To evaluate the feasibility and effects of the Namaste Care intervention for persons with advanced dementia (ie, moderate and late-stage) in long-term care (LTC) and their family carers.
Improving indoor air quality is one potential strategy to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in any setting, including nursing homes, where staff and residents have been disproportionately and negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In adults, short and long sleep duration has been associated with sarcopenia risk. Studies have shown that various factors, including biological and psychological factors, could be the underlying cause of the association between aberrant sleep...
To investigate the effect of moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) on the improvement of cardiopulmonary function for patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
The current waiting times for intermediate care in the Netherlands prohibit timely access, leading to unwanted and costly hospital admissions. We propose alternative policies for improvement of intermediate care and estimate the effects on the...
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized staff education requirements while ending the COVID-19 staff vaccination requirements for long-term care facilities and intermediate care facilities for individuals with...
The June 2023 Quarterly Confidential Feedback Reports for the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program are now available to download via the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES)...
The 2024 Self-Nomination Toolkit for Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) and Qualified Registries, including the below files, are now posted on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) Resource Library : 2024 QCDR Fact Sheet 2024 Qualified Registry...
Music & MEmory: A Pragmatic TRial for Nursing Home Residents With ALzheimer's Disease (METRIcAL) was an embedded, pragmatic randomized controlled trial (ePCT) that tested the effect of a personalized music intervention on the frequency of...
