COM Division of Geriatrics 研究 Projects
Learning by Living Nursing 首页。 Immersion
Learning by Living Nursing 首页。 Immersion is known internationally for “admitting” medical students into nursing homes to live the life of an elder resident for two weeks complete with diagnoses that warrant standard procedures of care such as toileting, 洗澡, 吃泥状食物, and relying on staff for transfers.
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48-Hour Hospice 首页。 Immersion
The 48 Hour Hospice 首页。 Immersion research “immerses” students into the local 18-bed acute care hospice home for 48 hours sleeping in a bed where others have died before. 学生 are integrated into the interprofessional staff team. During this intensive research, students care for patients, 提供家庭支持, and upon a patient’s death conduct post-mortem care. Both projects utilize ethnographic-biographic research designs.
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Falls and Proprioception-Balancing Act
Balancing Act is evidenced informed for increasing balance and reducing falls. This NIH-funded project focused on older adults with vision impairment. Other funded projects include Oral 健康 research for nursing home residents living in the six Maine Veterans 首页。s, the Thriving in Place (TIP) Project in the greater Sanford area to find ways for older adults to age optimally in their homes, osteoporosis research focused on cost-effectiveness of fracture prevention in rural women, and older adult veteran support research.
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