A randomized trial of a combined physical activty and environmental intervention in nursing home residents: Do sleep and agitation improve?
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Nighttime sleep improved and daytime agitation decreased, but no physical function measures changed significantly in a randomized trial of a combined physical activty and environmental intervention strategy carried out in 29 incontinent nursing home residents with the goal of finding out whether sleep would improve and whether agitation would be less intense. Sleep impairment is very widespread for such patients, and more prevalent and more severe than would be predicted based on age. Incontinent patients find nighttime care for this condition to be disruptive to sleep, so residents were not awakened on rounds unless four hourly rounds had passed since toileting or changing was offered.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1999
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The effects of staffing on in-bed times of nursing home residents
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The effect of staffing level on time observed in bed during the daytime in nursing home (NH) residents is examined. Residents in bed during the daytime in more than 50 percent of hourly observations experienced increased daytime sleeping, less social engagement and consumed less food and fluids during mealtimes than those observed in bed less than 50 percent of observations.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2004
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The effects of an exercise and incontinence intervention on skin health outcomes in nursing home residents
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The skin health outcomes of an exercise and incontinence intervention are examined. The multi-faceted intervention improved four-risk factors related to skin health but did no translate into significant improvements in most measures of skin health.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2003
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