Hospital discharge to a long-term care facility (LTCF) often represents an opportunity to reassess care goals, treatment intensity, and medication use. We examined changes in glucose-lowering medication (GLM) dispensing following first hospital discharge to LTCFs and whether these changes differed by resid...
To compare the prevalence of vaccination programs between nursing homes (NHs) and assisted living communities (ALs) and examine how these programs relate to perceived hospitalization risk and temporary admission suspensions due to outbreaks.
To examine which pain-related characteristics are most strongly associated with impairments in physical performance among community-dwelling older adults.
Loss of a spouse increases risk for cognitive and functional decline in older age. However, literature examining bereavement effects on cognition and daily functioning in veterans is limited. This study therefore examined differences in cognitive and functional trajectories after spousal loss in older male...