Eating Together but Often Feeling Lonely: Residents' Mealtime Experiences in a Nursing Home.

Aim: To explore residents' experiences of the mealtime environment in nursing home.

Design: An exploratory qualitative design was employed to gain in-depth insights.

Methods: Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with residents at a nursing home.

Conservative Management of Occipital Neuralgia Supported by Physical Therapy: A Review of Available Research and Mechanistic Rationale to Guide Treatment.

Purpose Of Review: Conservative management is consistently recommended as a first line intervention for occipital neuralgia (ON); however, there is limited clinical research regarding conservative intervention for ON. This lack of research may lead to underutilization or unwarranted variability in conservative treatment. This article provides mechanism-based guidance for conservative management of ON as a component of a multimodal treatment approach, and discusses the role of the physical therapist in the care team.

Perils and payoffs for patients in serious illness conversations as described by physicians: a qualitative study.

Background: The Serious Illness Care Programme was developed to promote more, better and earlier serious illness conversations. Conversations about goals and values are associated with improved experiences and outcomes for seriously ill patients. Clinicians' attitudes and beliefs are thought to influence the uptake and performance of serious illness conversations, yet little is known about how clinicians perceive the impact of these conversations on patients.

Core Competencies for Serious Illness Conversations: An Integrative Systematic Review.

The Serious Illness Care Program was developed to support goals and values discussions between seriously ill patients and their clinicians. The , that is, the essential clinical conversation skills that are described as requisite for effective serious illness conversations (SICs) in practice, have not yet been explicated. This integrative systematic review aimed to identify core competencies for SICs in the context of the Serious Illness Care Program.