Falls are highly prevalent and lead to major health morbidity and mortality in older adults. We developed a “STOP-FALLING” checklist as a multifactorial intervention tool kit for a single long-term care facility. The objective of this study was to determine feasibility and adherence of the checklist, and t...
To explore how oral problems, chewing problems, dry mouth, and swallowing difficulties cluster and whether their burden is associated with nutritional status, eating habits, gastrointestinal symptoms, psychological well-being, and mortality among institutionalized residents.
Long-term care (LTC) homes expressed concern that patients had experienced medication incidents after hospital discharge as a result of poor coordination of care.