JAMDA
August 23, 2017
Showing 221 - 230 of 2567 results
Resolutions
E12 - Long-Term Care Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications
JAMDA
October 21, 2020
Nursing Home Residents Face Severe Functional Limitation or Death After Hospitalization for Pneumonia
Pneumonia is a common cause of hospitalization for nursing home residents and has increased as a cause for hospitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic. Risks of hospitalization, including significant functional decline, are important considerations when deciding whether to treat a resident in the nursing ...
JAMDA
December 24, 2021
Integrating Principles of Safety Culture and Just Culture Into Nursing Homes: Lessons From the Pandemic
Decades of concerns about the quality of care provided by nursing homes have led state and federal agencies to create layers of regulations and penalties. As such, regulatory efforts to improve nursing home care have largely focused on the identification of deficiencies and assignment of sanctions. The cur...
JAMDA
February 27, 2022
Adherence to Personal Protective Equipment Use in Home-Care Service Agencies During COVID-19 in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Survey
To assess adherence to personal protective equipment (PPE) use among home care workers during usual care at the agency level during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and determine whether agency-level action toward infection prevention and control (IPC) is associated with adherence to PPE use.
JAMDA
November 27, 2013
A Systematic Review of Malnutrition Screening Tools for the Nursing Home Setting
Malnutrition screening among nursing home residents is often performed with tools developed for use among older subjects, and sometimes with tools designed for an adult population. Only a few tools have been designed specifically for the nursing home setting. This systematic review assesses the criterion a...
JAMDA
August 30, 2020
Which Nursing Home Residents With Pneumonia Are Managed On-Site and Which Are Hospitalized? Results from 2 Years' Surveillance in 14 US Homes
Pneumonia is a frequent cause of hospitalization among nursing home (NH) residents, but little information is available as to how clinical presentation and other characteristics relate to hospitalization, and the differential use of antimicrobials based on hospitalization status. This study examined how ho...
JAMDA
July 19, 2021
The Association of Service Use and Other Client Factors with the Time to Transition from Home Care to Facility-Based Care
People are living longer with complex health needs and wish to remain in their homes as their care needs change. We examined which client factors (sociodemographic, health service use, health, and function) influenced older persons’ (≥65 years) time to transition from home living to assisted living (AL) or...
JAMDA
April 7, 2014
New Toolkit to Measure Quality of Person-Centered Care: Development and Pilot Evaluation With Nursing Home Communities
Increasingly, nursing home (NH) providers are adopting a person-centered care (PCC) philosophy; yet, they currently lack methods to measure their progress toward this goal. Few PCC tools meet criteria for ease of use and feasibility in NHs. The purpose of this article is to report on the development of the...
JAMDA
August 7, 2021