Government: Nursing Home Care Improving
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WASHINGTON Dec 22, 2004 - About 35,000 fewer nursing home residents are kept in restraints on a daily basis down 23 percent from two years ago according to a federal report released Wednesday that also found fewer patients in pain.
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Health care advocates say government support of electronic data can improve care and prevent errors.
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National Committee for Quality Assurance&#39;s annual State of Health Care Quality report is the culmination of a year&#39;s worth of measurement and data collection, the goal of which is to help drive improvement by providing as complete a view of health care
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The World Health Organisation launched an initiative on Monday to improve medical services for the elderly in a bid to tackle the growing public health implications of a rapidly ageing global population.
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Nursing home residents with  Alzheimer's disease who participate in a moderate exercise  program have a significantly slower deterioration than those  who receive routine medical care, researchers have shown.
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By Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 15--ALBANY -- The Elder Network of the Capital Region recently received more than $800,000 in state funding to establish sustainable, aging-prepared communities, which will serve as models to augment the state's long-term care policy reform initiatives.
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The federal government is now telling patients whether their local hospitals are doing what they should to treat heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia.
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Dec. 23, 2004 - All states report a decrease in the prevalence of chronic pain in nursing home patients in the latest report from the Nursing Home Quality Initiative, which was launched two years ago by Health and Human Services.
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Better oral hygiene, including good regular toothbrushing, may lessen nursing home residents&#39; chances of developing pneumonia, according to a study
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GPs are providing more and better services to patients, performance figures suggest.
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This yearâs report reveals a 17.5 percent improvement in Americaâs overall health during the past 15 years. However, the report also shows that the rate of improvement is slowing significantly due to a
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NEW YORK  - Families of patients who completed advance directives before their deaths tend to feel their loved ones received somewhat better end-of-life care, according to a new study. Nonetheless, there's still room for improvement.
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Veterans with diabetes get better  care under the Department of Veterans Affairs system than some  patients using managed care, U.S. researchers reported on  Monday and suggested nationalized health care can work well.
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The government should be doing much more to prevent ageism, says research by Help the Aged.
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About 35,000 fewer nursing home residents are kept in restraints on a daily basis - down 23 percent from two years ago - according to a federal report released Wednesday that also found fewer patients in pain.
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The NHS should focus more on customer service to improve performance and staff morale, says a report.
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The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients has dropped by nearly a quarter in two years and fewer residents report suffering from pain, according to a report released yesterday by the Bush administration.