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  • Book
    Thomas Boggatz.
    Summary: This book explores the meaning of quality of life in care for older persons and introduces the reader to their main concerns when receiving care. Based on qualitative research, it pays particular attention to the needs and requirements of older people, considering their individual family situations, social circumstances, values and lifestyles. Person-centred care is a way of providing nursing care that puts older people and their families at the core of all decisions, seeing each person as an individual, and working together to develop appropriate solutions. Following an introduction to the concept of quality of life in old age, the book reviews essential findings from worldwide research into the experiences of older people with regard to nursing care and the impact of these experiences on their quality of life. It investigates health promotion, care provided in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and palliative care. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the respective field of nursing care and the problems it has to deal with, concluding with a discussion of their implications for nursing practice in the respective field of care. In closing, the evidence from qualitative research is discussed in relation to current gerontological theories.

    Contents:
    Introduction
    Quality of life in old age. Theoretical Perspective
    Quality of Life: The perspective of community-dwelling older adults
    Health promotion and quality of life in old age
    Quality of Life in Long-term Care Facilities
    Quality of Life in the Process of Dying
    Person-centred care and quality of Life.
    Digital Access Springer 2020
  • Article
    Meledina TV, Vitrinskaia AM, Soboleva GA.
    Mikrobiologiia. 1978 Jan-Feb;47(1):51-5.
    The growth of dehydrated and original cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 0-14 was studied in the conditions of reactivation. The identical amount of biomass having the economical growth coefficient of 58-59 percent was accumulated in both variants after 6 hours of growth. The composition and quantitative proportions between free amino acids were studied in the cells of the two cultures. Dehydrated cells lost up to 10 per cent of free amino acids in the course of rehydration. The dynamics of changes in the composition of the amino acid pool in rehydrated dry cells differed from that in pressed yeast cells. By the end of reactivation however, the qualitative composition and the level of the amino acid pool were similar in the cells of the two variants. The yield of growth of reactivated cells in the course of following cultivation was by 16 per cent higher than that of pressed yeast cells grown under the same conditions.
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