Publications

Falls prevention occupies a dominant position in nursing home quality oversight. What has received far less scrutiny is whether the organizational response to this pressure may itself generate harm through systematic mobility restriction. We write...

California conducts audits of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to ensure required staffing levels. We examined facility characteristics associated with failing these staffing audits, trends before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of...

To examine the efficacy of exercise in reversing prefrailty in exclusively prefrail older adults.

Rising eldercare expenditures and rapid aging of the US population have intensified pressures on families, who increasingly provide both direct “hands-on” care and financial support (“transfers”) to aging relatives. To elucidate how population aging...