To systematically review the impact of reablement, reactivation, rehabilitation, and restorative (4R) programs for older adults in receipt of home care services.
To compare outcomes and costs for patients with orthogeriatric conditions in a home-based integrated care program versus conventional hospital-based care.
To leverage secondary data extracted using a natural language processing algorithm to examine relationships between adverse social determinants of health and urinary incontinence (UI) among older adult women in home health care.
We sought to identify patterns in occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) home health care visits among people living with dementia (PLWD) by (1) level of function care partner report compared with administrative data, (2) race and ethnicity, and (3) level of socioeconomic resources.
Transfers to acute care hospitals expose long-term care residents to potential harm. We implemented Long-Term Care Plus (LTC+) at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce emergency department (ED) transfers and improve access to urgent medical services by providing virtual specialist consultation, sys...
Characterize the work that home health care (HHC) admission nurses complete as part of the medication reconciliation tasks, explore the impact of shared electronic medication data (interoperability) from the referral source on medication reconciliation, and highlight opportunities to enhance medication rec...
Illustrate patterns of patient problem information received and documented across the home health care (HHC) admission process and offer practice, policy, and health information technology recommendations to improve information transfer.
The purpose of our study was to identify factors that predict 1-year incident hip and major osteoporotic non-hip fractures (ie, wrist, spine, pelvis, humerus) for home care recipients while accounting for the competing risk of death.