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A descriptive-comparative study of medications used by older people prior to and following admission to a continuing care facility
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Medications are beneficial for curing or managing acute and chronic illnesses. Medications typically have positive outcomes, although older people are prone to drug-related problems. Community-dwelling seniors are at particularly high risk of polypharmacy, as they tend to receive many...
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2013
Stewart, N., Morgan, D. G., Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P., Squires, J. E., Poss, J. W., Doupe, M., Teare, G. F., Cummings, G. G.
Nursing homes have become complex care environments where residents have significant needs and most have age-related dementia. Building on research by Hirdes et al. (2011), we describe a resident profile in a representative sample of 30 urban nursing homes in the prairie provinces using Resident...
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2007
A replication study was undertaken to validate a model of quality of life (QOL) generated in an earlier study on a random sample of 202 older adults. Pathways found to be significant were retested using QOL data from a convenience sample of 420 older adults. Using path analysis, we found that...
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2015
Low, Gail, Stickland , Michael, Ross, Carolyn, Wong, Eric, Wilson, Donna
The prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is growing, and people are living with this disease well into older age. Little is known about how people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease adapt to aging, particularly the physical changes of aging. According to the Identity...
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2012
Thomas, R., Robertson, S., Osei-Waree, J., Kovacs Burns, K., Wilson, D.M., Hewitt, J.A.
Few studies have focused on the care setting transitions that occur in the last year of life. A three part mixed-methods study was conducted to gain an understanding of the number and implications or impact of care setting transitions in the last year of life for rural Canadians. Provincial...
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2013
Gibson, M., Forbes, D., Morgan, D. G., Thiessen, E., Blake, C., Markle-Reid, M., Culum, I., Finkelstein, S.
This article discusses the First Nations sample of a larger study on dementia care decisions and knowledge sharing. The purpose is to enhance understanding of the process of knowledge sharing among health care practitioners (HCPs), care partners, and persons with dementia (PWDs) within a rural...
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Family members providing home-based palliative care to older adults: The enactment of multiple roles
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Clemmer, S., Ward-Griffin, C., Forbes, D.
Canadians are experiencing increased life expectancy and chronic illness requiring end-of-life care. There is limited research on the multiple roles for family members providing home-based palliative care. Based on a larger ethnographic study of client-family-provider relationships in home-based...
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2012
Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Wagg, A., Bottorff, J. L., Lynch, S. L., Abel, S. L., Bissell, L., Norton, P. G., Robinson, C. A., Lee, J. S., Masaoud, E., Cummings, G. E., Rowe, B. H., Reid, R. C.
Background Changes in health status, triggered by events such as infections, falls, and geriatric syndromes, are common among nursing home (NH) residents and necessitate transitions between NHs and Emergency Departments (EDs). During transitions, residents frequently experience care that is...
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2006
Norris, C.M., Graham, M.M., Galbraith, P.D., Knudtson, M.L., Ghali, W.A.
Aims: To describe health status outcomes at 4 years for a cohort of elderly patients with cardiac disease. Methods and results: Using the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcomes Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease, an outcomes initiative capturing all patients undergoing cardiac catheterization...