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A Community-Wide Effort to Reduce Hospital Utilization By Patients Requiring Nursing Home Placement.
Peer reviewedLagoe, Ronald J. – Gerontologist, 1989
Increased admissions from hospitals to nursing homes over six-month period resulted in reduced number of hospital nonacute patients requiring long-term care placement. Nursing homes shifted admissions patterns to accept more persons from non-hospital settings, hospital admissions declined, and number of nonacute patients in hospitals increased.…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Nursing Homes
Peer reviewedRyden, Muriel B.; Krichbaum, Kathleen – Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 1996
Survey data from 70 hospitals and 75 long-term care facilities compared policies and practices of support for the educational development of nursing staff. Significant differences were found, suggesting that nursing homes lag behind hospitals in the development of their staffs. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Attitudes, Hospitals, Long Term Care
Peer reviewedCox, Carole; Verdieck, Mary Jeanne – Gerontologist, 1994
Interviewed 179 caregivers of hospitalized patients and studied discharge decisions to examine factors associated with willingness to continue in caregiving role after hospitalization of relative with dementia. Caregivers initially undecided about discharge plans were likely to seek placement for patients with more severe cognitive impairment,…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Decision Making, Family Caregivers, Frail Elderly
Peer reviewedMurtaugh, Christopher M.; Freiman, Marc P. – Gerontologist, 1995
Analysis of national medical data identified elderly nursing home residents with an elevated risk of hospitalization and the characteristics of their hospital stays. Findings indicate an elevated risk of hospitalization for residents diagnosed with one of several different primary diagnoses. Infections accounted for over 25% of hospital stays.…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Frail Elderly, Gerontology, Health Conditions
Download full textCarroll Community Coll., Westminster, MD. – 1998
These two volumes contain research papers and personal reflections developed as culminating projects by adult students involved in workplace literacy classes in nursing homes, hospitals, and home care agencies. The first volume contains 18 papers: "What You Need to Know about Cancer" (Grace Bopst); "What Nursing Assistants Need to Know about Heart…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Attitudes, Cancer, Chronic Illness
PDF pending restorationCarroll Community Coll., Westminster, MD. – 1998
This curriculum guide contains lesson plans and student materials for a workplace literacy program for health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes and home-care agencies. The guide begins with a bibliography that contains the following: 44 books, 15 videotapes, 1 multimedia presentation, 12 health magazines and journals, 41 references, and 26…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Caregivers, Chronic Illness, Diabetes
Carroll Community Coll., Westminster, MD. – 1998
The Home Care Challenge was a 4-year National Workplace Literacy Grant project conducted by Carroll Community College in partnership with Carroll Hospice, Carroll Lutheran Village, and Home Call to provide workplace literacy education for health care workers in these agencies. The project's goals were as follows: improving reading fluency, problem…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Caregivers, Chronic Illness, Diseases
