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Gait performance in dementia: the effects of a 6-week resistance training program in an adult day-care setting
- Authors:
- HAGEMAN Patricia A., THOMAS Vince Salazar
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(4), April 2002, pp.329-334.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Age-related declines in balance and muscle power are largely responsible for the changes in the various components of gait performance among elderly people. Reports on the effects of a six-week pilot study of strength training on the gait of elderly individuals with dementia who attend a day-care center. The intervention consisted of moderate-intensity progressive resistance lower extremity exercise using Theraband, for two to three sessions per week over the six weeks. Post-intervention assessment of strength and gait was repeated at the completion of the sixth week. Results found that the six-week resistance training programme proved to be of insufficient duration, intensity or specificity to produce significant change in gait outcome measures, with the exception of fast speed gait.
Bathing without a battle: personal care of individuals with dementia
- Editors:
- BARRICK Ann Louise, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Springer Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 162p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Presents an individualised, problem solving approach to bathing and personal care of people with dementia. Based on original research and clinical experience, this book details strategies and techniques that can be used in both institutional and home settings. The approach is also appropriate for care activities other than bathing. Provides practice guidelines, transfer techniques, lists of suppliers of bathing equipment and the description of a complete training programme for care workers.
Direct and indirect support for carers: patterns of support for informal caregivers to elderly people in Sweden
- Author:
- JEGERMALM Magnus
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 38(4), 2002, pp.67-83.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study examines what support services are offered to informal caregivers and whether the support is aimed directly or indirectly at the carers. Data were collected by means of two mail questionnaires in a Swedish county. The first questionnaire was aimed at each municipality in the region. The second questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 284 voluntary organizations in the region. Only the municipalities proved to have relief services, day care centres and two forms of payment for carers. The voluntary organisations' support for carers was focused on support groups and training as well as services for elderly care recipients. The results indicated that the support services for carers were both direct and indirect and that the municipalities and the voluntary organisations largely offer different kinds of support.
Experience-based approach to respite care training
- Author:
- JEFFS Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 10(3), May 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on a training initiative for a respite care service for older people and their carers. Staff experienced for themselves the environment they were creating for service users with community and residential care workers living in the respite care setting for five days. Looks at the outcomes of the training and an evaluation of the service.
Adult care
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 2002, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Reports on how working conditions of care home staff, and asks whether the measures being taken to raise standards truly address the employment climate the sector currently finds itself in.
Log on to develop practice
- Author:
- SCHOFIELD Irene
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.2.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a virtual web-based college which has been created to enable nurses caring for older people to collect and share best practice.
Research into practice
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.2.02, 2002, p.45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at research which suggests how the Home Improvement Agency can work more effectively with older people with dementia.
Caring with confidence: a handbook for training in dementia care for nursing and care assistants in continuing care homes
- Editor:
- BHADURI Reba
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 115p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The introduction of the National Service Framework for Older People (2002) is the first national strategy to provide a framework for the provision of high quality care for older people, including people with dementia. The implementation of this policy and strategy requires a more skilled workforce. This handbook has been designed to raise the awareness of nursing and care assistants of various issues involved in caring for older people with dementia. It provides up-to-date information on dementia and its effects on the person and offers suggestions and practical tips for good practice. The training handbook contains six modules with case scenarios, a quiz, tips for good practice and training exercises.
Evaluation of the wellspring model for improving nursing home quality
- Authors:
- STONE Robyn, et al
- Publisher:
- The Commonwealth Fund
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Wellspring Innovative Solutions, Inc. (Wellspring), is a confederation of 11 freestanding, not-for-profit nursing homes (NHs) in eastern Wisconsin called The Wellspring Alliance.The Wellspring model includes clinical consultation and education by a geriatric nurse practitioner, a shared program of staff training using modules developed by the nurse practitioner, the sharing of comparative data on resident outcomes, and a structure of multidisciplinary care resource teams who are empowered to develop and implement interventions that they believe will improve the care of residents.
Primary care for elderly people: why do doctors find it so hard?
- Authors:
- ADAMS Wendy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(6), December 2002, pp.835-842.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Many primary care physicians find caring for elderly patients difficult. The goal of this study was to develop a detailed understanding of why physicians find primary care with elderly patients difficult. Three major domains of difficulty emerged: medical complexity and chronicity, personal and interpersonal challenges, and administrative burden. The greatest challenge occurred when difficulty in more than one area was present. Contextual conditions, such as the practice environment and the physician's training and personal values, shaped the experience of providing care and how difficult it seemed.