Successful aging: considering non-biomedical constructs.

Objectives: Successful aging continues to be applied in a variety of contexts and is defined using a number of different constructs. Although previous reviews highlight the multidimensionality of successful aging, a few have focused exclusively on non-biomedical factors, as was done here.

Methods: This scoping review searched Ovid Medline database for peer-reviewed English-language articles published between 2006 and 2015, offering a model of successful aging and involving research with older adults.

Providing delirium education for family caregivers of older adults.

Using the Knowledge to Action Process, an education session was developed to teach families of older adults about delirium. Seven sessions were held with 16 eligible participants. A significant increase in delirium knowledge was found following education, and many participants believed others should receive similar education.

The epidemiology of chronic pain in Canadian men and women between 1994 and 2007: longitudinal results of the National Population Health Survey.

Background: The epidemiology of chronic pain is poorly understood due to a paucity of longitudinal studies limiting the ability to develop prevention strategies for a condition resistant to many current therapies.

Objectives: To identify the incidence of and sociodemographic risk factors for chronic pain in Canadian women and men over a 12-year period.

Methods: Using data from the National Population Health Survey, individuals who developed chronic pain, defined as the presence of "usual pain" were identified.

Supportive care needs after an acute stroke: a descriptive enquiry of caregivers' perspective.

This mixed-methods study explored the use of the Supportive Care Needs Framework (M. Fitch, 1998; M. Fitch, H.

The psychosocial spiritual experience of elderly individuals recovering from stroke: a systematic review.

Objectives  The objective of this review was to appraise and synthesise best available evidence on the psychosocial spiritual experience of elderly individuals recovering from stroke. Inclusion criteria  This review considered qualitative studies whose participants were adults, mean age of 65 years and older, and who had experienced a minimum of one stroke. Studies were included that described the participant's own experience of recovering from stroke.

The psychosocial spiritual experience of elderly individuals recovering from stroke: a systematic review.

Objectives: The objective of this review was to appraise and synthesise best available evidence on the psychosocial spiritual experience of elderly individuals recovering from stroke.

Inclusion Criteria: This review considered qualitative studies whose participants were adults, mean age of 65 years and older, and who had experienced a minimum of one stroke. Studies were included that described the participant's own experience of recovering from stroke.

A critical review and synthesis of literature on reminiscing with older adults.

Reminiscing is an intervention that has been used independently in nursing with different populations for many years. A critical analysis of the literature on reminiscing was carried out in 3 stages: identification of the studies to be included, review of the studies to ensure that they were research-based, and critical appraisal of the studies. The analysis resulted in clarity regarding the operational definitions of reminiscing and life review.

Asthmatic bronchial epithelium is more susceptible to oxidant-induced apoptosis.

Abnormal apoptotic mechanisms are associated with disease pathogenesis. Because the asthmatic bronchial epithelium is characteristically damaged with loss of columnar epithelial cells, we postulated that this is due to unscheduled apoptosis. Using an antibody directed toward the caspase cleavage product of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, immunohistochemistry applied to endobronchial biopsies showed higher levels of staining in the bronchial epithelium of subjects with asthma as compared with normal control subjects (% epithelial staining [median (range) = 10.