JAMDA
November 20, 2018
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JAMDA
February 1, 2019
Families' Experiences With End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes and Associations With Dying Peacefully With Dementia
To examine family caregivers' experiences with end-of-life care for nursing home residents with dementia and associations with the residents dying peacefully.
JAMDA
January 7, 2019
The Effect of a Multicomponent Intervention on Quality of Life in Residents of Nursing Homes: A Randomized Controlled Trial (COSMOS)
To investigate if the multicomponent intervention of the COSMOS trial, combining communication, systematic pain management, medication review, and activities, improved quality of life (QoL) in nursing home patients with complex needs.
JAMDA
November 16, 2018
Impact of Environmental Modifications to Enhance Day-Night Orientation on Behavior of Nursing Home Residents With Dementia
To determine whether environmental rearrangements of the long-term care nursing home can affect disruptive behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in residents with dementia.
JAMDA
February 24, 2017
Unexplained Absences and Risk of Death and Injury Among Nursing Home Residents: A Systematic Review
Unexplained absence of nursing home (NH) residents is one of the most challenging issues related to the care of older people. The aim of this review was to examine the death and injury outcomes of unexplained absence of NH residents.
JAMDA
January 17, 2017
Circadian Variation in Post Void Residual in Nursing Home Residents With Moderate Impairment in Activities of Daily Living
Despite the conflicting evidence about postvoid residual (PVR) and its variation in time and corresponding voided volume (VV), studies with urinary diaries and systematic measurements of PVR after each void have never been conducted in nursing home (NH) residents.
JAMDA
April 18, 2017
Pain Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents Nearing Death
Although examining point in time prevalence of pain among nursing home (NH) residents has value, there is a lack of evidence describing the actual changes (ie, trajectories) in pain that take place during their last 6 months of life. The main objective of this study is to describe the major pain trajectori...
JAMDA
April 29, 2017
Nursing Home Physicians’ Assessments of Barriers and Strategies for End-of-Life Care in Norway and The Netherlands
Working conditions in nursing homes (NHs) may hamper teamwork in providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care, especially the participation of NH physicians. Dutch NH physicians are specialists or trainees in elderly care medicine with NHs as the main workplace, whereas in Norway, family physicians usually wor...
JAMDA
February 24, 2017
Comprehensive Literature Review of Factors Influencing Medication Safety in Nursing Homes: Using a Systems Model
The objectives of this review were to identify the work system factors influencing medication safety measures [adverse drug events (ADEs), adverse drug reactions, or medication errors (MEs)], to determine the incidence of ADEs, and describe the most common ADEs in nursing homes (NHs).
JAMDA
August 5, 2015