Many older adults are discharged from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) at functional levels below those needed for safe, independent home and community mobility. There is limited evidence explaining this insufficient recovery. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to determine predictors of physical ...
Priority setting partnerships (PSPs) attempt to shape the research agenda to address the needs of local populations of interest. We reviewed the PSPs for older adults, with a focus on exemplar health care systems: United Kingdom (UK; publicly funded), United States (private health insurance–based), South K...
To systematically synthesize the views of community-dwelling Asians on Advance care planning and to summarize the factors and reasons affecting their uptake of ACP.
To identify, critically appraise, compare, and summarize the measurement properties of existing instruments that assess the supportive environment of dementia special care units (DSCUs).
We aimed to examine whether functional decline accelerated during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (March to June 2020) for persons in long-term care facilities (LTCs) in Canada compared with the pre-pandemic period.
To determine the scope of the application of natural language processing to free-text clinical notes in post-acute care and provide a foundation for future natural language processing–based research in these settings.
In the latest edition of JAMDA On-The-Go, Host Karl Steinberg, MD, HMCD, CMD, and his guests focused on three articles that detail programs, concepts, and research that can empower residents and staff and improve outcomes and quality of life.
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are highly prevalent in long-term care settings. We sought to enhance the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of primary care clinicians caring for patients with BPSD through academic detailing, an evidence-based approach for persuading health care prof...
Adoption of health information technology (HIT) in nursing homes (NHs) improves quality of care. Although there is a robust body of research on HIT adoption, the closely related process of technology abandonment is not well understood. As NHs grow more reliant on HIT, problems of technology abandonment, de...
How transitional care services are provided to patients receiving post-acute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is not well understood. We aimed to determine the association of timing of physician or advanced practice provider (APP) visit after SNF admission with rehospitalization risk in a national...