...Annette Bilfeldt; Marianne Mahler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss participatory action research with staff, residents and relatives contributed to the residents’ quality of life through the development of an inclusive praxis in a public nursing home in Denmark. The project...

...Jiska Cohen-Mansfield Purpose The impact of COVID-19 has most dramatically affected the older population, and nursing homes have become infection hotspots. As a response, governments have ordered isolation of older adults in geriatric institutions owing to the high risk of critical illness...

... factors, and the normative perception of care homes, have a bearing on how the sector is recognised, with implications for the construction of research processes and knowledge generation about care home issues. Nursing homes Care homes Pandemic COVID-19 Residential homes Research capacity...

..., and the websites and documents of potentially relevant external partner organizations (e.g. non-profit organizations and state agencies that worked with people who were persistently unemployed). Rural Management Staffing Long-term care Nursing homes Eldercare Front-line caregivers Organization...

...Laetitia Teixeira; Maria João Azevedo; Sara Alves; Cátia L. Pires; Constança Paúl Purpose In Portugal, the three main kinds of care services available for older people are nursing homes, day centers and home care services. The use of these care services is mostly based on complex socioeconomic...

...Marina Gharibian Adra; John Hopton; John Keady Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions, perspectives and meaning of quality of life for a sample of older residents, care staff and family caregivers in two nursing homes in Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach A classic...

... of life Europe Regulation Older people Nursing homes Controlling the quality of residential care for older people (both nursing homes and assisted living facilities, in which older people receive care when required) is particularly important as those who live in such settings tend to have...

... relatives died with end‐stage dementia in nursing homes in both Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI). A second aim is to develop guidelines for nursing home staff for the delivery of quality care to residents with end stage dementia in residential institutions. Design/methodology...

..., 1980 ; Haughie et al., 1992). PFT was successfully extended in the 1980s to other kinds of patients, including nursing home residents (Perelle and Granville, 1993) and research in more recent times has continued to reveal positive effects (Banks and Banks, 2002, 2005 ; Colombo et al...

... the spiritual needs of the fourth age. This paper aims to contribute to, and extend, the debate about meeting spiritual needs of people in care settings. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Spirituality Care homes Nursing homes Person‐centred care Fourth age Personhood Peer-reviewed...

...Ruth Bartlett The social exclusion of people with dementia is a problem. Older men with dementia in nursing homes are at considerable risk of social exclusion due to factors associated with age, gender, mental health status and this setting. It is not known whether older men in this situation...

...Julia Styles Wherever elderly individuals with diabetes reside, whether at home, in a residential home or in a nursing home, they deserve to have good‐quality, structured care provided by carers who have the relevant knowledge and skills. In order to achieve this carers need ongoing education...

...Malcolm Fisk; Veronica Wigley Accessing and interviewing older people in residential and nursing homes (care homes) presents a number of methodological challenges. Such challenges were encountered and, in many respects, overcome in a recent survey of more than 900 residents undertaken...