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Smith, Judy. "The changing face of community and district nursing." Australian Health Review 25, no. 3 (2002): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020131.

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The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) of South Australia provides home- and community-based nursing care to people residing in the Adelaide Metropolitan area. The service is funded predominantly by the Home and Community Care Program. It provides community nursing services in the areas of wound management, palliative care, HIV/AIDS care, continence management, disability care, mental health and dementia care, and diabetes management. In 2000-2001, the service made 439,700 visits to people's homes or saw them in a nurse-led nursing centre. In addition, the nursing staff had 84,000 contacts other than face to face that were related to client care. These contacts include the co-ordination of care with other service providers for new and existing clients of RDNS.
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Ames, David. "Depressive Disorders among Elderly People in Long-Term Institutional Care." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 27, no. 3 (September 1993): 379–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679309075793.

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Depressive disorders are common among old people in residential and nursing homes. Outside Australia the prevalence rate for depressive symptoms in homes ranges from 30–75% while that for depressive disorders defined by psychiatric diagnostic criteria is well over 20% in many nursing home studies. These rates are between two and twenty times higher than those found among the elderly living at home. Evidence from Australia indicates that a problem of similar magnitude exists here. While physical disability is strongly associated with depression in these populations, it is not the only factor likely to be responsible for the initiation and maintenance of depression among those in long-term care. There is an urgent need for studies which will better define likely aetiological and maintaining factors for depression in institutional populations, as well as controlled trials of both pharmacological treatments and environmental improvements. In addition, research is needed to establish whether depression is an independent risk factor for mortality among institutional residents.
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Koritsas, Stella, Sandra Davidson, David Clarke, and Daniel O'Connor. "Diagnosing and Treating Depressions in Nursing Home Residents: Challenges for GPs." Australian Journal of Primary Health 12, no. 3 (2006): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py06052.

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Depression is more common in elderly people residing in nursing homes than it is in people of the same age residing in the community. In Australia, general practitioners (GPs) are the primary providers of medical services to the elderly in nursing homes; however, they often under-diagnose and/or inadequately treat depression in this population. The difficulties experienced by GPs are confounded by the breakdown in the continuity of care that is evident when a patient is admitted into a nursing home, by inadequate communication between GPs and nursing home staff, and systems within the nursing home that are not conducive to general practice. This paper discusses the challenges GPs face in diagnosing and treating depression in nursing home residents, and provides suggestions for strategies that may overcome these challenges.
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Anderson, Barbara. "Clinical Records in Nursing Homes — What are They and Why Do we Need Them?" Australian Medical Record Journal 19, no. 3 (September 1989): 105–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183335838901900304.

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The importance of clinical records to holistic client centre care is highlighted by the outcome standards which nursing homes in Australia now have to meet. The clinical record system therefore must be organised in such a way as to provide evidence that a nursing home is meeting the desired outcome standards. In this paper the author reviews some of the records problems typically encountered by nursing homes and offers potential solutions. The point is made that any nursing home with poor clinical records can expect to have difficulty meeting the outcome standards. (AMRJ, 19(3), 105–108).
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Henderson, Emily J., and Gideon A. Caplan. "Home Sweet Home? Community Care for Older People in Australia." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 9, no. 2 (February 2008): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2007.11.010.

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Ibrahim, Joseph Elias, Chebiwot Kipsaina, Cathy Martin, David Leo Ranson, and Lyndal Bugeja. "Variations in death notification of nursing home residents to Australian Coroners." Injury Prevention 25, no. 5 (July 9, 2018): 357–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042689.

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ObjectivesTo examine the impact of changes to the reporting requirements in coronial legislation on the nature and frequency of nursing home resident deaths reported to Coroners.DesignNational retrospective study of a population cohort of nursing home resident deaths.SettingAccredited Australian nursing homes between July 2000 and June 2013.ParticipantsResidents who died in nursing homes accredited by the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency reported to Coroners.Main outcome measuresWe explored three death-reporting models in the nursing home setting: comprehensive model, selective ‘mechanism of death’ model and selective ‘age of death’ model. These models were examined by manner of death subgroups: natural, falls-related and other external causes using the outcome measure of deaths notified to the Coroner per 1000 residents. We used an interrupted time series analysis using generalised linear regression with a negative binomial probability distribution and a log link function.ResultsThe comprehensive model showed the proportion of reportable deaths due to natural causes far exceeded those from falls and other external cause. In contrast, the selective notification models reduced the total number of reportable deaths. Similarly, the selective ‘age of death’ model showed a decline in the reportable external cause deaths.ConclusionsVariation in the causes, locations and ages of persons whose deaths are legally required to be notified to Coroners impacts the frequency and nature of deaths of nursing home residents investigated by Coroners. This demonstrates that legislation needs to be carefully framed and applied to ensure that the prevention mandate of Coroners in Australia is to be achieved.
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Jain, Briony, Melissa Willoughby, Margaret Winbolt, Dina Lo Giudice, and Joseph Ibrahim. "Stakeholder perceptions on resident-to-resident aggression: implications for prevention." Australian Health Review 42, no. 6 (2018): 680. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah17282.

