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Russell, Louise B. – Journal of Human Resources, 1973
Savings in hospital reimbursements through use of extended-care facilities to shorten hospital stays for Medicare patients have more than outweighed the costs of the extended-care facilities. (MF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economics, Health Facilities, Health Insurance
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Mullins, Larry C.; Merriam, Sharan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 1983
The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of workshops for nursing home nurses that promote cognitive gains and increased positive attitudes toward the elderly and the dying. (Available from University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, TX 78712.) (JOW)
Descriptors: Death, Nurses, Nursing Homes, Older Adults
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Lerea, L. Eliezer; LiMauro, Barbara F. – Journal of Gerontology, 1982
Examined the prevalence and nature of grief in response to patient suffering, loss, or death among healthcare workers. Skilled nursing facility personnel remembered experiencing bereavement in response to crises of their geriatric patients. Mourning occurred among virtually all general hospital personnel who usually serve younger patients. (Author)
Descriptors: Death, Emotional Experience, Grief, Hospitals
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Hiemstra, Roger – Lifelong Learning: The Adult Years, 1981
Describes how one hospice organization is trying, through education, to change the practices, attitudes, and opinions of people such as hospital administrators, nursing home administrators, nurses, social workers, and other professionals who attend to the sick and dying. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Death, Diseases
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Lovelace, Terry – Educational Gerontology, 1979
Investigates the use of reading activities in the enhancement of the lives of nursing home patients. Two reading groups were formed. Short stories of high interest were read and discussed. Patients appeared to appreciate and enjoy the sessions. (Author)
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Nursing Homes, Older Adults, Participant Satisfaction
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Dunbar, Joan M.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1996
Describes an educational program that contributed to a 90% reduction in the use of physical restraints in nursing homes over a two-year period. Program consists of a workshop, telephone and on-site consultations, regional meetings, and other support materials. Surveys suggest that the project can be easily adapted by care providers. (RJM)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Education, Intervention, Nursing Homes
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Kotzabassaki, Stella; Alabaster, Erica S.; And, Kati; Larsson, Ulla; de Vree, Willem – Nurse Education Today, 2003
An intensive 3-year program provided cross-national training in holistic care for European nursing home staff. Data from 38 teachers and 57 students indicated that the goals of transcultural awareness, skill development, and increased knowledge were achieved. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Foreign Countries, Inservice Education, Nursing Education
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Coulton, Claudia J.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1989
Examined attitudes of elderly acute-care hospital patients (N=264) concerning discharge planning. Respondents varied in their reactions to discharge planning and degree to which they exerted final control over decision. Perceived lack of control was associated with posthospital psychological distress for patients with high levels of internal locus…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Decision Making, Locus of Control, Nursing Homes
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Leibson, Cynthia; And Others – Gerontologist, 1990
Examination of hospitalizations for 5,854 elderly adults for 1980, 1985, and 1987 revealed significant increases in 60-day mortality and nursing home transfers after Medicare's Prospective Payment System began and hospital stays were shortened. Increases were largely explained by differences in risk factors other than length of stay (age, gender,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Death, Diseases, Hospitals
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Bitzan, Janet E.; Kruzich, Jean M. – Gerontologist, 1990
Conducted interviews with 332 intellectually intact residents in 54 nursing homes to study their patterns of interpersonal relationships with staff, other residents, and family and friends outside the home. Results indicated importance of having a close friend for residents' participation in activities, life satisfaction, and nursing home…
Descriptors: Friendship, Institutionalized Persons, Interpersonal Relationship, Life Satisfaction
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Personick, Martin E. – Monthly Labor Review, 1990
Bureau of Labor Statistics' data show that the incidence rate of 15 workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time nursing home workers is well above that for private industry as a whole. Back injuries are most frequently reported. Short tenure and high turnover are correlated with health and safety problems. (SK)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Employment Patterns, Injuries, Nurses Aides
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Winkler, Anne; And Others – Gerontologist, 1989
Examined the perceptions and social interactions of patients (n=20) and staff after introducing a resident dog to a nursing home. Results showed a significant increase of interactive behaviors for both staff and residents after 6 weeks. After 22 weeks, behavior for residents had reverted to base-line levels. (Author/BHK)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
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Tellis-Nayak, V.; Tellis-Nayak, Mary – Gerontologist, 1989
Used ethnographic data to examine personal and work worlds of nurse's aides. Concludes that, because nursing home's institutional culture often adds to adversity of their personal life, nurse's aides move between the two milieus in self-perpetuating negative cycle, carrying to bedside of elderly residents the affective and psychological burden…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Experience, Long Term Care, Nurses Aides
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Mangum, Wiley P.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1989
Studied prior planning for and problems associated with evacuation of 1,860 nursing home patients in Pinellas County, Florida, due to Hurricane Elena in 1985 through questionnaires administered to nursing home administrators and public documents. Found most serious problems to be transporting patients to shelters in timely fashion, delayed passage…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Burnout, Institutionalized Persons, Natural Disasters
Brooten, Dorothy; And Others – Nursing and Health Care, 1989
Describes a research model designed to investigate the shift in the care delivery site from the acute care institution to the home and community. Transitional care may soon become familiar jargon in community health care. (JOW)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Delivery Systems, Health Services, Models
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