Elder abuse prevalence and risk factors: findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Elder abuse (EA) is a pervasive problem with serious consequences. Previous population-based EA risk factor research has largely used cross-sectional designs that limit causal inferences, or agency records to identify victims, which threatens external validity. Based on a national, prospective, population-based cohort sample of older adults (n = 23,468) over a 3-year period from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, the current study sought to estimate the prevalence of EA and identify risk and protective factors.

More Than Just a Room: A Scoping Review of the Impact of Homesharing for Older Adults.

Background And Objectives: "Aging in place" is commonly defined as the ability to remain living safely and independently for as long as possible either in the home or community of one's choosing. Yet, the literature indicates that older adults prefer to remain specifically in their own homes. Homesharing, an innovative exchange-based housing approach, is a means by which older adults can obtain additional income, companionship, and assistance by renting out a room to a home seeker, potentially increasing capacity to remain living independently in their homes.

Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Hospital Reformer.

Objectives: The first of two articles is to show how Florence Nightingale became a leading, effective hospital reformer.

Aim: The aim of the first paper is to relate how Nightingale was influenced by the great defects in the war hospitals of the Crimean War (1854-1856) and how she learned the lessons from those defects to set a different course. The article shows how her famous is a positive treatment of the lessons learned, turning the sanitary defects, notably in ventilation, into chapters of the book.

Lower Genital Tract Dysplasia in Female Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.

Objective: To examine the incidence of lower genital tract dysplasia in women after solid organ transplantation, to evaluate risk factors associated with development of dysplasia, and to assess the timeline of disease development.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of female patients who underwent solid organ transplantation at a large-volume tertiary care center between 2000 and 2015. Demographic and clinicopathologic factors were extracted from electronic medical records.

Improving Provider Readiness for Intimate Partner Violence Screening.

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health issue. Healthcare providers (e.g.

Implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying: A Scoping Review of Health Care Providers' Perspectives.

Research Aims: With the growing interest in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), understanding health care professionals' roles and experiences in handling requests is necessary to evaluate the quality, consistency, and efficacy of current practices. This scoping review sought to map the existing literature on health care providers' perspectives of their involvement in MAiD.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted to address the following: 1) What are the roles of diverse health care professionals in the provision of MAiD? and 2) What professional challenges arise when confronted with MAiD requests? A literature search in electronic databases and gray literature sources was performed.

Syndemic of Lifetime Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders, and Trauma and Their Association With Adverse Perinatal Outcomes.

Adverse perinatal outcomes are a significant contributor to neonatal and infant deaths. Mental illness, substance use disorders, and interpersonal trauma are often prevalent within obstetrical populations. Previous literature has documented the individual associations between these psychosocial factors and adverse perinatal outcomes.

A Review on Community-Based Knowledge Transfer and Exchange (KTE) Initiatives for Promoting Well-Being in Older Adults.

Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) processes can facilitate evidence-informed community-based care for seniors, but understanding effective KTE in gerontology is limited. A scoping review was conducted to evaluate the current state of KTE in the community-based sector for seniors. Twelve articles met the inclusion criteria, which addressed a broad variety of topics including caregiving, elder abuse, falls prevention, home-rehabilitation, hospice and dementia care.

Social Isolation in Chinese Older Adults: Scoping Review for Age-Friendly Community Planning.

Chinese older adults may be at increased risk of social isolation and loneliness, and a fragmented understanding exists about the challenges they face for social participation in their neighbourhoods and communities. A scoping review was undertaken to describe the current knowledge on social isolation and loneliness in urban-dwelling Chinese older adults living in Western societies to inform future research, practice, and policy in Canada. Nineteen articles met the inclusion criteria.

A systematic review on community-based interventions for elder abuse and neglect.

Elder abuse and neglect is a societal issue that requires prevention and intervention strategies at the practice and policy level. A systematic review on the efficacy of community-based elder abuse interventions was undertaken to advance the state of knowledge in the field. The peer-reviewed literature between 2009 and December 2015 were searched across four databases.

