To examine the association between receipt of psychotherapy and behavior reduction among long-stay nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).
In preventing atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVDs) in frail older people, it is essential to balance estimated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk with potential treatment benefits and harms. SCORE2-OP estimates CVD risk in older people...
To examine nurse-supported interventions on sustained mobile health (mHealth) engagement and identify predictors of long-term use in community-dwelling older adults.
This study compares what matters to residents and how they experience personalized care across nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, residential care facilities, and adult foster homes in Oregon.
Most older adults prefer to recover at home, making home health care (HHC) an important alternative to institutional post-acute care (eg, skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation). Understanding factors associated with HHC referral at hospital...
Health care environments—particularly the built environment—can function like health care interventions, achieving medicine-like effects that shape the lived experience of persons in long-term care (LTC). Despite a growing body of evidence-based...
Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome associated with adverse health outcomes. Although gait speed is widely recognized as a predictor of frailty, the contribution of other gait parameters remains unclear, particularly among initially robust older...
To examine which pain-related characteristics are most strongly associated with impairments in physical performance among community-dwelling older adults.
To compare the prevalence of vaccination programs between nursing homes (NHs) and assisted living communities (ALs) and examine how these programs relate to perceived hospitalization risk and temporary admission suspensions due to outbreaks.
