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Direct linkGitlin, Laura N.; Reever, Karen; Dennis, Marie P.; Mathieu, Esther; Hauck, Walter W. – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: This study examined the short- and long-term effects of Adult Day Services Plus (ADS Plus), a low-cost care management intervention designed to enhance family caregiver well-being, increase service utilization, and decrease nursing home placement of impaired older adults enrolled in adult day care. Design and Methods: We used a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Caregivers, Social Work, Referral
Peer reviewedSakauye, Kenneth M.; Camp, Cameron J. – Gerontologist, 1992
Consultation-liaison psychiatry program in teaching nursing home helped implement six guiding principles, including make patient human to the staff; assume no behavior is random; look for depression or psychosis as source of problems; reduce medications and medication doses; create more homelike environment; and use conditions in which learning…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Consultation Programs, Mental Disorders, Models
Peer reviewedSimmons, S.F.; Cadogan, M.P.; Cabrera, G.R.; Al-Samarrai, N.R.; Jorge, J.S.; Levy-Storms, L.; Osterweil, D.; Schnelle, J.F. – Gerontologist, 2004
Purpose. The objective of this work was to determine if nursing homes that score differently on prevalence of depression, according to the Minimum Data Set (MDS) quality indicator, also provide different processes of care related to depression. Design and Methods. A cross-sectional study with 396 long-term residents in 14 skilled nursing…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Group Activities, Incidence
Peer reviewedAchterberg, Wilco; Pot, Anne Margriet; Kerkstra, Ada; Ooms, Marcel; Muller, Martien; Ribbe, Miel – Gerontologist, 2003
Studies the effect of depression on social engagement among newly admitted nursing home residents. Results reveal that residents with depression were significantly more often found to have low social engagement. (Contains 26 references and 3 tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Nursing Homes
Johnston, David; Tough, Suzanne; Siever, Jodi – Zero to Three (J), 2006
This article describes The Community Perinatal Care Study, a community-based study of pregnancy support that was conducted in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, between 2001 and 2004. The study was conducted to learn how to improve community-based pregnancy care and to improve prenatal care and healthy births, particularly for women with increased…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, Females, Nurses, Home Visits
Peer reviewedLinn, Margaret W.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Assessed effects of nursing home staff training in care for the dying on quality of life of 306 terminally ill patients in 5 pairs of matched nursing homes assigned randomly to trained and not trained staff groups. Patients in trained homes had less depression and greater satisfaction with care than patients in control homes at 1 and 3 months.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Performance, Counselor Training
Download full textFergus, Esther O.; And Others – 1973
Data on demographics, physical capability and social-emotional behavioral variables for 134 residents between the ages of 50 and 96 were collected in four nursing homes to examine the dimensions related to problem behaviors. Social-emotional behaviors related on six scales of reliabilities ranging from .90 to .74. The scales included depression,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Emotional Adjustment, Nursing Homes
Peer reviewedNagel, Joseph; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1988
Trained 20 elderly and 20 adolescent volunteer counselors in empathic listening, and gave 20 volunteers information regarding the aging process. Counselors and nursing home residents met twice a week for five weeks. Nursing home residents who received a volunteer counselor improved significantly in level of depression, but neither mode of training…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training
Peer reviewedWhitlatch, Carol J.; Schur, Dorothy; Noelker, Linda S.; Ejaz, Farida K.; Looman, Wendy J. – Gerontologist, 2001
Adapts Stress Process Model (SPM) of family caregiving to examine predictors of depression in a sample of caregivers (N=133) with demented relatives residing in suburban skilled nursing facilities. Results suggest that caregiver depression is closely linked to how well resident and caregiver adjust to the nursing home environment. (BF)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Measures, Caregiver Role, Dementia
Peer reviewedVoelkl, Judith E.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1995
Examines the relationship between resident characteristics and time participating in activities. For the 2,672 nursing home residents studied, measures of resource use, cognitive abilities, depression, sense of initiative/involvement, activity repertoire, location preferences, and gender were all found to be significant in explaining the amount of…
Descriptors: Activities, Gerontology, Nursing Homes, Older Adults
Peer reviewedDoric-Henry, Lee – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1997
Reports on an art therapy intervention which was implemented with 20 elderly nursing home residents so as to improve their psychological well-being. Program evaluation included self-evaluations, case progress notes, journal notes, and photography. Results indicate that participants showed significantly improved measures of self-esteem, and reduced…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Ceramics, Counseling Techniques, Intervention
Peer reviewedRattenbury, Christine; Stones, M. J. – Gerontologist, 1989
Compared psychological well-being of elderly nursing home residents who participated in reminiscence and current topics group discussions with control group of residents. Rated participants' happiness/depression, activity, mood, and functional levels before and after intervention. Intervention had significant effect only on happiness/depression…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Group Discussion, Happiness
Haley, William E.; Bergman, Elizabeth J.; Roth, David L.; McVie, Theresa; Gaugler, Joseph E.; Mittelman, Mary S. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the joint effects of bereavement and caregiver intervention on caregiver depressive symptoms. Design and Methods: Alzheimer's caregivers from a randomized trial of an enhanced caregiver support intervention versus usual care who had experienced the death of their spouse (n = 254) were repeatedly…
Descriptors: Grief, Intervention, Dementia, Caregivers
Peer reviewedBurton, Lynda C.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1992
Used data from 441 new nursing home residents to examine physical restraint use in high and low restraint use homes. Predictors of restraint use during first month and first year were inability to transfer and combination of severe activities of daily living impairment and cognitive impairment. Other predictors: wandering, inability to dress,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Depression (Psychology), Institutionalized Persons, Mental Disorders
Peer reviewedCrose, Royda; Kixmiller, Jeffrey S. – Counseling Psychologist, 1994
Surveyed nursing home administrators (n=124) to determine mental health problems of residents, mental health issues of staff, mental health professionals used as consultants, and intervention programs to improve mental health environment of facilities. Results identified combative and demanding behaviors, depression, and confusion as difficult…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Aggression, Attendance
