Maria Josefa González-García's research while affiliated with Universidad de Navarra and other places

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People with dementia (PWD) have a higher risk of hospitalization than people without dementia. Hospitalizations are stressful events for PWD and their caregivers, representing a considerable change to their routines. The current descriptive longitudinal study aimed to identify the positive and negative reactions, experiences related to health and s...
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This study reports the characteristics of patients with dementia or cognitive impairment hospitalized with a proximal femur fracture requiring surgery. Methods: Multicentric descriptive longitudinal study conducted in three traumatology units, representing high-technology public hospitals across Spain. Data collection took place between August 20...

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... However, a broad range of evidence suggests that hospitals are not good places for people with dementia (Casafont et al., 2022;Hessler et al., 2018;Ní Chróinín et al., 2021) with one-third of people with dementia being discharged from hospitals with reduced functional capacity in comparison to pre-admission capacity (World Health Organization, 2018). ...