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Objective Resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) in nursing homes is a matter of serious and profound concern, yet action to eliminate or mitigate RRA is hampered by a paucity of research. The aim of this study was to explore key stakeholders’ knowledge and perceptions of RRA in Australian nursing homes. Methods A qualitative cross-sectional study design was used, and semistructured telephone interviews were conducted. Participants were purposively and conveniently sampled with replacement from a range of aged care, healthcare and legal professional bodies, as well as advocacy organisations. The interview contained 12 closed-ended questions and six open-ended questions about participants’ knowledge, experiences, perceptions and attitudes to RRA. Participant characteristics and responses to closed-ended questions were aggregated and proportions calculated, and thematic analysis was conducted by two independent researchers using a directed content approach. Results Fifteen participants (11 females; 73.3%) in senior management positions were interviewed. All were familiar with the concept of RRA and just over half (n=8; 53.3%) had witnessed an incident. Major themes included the nature and causes of RRA and attitudes and responses to RRA. Potential causes of RRA included maladaptation to nursing home life, transfer of pre-existing issues into the nursing home environment, physical environment and staffing-related issues. RRA was commonly viewed by participants as dangerous and unpredictable or, conversely, as expected behaviour in a nursing home setting. A person-centred care approach was considered most effective for managing and responding to RRA. Conclusion The research demonstrates that understanding perceptions of RRA among key stakeholders is critical to identifying the nature and scope of the problem and to developing and implementing appropriate prevention strategies. What is known about the topic? RRA is common in nursing homes, with potentially fatal consequences for residents involved, and has serious implications for nursing home staff, managers, providers, and regulators. Despite this, the prevalence, impact, and prevention of RRA remains under-recognised and under-researched in Australia. What does this paper add? This is the first Australian study to produce qualitative findings on the knowledge and perceptions of RRA in nursing homes among key stakeholders. This paper reports on the knowledge and perceptions of individuals in senior management and policy roles in aged care and related fields in relation to four themes: nature; causes; attitudes; and responses to RRA. Our findings highlight the complex and multifactorial nature of RRA. What are the implications for practitioners? A movement towards person-centred care that promotes understanding of individual care needs is favoured as an approach to reducing RRA. Increased reporting of both minor and major incidents of RRA will help to identify patterns and inform appropriate responses. However, a cultural shift is first required to recognise RRA as a manageable and preventable health care and adult safeguarding issue.
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Cheluvappa, Rajkumar, and Selwyn Selvendran. "Antipodean Perspectives—Aged Care Nursing and the Multifaceted Role of the Aged Care Nurse." Nursing Reports 12, no. 3 (August 30, 2022): 629–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep12030062.

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Healthy ageing refers to the development and maintenance of the functional ability of ageing individuals. Aged care nurses provide nursing care to elderly individuals and usually work in aged care residential facilities, nursing homes, home care services, and/or hospital departments. The registered nurse working in the aged care sector has several important roles. Key roles cover both therapeutic and preventative paradigms, as discussed in this paper. The aged care nurse is also “tasked with” holistic patient-centred care and the promotion of healthy ageing via advocacy and sociocultural roles. This paper examined, described, and analysed the multifaceted role of an aged care nurse from an Australian perspective. We conducted meticulous searches using PubMed, Google Scholar, government guidelines, authoritative body regulations, quality control guidelines, and government portals pertaining to aged care nursing in Australia. This paper relied upon the information garnered from publications, reports, and guidelines resulting from these searches and analyses. Multiple aspects of healthy ageing and holistic aged care nursing are discussed. The key roles of the aged care nurse are enumerated next, in accordance with the code of conduct from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). The NMBA promotes evidence-based, culturally sensitive, consultative, holistic aged care clinical practice that includes input from care recipients, their decision makers, and/or their health care providers. The difficult issue of loneliness is discussed with strategies to ameliorate aspects of this. Good social networks, community interactions, meaningful friendships, and participation in personalised spiritual/religious practices improve the quality of aged care. The key topic of elder abuse and its forms are discussed apropos of aged care nursing. Healthy ageing is promoted by identifying and reporting elder abuse at the earliest. Current Australian law and recent federal legislation changes pertaining to aged care nursing are discussed next. As a result of these legislation changes, several new quality control imperatives (for aged care organisations/facilities) under the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) have been implemented. Residential and flexible aged care providers should now have robust ongoing documentation and a well-developed behaviour support plan (BSP) for each care recipient who currently requires or may require restrictive practices, which must be reported under the new serious incident reporting scheme (SIRS). Various strategies to promote healthy ageing and approaches to communicate effectively with aged care recipients are also discussed. Healthy ageing is promoted when age care recipients are empowered with making their own autonomous choices in “major and minor” aspects of life. Finally, approaches to optimise quality aged care nursing care are discussed. The Roper–Logan–Tierney model is one of the models used to assess and optimise nursing care. This is premised on the capability of an ageing individual to accomplish 12 basic activities of daily living.
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Boak, Jennifer, Irene Blackberry, and Tshepo Rasekaba. "Improving Detection of Client Complexity in the Community (Impact): A Study Protocol of a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial." Methods and Protocols 4, no. 4 (October 6, 2021): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mps4040070.

