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Psychotropic drug consumption at admission and discharge of nursing home residents
Rolland, Yves,
Andrieu, Sandrine,
Crochard, Anne,
Goni, Sylvia,
Hein, Christophe,
Vellas, Bruno
Objectives: To quantify transitions of residents into or out of nursing homes (NHs) and to describe psychotropic drug prescription at admission and discharge and with regard to dementia diagnosis.; Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional, noninterventional study.; Setting: The setting included 300 NH in France.; Participants: Participants included 2231 NH residents.; Measurements: Participants reported the number, origin, […]
Agitation in nursing home residents with dementia (VIDEANT trial): effects of a cluster-randomized, controlled, guideline implementation trial
Rapp, Michael A.,
Mell, Thomas,
Majić, Tomislav,
Treusch, Yvonne,
Nordheim, Johanna,
Niemann-Mirmehdi, Mechthild,
Gutzmann, Hans,
Heinz, Andreas
Objective: To test the effect of a complex guideline-based intervention on agitation and psychotropic prescriptions.; Design, Setting, Participants: Cluster randomized controlled trial (VIDEANT) with blinded assessment of outcome in 18 nursing homes in Berlin, Germany, comprising 304 dementia patients.; Intervention: Training, support, and activity therapy intervention, delivered at the level of each nursing home, focusing […]
Nursing homes and end-of-life care in Japan
Objectives: To describe end-of-life care in Japanese nursing homes by comparing facility and characteristics of residents dying in nursing homes with those who had been transferred and had died in hospitals, and by comparing the quality of end-of-life care with hospitals and with their respective counterparts in the United States.; Setting: National sample of 653 […]
Supervised exercise to reduce agitation in severely cognitively impaired persons
Background: Several studies have shown an improvement in depression, activities of daily living, and agitation in cognitively impaired subjects who undergo a long-term exercise program. These studies have not considered the short-term effects of exercise.; Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the short-term effects of a limited, supervised exercise program on agitation, […]