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D Dawe

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PubMed1999

Children's needs in shelters: mother's perceptions.

The needs of children who witness violence directed at their mothers have only recently gained attention. While shelter services to address children's responses are increasingly evident, there is still much we do not understand about their plight, particularly from the perspective of their mothers. This study used focus-group methodology to identify mothers' perceptions of their children's needs while they were in shelters. Five focus group sessions were held with 27 mothers who had experienced violence in their homes and had used shelter services within the previous two-year period. Data were analyzed to identify six dominant categories of need and 12 supporting thematic categories. The dominant categories included: the counselling needs of the children; day-to-day living needs, such as maintaining family integrity and normality; recreational needs; the needs of children with respect to parenting; and finally, aspects of shelter support for mothers, and the impact of the shelter environment on children. The implications of the findings for program development are discussed.

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PubMed1995

Low-intensity, range-of-motion exercise: invaluable nursing care for elderly patients.

This study looked at the effect of a single session of mild exercise in a group of cognitively unimpaired institutionalized elderly patients, aged 70+, on tests of cognitive performance. Results indicate that mild exercise, such as range-of-motion, does improve the ability to recall and that the effect lasts for at least half an hour. Mild exercise programmes appear to be a practical, low-cost nursing intervention that can enhance memory and independence. Programmes that are designed to meet individual needs and that are incorporated into daily routine and activities without imposing extra effort or inconvenience are more appealing to elderly patients. Exercise can be easily learned and implemented by nurses, personal care attendants or nurse aides. This is an extremely important consideration in a health care system that demands low-cost quality care.

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PubMed1994

Going through the motions.

The benefits of exercise to a person's health and self-esteem are well recognized. Yet, for the institutionalized elderly person, exercise can be a rarity. Unfortunately, too many gerontological nurses struggle to enhance their patients' quality of life and to reduce the risk of physical and mental deterioration while ignoring this basis nursing measure. Range-of-motion (ROM) exercise is one simple activity that can have unqualified results. It can strengthen an elderly person's quality of life by increasing self-control, self-functioning, independence and, thus, self-esteem.

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PubMed1993

Acute exercise facilitates semantically cued memory in nursing home residents.

OBJECTIVE: To study the acute effects of non-strenuous physical exercise on memory retrieval and visuo-motor performance in old-old nursing home residents. DESIGN: A randomized control trial. SETTING: A nursing home. PARTICIPANTS: Ambulatory volunteers from the nursing home, with all 20 shown to be normal on mental status. Three were male and 17 female, with a means of 84.5 years for age and 9.3 years for education. They were divided at random into an exercise and a control group. INTERVENTION: A single 15-minute standardized bout of non-strenuous exercise administered independently to each participant in the exercise group. Control group participants watched a video of similar exercises for 15 minutes. MEASUREMENTS: Two measures requiring the retrieval of category instances with semantic or initial consonant cues. Retrieval time was 60 seconds for each of four categories per measure. Visuo-motor performance was measured by Symbol Digit coding. Testing sessions were held before exercise, immediately post-exercise and 30 minutes post-exercise. RESULTS: The group-by-time interaction was significant only for semantically cued memory (P < 0.01), with higher retrieval at post-testing only in the exercised group. The higher retrieval was mainly attributable to more new items retrieved by the exercise group at the immediate post-test (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: This study provides preliminary support for the hypothesis that non-strenuous physical exercise has positive acute effects on meaningfully cued memory.

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PubMed1982

Lymphocyte blastogenesis in dogs with lymphosarcoma.

Mitogen-stimulated lymphocyte blastogenesis was evaluated, using lymphocytes from 37 dogs with multicentric lymphosarcoma. The majority of the test results was within a normal range, even for those dogs with more advanced disease. However, depressed lymphocyte blastogenesis, when present, almost always occurred in lymphocytes from dogs with clinical stage IV-B and V-B disease. Dogs weighing greater than 25 kg had a significantly (P = 0.04) higher occurrence of clinical stage IV or V disease as compared with dogs weighing less than 15 kg. Dogs with diffuse lymphocytic well-differentiated lymphoma were statistically more likely to be designated clinical stage III at the time of diagnosis, as compared with dogs with diffuse lymphocytic poorly differentiated lymphoma.

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