Sentences with phrase «older nursing home residents»

«Study finds significant decrease in hospitalization of older nursing home residents with high dose influenza vaccine.»

Even in very old nursing home residents, PRT achieved substantial improvements in muscle fiber cross-sectional area (3 — 9 %), muscle strength (100 %), and physical performance such as gait speed and stair climbing (38, 39).

Not exact matches

Included here are regular visits to nursing homes, whose residents are usually the most neglected and the worst - off of the older age groups, sometimes forced to endure shocking conditions.

The 80 - year - old resident of a shoddy nursing home?

An 84 - year - old man last August fatally injured Murray, an 82 - year - old fellow nursing home resident, in a brutal beating after she wandered into his room in the dementia unit.

In August, Ruth Murray, 84, was fatally beaten by an 82 - year - old fellow nursing home resident after she wandered into his room in the dementia unit of a city nursing home.

The nursing homes in the study were randomly assigned to one of two groups as a care standard for influenza prevention, with either the regular dose of the influenza vaccine or the high dose vaccine as the care standard for their residents age 65 and older.

The fact that vaccines typically don't work as well in older people presents a challenge to influenza vaccine makers, particularly because the illness often results in serious respiratory infections in frail patients such as elderly nursing home residents.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Medicaid doesn't just provide health care for the poor; it also pays for long - term care for a lot of older people, including the majority of nursing home residents.

The horror stories of residents boiling to death in power - deprived nursing homes need to be recalled and honored, as do the disorienting, destabilizing long - term consequences for older people who have lost their homes and neighborhoods.

Because injured nursing home residents are generally older, in poor health, and have a relatively short life expectancy, damage elements that are common in other personal injury cases, such as lost earning capacity, future pain and suffering, and future medical expenses, will not be as significant.

The Plaintiff, a 78 year old woman, was a resident of a nursing home.

$ 450,000 — Nursing home resident injured during transportation (May 2013) 81 - year - old Plaintiff was not secured properly while travelling in a vehicle and fell from her wheelchair, resulting in fractures to her knees and back.

ABC - 10 News in Broward County reports that family members of a nursing home resident in Pompano Beach installed a camera inside the room of their 94 - year - old patriarch, who suffers from dementia.

The question of whether individual nursing homes or state law should allow «hidden» cameras is being raised again in light of footage captured by the family of a 94 - year - old resident of a Pompano Beach facility.

• Licensed Practical Nurse position with the Old Peoples» Home utilizing extensive training in nursing and sympathetic nature to aid residents with everyday healthcare needs.