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Background: Community-dwelling older clients are becoming increasingly complex. Detecting this complexity in clinical practice is limited, with greater reliance on community nurses’ clinical judgment and skills. The lack of a consistent approach to complexity impacts the level of care and support for older clients to remain in their homes for longer. Objective: To examine the effectiveness of the Patient Complexity Instrument (PCI) in addition to nurses’ clinical judgment to enhance detection of complexity, and subsequent older clients’ resource allocation compared to usual nursing assessment. Design: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial will be conducted within a community nursing service in regional Victoria, Australia. Clients 65 years and over referred to the service who are eligible for Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) funding will be randomized into Control group: usual nursing assessment or Intervention group: usual nursing assessment plus the PCI. Nurse participants are Registered Nurses currently employed in the community nursing service. Results: This study will explore whether introducing the PCI in a community nursing service enhances detection of complexity and client care resource allocation compared to nurses’ clinical judgment based on usual nursing assessment. Conclusion: This protocol outlines the study to enhance the detection of complexity by nurses delivering care for community-dwelling older people in the regional Australian context. The findings will inform the use of a standardized tool to detect complexity among community-dwelling older Australians.
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Miller, Elizabeth M., and Joanne E. Porter. "Understanding the Needs of Australian Carers of Adults Receiving Palliative Care in the Home: A Systematic Review of the Literature." SAGE Open Nursing 7 (January 2021): 237796082098568. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2377960820985682.

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Introduction Caring for someone at home requiring palliative care is an ominous task. Unless the current support systems are better utilised and improved to meet the needs of those carers, the demand for acute hospital admissions will increase as the Australian population ages. The aim of this review was to examine the needs of unpaid carers who were caring for adults receiving palliative care in their home in Australia. Methods: A systematic review of the literature was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Guidelines between 2008–2020. Results: Only Australian papers were selected due to the intent to understand carers’ needs in the Australian context and 17 papers made up the final data set. Four themes emerged: 1) Perceived factors influencing caregiving; 2) Perceived impact and responses to caregiving; 3) Communication and information needs; and 4) Perceptions of current palliative support services and barriers to uptake. Conclusion: Carers reported satisfaction and positive outcomes and also expressed feeling unprepared, unrecognised, stressed and exhausted.
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Kingsley, Elizabeth J. S. "Articulating and ameliorating elder abuse in Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1753.

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The abuse of older people is a largely unrecognised and under acknowledged social problem in Australia. My major objective in undertaking the work, which is represented by the original published articles that comprise the thesis, was to make a scholarly and practical contribution toward the minimisation of 'elder abuse. This objective was achieved with the development and implementation of a series of studies that articulated and ameliorated elder abuse in Australia.The thesis provides an erudite synthesis of these studies, which fall into four themes that illustrate the nature and scope of my theoretical and professional work in elder abuse. Much of the work was guided by a conceptual framework of ways of knowing in nursing, and was underpinned by the principles and practice of community development and participatory community-based action processes.The outcomes of these studies include work with three stakeholder groups: professionals who deal with elder abuse, older people who are victims or potential victims of abuse, and those who perpetrate abuse on an older person. The work, illustrated in the four themes, includesthe articulation of elder abuse issues with West Australian aged care workersthe development of elder abuse protocols, policy guidelines and ethical principles, to guide professional practice in abuse prevention and interventionthe design and implementation of participative community programs to empower older people, and their carers, to resist being abused or abusing and to assist perpetrators stop their abusethe amelioration of abuse of nursing home residents by staff.The thesis situates my conceptual and clinical effort within the wider corpus of Australian knowledge and practice on elder abuse and contributes to addressing the social problem of elder abuse within the context of Australian aged care.
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Kingsley, Elizabeth J. S. "Articulating and ameliorating elder abuse in Australia." Curtin University of Technology, School of Nursing, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13966.

