To assess and synthesize what is known about the barriers, facilitators, impact of federal and state policies, and clinical outcomes related to discharge for individuals with mental illness (MI) from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and assisted...
To assess attitudes regarding conducting research and perceived learning experiences during residency of physicians specializing in “elderly” care medicine.
Guided by the Job Demands–Resources model, this study aimed to identify individual and organizational factors associated with job satisfaction among care aides working in Atlantic Canadian long-term care (LTC) homes.
Given the long-term care (LTC) staffing “crisis,” it is important to understand factors associated with upward career mobility in residential LTC settings. The study aimed to understand the individual and organizational factors associated with...
Polypharmacy and questionably beneficial medication use are common among nursing home (NH) residents with dementia. Deprescribing patterns in this population are not well described. This study describes trajectories of medication use in NH residents...
Federal reports and academic studies frequently summarize nursing home staffing using state- or national-level average staffing measures.1–4 Although useful for describing broad staffing patterns, such measures may mask a critical reporting gap in...
Falls represent an important inflection point in later life, increasing the risk of future adverse outcomes. This study aims to examine the association between an index fall, that is, a fall in a participant with no recent history of falls, and...
Chronic pain significantly reduces life satisfaction in older adults, but the moderating role of leisure activities is unclear. We examined the association between chronic pain and life satisfaction and whether leisure activity participation...
To compare the prevalence and diagnostic agreement of sarcopenic obesity (SO) defined by the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)/European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) framework and Asian Working Group for...
To evaluate the effects of a family physician–led home-based long-term care program on the quality of life of older adults with disability and to examine heterogeneity by disability level and sex.
