Understanding the Wii Exergames Use: Voices from Assisted Living Residents.

Purpose: The study was to understand the facilitators and barriers to exercise using exergames among assisted living residents, particularly in the area of cognitive, physical, and psychosocial effects.

Design: Self-efficacy theory was incorporated into the design of the Wii Fit exergaming program.

Method: Fifteen participants (mean age: 87.

Physical and psychosocial effects of Wii Fit exergames use in assisted living residents: a pilot study.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the physical and psychosocial effects of the Wii Fit exergames incorporating self-efficacy theory on assisted living residents. The study was a quasi-experimental pre/post-test design. Thirty-two participants were recruited from two assisted living facilities.

Effects of using Nintendo Wii™ exergames in older adults: a review of the literature.

Objective: The purpose of this review is to summarize and synthesize the impact of using the Nintendo Wii™ exergames in older adults.

Method: A database search was conducted to identify relevant studies. The search was limited to empirical studies, with particular attention paid to the effects of Wii exergames intervention on cognition, physical function, and psychosocial outcomes in older adults.

Exergames-based intervention for assisted living residents: a pilot study.

The physical and psychosocial benefits of exergames have been reported in various literature. A pre-posttest, single-group design was used to test the effects of an exergames-based intervention on cognition, depression, and health-related quality of life (QOL) in assisted living residents. Bandura's self-efficacy theory was applied.

The feasibility of an intervention combining self-efficacy theory and Wii Fit exergames in assisted living residents: A pilot study.

The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of a self-efficacy based intervention using Wii exergames in assisted living residents. The study was a single-group pre- and post-test design. Seven older adults (aged 80-94 years) were instructed to engage in exergames twice a week for 8 weeks.

A challenge in academia: meeting the healthcare needs of the growing number of older adults.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to survey nurse practitioners (NPs) to determine their comfort level with knowledge about caring for individuals aged 65 years and older and to obtain their input on enhancing geriatric content in the educational preparation of advanced practice nurses who provide care to older adults but are not specialists in gerontology.

Data Sources: The sample consisted of 500 randomly selected NPs who were certified to practice in New York State. The Geriatric Curriculum Survey designed by the researchers was based on the 47 "Older Adult Care" competencies developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Prenatal and congenital syphilis in British Columbia.

Objective: To describe the incidence of maternal syphilis and the corresponding rate of infection in exposed neonates in British Columbia before and after a serious outbreak of infectious syphilis in the heterosexual population.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of pregnant women with positive syphilis serology and reported cases of congenital syphilis in British Columbia from 1994 to 2003. Clinical charts were reviewed for demographic information, staging of maternal syphilis, and stage of pregnancy when treatment was received.