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JAMDA
November 2, 2015
This is the ninth yearly update on clinical care in the nursing home. Topics covered this year are disease management in frail elders, heart failure, pneumonia, mild cognitive impairment, meaningful activities in the nursing home, atrial fibrillation, and anticoagulation.
JAMDA
August 5, 2015
Nursing home patients are expected to be very frail. However, evidence on frailty in a nursing home setting is scarce in the literature. Especially prevalence of frailty in this population is unknown.
JAMDA
February 26, 2024
Deprescribing opportunities may differ across health care systems, nursing home settings, and prescribing cultures. The objective of this study was to compare the prevalence of STOPPFrail medications according to frailty status among residents of nursing homes in Australia, China, Japan, and Spain.
JAMDA
June 6, 2024
To examine nursing home administrator perspectives of infection control practices in nursing homes at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and characterize lessons learned.
JAMDA
July 28, 2025
Pressure injury poses significant challenges in nursing homes, exacerbated by aging populations and gaps in caregivers' training. This study evaluated the efficacy of the social learning theory–based training program in improving Chinese nursing home assistants’ pressure injury prevention and manageme...
JAMDA
December 2, 2024
The indoor environment refers to the conditions within a building, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, and noise levels. However, the association between the indoor environment and the intention to enter nursing homes among older adults with functional limitations remains unclear. Therefore, ...
JAMDA
November 22, 2021
To describe recent trends in post-acute care provision within nursing homes, focusing specifically on nursing homes’ degree of specialization in post-acute care.
JAMDA
September 29, 2021
To describe the experience of COVID-19 disease among chronically ventilated and nonventilated nursing home patients living in 3 separate nursing homes.
JAMDA
October 6, 2021
During the last quarter of 2020—despite improved distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) and knowledge of COVID-19 management—nursing homes experienced the greatest increases in cases and deaths since the pandemic's beginning. We sought to update COVID-19 estimates of cases, hospitalizatio...
JAMDA
November 20, 2020
To assess (1) the relationship of consumers' assessment of overall nursing home quality to their assessment of specific dimensions of quality; and (2) the implications of this relationship for composite quality measures in Nursing Home Compare.