Abstracts by keywords: care
Differences by facility type and relationship with work ability and burnout risk
01.10.2024
The invisible people responsible: relatives in reporting on dementia
Dementia is a challenge for society as a whole, and nursing care in particular is a major task. People with dementia are often cared for at home, the professional care situation in Germany is tense - relatives are often involved in the care themselves or care for them alone, which means a high level of physical and psychological stress.
04.02.2023
The increasing aging of society has led to an increase in age-related diseases in recent years. This particularly includes dementia. The term comes from Latin and describes the absence (prefix: de-) of the ability to think (suffix: -mens). “Dementia” literally means “without reason”. Dementia is not only accompanied by cognitive and mnestic losses, but also by the loss of basic orientation and everyday skills that were previously taken for granted (Stoffers 2016: 7). The term dementia does not include a specific disease, but rather an acquired condition caused by organic brain damage (Stoffers 2016: 8). In Germany, there are currently around 1.7 million people living with a diagnosis of dementia (Thyrian et al. 2020: n.p.), with Alzheimer's dementia making up the majority of the diseases with around 60% (Stoffers 2016: 9). So far there is little knowledge regarding the triggering risk factors, but different expert assessments and study notes show (at different levels of evidence) that different prevention approaches could be useful for avoiding dementia. These include, among other things, increasing exercise behavior, quitting smoking, or reducing alcohol consumption (WHO 2019: xii-xiii). Social contacts as well as intensive cultural and sporting activity also appear to be protective factors against the development of dementia (Förstl, Förstl 2020: n.p.).
23.03.2022
The ongoing corona pandemic shows us every day how important up-to-date and valid information is for restoring, maintaining and promoting health. How easy or difficult it is to access health-related information and materials is largely determined by the environments in which we live and work - and thus the so-called organizational health competence (Ernstmann et al. 2020; Schaeffer et al. 2018). In addition to the individual ability to deal with health-related information, organizations and institutions in particular are responsible for supporting the procurement and handling of health information for users (i.e. patients, residents, clients and relatives) (Ernstmann et al . 2020; Schaeffer et al. 2018). For example, the use of foreign words in health-related information makes comprehension more difficult, while texts in simple language are also easier to understand for people with a low educational background or cognitive impairments (Pelikan/Dietscher 2015). Management and specialist staff in particular play an important role in the provision and handling of health-related information for users and their health literacy (DeGani et al. 2020). Acute diseases such as stroke and myocardial infarction are documented less frequently. The change in behavior resulting from the implementation of strict hygiene rules may also have led to a “real” decrease in rates of non-Covid-19 infectious diseases (5,6). In other words, the measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic may also have affected the spread of other germs that cause respiratory (AI) and gastrointestinal (GI) infections. For this reason, in the present study, the authors wanted to examine the frequency of these AIs and GIs during the Covid-19 pandemic using data from a large database that includes anonymized treatment information from general practitioners and paediatricians in Germany.