbations, embedding an effective and integrated interprofessional communication system into daily care processes, risk stratification, and anticipator...
Linnebur, Sunny
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Anderson, Joel G Hundt, Elizabeth Rose, Karen M
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) may exhibit behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia that can increase the strain experienced by their family caregivers. This strain correlates with increased stress and reduced quality of life for the family caregiver and individual with ADRD. More information is needed re...
Foley, Lindsey M
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Cook, Heather Parson, Janee Brandt, Nicole
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Medication reconciliation has been an area with increased focus among transitions of care due to associations with error rates and risk of patient harm. Chart reviews were performed to evaluate the discrepancies between the initial physician order sheet (POS), hospital discharge summary, electronic health record (EHR), health information exchange (...
Jenko, Mimi Panjwani, Yasmin Buck, Harleah G
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Intentional rounding (IR) is a strategy used by predominately acute care nursing staff to proactively address patients' needs at regular and consistent intervals. The current project piloted the use of IR with certified nursing assistants (CNAs) on a 60-bed unit of a 120-bed skilled nursing facility (SNF). Using a pre/post intervention design and t...
Arnstein, Paul Herr, Keela
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Journal of gerontological nursing
Carpenter, Joan Miller, Susan C Kolanowski, Ann M Karel, Michele J Periyakoil, Vyjeyanthi S Lowery, Jill Levy, Cari Sales, Anne E Ersek, Mary
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Journal of gerontological nursing
The goal of this quality improvement project is to improve care planning around preferences for life-sustaining treatments (LST) and daily care to promote quality of life, autonomy, and safety for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Living Center (CLC) (i.e., nursing home) residents with dementia. The care planning process occurs thr...
