Significant numbers of adults with dementia require long-term care services. For example, around 750,000 people who live in nursing homes have a diagnosis of dementia. In long-term care, transportation insecurity for the long-term care population...
To investigate the relationship between unmet needs for family caregiver support, defined as lack of caregiver availability or capacity, and home health care (HH) service types delivered to patients with dementia.
Although telehealth has many post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) applications, including for specialty visits, remote monitoring, and follow-up care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), long-term care (LTC) facilities, and assisted living (AL)...
To examine the caregiving factors, sociodemographic characteristics, and self-reported health of caregivers who retired from the labor force to provide full-time, unpaid care to their care recipient.
Contact with nature is a source of resilience and well-being, and nature-based interventions (NBIs) potentially support older adults’ health and self-efficacy. Health-related outcomes of NBIs depend not only on the surroundings and activity, but...
Hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits can be uncomfortable and burdensome for severely impaired and terminally ill nursing home (NH) residents. Very few studies have examined specific diagnoses associated with these events.
This study investigates the relationship between frailty status and white matter integrity (WMI) in older adults, focusing on associations with frailty status.
