scholarly journals Does Race Influence Conflict Between Nursing Home Staff and Family Members of Residents?

2011 ◽  
Vol 66B (6) ◽  
pp. 750-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Abrahamson ◽  
K. Pillemer ◽  
J. Sechrist ◽  
J. Suitor
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Nursing Home Staff

Nursing Home Staff Members’ Experiences With and Beliefs About Unusual End-of-Life Phenomena

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282098123
Author(s):  
Stephen Claxton-Oldfield ◽  
Natalie Richard
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Nursing Home Staff ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Specific Event ◽  
Transpersonal Experiences ◽  
Deathbed Visions ◽  
Life Phenomena

Twenty-two members of a nursing home took part in a study examining their experiences with and beliefs about unusual end-of-life phenomena (EOLP). Nearly all the staff members had witnessed and/or been told about residents holding on for someone to arrive or for a specific event to occur before dying (95% and 91%, respectively). Other commonly witnessed/reported EOLP included residents having sudden, unexpected moments of lucidity, sensing or feeling the presence of deceased residents, residents’ dreaming about deceased relatives, friends or pets, and deathbed visions. More than three-quarters of the staff members regarded EOLP as transpersonal experiences, as comforting to dying residents and their family members, and as part of the dying process. Fourteen staff members described experiences they had had with EOLP in the nursing home. The most frequently described experiences involved the appearance of apparitions. Seventy-seven percent of the staff members expressed an interest in learning more about EOLP.

Care for the Caregiver: Effective Pastoral Support for Nursing Home Staff

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Daryl Pullman ◽  
Bill James-Abra
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Nursing Home Staff ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
Acute Care Settings ◽  
Pastoral Support

Notes that the contexts in which caregivers work shape the kinds of relationships they develop with those under their care. Suggests that it is possible to map these contextual features on a continuum with detached professionalism and involved familialism representing the extremes. Claims that nursing home staff are more akin to family members in their relationships with residents than are other professional caregivers who work in acute care settings. Sketches possible implications as to how recognizing and responding to these relational dynamics may influence specific modes of care.

scholarly journals A Cooperative Communication Intervention for Nursing Home Staff and Family Members of Residents

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (suppl_2) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Pillemer ◽  
J. Jill Suitor ◽  
Charles R. Henderson, ◽  
Rhoda Meador ◽  
Leslie Schultz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Cooperative Communication ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Communication Intervention ◽  
Nursing Home Staff

Nursing Home Resident, Family, and Staff Perspectives on Hospital Transfers for End-of-Life Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282199770
Author(s):  
Janet Sopcheck ◽  
Ruth M. Tappen
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Advance Care

Residents who are terminally ill often experience transfers to the emergency department resulting in hospitalizations, which may be potentially avoidable with treatment in the nursing home. This qualitative study explored the perspectives of 15 residents, 10 family members, and 20 nursing home staff regarding end-of-life care and the circumstances prompting resident transfers. Data analysis of participant interviews conducted January to May 2019 in a South Florida nursing home identified four themes related to transfer to the hospital: time left to live, when aggressive treatments would be unavailing, not knowing what the nursing home can do, and transfer decisions are situation-dependent. Study findings underscore the importance of increasing resident and family awareness of treatments available in the nursing home and person-centered advance care planning discussions. Further research should explore the reasons for residents’ and family members’ choice of aggressive therapies and their goals for care at the end of life.

scholarly journals Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Those 65 and Older: Rates of Detection, Risk Factors, Vaccine Effectiveness, Hospitalisation and Mortality

Geriatrics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Roger E. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Pneumococcal Pneumonia ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Vaccination Rates

Pneumococcal pneumonia (PP) and invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) are important causes of morbidity and mortality in seniors worldwide. Incidence rates and serious outcomes worsen with increasing frailty, numbers of risk factors and decreasing immune competence with increasing age. Literature reviews in Medline and Embase were performed for pneumococcal disease incidence, risk factors, vaccination rates and effectiveness in the elderly. The introduction of protein-conjugated pneumoccal vaccines (PCV) for children markedly reduced IPD and PP in seniors, but serotypes not included in vaccines and with previously low levels increased. Pneumococcal polysaccharide (PPV23) vaccination does not change nasal and pharyngeal carriage rates. Pneumococcal and influenza vaccination rates in seniors are below guideline levels, especially in older seniors and nursing home staff. Pneumococcal and influenza carriage and vaccination rates of family members, nursing home health care workers and other contacts are unknown. National vaccination programmes are effective in increasing vaccination rates. Detection of IPD and PP initially depend on clinical symptoms and new chest X ray infiltrates and then varies according to the population and laboratory tests used. To understand how seniors and especially older seniors acquire PP and IPD data are needed on pneumococcal disease and carriage rates in family members, carers and contacts. Nursing homes need reconfiguring into small units with air ventilation externally from all rooms to minimise respiratory disease transmission and dedicated staff for each unit to minimise transmision of infectious diseaases.

Training Nursing Home Staff in Advance Care Planning Using Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. B15
Author(s):  
Preetkanwal Brar ◽  
Preetkanwal Brar ◽  
Amity Onders ◽  
Elizabeth Gatten ◽  
Amelia Kiser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Advance Care Planning ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Nursing Home Staff ◽  
Advance Care

Iranian relatives’ attitudes towards culturally profiled nursing homes for individuals living with dementia

Dementia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2206-2219
Author(s):  
Mahin Kiwi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Iranian Family

This article discusses Iranian family members’ attitudes towards the culturally profiled nursing home, their relationships with the staff, the obstacles, their hopes and their fears. This study is based on qualitative research using 29 semi-structured interviews with family members who had previously been informal caregivers, as well as using fieldwork, all in the same nursing home. The interviews were analysed by the three steps of content analysis. The results show the identification of three main categories with nine main subcategories. The categories and subcategories in the table clarify and explain how the interviewees tended to compare the situation in Iran with that in Sweden, how they perceived the situation in Sweden and finally how they also saw the culturally profiled nursing home.

Dementia-specific training for nursing home staff

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 523-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Riesch ◽  
Lucy Meyer ◽  
Bosco Lehr ◽  
Thomas Severin
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Nursing Home Staff
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