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| Staff-reported strategies for prevention and management of resident-to-resident elder mistreatment in long-term care facilities | | Author(s) | Tony Rosen, Mark S Lachs, Jeanne Teresi |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, vol 28l, no 1, January-February 2016 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-February 2016 |
| Pages | pp 1-13 |
| Source | http://tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Aggression ; Nursing homes ; Care home staff ; Management [care] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) in nursing homes is frequent and leads to adverse outcomes. Nursing home staff responses may significantly mitigate R-REM's impact, but little is known about current practices. The objective was to identify common staff responses to R-REM. The authors interviewed 282 certified nursing assistants (CNAs) in five US urban nursing homes on their responses during the previous 2 weeks to R-REM behaviours of residents under their care. Ninety-seven CNAs (34.4%) reported actions responding to R-REM incidents involving 182 residents (10.8%), describing 22 different responses. Most common were physically intervening or separating residents (51), talking calmly to settle residents down (50), no intervention (39), and verbally intervening to defuse the situation (38). Less common were notifying a nurse (13) or documenting in behaviour log (4). Nursing home staff report many varied responses to R-REM, a common and dangerous occurrence. CNAs seldom documented behaviours or reported them to nurses. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160311215 A |
| Classmark | KX: EPB: LHB: QRM: QA: 3F: 7T |
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