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.
Management of disinhibited behavior in people with the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia is challenging. To support health care professionals in long-term care, we developed “Focusing,” a psychosocial intervention based on theory of...
Fecal incontinence (FI) is a prevalent yet often overlooked condition in older adults, significantly impacting both quality of life and health care systems. This study aimed to explore the pooled prevalence of FI among older adults.
We read with great interest the article “Multicomponent Interventions for Functional Outcomes in Hospitalized Older Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”1 recently published in JAMDA. We commend the authors for addressing such a timely...
