Utilizing the physical green care environment to support activities of daily living for nursing home residents: a focused ethnographic case study.

Background: The nursing home residents' ability to carry out Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is influenced by the physical care environment. One emerging area of interest in scientific research is the green care environment within nursing home care, where agricultural activities such as gardening and animal care are integrated alongside daily care. Previous research has neglected to explore how these environments can be employed to enhance ADL performance.

The struggle is real-A mixed qualitative methods synthesis of challenges in nursing care in activities of daily living.

Introduction: Supporting care receivers in Activities of Daily Living (ADL), irrespective of diagnosis, setting, or cultural background, lies at the heart of fundamental nursing care. The pursuit of quality ADL care becomes increasingly challenging with the changing complexity of care needs. ADL care delivery is often undervalued and is considered a low-status task despite its crucial importance to care receivers.

Increased aortic repair in Germany correlates with reduction of death caused by aortic aneurysms but not aortic dissections.

Introduction: We asked if there is a significant correlation between the increasing trend in aortic repair (AR) and decreasing aortic aneurysm (AA) and aortic dissection (AD) mortality? Therefore, we retrospectively analyzed all aortic repairs in patients with AA and AD and its correlation with disease-specific death rates and hospitalizations for ruptured AA and AD in Germany.

Methods: We retrieved the number of cases hospitalized for AA and AD as well as the procedures in these cases from the Federal Bureau of Statistics (DRG statistics) and death rates from the national mortality statistic published by the Federal Statistical Office in Germany for the years 2006-2017.

Results: From 2006 to 2017, the total number of hospitalized cases admitted with principal diagnosis of AA increased by 25.