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JAMDA

May 24, 2020

The Negative Impact of Psychotropic Drug Use on Quality of Life in Nursing Home Patients at Different Stages of Dementia: Cross-Sectional Analyses from the COSMOS Trial

The quality of life (QoL) in nursing home (NH) patients with dementia is threatened by neuropsychiatric symptoms. This may trigger the use of psychotropic drugs, yet it is unknown if this practice improves the QoL. We investigated the association between the number of psychotropic drugs and QoL at differen...

JAMDA

September 26, 2018

The Never-Ending Quest for Quality in Post-acute and Long-term Care: A Cup Half-Empty, or Half-Full?

Caring for the Ages

December 31, 2024

The New ABCs of Value-Based Care

Caring for the Ages

June 3, 2015

The New Malpractice of Remote Care

JAMDA

February 22, 2022

The Non- Universal Understanding of the New Jersey Universal Transfer Form: Evaluating Resident Physicians’ Knowledge Gaps

Caring for the Ages

March 2, 2015

The Nurse Aide Conundrum in LTC

Caring for the Ages

January 30, 2017

The Nurse Practitioner’s Evolving Role in PA/LTC

Caring for the Ages

February 26, 2021

The Nursing Home in The Community

JAMDA

October 3, 2022

The Nursing Home Physician: Supporting a Threatened Resource

JAMDA

July 29, 2017

The Nursing Home Pneumonia Risk Index: A Simple, Valid MDS-Based Method of Identifying 6-Month Risk for Pneumonia and Mortality

Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of hospitalization and death for nursing home (NH) residents; however, diagnosis is often delayed because classic signs of infection are not present. We sought to identify NH residents at high risk for pneumonia, to identify persons to target for more intensive sur...