JAMDA
December 30, 2021
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JAMDA
December 29, 2021
Generalist-Specialist Collaboration in Primary Care for Frail Older Persons: A Promising Model for the Future
The complex care needs of frail older persons living at home is a major challenge for health care systems worldwide. One possible solution is to employ a primary care physician (PCP) with additional geriatric expertise. In the Netherlands, elderly care physicians (ECPs), who traditionally work in nursing h...
JAMDA
December 29, 2021
Reimagining Family Involvement in Residential Long-Term Care
Although descriptions of family involvement in residential long-term care (RLTC) are available in the scientific literature, how family involvement is optimized in nursing homes or assisted living settings remains underexplored. During the facility lockdowns and visitor restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemi...
JAMDA
December 29, 2021
Transforming Direct Care Jobs, Reimagining Long-Term Services and Supports
The diverse array of individuals who receive long-term services and supports share one common experience, which is the need for assistance with personal care and/or other daily activities. The direct care workers (including nursing assistants, home health aides, and personal care aides) who provide this as...
JAMDA
December 28, 2021
Caregiver Respite: An Essential Component of Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care
JAMDA
December 28, 2021
State Regulations and Hospice Utilization in Assisted Living During the Last Month of Life
To examine the association between hospice/staffing regulations in residential care or assisted living (RC/AL) and hospice utilization among a national cohort of Medicare decedents residing in RC/AL at least 1 day during the last month of life, and to describe patterns of hospice utilization.
JAMDA
December 27, 2021
Perceptions of Medical and Surgical Health Care Providers Toward Orthogeriatric Care Delivery: An Exploratory Survey
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Integrating Principles of Safety Culture and Just Culture Into Nursing Homes: Lessons From the Pandemic
Decades of concerns about the quality of care provided by nursing homes have led state and federal agencies to create layers of regulations and penalties. As such, regulatory efforts to improve nursing home care have largely focused on the identification of deficiencies and assignment of sanctions. The cur...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Proactive Geriatric Comanagement of Nursing Home Patients by a New Hospital-Based Liaison Geriatric Unit: A New Model for the Future
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, hospital-based liaison geriatric units (LGUs) were created in Spanish hospitals with the aim to improve health care coordination between nursing homes (NHs) and hospitals. Our university hospital created a comprehensive, proactive LGU serving 31 public and private NHs of dif...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Evidence for Action: Addressing Systemic Racism Across Long-Term Services and Supports
Long-term services and supports (LTSS), including care received at home and in residential settings such as nursing homes, are highly racially segregated; Black, Indigenous, and persons of color (BIPOC) users have less access to quality care and report poorer quality of life compared to their White counter...
