Introduction: Geriatric Giants are the impairment that appear in older people. It comprises of impaired cognition, urinary incontinence, instability, fall and immobility. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Geriatric Giants among older people living in three different living environment; own home, pondok and old folks home. Methods: This comparative study involved 471 respondents from Kelantan. There were 157 participants each from own home, pondok and old folks home. The prevalence of Geriatric Giants were determine by 10 minutes comprehensive screening which was developed to diagnose and manage the Geriatric Giants (WHO, 2007) and prevalence were compared using chi-square tests or Fisher exact test. Results: Prevalence of dementia among respondents of old folks home (11.5%), pondok (6.4%) and own home (0.6%). Prevalence of urinary incontinence among respondents of own home (22.3%), old folks home (16.6%) and pondok (14.0%). Prevalence of instability among respondents of old folk home (31.2%), pondok (27.4%) and own home (14.0%). Prevalence of fall among respondents of pondok (33.1%), old folks home (24.25) and own home (19.7%). Old folk home respondents had the highest prevalence of moderate and severe immobility There were significant difference in prevalence of dementia ((Fisher exact p value <0.001), instability (χ2(2)=13.957,p=0.001), fall (χ2(2)=7.629,p=0.022) and mild and moderate immobility. Conclusion: Old folks home respondents had more prevalence of Geriatric Giants compared to their other counter parts.
Old folks home

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Foster Home Care

Recently, the Jepanese government have advanced home medical care services. They former health care system was reformed to place much emphasis on home care. But there are many problems:for instance, the difficulty of coordinating discharges from a hospital and cooperation between hospitals and regional clinics. Especially, the biggest problem was that medical staff in wards do not have knowledge of the realities of home medical care and visiting nursing services. In this session, we invite four persons who are actively involved in the front lines in the field of home medical care. We expect they will speak about realities of home care and make you understand the potential of home medical care.
medical care ; Nursing Services ; Home care aspects ; Home ; Future

This study was conducted to shed light on the actual conditions of home care and quality-of-life factors related to the burdens on families. For this purpose, a survey was carried out on main caretakers in the families who were using our home care support service. Fundamental information about the main caretakers and those who need care were garnered. In addition, WHO/QOL-26 and burdens for main caretakers were checked up on.The survey found that those who have looked after the sick or invalid for less than six months and those over five years keenly felt that they were shouldering a heavy burden. With the progression of dementia, the caretakers increasingly felt the burden getting heavier. Physical factors in QOL were linked to the burden which caretakers feel has to be borne, but psychological and social factors were not. This finding might have been ascribed to the fact that the persons surveyed were residents of the provincial city, part of which is rural. They were mostly old women and must have gained the support of their relatives. It is easy to assume that their role perception and sense of responsibility together with regional characteristics were reflected in psychological and social QOL factors.
Home care aspects ; SOCIAL ; Related ; Home care of patient ; Family Members

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze functional independence and need for home nursing care in stroke patients. METHOD: This was a descriptive study. The subjects comprised 117 stroke patients who were supposed to discharge in less than a week. The instruments used for this study were the functional independence measure (FIM) and the need assessment for home nursing care of stroke patients. The data were analyzed using frequency, mean, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient. RESULTS: Pearson correlation analysis revealed that there were negative correlations between subcategories of the FIM and the need for home nursing care in stroke patients. Especially, in case of the subjects who recorded lower scores at self-care they showed higher needs for home nursing care in the domain of physical problem and rehabilitation. CONCLUSION: For the operation of the home nursing care, the protocol for home nursing care is needed to the stroke patients living at home. The FIM instrument is recommended as a useful scale in order to assess the disability for the stroke patients and the need for home nursing care because this one has correlation with the scale of need for home nursing care.
Home Care Services* ; Home Nursing ; Humans ; Rehabilitation ; Self Care ; Stroke*

