Evaluating person-centered care in residential care facilities from the perspective of caregivers in South Korea: a survey.

Background: As many older people spend their time in residential care facilities, the demand for person-centered care (PCC), which affects their quality of life, is increasing. Many residential care facility residents have cognitive problems, such as dementia and strokes. Providing quality care upholds their rights as human beings.

Total care expenditures and their drivers among older adults: A study on health and long-term care expenditures in South Korea.

Background: South Korea operates two different national insurance systems: health care insurance covers medical services and long-term care (LTC) insurance covers residential care and home care services. Total care expenditures include benefits from both these insurance schemes and personal payments made for receiving these services. This study aims to identify total care expenditures per older person along with related factors and their effects on care expenditures.

Improving the quality of long-term care services in workforce dimension: expert views from Australia and South Korea.

Background: The long-term care workforce is an essential factor in the provision of qualified long-term care services. Identifying workforce issues can help developing countries in East Asia and the Pacific prepare for the increase in the older population. Their experiences can be used as lessons for other countries.

Development and Validation of a Person-Centered Care Assessment Questionnaire for Daycare Centers for Older Adults.

Daycare services serve to prolong aging at home. This decreases both families' care burden and the government's financial burden. We identified key factors in the person-centered approach of South Korean daycare center workers to develop and validate a Korean person-centered care questionnaire.

Long-term Monitoring of Changes in Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose, and Total Cholesterol Levels among Frail Older Individuals Receiving Home Health Care Nursing in South Korea.

This study identified changes in blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol levels in frail elderly adults who received home health care nursing over 8 years in Korea. Secondary data extracted from nursing records (2010-2018) of a public health center were analyzed using a mixed model of repeated measure. Study participants were elderly people ( = 499) with a mean age of 81.

The effects of weight fluctuation on the components of metabolic syndrome: a 16-year prospective cohort study in South Korea.

Background: Weight fluctuation (WF) is highly prevalent in parallel with the high prevalence of intentional or unintentional dieting. The health risks of frequent WF for metabolic syndrome (MS) have become a public health concern, especially for health care providers who supervise dieting as an intervention to prevent obesity-related morbidity or to improve health, as well as for the general population for whom dieting is of interest. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term effect of WF on the risk of MS in Koreans.

Effects of hypertension, diabetes, and/or cardiovascular disease on health-related quality of life in elderly Korean individuals: a population-based cross-sectional survey.

Purpose: This study explored health-related quality of life (QoL) in Korean elderly individuals with hypertension, diabetes, and/or cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Methods: This study used a population-based cross-sectional design. Data were obtained from the Fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2008, which involved a nationally representative sample.

Relationship Between Health-related Behavioral and Psychological Factors and Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases Comorbidity Among Korean Adults With Diabetes.

Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationships between health-related behavioral and psychological factors and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (CCVD) comorbidities among Korean adults with diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: Data included in the Fourth Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used. This study compared three groups: those diagnosed with DM only, DM and hypertension, DM, hypertension and CCVD using multinomial logistic regression analyses and the classification and regression tree (CART) model.

[Analysis of the nursing interventions performed by public health nurses in health centers using the NIC].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify nursing interventions performed by public health nurses in health centers.

Method: Data was collected by the taxonomy of Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC 3rd: 486 nursing interventions) from 131 public health nurses in health centers and analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Result: As its result, more than 50% of public health nurses performed 137 nursing interventions at least monthly.