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The abuse of older people is a largely unrecognised and under acknowledged social problem in Australia. My major objective in undertaking the work, which is represented by the original published articles that comprise the thesis, was to make a scholarly and practical contribution toward the minimisation of 'elder abuse. This objective was achieved with the development and implementation of a series of studies that articulated and ameliorated elder abuse in Australia.The thesis provides an erudite synthesis of these studies, which fall into four themes that illustrate the nature and scope of my theoretical and professional work in elder abuse. Much of the work was guided by a conceptual framework of ways of knowing in nursing, and was underpinned by the principles and practice of community development and participatory community-based action processes.The outcomes of these studies include work with three stakeholder groups: professionals who deal with elder abuse, older people who are victims or potential victims of abuse, and those who perpetrate abuse on an older person. The work, illustrated in the four themes, includesthe articulation of elder abuse issues with West Australian aged care workersthe development of elder abuse protocols, policy guidelines and ethical principles, to guide professional practice in abuse prevention and interventionthe design and implementation of participative community programs to empower older people, and their carers, to resist being abused or abusing and to assist perpetrators stop their abusethe amelioration of abuse of nursing home residents by staff.The thesis situates my conceptual and clinical effort within the wider corpus of Australian knowledge and practice on elder abuse and contributes to addressing the social problem of elder abuse within the context of Australian aged care.
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Fan, Lijun. "Effectiveness and cost analysis of a hospital in the nursing home program in Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101165/1/Lijun_Fan_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis evaluated the effectiveness and cost-saving potential of a health service delivery model in Queensland Australia, the Hospital in the Nursing Home program. The research adopted a before-after controlled study design, comparing the outcomes between an intervention hospital and a control hospital during the pre- and post-intervention periods. Findings from the research supported that the intervention was preferred over the current practice, which reduced the attendances to emergency departments (EDs) and inpatient hospitals from patients in residential aged care facilities, shortened their length of ED stay, and saved the overall costs.
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Chien, Hui-Wen. "Understanding the Nursing Home Care Processor: An Ethnographic Study." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6389.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Aim and significance: The aim of this research was to explore the phenomenon of Australian nursing home care from the perspective of those who provide and receive it. Its focus is on the processes of ‘quality care’ provision and the meanings and evaluations that care providers attach to their work. In other words, its purpose was to shed light on the practices based on a conceptualisation of care that is entwined with the mechanisms of ‘care’ production and identity creation, or what actually happens in the daily life of the complex social phenomenon that is a nursing home. A related aim was to add to understandings of clinical nursing competence and develop tools that will assist nurses to conceptualise and implement positive change in this setting. Background: The provision of care to our elderly has become a major concern with the ageing of the world population. This is occurring in the context of decline in the capacity of families to take on the responsibility of elder care, and of increasing commercialisation of medical care. Governments have responded by shifting their responsibilities from direct care provision to become auditors of the business of care provision that is supported by public funding. However poor care delivery has largely been hidden from the public gaze. Governments present themselves as having systems in place, creating the illusion of rational control; in reality, like the market economy, there is a ‘black box’ of unknown factors driven by human impulse. The aim of this study was to open up the black box of ‘quality care’ to direct observation, drawing insights from the literature on organisational culture and with a focus on the frontline worker and the construct of quality assurance. Specific research objectives were to: • Document the beliefs and attitudes of care providers towards elderly people in general and the needs of nursing home residents in particular • Elicit the range of meanings and evaluations that care providers attach to their work • Describe their constructions of ‘care’ and ‘quality of care’ and the organisational factors they believe to impact (positively and negatively) on their ability to provide it. • Through in-depth understanding of a particular setting, generate grounded theoretical insights into the phenomenon of quality of residential care that are more widely applicable Method: The study adopted a paradigmatic bricoleur approach, seeking to develop connections between a diverse range of methodologies. These included combinative ethnography, phenomenology, hermeneutics and traditional grounded theory. Conceptual insights were drawn from organisational studies, psychosocial nursing and coping theory. The research site was an Australian for-profit suburban nursing home. The student investigator conducted more than 500 hours of participant observation, recording extensive field notes which were analysed through the perspective of a hermeneutic middle way horizon that directed an augmented constant comparison traditional grounded theory approach. Additional data were collected through formal indepth interviews with six key stakeholders. Interviews were tape recorded, transcribed in full and analysed to reveal themes that were brought within a hermeneutic circle that spiralled recursively from the whole to the part and back to the whole. Findings: Eight key interrelated factors in the production of care within the nursing home were identified: internal and external accountability (the accreditation system); economic considerations; management and training; advocacy; characteristic of residents; care providers’ working conditions and environmental stressors; organisational culture; and the work/care styles of individual care providers. I have categorised the latter into two main types: ‘tortoises’ and ‘hares’. This typology is then used to generate a process-driven schematic diagram that tracks a hypothetical novice care provider through the process of learning how to produce ‘care’. Specifically, I found that nursing home ‘care’ is the outcome of a complex social process involving the interplay between resident, relative, care provider, proprietor, quality assessors and government within the phenomenon of the nursing home. Such care, indeed the phenomenon of the nursing home itself, is not a stable, controllable entity but is in a constant state of flux – what I refer to as a moral ecology. In their everyday practice, care providers devise a construction of ‘quality care’ that is more clearly grounded in their own worldviews and the development of the own identity than in the formal quality assurance system of standards, guidelines and evaluations. Conclusion: Understanding the ‘black box’ of processes that produce care is the key to identifying courses of action that will improve care outcomes. The study findings also question the validity, assumptions and significance of the accreditation system, which only identifies some of the component variables, disregarding both the complexity within the ‘black box’ and failing to acknowledge that the quality of care outcomes is overwhelmingly dependent on individual care providers.
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Ruler, Amanda Jane. "Culture of nursing homes : an ethnomethodological study /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr935.pdf.

