Workforce interventions may relieve the growing demand for long-term care (LTC) homes, but their effectiveness in improving resident care remains unclear. We evaluated the impact of LTC home staffing interventions designed to facilitate organizational change at the team level and examined barriers and faci...
Preventing dementia is crucial due to its current and projected global prevalence. Older adults with cognitive impairment/dementia have worse physical function than healthy individuals. However, it is important to quantify the association between performance-based physical function and life expectancy. Thi...
Distress behaviors in dementia (DBDs) are common, are a significant burden to patients, families, and caregivers, and decrease quality of life. Despite risks, many nursing home (NH) residents are prescribed ≥ 1 classes of psychoactive medications for DBD. The objective of this study was to examine daily us...
To assess palliative care utilization, estimate duration of care, and identify predictors of care duration among general practitioner (GP)-referred patients following commencement of specialist palliative care.
Deprescribing reduces inappropriate polypharmacy in older adults and may be initiated in hospital. However, deprescribing changes initiated during a hospital admission are not always continued post discharge and deprescribing recommendations for inpatients to implement post discharge are not always actione...
The CHemical Restraints avOidance MEthodology (CHROME) was developed to help general physicians with quality prescribing of psychotropics for people with dementia (PwD). A new enhanced version (CHROME 2.0) was implemented and tested for improved outcomes.
Understanding how multiple health aspects coevolve over time in persons with cognitive impairment is critical for clinical care, yet few studies have examined these dynamic interplays. This study investigated the relationship between perceived health status trajectories and cognitive trajectories in PCIs, ...
Cognitive dysfunction is the most common complication of stroke, hindering the recovery of physical function and seriously affecting quality of life. With the rapid development of information technology, rehabilitation robots have been widely used in upper and lower limb movements, and gait training after ...