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JAMDA

May 26, 2016

Defining Safety in the Nursing Home Setting: Implications for Future Research

Currently, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Common Format for nursing homes (NHs) accommodates voluntary reporting for 4 adverse events: falls with injury, pressure ulcers, medication errors, and infections. In 2015, AHRQ funded a technical brief to describe the state of the science re...
JAMDA

July 25, 2018

A Quality of Care Framework for Home-Based Medical Care

More than 6 million adults in the United States are homebound or semi-homebound and would benefit from home-based medical care (HBMC). There is currently no nationally recognized quality of care framework for home-based medical care. We sought to capture diverse stakeholder perspectives on the essential as...
CPG Teaching Slides

Pain Management in the PALTC Setting Teaching for CNAs

These teaching slides on Pain Management emphasizes how the CNA is often the first member of the IDT to recognize a patient in pain. With an easy to understand methods that are utilized by nursing staff of recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring, the CNA can utilize the different pain scales to h...
JAMDA

May 13, 2015

Day Care Centers for Seniors in Singapore: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

The burden of care for frail elderly persons on families and the society is ever real as our population ages. Given the dual-income nature of many working families, day care centers offer a strong alternative to nursing homes for families wishing to provide custodial care and meaningful engagement for seni...