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Hello friend. Can we use the Kingston Caregiver Stress Scale (KCSS) to measure the stress level of institutional care staff for the elderly?

ChristopherChing

2021年11月30日

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I wonder, for lay family caregivers of elderly persons, which scale might be more suitable?

ChristopherChing

2021年11月30日

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Hi, there are too many items in the original Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale. We think it may be unfriendly to the respondents as many caregivers are older adults themselves. May I ask your advice about it?

Hi, there are too many items in the original Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale. We think it may be unfriendly to the respondents as many caregivers are older adults themselves. May I ask your advice ab ...

CharlesKin

2021年11月30日

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Caring for elderly persons with dementia could be extremely stressful. We are considering devising a caregivers’ care program. Before the formal service, we want to find a scale to measure caregivers’ stress levels. Do you have any recommendations, please?

Caring for elderly persons with dementia could be extremely stressful. We are considering devising a caregivers’ care program. Before the formal service, we want to find a scale to measure caregiv ...

CharlesKin

2021年11月30日

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I wonder if there are any specific ethical rules when providing services for the elderly with hearing loss?

ThomasMing@yahoo.com.hk

2021年11月30日

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For a group of old-old persons in our community, we want to provide some auditory training programs for them to tackle hearing loss. But some of them have already suffered from severe hearing impairment and cannot clearly understand program workers’ words. Do you have any suggestions for our service, please?

For a group of old-old persons in our community, we want to provide some auditory training programs for them to tackle hearing loss. But some of them have already suffered from severe hearing impa ...

ThomasMing@yahoo.com.hk

2021年11月30日

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We are trying a non-pharmacological treatment to improve the elderly’s sleep quality and hope to trace their changes over a year. We respect participants’ privacy and do not want to record their names into the system, is there a way to mark the participants without recording their names?

We are trying a non-pharmacological treatment to improve the elderly’s sleep quality and hope to trace their changes over a year. We respect participants’ privacy and do not want to record their n ...

JosephMan

2021年11月30日

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One of my elderly clients told me, taking hypnotic drugs helps her sleep well. Shall I encourage her to continue using hypnotics?

JosephMan

2021年11月30日

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Suppose I have a control group of elderly who won’t receive any intervention during the project. Can they receive the services of sleep intervention after the research period ends?

RichardTsz

2021年11月30日

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I have read some discussions about using the pre-experimental study for the elderly sleep intervention. May I ask the reason that it is called pre-experimental instead of calling it experimental design?

I have read some discussions about using the pre-experimental study for the elderly sleep intervention. May I ask the reason that it is called pre-experimental instead of calling it experimental d ...

RichardTsz

2021年11月30日

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Following my previous post, may I ask the term that describes collecting data multiple times at the elderly sleep intervention?

DavidChun

2021年11月30日

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Sleep disturbance is one of the major issues concerning the health of older adults. Our center hopes to help elderly persons in the community with a novel sleep intervention and monitor its effects during the whole process of intervention. If so, could we collect data at different time points?

Sleep disturbance is one of the major issues concerning the health of older adults. Our center hopes to help elderly persons in the community with a novel sleep intervention and monitor its effect ...

DavidChun

2021年11月30日

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