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Campbell, Kathleen J. "People over 85 years say I'd rather go under a train than go into a nursing home." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/202.

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This study uses a qualitative in-depth research design to explore the attitudes that community living people over 85 years of age (n=lO) hold towards relocating to an aged care facility. Aged care facilities are supported accommodation options for the elderly that were previously known as nursing homes or hostels (Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services, 1997). This type of accommodation currently houses 31 % of the total population of people over 85 years of age (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004-2005). Attitudes towards new environments are associated with relocation adjustment, and a review of the literature reveals negative perceptions by younger elderly people towards aged care facilities. Demographic trends indicate a rapid increase in the number of very-old people who are in the high-risk group for admission to aged care facilities; however there is a paucity of research regarding their attitudes towards such relocation. There are many implications for aged care service providers as a result of these demographic trends, but particularly in relation to accommodation options for the elderly. This research examines the attitudes that the very-old hold about going into residential care. It also explores the emotions underpinning that attitude. The main areas that emerged included concerns over media representation, perceived lack of control and fear of a loss of independence. There were very negative attitudes toward the loss of the home itself followed by concerns over loss of personal possessions. The very-old have such rich histories embedded in their home and possessions that these things become a part of their identity and culture (Moore, 2000) rather that a separate entity, and therefore the loss of these possessions could ultimately lead to the loss of self. The results have proven to be generally negative toward relocation to an aged care facility and combined with an assumption by the participants that there is no opportunity for future planning once in care, some expressed they would choose death rather than relocation. The implications of allowing these negative attitudes to continue without interventions based on further research and community consultation, will only add to the relocation stress syndrome already being experienced by many of very senior members of society (Capezuti, Boltz, & Renz, 2004).
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Abbey, Jennifer Ann, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Death and late-stage dementia in institutions: a cultural analysis." Deakin University. School of Nursing, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.153139.

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The first purpose of this study was to describe the deaths of fifteen nursing home residents with late-stage dementia. The devastating effect of dementia on a person has been called a ‘living death’ (Woods, 1989). The caring which occurs when someone is going through this process in a nursing home was recorded and analysed. In analysing this act of caring, the second purpose was to look for the origins of the structures and the sources of pressure that shaped the context and therefore helped determine the behaviour of the various groups under observation. These groups were residents and their relatives, the staff of the nursing home and the treating doctors. Before commencing observations and carrying out this study, an understanding needed to be developed of: the condition of dementia as it is perceived by health professionals and presented in the media; the institutions in which the majority of people with dementia end their days; the background and conditions of the staff who nurse in them; the models of care that guide and determine policies; and the conceptions of life and death which underpin relevant laws and moral standpoints. Accordingly, in part 1. chapter 1 the history, causes, pathology and effects of dementing conditions are examined. Relevant medical and lay literature including media influences are examined which pertain to the subject of death and dementia and nursing home care. The history of this institutional care is briefly examined together with the growth of the discipline of gerontological nursing. Chapter 2 discusses some of the effects of this history on present day care and the concept of emotional work being carried out within the present day aged care public policy regulations. The moral arguments surrounding illness and dying in Australian society today are briefly discussed. Chapter 3 describes the conceptual framework for the study, the ethnographic method that has been employed and an outline of critical theory as the basis for analysis. The chapter concludes by recounting the practical steps taken to arrange the field work, secure the consent of participants, record data and gather documents, and outlines the ethical considerations given to the undertaking of the study. Chapter 4 describes the context in which the study took place and the first tentative exploration of the culture from an etic perspective. Part 2 describes the death trajectories observed and raises some questions about alternative strategies that may have been considered within a different paradigm of caring. In chapter 5 the death trajectories of each of the fifteen residents in the study are described, each written with a particular emphasis to illustrate aspects of the culture of care that emerged through thematic analysis. Observations, comments and feelings from staff and family are wound in and around these case studies. Chapter 6 looks more closely at the impact of policy and institutional pressure on the milieu in which these deaths took place. Part 3 draws conclusions from the observations and makes suggestions for emancipatory change as viewed from the author's standpoint of critical ethnographic analysis. In the final chapter an argument is presented for policy change that leads a movement towards palliative care practices for people with late-stage dementia. Approaches to implementation of palliative care will need to take account of any expression by the resident such as an advanced directive, indicating a preferred approach to treatment in the period prior to death; a need for a better understanding of such issues as the significance of body breakdown, the manifestations of pain and electrolyte imbalances; the surrounding ethical complexities and shift in public opinion, and perhaps, most of ail, the culture of the institutions in which this dying will take place. A definition of late-stage dementia which might be used in determining patterns of care is set out. A discussion about changes in practice which relate lo communication with treating doctors, the administering of antibiotics, the relief of pain, the mobilisation of residents and the provision of food and water takes place in light of the evidence found. The discussion of these issues is raised in the form of debate. Each aspect needs more rigorous analysis and information so that evidence-based practice, rather than care which is value-laden and emotional, can be used when treatment decisions are made for people with late-stage dementia.
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Buckley, Patricia Louise, and pbuckley@swin edu au. "'A sense of place' : the role of the building in the organisation culture of nursing homes." Swinburne University of Technology, 2000. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060317.114711.

