Monitoring activities in a long-term ward.
Moving the emphasis in long-term ward settings from just keeping people clean, dry and fed to providing improvement in their quality of life is a laudable aim, but this article, based on a six-month project, suggests that doing so is not as easy as it might first appear. The authors describe the development of an intervention programme for elderly women in a long-term ward and discuss some of the difficulties encountered in producing positive changes.
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D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011788:Quality of Life