Chair and bed rise performance in ADL-impaired congregate housing residents

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Performance of a series of bed and chair rise tasks carried out by activities-of-daily-living (ADL)-impaired subjects in seven congregate hosing facilities for the aged has been studied to find out about ability to rise and time taken to rise. The rise task demand varied. Lowering the head-of-bed height and seat height increased difficulty of rising especially with hand use limited. The bed and chair rise tasks can serve as outcomes for an intervention to improve bed and chair rise ability. Bed and chair design modifications might come from such studies.

Methods, Equipment and supplies, Measurement, Disability evaluation, Nursing homes, Disability, Disabilities, Hospital beds

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Advance directive preferences among subpopulations of Asian nursing home residents in the Pacific Northwest

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A chart review has been carried out to study advance directives (code status) among subgroups of Asian nursing home residents in the US Pacific Northwest. It was found that code status among Asian subgroups in these ethnic nursing homes varied significantly. Japanese residents are more likely than Chinese or others to be in the no-code group. High age and comorbidity are also corr elated with the no-code status.

Research, Planning, Demographic aspects, Terminal care, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ethical aspects, Immigrants, Health planning, Religious aspects, CPR (First aid), Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Asian Americans, Terminal care facilities, Japanese Americans, Chinese American aged, Oceanians, Resuscitation, Bioethics, Medical personnel and patient, Communication in medicine, Health counseling, Pacific Islanders, Medical personnel-patient relations, Medical communication

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The effect of nutritional supplementation on survival in seriously ill hospitalized adults: an evaluation of the SUPPORT data

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A prospective study of preferences, decision-making and outcomes has been carried out in five teaching hospitals to investigate the effect of nutritional supplementation on survival in seriously ill hospitalized adults. It was found that nutritional support was associated with better survival in coma and that enteral feeding and hyperalimentation was associated with lower survival in acute respiratory failure (ARF) or multiorgan system failure (MOSF) with sepsis.

Statistics, Parenteral feeding, Parenteral nutrition, Dietary supplements, Enteral feeding, Enteral nutrition, Coma, Tube feeding, Coma (Medicine)

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