International journal of older people nursing
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Int J Older People Nurs · May 2021
LetterIntegrated care for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium: Lessons learned the hard way.
The corona pandemic challenges countries worldwide in many different ways. Due to its magnitude and impact on global health, this health crisis exposes several shortcomings in their health systems and emphasizes their shortcomings and deficiencies. These deficiencies have quickly affected the most frail citizens, such as older people. ⋯ But setting up a strong collaboration model and integrated care between nursing homes and hospitals enables the nursing homes to manage this specific and complex care in their own environment. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: This case study shows that integrated care is possible and that both the hospital and the nursing homes benefit from such a system. Investments in people, resources, training and guidance concerning transitional care and knowledge exchange between hospitals and nursing homes, are necessary to guarantee a more efficient and robust approach to (pandemic) crises in nursing homes.
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Int J Older People Nurs · Dec 2020
Investigating the psychometric properties of the Carers' Fall Concern instrument to measure carers' concern for older people at risk of falling at home: A cross-sectional study.
This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Carers' Fall Concern Instrument (CFC-I) for measuring carers' concern for older people (care recipients) at risk of falling. ⋯ The newly developed multi-item CFC-I can be used to quantify the carers' level of fall concern and inform targeted interventions for carers when caring for older people who are at risk of falling.
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Int J Older People Nurs · Dec 2019
Incentivising a career in older adult nursing: The views of student nurses.
Nurse vacancy rates in older adult services are disproportionately high compared to other areas of nursing. This is partly because few student nurses consider it an attractive career option once qualified due to perceptions of low-status, strenuous nature of the work and impoverished care environments. The study aimed to explore students' perceptions of incentives that could counterbalance the barriers for new graduate nurses joining this speciality. ⋯ In terms of practice, addressing high nurse vacancy rates in older adult services that negaively impacts on patient outcomes requires a suite of incentives informed by 'what matters' to students and nurses working in the speciality.
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Int J Older People Nurs · Dec 2019
Resilience, not frailty: A qualitative study of the perceptions of older adults towards "frailty".
Despite increasing importance placed upon the identification of frailty among the older population, scholarship is limited around the perception of older adults towards the term. This qualitative study aimed to investigate the perceptions of older adults in a New Zealand setting towards the term "frail". ⋯ Frail older adults often reject the term frailty when used about themselves, therefore using this term in communication with older adults may have negative consequences.
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Int J Older People Nurs · Sep 2019
The context of care matters: Older people's existential loneliness from the perspective of healthcare professionals-A multiple case study.
To explore existential loneliness among older people in different healthcare contexts from the perspective of healthcare professionals. ⋯ Support for professionals must be tailored to their needs, their education levels and the context of care. Professionals need training and appropriate qualifications to address existential loneliness related to existential aspects of ageing and care.