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This study attempted to identifj and explore the role the building plays in the organisation culture of nursing homes. To do this a research plan was formulated in which the central plank was a case-study of a seventy-five bed high care nursing home. As part of the case-study, interviews were conducted at the nursing home with ten members of staff, two residents and a daughter of a resident. The study was also informed by interviews with two architects, who specialise in the design of nursing homes and aged care facilities. A theoretical model entitled the 'Conceptual Framework' was developed prior to the case-study. It was tested by applying it to findings related to the physical context and the organisation culture of the case-study venue. The hypothesis that the building does influence the culture of the nursing home environment was explored by studying the manner in which the building influenced the lives of those who work in the nursing home and those who live there. This challenge was met with the use of theoretical contributions from organisation theory and psychodynamics, which together provided a vehicle for analysis of the culture and the building's role in it.
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Saxer, Susanne. "Urinary incontinence in nursing home care." [Maastricht] : Maastricht : [Maastricht University] ; University Library, Universiteit Maastricht [host], 2008. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=13767.

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Nelson, Ian M. "Predictors of Nursing Home Placement for Home Care Consumers." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1073924945.

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Books on the topic "Nursing home care Australia"

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Linn, Rob. Angels of Mercy: District nursing in South Australia, 1894-1994. Norwood, SA [S. Aust.]: Royal District Nursing Society of SA, 1993.

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Karmel, Rosemary. Comparing name-based and event-based strategies for data linkage: A study linking hospital and residential aged care data for Western Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2007.

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Braithwaite, John. Regulating aged care: Ritualism and the new pyramid. Cheltenham, UK: E. Elgar, 2007.

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Worlds apart?: Long-term care in Australia and the United States. New York: Haworth Press, 1988.

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Unit, Malaysia Kementerian Kesihatan Health Technology Assessment. Home care nursing. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Health Technology Assessment Unit, Medical Development Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia, 2002.

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Corporation, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal. They might have to drag me like a bullock: The Tjilpi Pampa Tjut̲aku Project : the rights, needs, and care options of the senior men and women of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara, and Yankunytjatjara communities in the cross-border region of Central Australia : final report. Alice Springs, NT: The Corporation, 1995.

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Home care nursing handbook. 3rd ed. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen Publishers, 1998.

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Home care nursing handbook. Norwalk, Conn: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1986.

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Home care nursing handbook. 2nd ed. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1994.

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1936-, Martinson Ida Marie, and Widmer Ann, eds. Home health care nursing. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Nursing home care Australia"

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Hunt, Leanne, and Sharon-Ann Shunker. "Critical care nursing." In Nursing in Australia, 88–97. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003120698-12.

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Sloan, John P. "Nursing Home Care." In Protocols in Primary Care Geriatrics, 100–106. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1884-5_14.

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Sloan, John P. "Nursing Home Care." In Protocols in Primary Care Geriatrics, 99–103. New York, NY: Springer US, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0388-6_16.

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Thomas, David R., Yves Rolland, and John E. Morley. "Nursing Home Care." In Pathy's Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine, 1697–708. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119952930.ch140.

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Dale, Maureen C., and Margaret R. Helton. "Nursing Home Care." In Chronic Illness Care, 245–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71812-5_20.

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Jeong, Sarah Yeun-Sim, Sharyn Hunter, and Larissa McIntyre. "Nursing in aged care contexts." In Nursing in Australia, 180–90. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003120698-23.

