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March 27, 2018
Who Is Responsible? A Man With Dementia Wanders From Home, Is Hit by a Train, and Dies
The impact of dementia and Alzheimer's disease extends far beyond the healthcare needs of the person with dementia. As the disease progresses, individuals with dementia often require ongoing formal or informal care for their basic daily routine because of behavior changes and continuing loss of cognit...
JAMDA
March 23, 2017
What Are Nursing Facilities Doing to Reduce Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations?
Hospitalizations among nursing facility residents are frequent and often potentially avoidable. A number of initiatives and interventions have been developed to reduce excessive hospitalizations; however, little is known about the specific approaches nursing facilities use to address this issue. The object...
JAMDA
January 16, 2014
Obesity and Physical Frailty in Older Adults: A Scoping Review of Lifestyle Intervention Trials
Many frail older adults are thin, weak, and undernourished; this component of frailty remains a critical concern in the geriatric field. However, there is also strong evidence that excessive adiposity contributes to frailty by reducing the ability of older adults to perform physical activities and increasi...
JAMDA
May 8, 2026
Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services Rebalancing Is Concentrated in Large Urban Areas
In aggregate, state Medicaid programs spend more on home- and community-based services (HCBS) than institutional long-term services and supports (LTSS). However, there are well-established differences in LTSS use across states. Rural-urban variation in LTSS use is less understood, particularly following ch...
JAMDA
September 25, 2025
Recommendations for NP/Physician Collaborative Relationships in Long-Term Care Homes
Residents of long-term care (LTC) homes have complex medical and psychosocial care needs. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians possess the complementary skills required for responding to residents’ needs. Therefore, collaboration between NPs and physicians is crucial for achieving optimal resident outc...
JAMDA
November 16, 2020
Functional Recovery Rate: A Feasible Method for Evaluating and Comparing Rehabilitation Outcomes Between Skilled Nursing Facilities
The recovery of patients' physical function and the rate at which this occurs are important parameters for evaluating value in post-acute care (PAC). However, no metrics are presently used to compare skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) based on the functional recovery rates (FRRs) for patients in their ...
JAMDA
March 26, 2022
The National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network: A Practice-Based Quality Improvement and Research Network
Home-based primary care (HBPC) provides interdisciplinary, comprehensive care at home for homebound older adults and has been largely excluded from the national conversation on care quality and quality improvement. In this Pragmatic Innovations article, we describe the work of the National HBPC Learning Ne...
JAMDA
December 19, 2018
Adoption of Health Information Technology Among US Nursing Facilities
Nursing facilities have lagged behind in the adoption of interoperable health information technology (ie technologies that allow the sharing and use of electronic patient information between different information systems). The objective of this study was to estimate the nationwide prevalence of electronic ...
JAMDA
February 27, 2019