Caregivers of Stroke Patients: Predictors of Subjective BurdenBackground: Relatives who care for stroke survivors at home provide extensive emotional, social and physical care, which can be perceived as a burden. Literature reveals inconsistencies in ...
Background: Public quality reports, based on new legislative regulations of 2008, were supposed to offer potential customers the possibility to make a well-informed choice of a care provider. Aim: This empirical study on marks for long-term care is based ...
Migrant nurses from Vietnam – First experiences in the German long-term care sectorAbstract. Background: In 2012 a pilot project «recruiting qualified employees for the elderly care sector» commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and ...
Tracking systems in people with dementia in long-term care – an integrative reviewAbstract. Schlüsselwörter: Tracking-Systeme, Überwachungssysteme, Personenortung, Demenz, stationäre Langzeitpflege Tracking ...
Immediate reactions of people with dementia to individualized music – Analysis of behavioral observations in a nursing homeAbstract. Background: Due to the increasing prevalence of dementia, there is an urgent ...
Long-term care during the Corona pandemic – Main results from a nationwide online survey in nursing homes in GermanyAbstract. Background: As a highly vulnerable group, people in need of long-term care are ...
Care in times of Corona: Results of a cross-sectional study in German home care servicesAbstract. Background: People in need of care are particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to their age and previous ...
Difficulty of implementing kinaesthetics in long-term care institutions – A multiple case-studyAbstract.Background: Resources have been invested from long-term care institutions for the development of nursing ...
Tracking systems in people with dementia in long-term care – Update of an integrative reviewAbstract. Background: This article is an update of the article by Hülsken-Giesler et al. (2019) and describes the latest findings ...
Violence and Violence Prevention in Nursing Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic – A partial analysis of Interviews with Managers or Team LeadersAbstract.Background: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Recognition of Psychiatric Symptoms in Inpatient Long-Term CareAbstract. As part of the Swiss national strategy on dementia, we investigated to which extent the needs assessment instruments RAI and BESA can early ...
This paper concerns itself with public expenditures for long-term care (LTC) and seeks to make sense of the differences among European countries, using the concept of de-familialization under the welfare regime framework. For this we rely on a comparative ...
We provide a detailed exploration of cognitive and affective impairments in a small group (N = 8) of detoxified chronic alcohol abusers living in a long-term care facility. The findings of our cognitive test battery suggest impairment in executive ...
Abstract. This paper is based on biographical and qualitative egocentric network analyses and examines the social relations of older Italian and Portuguese migrants in need of long-term care (LTC) in Luxembourg. It addresses three components of their ...
Abstract: The utilization of psychotherapy for home-living, vulnerable older adults with depression is limited. Understanding patients’ motivation is essential to tailoring psychotherapy to their needs and improving therapeutical efficacy. Based on cross-...