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Lewis, Peter, Deborah Ireson, and Deborah Brooke. "Paediatric nursing in the acute care setting." In Nursing in Australia, 108–16. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003120698-14.

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Bichel-Findlay, Jen, Kathleen Dixon, and Nathaniel Alexander. "Nurses delivering care in a digitised environment." In Nursing in Australia, 21–32. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003120698-4.

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Parry, Yvonne, and Didy Button. "Nursing and tensions within the Australian health care system." In Nursing in Australia, 11–20. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003120698-3.

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Friedman, Sandra L. "Nursing Home Setting." In Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan, 243–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0_22.

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Conference papers on the topic "Nursing home care Australia"

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Khosla, Rajiv, Mei-Tai Chu, and Khanh Nguyen. "Affective Robot Enabled Capacity and Quality Improvement of Nursing Home Aged Care Services in Australia." In 2013 IEEE 37th International Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/compsacw.2013.89.

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Sun, Winnie, and Diane Doran. "Safety in the Home: The Association between Therapeutic Self-Care Ability and Occurrence of Adverse Events for Home Care Clients in Canada." In Annual Worldwide Nursing Conference. Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2315-4330_wnc14.21.

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Ejdys, Joanna. "PROSPECTIVE QUALITY ATTRIBUTES OF NURSING HOME CARE SERVICES." In Business and Management 2016. VGTU Technika, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/bm.2016.59.

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One of the forms of care for the elderly are the nursing homes, long-term care homes. Still, in many countries the low level of quality of such services is still the main criterion for the perception of objects as a final option, in the absence of alternative forms of care for an older person. The aim of the article is to seek answers to the questions about the expected quality of the services offered by nursing homes. The article presents the results of research on the expectations of the society in terms of quality of services, carried out on a sample of 602 Polish citizens. The study allowed to identify the key characteristics that determine the quality of services from the perspective of the future decisions related to the choice of the resort.
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khan, ihsan U., saleem Shazad, Viswanath P. Vasudevan, Rana Ali, and Farhand Arjomand. "Clinical Outcome Of Nursing Home And Non-nursing Home Patients Admitted To Medical Intensive Care Unit." In American Thoracic Society 2010 International Conference, May 14-19, 2010 • New Orleans. American Thoracic Society, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2010.181.1_meetingabstracts.a1630.

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Khosla, Rajiv, Mei-Tai Chu, Reza Kachouie, Keiji Yamada, Fujita Yoshihiro, and Tomoharu Yamaguchi. "Interactive multimodal social robot for improving quality of care of elderly in Australian nursing homes." In the 20th ACM international conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2393347.2396411.

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Sun, Winnie, and Diane Doran. "Using Remote Activity Monitoring and Guideline System for Home Care Clients to Support Geriatric Nursing Care in the Community." In Annual Worldwide Nursing Conference. Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2315-4330_wnc14.20.

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freed, diana. "Technical Intervention to Address Challenges in Nursing Home Care." In Abstracts from the 15th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2021, 6 December 2021, Tel Aviv, Izrael. EAI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.6-12-2021.2314379.

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Abbas, Syed Qamar, Enam Khan, and Alison Kempthorne. "P-22 Nursing home project – improving confidence in care." In Finding a Way Forward, Hospice UK National Conference, 22–24 November 2022, Glasgow. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2022-hunc.44.

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Walding, Jessica Z., and Siwan Seaman. "87 Priorities for future care: advance care planning for nursing home residents." In Accepted Oral and Poster Abstract Submissions, The Palliative Care Congress 1 Specialty: 3 Settings – home, hospice, hospital 19–20 March 2020 | Telford International Centre. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2020-pcc.107.

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Chin, Young-Ran, and Eun Sun So. "Barriers to and Strategies for Increased Uses of Home Care Nursing in South Korea." In Healthcare and Nursing 2016. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2016.128.12.

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Helena Temkin-Greener, Helena Temkin-Greener, Dana Mukamel, Susan Ladwig, Thomas ,. Caprio, Sally Norton, Timothy Quill, Tobie Olsan, and Xueya Cai. Do Palliative Care Teams in Nursing Homes Improve the Quality of End-of-Life Care for Nursing Home Residents? Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI), July 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.25302/7.2019.cer.641.

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Gertler, Paul. Medicaid and the Cost of Improving Access to Nursing Home Care. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, February 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w2851.

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Gray, Bradford H. Gray, Dana O. Sarnak Sarnak, and Jako S. Burgers Burgers. Home Care by Self-Governing Nursing Teams: The Netherlands' Buurtzorg Model. New York, NY United States: Commonwealth Fund, May 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15868/socialsector.25117.

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Hackmann, Martin. Incentivizing Better Quality of Care: The Role of Medicaid and Competition in the Nursing Home Industry. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24133.

