Nursing Home Press Releases
Ontario Nurses' Association President to Visit Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph Nurses
Posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:01 pm
TORONTO, May 12 /CNW/ - Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) President Linda Haslam-Stroud, RN, will visit ONA members in Cambridge, Kitchener and Guelph tomorrow as part of Nursing Week 2008 celebrations. Haslam-Stroud will make site visits to Local 139 and Local 55 members at Cambridge Memorial Hospital and Grand River Memorial Hospital during the day Tuesday. She will visit nurses at St. Joseph's Health Care - Home for the Aged in the late afternoon. "ONA members… Read More.
National nurse-led project will prevent long-term care residents from falling
Posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:59 pm
TORONTO, May 5 /CNW/ - Preventing injuries is a top priority for the health-care professionals who care for seniors. The tragic death of an 87-year-old resident at a nursing home in Ontario highlights the urgency of improving the safety of seniors living in long-term care. Half of the seniors living in long-term care facilities fall and injure themselves every year; but research shows that the majority of falls can be prevented. That's why the Registered… Read More.
Nursing Home Placement Postponed Close to Two Years for Aricept-Treated Alzheimer's Disease Patients
Posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Persistent treatment with ARICEPT (donepezil), the first and only once-a-day medication approved for use in Canada to treat the symptoms of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD), may delay dementia-related nursing home placement of AD patients for 21 months. Results of a study1 recently presented at the 14th meeting of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry showed that persistent treatment with ARICEPT allowed patients to remain at home with their families longer before requiring full-time… Read More.
