To gain insight into the mortality over time of patients with very severe challenging behavior in dementia when they are temporarily admitted to highly specialized units for treating the behavior.
To determine if health care settings in the last year of life and location of death differ between long-term care (LTC) residents with and without schizophrenia.
In today’s challenging political climate, it’s more important than ever to ensure that post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) clinicians’ voices are heard by legislators and staffers on both sides of the aisle. That’s why PALTmed is holding its first-ever Advocacy Summit October 27-28 in Washington, DC.
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To investigate the associations between central anticholinergic burden and mortality, hospitalization, and cognitive impairment in people with dementia prescribed anticholinergic drugs for urinary symptoms.
Previous studies report higher hospitalization rates in for-profit compared with nonprofit long-term care facilities (LTCFs), but have not included staffing data, a major potential confounder. Our objective was to examine the effect of ownership on hospital admission rates, after adjusting for facility sta...