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Clavet, Nicholas-James, Réjean Hébert, and Pierre-Carl Michaud. The future of long-term care in Quebec: what are the cost savings from a realistic shift towards more home care? CIRANO, April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54932/zrzh8256.

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This paper aims to estimate the future long-term care needs and expenditures in Quebec while proposing and evaluating a reform package that could deliver increased coverage as well as be more financially sustainable than current policy. This reform package consists of a shift towards more intensive use of home care while increasing public coverage of care needs. A key feature of the proposed reform is to improve the ability of users to choose their provider with the creation of a senior’s care account, an account that grants individuals in need to purchase services from several providers, including both home and institutional care. To improve the neutrality of public support across care arrangements, we also propose to increase residents’ contribution in nursing homes while favoring the continued use of existing tax credits to help seniors with lower needs in terms of care. Using detailed dynamic modelling of care needs, living arrangements, and expenditures, we estimate that long-term care needs will grow rapidly in the next two decades and the costs will quickly become prohibitive under current policy. We show that substantial cost savings may exist.
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Clavet, Nicholas-James, Réjean Hébert, and Pierre-Carl Michaud. The future of long-term care in Quebec: what are the cost savings from a realistic shift towards more home care? CIRANO, April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54932/zrzh8256.

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This paper aims to estimate the future long-term care needs and expenditures in Quebec while proposing and evaluating a reform package that could deliver increased coverage as well as be more financially sustainable than current policy. This reform package consists of a shift towards more intensive use of home care while increasing public coverage of care needs. A key feature of the proposed reform is to improve the ability of users to choose their provider with the creation of a senior’s care account, an account that grants individuals in need to purchase services from several providers, including both home and institutional care. To improve the neutrality of public support across care arrangements, we also propose to increase residents’ contribution in nursing homes while favoring the continued use of existing tax credits to help seniors with lower needs in terms of care. Using detailed dynamic modelling of care needs, living arrangements, and expenditures, we estimate that long-term care needs will grow rapidly in the next two decades and the costs will quickly become prohibitive under current policy. We show that substantial cost savings may exist.
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Keane, Claire, Sean Lyons, Mark Regan, and Brendan Walsh. HOME SUPPORT SERVICES IN IRELAND: EXCHEQUER AND DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS OF FUNDING OPTIONS. ESRI, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26504/sustat111.

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A new statutory scheme for the provision of home support services is currently being developed by the Department of Health. Research has shown that access to home support services varies across the country. The new scheme aims to tackle this issue to ensure equitable access to home support services nationwide and is part of wider reform of Ireland’s health and social care systems as envisaged in the Sláintecare report and Department of Health action plans. Publicly funded home support services in Ireland are currently provided free of charge for recipients, unlike long-term residential or nursing home care, which involves a contribution from residents. In 2019, the HSE’s Older Persons’ Services provided care to 53,000 people at a cost of €440 million. It is anticipated that demand for home support services may increase under the new scheme, for example if unmet demand is met or if the new scheme results in more people being able to remain in their own home, substituting away from long-term residential care. Any increased demand would result in an increased cost, which may also rise as the population ages. This report examines the possible introduction of co-payments for home support services. We focus on the likely Exchequer impact of a range of different funding scenarios along with the distributional, poverty and inequality impacts of such charges. Due to data limitations, and the fact that the majority of home support services are provided to older age groups, we focus on those aged 65 years and over. Regarding co-payments we examine the impact of flat-rate charges for users, regardless of means, as well as co-payments for home support recipients above a variety of income levels. The tapering of payments is also examined to ensure that individuals just over a specific income threshold would see co-payments gradually increasing as their income rises. We also consider the capping of co-payments so that those needing a high number of home support hours would not potentially face very high costs.
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Wiener, Joshua M., Mary E. Knowles, and Erin E. White. Financing Long-Term Services and Supports: Continuity and Change. RTI Press, September 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2017.op.0042.1709.

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This article provides an overview of financing for long-term services and supports (LTSS) in the United States, paying special attention to how it has changed and not changed over the last 30 years. Although LTSS expenditures have increased greatly (like the rest of health care), the broad outline of the financing system has remained remarkably constant. Medicaid—a means-tested program—continues to dominate LTSS financing, while private long-term care insurance plays a minor role. High out-of-pocket costs and spend-down to Medicaid because of those high costs continue to be hallmarks of the system. Although many major LTSS financing reform proposals were introduced over this period, none was enacted—except the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, which was repealed before implementation because of concerns about adverse selection. The one major change during this time period has been the very large increase in Medicare spending for post-acute services, such as short-term skilled nursing facility and home health care. With the aging of the population, demand for LTSS is likely to increase, placing strain on the existing system.
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