To examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and outcomes, including discharge to home, hospitalization, death, or continued residence in the skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), among residents newly admitted to SNFs.
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 ...
People with HIV (PWH) likely need short-term skilled nursing facility (SNF) care more than people with greater financial and social support to remain home. Therefore, we sought to understand how frailty among health profiles with distinct driving conditions, antiretroviral therapy (ART), and sociodemograph...
Nearly 20% of hospitalized older adults are discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) for short-term rehabilitation. Many subsequently experience adverse outcomes, such as hospital readmissions, transitioning to long-term care rather than returning home, or death. To guide shared decision making, we d...
Our article's primary objective is to examine whether rehabilitation providers can predict which patients discharged from skilled nursing facility (SNF) rehabilitation will be successful in their transition to home, controlling for sociodemographic factors and physical, mental, and social health chara...
Estimate mortality, cost, and health care resource utilization for Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years who suffered a primary infection (CDI) episode only or any recurrent CDI, and understand how outcomes covary with death.
Post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) communities have been struggling with staffing shortages since before the pandemic. That’s why AMDA has revived an initiative—More of a Good Thing: A Framework to Grow and Strengthen the PALTC Careforce—featuring innovative ideas, fresh looks at ways to increase recrui...