Despite face validity and regulatory support, empirical evidence of the benefit of culture change practices in nursing homes (NHs) has been inconclusive. We used rigorous methods and large resident-level cohorts to determine whether NH increases in...
With unprecedented demand for Medicaid long-term services and supports, states are seeking to allocate resources in the most efficient way. Understanding the prevalence of frailty and how it varies across home and community-based services (HCBS)...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join To formally acknowledge the pain post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners and team members have endured throughout the pandemic and continue to experience, AMDA recently launched the Healing Together...
Evidence about prescribing patterns of dementia medication in China is lacking. This study aimed to examine prescribing rates of antidementia and psychotropic drugs and factors associated with drug prescription for dementia in China.
We read with great interest the article by Rolland et al regarding the factors associated with inappropriate transfer of nursing home residents to the emergency department.1 The authors found that 21% of transfers were potentially inappropriate. In...
Training, implementing, and sustaining behavioral protocols among frontline workers of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is challenging for a variety of reasons. Limited resources, competing demands, protocol complexity, lack of a champion,...
Infection prevention and control (IPC) audits are a recommended tool for reducing the burden of communicable diseases in long-term care homes (LTCHs).1,2 IPC audits are most effective when they integrate components of education, monitoring, and...
Limited data suggest nursing home (NH) Alzheimer's special care units (ASCUs) may improve care and outcomes among residents with dementia. Unfortunately, information describing NH characteristics related to presence of ASCUs is lacking, especially...
Maximizing quality of life (QoL) is the ultimate goal of long-term dementia care. However, routine QoL measurement is rare in nursing home (NH) and assisted living (AL) facilities. Routine QoL measurement might lead to improvements in resident QoL...
This study explored differences in COVID-19 incidence, mortality, and timing among long-term care facility (LTCF) residents and staff with those living in the community in South Carolina (SC).
