Publications

Poor oral care may lead to systemic disease, and there is evidence that assisted living (AL) residents lack quality oral care; in AL, poor care may be due to staff knowledge and attitudes, as well as organizational barriers to providing care.

To palliate means to relieve suffering. However, the public—and even clinicians—often confuse palliation with hospice care and believe that palliative care is restricted solely to the last hours, days, or weeks of life. Nothing could be further from...

Research using electronic and administrative databases has become increasingly common in post-acute and long-term care—so much so that its use has been conjectured to surpass that based on primary purposive data collection.1 The benefits of these...