To understand how the COVID-19 pandemic created obstacles for nursing home staff to communicate effectively with family members of residents and how administrators navigated new communication methods.
The purpose of this article is to describe the approach taken to leverage pharmacists to implement the Age-Friendly 4Ms (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) framework.
Falls can be deadly for older adults, making accurate documentation essential for prevention and quality improvement. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is used in nursing homes to document falls; however, it fails to capture fall dates and has been critiqued for underreporting and misclassification. We developed ...
The objective of this paper was to evaluate the implementation feasibility of the Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion (JH-AMP) framework across geographically diverse hospitals and to examine the association between daily mobility goal achievement and discharge home.
To identify patient factors associated with heterogeneity in functional benefits from higher-dose in-hospital rehabilitation therapy intensity during the post-acute phase after ischemic stroke.
Pressure injuries (PrIs) represent a persistent challenge in nursing homes, with facility-acquired rates of 8.5%. Subepidermal moisture (SEM) technology offers promise for early detection across all skin tones, yet remains underadopted in nursing home environments.
Nature experiences shared in peer groups according to the “Friends in Nature” (FiN) intervention in assisted living facilities (ALFs) reduced lonely participants’ loneliness. Here we explored the effects of the FiN intervention of the H2020 RECETAS project on changes in the secondary outcomes of cognition,...
To evaluate the association between different classes of antihypertensive medications (AHMs) and dementia risk in older adults through systematic review and meta-analysis.