Sentences with phrase «perhaps visiting a nursing home»

But if he could live among us for a week — reading the newspapers, watching television, perhaps visiting a nursing home» he might begin to wonder whether our preoccupation with health and long life is not just as much an indulgence.

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Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

Nurse - based home - visiting programs tend to have better staff retention compared with those that employ paraprofessionals, perhaps contributing to program effectiveness.26, 27 Likewise, programs in which paraprofessionals remained involved over a 2 - year time period were more likely to demonstrate effectiveness than those with shorter durations of involvement.28

As MIECHV funding also begins to dwindle, nurses and other professionals who perform home visits will begin to look for other, perhaps more stable employment due to fears that their home visiting programs will cease to exist.