Mary Seacole and claims of evidence-based practice and global influence.

Aim: The aim of this paper was to explore the contribution of Mary Seacole to nursing and health care, notably in comparison with that of Florence Nightingale.

Background: Much information is available, in print and electronic, that presents Mary Seacole as a nurse, even as a pioneer nurse and leader in public health care. Her own memoir and copious primary sources, show rather than she was a businesswoman, who gave assistance during the Crimean War, mainly to officers.

Developing a Research Agenda on Resident-to-Resident Aggression: Recommendations From a Consensus Conference.

This article provides an overview of the development of a research agenda on resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) in long-term care facilities by an expert panel of researchers and practitioners. A 1-day consensus-building workshop using a modified Delphi approach was held to gain consensus on nomenclature and an operational definition for RRA, to identify RRA research priorities, and to develop a roadmap for future research on these priorities. Among the six identified terms in the literature, RRA was selected.

Resident-to-Resident Abuse: A Scoping Review.

Resident-to-resident abuse involves aggression and violence that occurs between long-term care (LTC) home residents and can have serious consequences for both aggressors and victims. To date, there has been no attempt to systematically assess the breadth of the problem in Canada. To address this gap, we undertook a scoping review to enhance understanding of resident-to-resident abuse in LTC homes.

Florence Nightingale and Irish nursing.

Aims And Objectives: To challenge statements made about 'Careful Nursing' as a 'distinctive system' of nursing established by the Irish Sisters of Mercy, prior to Florence Nightingale, and which is said to have influenced her.

Background: Numerous publications have appeared claiming the emergence of a 'distinctive system' of nursing as 'Ireland's legacy to nursing', which, it is claimed, influenced Nightingale's system. One paper argues that the Irish system has its philosophical roots in Thomist philosophy.

Ethno-cultural diversity in the experience of widowhood in later life: Chinese widows in Canada.

This paper utilizes Helena Znaniecka Lopata's concept of life frameworks as a lens through which to understand the experience of widowhood amongst elderly Chinese immigrant women living in Toronto, Canada. While Lopata defined life frameworks as including social supports, social relations and social roles, for these widows, personal resources (framed in Chinese cultural context) were also important aspects of life frameworks. In-depth interviews with 20 widows contacted through a Chinese community center were conducted in Mandarin and Cantonese and then transcribed and interpreted through team-based qualitative analyses.

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole on nursing and health care.

Aims: The purpose of this article is to correct inaccurate information about both Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale, material that promotes Seacole as a pioneer nurse and heroine, while either ignoring Nightingale or trivializing her contribution.

Background: Nursing journals have been prominent in promoting inaccurate accounts of the contribution of Seacole to nursing. Some have intermittently published positive material about Nightingale, but none has published redress.

Elder abuse through a life course lens.

Background: This paper provides the findings from a large pilot study, Defining and Measuring Elder Abuse and Neglect, a precursor to a national prevalence study to be conducted in Canada beginning in September 2013. One purpose of this study and the focus of this paper was to determine whether a life course perspective would provide a useful framework for examining elder abuse. The two-year pilot study, 2009-2011, examined the prevalence of perceptions of abuse at each life stage by type of abuse, the importance of early life stage abuse in predicting types of elder abuse, and early life stage abuse as a risk factor for elder abuse.

St Thomas' hospital is the wrong site for mary seacole statue.

Your news story, 'Council gives go-ahead for Seacole statue' (May 2), is orrect in declaring that planning permission for a memorial statue for Mary Seacole has been granted. But the plans have been approved by Lambeth Council's planning committee, rather than the council as a whole.

Institutional abuse of older adults: what we know, what we need to know.

Although Canadian policies support "aging in place," there still will be a number of older adults who will require institutional care in the future. Most research on elder abuse, however, has focused on domestic abuse and has paid less attention to institutional abuse. The purpose of this article is to comprehensively review current research to identify gaps in knowledge and methodological issues in the study of institutional abuse.