Despite the generally accepted belief that social support improves caregiver adjustment in general and subjective burden in particular, the literature shows mixed findings, and a recent review concluded that the predictive strength of caregiver social …
Do you know that the first written record of pressure ulcers is dated in Hippocrates age? This fact, along with some key facts related with the history of pressure ulcers and their framework, is featured …
Despite the large literature corpus about the factors related to depression; several factors such as caregiving obligation and the interrelationships among the different variables related to depression have been scarcely studied. A recent article by …
The latest issue of Gerokomos in 2017, published an interesting observational cross-sectional study. The study was aimed to identify the centres or clinics for specialized care of chronic wounds in Spain and to do the first …
There is limited European literature on nursing and sustainability; nursing students are poorly prepared on the connections between resources, climate change, sustainability, and health, so they must acquire knowledge and develop skills and competencies in …
In 2014, a new theoretical model explained the mechanism of the development of pressure ulcers (PUs) and that of seven types of lesions known as dependence-related lesions (DRL). So, a member of our group with …
