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A Current Awareness Service for health care practitioners in long-term and geriatric care.
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Jan 30, 12 09:16AMPublished in November, 2011 by the Health Quality Council of Alberta. Using the CAHPS Nursing Home Survey: Family Member Instrument, the 2010/2011 Survey repeated a survey done in 2007/8, the first lo ng...
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Jan 30, 12 07:30AMThis report documents the process and findings of a review of issues associated with the prescription of antipsychotic medications for elderly residents of residential care facilities in British Colum bia...
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Jan 20, 12 06:23AMThe National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the Federal Government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has primary responsibility for ba sic...
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Jan 18, 12 01:31PMThe January issue of Land, a feature of the Canadian Institute of Health Information website, has a special article focusing on two important reports on seniors and health care in Canada, including th e...
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Jan 18, 12 01:21PMDon't forget to check out the Selected New Articles in the Geriatric Literature feature on this blog just to the right of this post. These articles are selected from dozens of recent alerts from major geriatric...
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Jan 16, 12 07:16AMNearly 90 percent of people over the age of 65 want to stay in their home for as long as possible. However, for older adults to age in place, their physical and service environment must be able to acc ommodate...
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Jan 16, 12 07:13AMGraziano Onder, Iain Carpenter, Harriett Finne-Soveri, Jacob Gindin, Dinnus Frijters, Jean-Claude Henrard,Thorsten Nikolaus, Eva Topinkova, Matteo Tosato, Rosa Liperoti, Francesco Landi and Roberto Be rnabeiBMC...
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Jan 04, 12 10:21AM"Background: Nursing homes provide long-term housing, support and nursing care to frail elders who are no longer able to function independently. Although studies conducted in the United States have de monstrated...
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Dec 19, 11 01:22PMAs a result of effective ARV (Antiretroviral ) treatments , the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) predicts that by mid-decade nearly half of the expected 1.5 million Americans living with HIV will be 50...
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