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4 sty 2022 · Positive peer interaction in nursing homes has been consistently recognized as essential to residents’ life quality. However, low rates of resident-to-resident interaction were found to be pervasive. Our research explores the potential of applying public display systems to promote residents’ unplanned co-located interaction.
In this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, we present research that speaks to the importance of psychosocial care and its relationship to the overall well-being and quality of life for people receiving long-term care (LTC) services in nursing homes and community-based settings.
17 gru 2020 · Elderly people who leave their home environment and move to a nursing home enter a phase in life with diminishing contact with family and friends. This situation often results in a feeling of loneliness with a concomitant deterioration in physical and mental health.
As many as 25% of nursing home residents suffer from major depression and as many as 82% report depressive symptoms (Seitz, Purandare, & Conn, 2010). In addition, studies of anxiety disorders in nursing homes estimate a prevalence between 5% and 5.7% (Creighton, Davison, & Kissane, 2016).
Interventions within care homes that meet people’s psychological needs, affirm personhood, promote emotional well-being, and uphold social value constitute what is called person-centred care (Brooker, 2007).
What follows is a set of resources that capture the state of the art in psychological services to older adults and especially to those in long-term care. These materials cover individual, family and organizational interventions as well as psychological and neuropsychological assessment of older adults.
1 lis 2002 · Nursing home administrators have estimated that two-fifths of nursing home residents need psychiatric services, yet half of nursing homes do not have access to adequate psychiatric consultation, and three-quarters are unable to obtain consultation and educational services for behavioral interventions .