PURPOSE: The purpose of study is to develop a home nursing care project model suitable for Korea's heath care system and policy directions for expansion and establishment of home nursing care. METHOD: The first, status of home nursing care program in medical institution and public health center was evaluated respectively in view of structure, process and performance. And then, issues of the program were analyzed in view of accessibility, safety, and sufficient supply. The second, demand projection of home nursing care according to income level and technical level of service that is needed to the subject was tried. In addition, the level of supply for home nursing care at present was estimated. The third, home nursing care program in advanced countries (Japan and U.S.A.) was examined. RESULT AND CONCLUSION: Community-based home nursing care program is developed into public-operation model and private-operation model from above the sub-subject result. Functional network for referral system among related institutions is built up to meet various needs, regardless of accessibility to distance and economy. And prior settlements and policy directions for expansion and establishment of home nursing care are suggested.
Home Nursing* ; Public Health ; Referral and Consultation

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of a social support program on family caregivers' role strain in elderly long-term home care. METHODS: The research adopted a non-equivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The number of participants was 25 in the experimental group and 25 in the control group sampled among family caregivers in elderly long-term home care. The experimental group participated in a 10-session social support program, which consisted of physical, emotional, informational, and material support. The effect of the program was evaluated by measuring family caregivers' role strain. RESULTS: The experimental group showed a significant decrease in family caregivers' role strain in elderly long-term home care. CONCLUSION: The result suggests that the social support program was effective in decreasing family caregivers' role strain in elderly long-term home care. There is a need to develop more effective and systematicsocial support programsfor family caregivers of elderly long-term home care.
Aged* ; Caregivers ; Home Care Services* ; Humans

Education in general competencies for residents is urgently needed in Korea. The medically advanced countries worldwide already have established training in the general competencies that are demanded of all physicians regardless of speciality. They also evaluate the implementation of the education, and the results of the evaluation are taken into consideration for becoming certified in a board of medical speciality in Korea, however, the education in and evaluation of the general competencies during resident training course are not managed systematically. Thus, identifying the general competencies appropriate to the Korean context is a high priority. Accordingly, the development and implementation of an educational program fostering the general competencies is needed, followed by adequate evaluation. Lastly, in order to smoothly implement all the suggestions mentioned above, it will be necessary to organize new teams or structures that encompass the whole medical community.
Education* ; Foster Home Care ; Internship and Residency ; Korea

Background: There are about 600.000 deaths related to pregnancy and delivery in the world every year. In Vietnam, the rate of maternal death is 165/100.00. The majority of maternity and new born deaths occurred in the first week after delivery, especially 24 hours after delivery. Objective: To investigate the status of delivery and various factors related to home delivery and propose recommendations to reduce the rate of home delivery in Luong Son, Hoa Binh. Subject and method: The cross sectional study using a structured questionnaire with women who gave birth in 2003 was conducted in two communes of Luong Son district. Result: The home delivery rate was high (31.5%) and only 36.1% women decided themselves where to deliver. The main reasons for home delivery was perception related to last home delivery was normal, therefore this delivery should be at home (53.8%). Among 108 women interviewed, only 72% gave birth with the assistance of health professionals and 28% delivered with none health professional assistance. The rate of obstetric complications and new born death was relatively high among those that had homebirths. Conclusion: In order to increase the delivery rate at health care facilities and with the assistance of health professionals, there is required the cooperation of stakeholders for improving infrastructure, economic development, health education for increasing awareness of people on safe delivery. The public should change their perception, custom and behavior toward homebirths. Besides, the health sector should better manage the maternal health care program, monitor the pregnant women, plan the delivery dates and advocate their families (husbands and parent in laws) to take the women to deliver at the health care facilities.
Home delivery ; maternal death ; Hoa Binh province

The number of elderly diabetic patients has continued to increase year by year. Home-visit nursing care is beneficial to homebound elderly diabetic patients and there is a large number of senior citizens utilizing this form of health service. We conducted a questionnaire survey of home-visit nursing care of elderly diabetic patients. Those queried were participants in the diabetes workshop. Eighty-five of them responded to our questionnaire.The results showed that 87% of the respondents experienced care of diabetic patients and acute complications of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia as well. It was also found that many home helpers extended assistance in drug compliance, indicating that home helpers play an important role in the medical care of elderly diabetic patients.On the other hand, many problems became apparent such as lack of observation of foot care, lack of knowledge of methods of treating hypoglycemia, and inadequate observation of drug compliance due to the limited availability of home visit time.Training and collaboration of local home-visit nursing care personnel are considered necessary in the future in order to improve on the home care of elderly diabetic patients.
Elderly ; Care given by nurses ; Questionnaires ; Home ; Surveys