Despite the wide usage of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Canadian Stroke Network (NINDS-CSN) neuropsychological battery for the detection of vascular cognitive impairment, its reliability and validity have not been established. Therefore, the present study established the p...
Although Korea issued a law and developed benefits of National Health Insurance (NHI) to enable the provision of home-based primary care (HBPC) along with implementation of a pilot project for community care for older adults in August 2019, the outcomes of HBPC services were not surveyed in Korea. This stu...
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the morbidity and mortality of residents in long-term care (LTC) homes. However, not much is known about its impact on staff's perception of their capacity to provide palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care for LTC residents over the course of the pandemic. We ...
This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system that identified social risk factors in home health care (HHC) clinical notes and to examine the association between social risk factors and hospitalization or an emergency department (ED) visit.
The pandemic has uncovered a broad lack of understanding of the role of the Medical Director in Canadian Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes. Our objectives were to identify the current demographics and practices of LTC Medical Directors, discover how the pandemic affected their practice habits, and inform the cont...