Publications by authors named "J A Wesson"
Purpose: Falls are a major concern for people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) due to associated motor and non-motor impairments. Promoting safe mobility behaviour may be an effective fall prevention intervention, however this concept is poorly articulated in the literature. The aim of this scoping review was to map out the definition and concepts of safe mobility behaviour to draw implications for PwPD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Major knowledge and practice gaps exist in aged care home services to support independence of older people with dementia. This research evaluates an adaptation of a community-based rehabilitation model for care homes, namely Interdisciplinary Care Home-bAsed Reablement Program (I-CHARP), by examining whether (and, if so, how) I-CHARP produces its intended effects and how this programme can be practicably implemented, sustained and scaled up across care homes in Australia.
Methods: I-CHARP is a 4-month bio-behavioural-environmental rehabilitation model of care, integrated in care home services, supported through the deployment of an implementation strategy, the Research Enabled Aged Care Homes (REACH) network.
Generating and translating high-quality evidence is integral to providing safe and effective medication management for residents of aged care homes. Residents are often under-represented in trials of medication effectiveness and safety. This paper reviews opportunities and challenges for generating and translating evidence for safe and effective medication management in aged care homes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: People living with dementia and their carers often experience difficulties in effectively managing medications and have indicated they lack necessary support, information and guidance. Recognising the medication management information needs of this population is an important first step in addressing these issues.
Objectives: To identify the priorities for information on medication management expressed by people living with dementia and their carers.
Article Synopsis
- A study compared the proteomes of calcium oxalate monohydrate kidney stones in cats and humans, revealing substantial similarities but limited analysis due to a lack of cat urine proteomic data.
- Urine proteome data from 7 healthy cats was gathered and compared to human urine and cat calcium oxalate stone matrices to identify shared enrichment patterns.
- The findings indicated that cat urine proteins showed distribution similarities to human urine, while differences in cat struvite stone matrices suggest distinct mechanisms of stone formation involving both protein interactions and crystal aggregation.