Determinants of quality of life in French nursing home residents across cognitive levels: a comparative study using convergent mixed-methods.

Background: The quality of life (QoL) of nursing home residents is multifaceted and influenced by relationships, health, and activities, as per research in international literature. However, studies exploring QoL predictors considering varying cognitive impairment levels are limited in the French context. This study examined the impact of sociodemographic factors and cognitive impairment on the QoL in Alzheimer's Disease Nursing Homes (QoL-AD NH) scale scores among French nursing home residents.

Disparities in the participation and adherence of older adults in lifestyle-based multidomain dementia prevention and the motivational role of perceived disease risk and intervention benefits: an observational ancillary study to a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Preventive interventions for dementia are urgently needed and must be tested in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Selection (volunteer) bias may limit efficacy, particularly in trials testing multidomain interventions and may also be indicative of disparities in intervention uptake in real-world settings. We identified factors associated with participation and adherence in a 3-year RCT of multidomain lifestyle intervention and/or omega-3 supplementation for prevention of cognitive decline and explored reasons for (non-) participation.

French cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease scale in Nursing Homes (QOL-AD NH).

Background: No specific scale to measure Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease in Nursing Homes (QoL-AD NH) exists in French. We aimed to translate and culturally adapt the QoL-AD NH participant scale into a French version and evaluate its psychometric properties with residents in French nursing homes (EHPAD).

Methods: First, the QoL-AD NH was cross-culturally adapted into French according to guidelines.

Adaptation of a short-form nostalgia scale: convergent and divergent validity in a sample of French elders.

Nostalgia is an efficient coping strategy that helps elders overcome major life transitions. To better explore the protective functions of nostalgia, we set out to adapt a short-form nostalgia scale to French elders and examine its convergent and divergent validity in terms of self-esteem, depression, and wellbeing. Participants were 175 institutionalized French elders.

Older Adults' Reasons for Participating in an eHealth Prevention Trial: A Cross-Country, Mixed-Methods Comparison.

Objectives: To explore older adults' reasons for participating in a multinational eHealth prevention trial, and compare motivations between countries.

Design: Cross-sectional mixed methods research using quantitative and qualitative approaches (the ACCEPT-HATICE study).

Setting And Participants: Substudy conducted during the recruitment phase of an 18-month RCT testing the efficacy of an eHealth intervention for self-management of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cognitive decline in older adults in Finland, France, and the Netherlands.

A mapping of people's positions regarding the breaking of bad news to patients.

The objective of this study was to map people's positions regarding the breaking of bad news to patients. One hundred forty adults who had in the past received bad medical news or whose elderly relatives had in the past received bad news, 25 nurses, and 28 nurse's aides indicated the acceptability of physicians' conduct in 72 vignettes of giving bad news to elderly patients. Vignettes were all combinations of five factors: (a) the severity of the disease (severe but not lethal, extremely severe and possibly lethal, or incurable), (b) the patient's wishes (insists on knowing the full truth vs.

[Systemic reading, another way of thinking to apprehend situations of elderly abuse].

In 2007, a national call number was created to receive reports of ill-treatment for aged or handicapped subjects, and departmental platforms of phone-tapping were organized. Professionals of listening receive the calls for assistance or confidences of distresses related to ill treatments. They should initiate a relationship and assess the danger of the condition, therefore, in a systemic paradigm, performing a double task.

Judging patients' pain from external cues.

Nurses, nurse's aides, and physicians were presented with vignettes describing elderly patients and were asked to assess their level of pain from four external cues (facial expression, verbalizations, avoidance of movements and positions, and interpersonal contact) in three conditions: when the illness was not known, when it was known to be arthritis, and when it was known to be cancer. For all health caregivers, the most important cue for judging pain was patients' facial expression. When the nature of the illness was not known, the impact of this cue was stronger than when the nature of the illness was known.

How nursing personnel judge patients' pain.

The study examined how nurses, student nurses, and nurse's aides judge patients' level of pain from five indicators: facial grimacing, maintenance of abnormal body position, restriction of movement, complaints about pain, and signs of possible depression. In Toulouse, France, 214 participants were presented with 48 vignettes describing an elderly patient suffering from osteoarthritis who showed various levels of these signs. The three most important factors in judging pain were the difficulty in making social contact with the patient, the patient's avoidance of changing position, and her avoidance of movements.

Application of the five-factor model of personality to intergenerational perception.

The perception held by respondents in a full range of age groups (young, middle-aged, and old) toward a full range of target age groups (young, middle-aged, and old) was studied in a multidimensional way. The five-factor model of personality was chosen as the model of intergenerational perception and the Gough Adjective Checklist was chosen as the measurement device. A total of 867 participants rated the degree to which they thought 300 different adjectives described people of various ages.