Effect of physical training on urinary incontinence: a randomized parallel group trial in nursing homes.

Background: Residents in nursing homes (NHs) are often frail older persons who have impaired physical activity. Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common complaint for residents in NHs. Reduced functional ability and residence in NHs are documented to be risk factors for UI.

Ambiguities: residents' experience of 'nursing home as my home'.

Background: Residential care in nursing homes continues to be necessary for those individuals who are no longer able to live at home. Uncovering what nursing home residents' view as quality of care in nursing homes will help further understanding of how best to provide high quality, person-centred care.

Aim: To describe residents' experiences of living in a nursing home related to quality of care.

Quality of care in Norwegian nursing homes - typology of family perceptions.

Aim And Objective: This study aimed to elucidate the understandings and beliefs about quality held by family members of residents of Norwegian nursing homes. The objective reported in the study considers how family member judge factors that enhance or hamper high care quality.

Background: The percentage of those who will require care in a nursing home some time before the end of their lives will increase dramatically in the next 20 years.

Nursing sensitive quality indicators for nursing home care: international review of literature, policy and practice.

Objectives: To review nursing sensitive indicators used for nursing home care across seven nations with similar elder care (USA, Australia, Norway, New Zealand, England, Sweden and Denmark), and to evaluate their validity.

Design: Systematic search in the literature and other sources to find descriptions of development and validity testing of national quality indicators.

Data Sources: Papers from scientific databases, relevant websites, additional papers and reports, and personal communication with experts in the field.

Perimenopausal health self-efficacy among Hispanic Caribbean and non-Hispanic white women.

The perimenopausal experience varies among different ethnic and cultural groups. This research examined perimenopausal health self-efficacy of Latinas and non-Hispanic White women and variables that predicted health in 147 women ages 40 to 60 in the Northeast United States. Self-efficacy scores were similar for both groups.

Testing of the PHS-ES: a measure of Perimenopausal Health Self-Efficacy.

This article summarizes the development and psychometric analysis of the Perimenopausal Health Self-Efficacy Scale (PHS-ES) designed to assess women's health promotion self-efficacy related to mid-life changes in health. Items were generated from a qualitative study of HRT decision-making and recommended health promotion activities. The PHS-ES was administered 2 weeks apart to 98 university-based women ages 45 to 64 along with the measures of functional health status, stress, and the self-concept.