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JAMDA
February 29, 2024
Antipsychotics have been the focus of reforms for improving the appropriateness of psychotropic medicine use in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Comprehensive evaluation of antidepressant use in RACFs is required to inform policy and practice initiatives targeting psychotropic medicines. This stud...
JAMDA
July 28, 2020
Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are a core and troubling feature among patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Because of growing safety warnings against antipsychotics, the use of antidepressants (ATD) in AD has increased extensively. We investigated the potential long-term associations between ATD exposure...
Policy Snapshot
October 21, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is increasing scrutiny and oversight over the country’s poorest-performing nursing facilities in an effort to immediately improve the care they deliver.
JAMDA
June 15, 2020
During the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States, nursing homes became the hotbed for the spread of COVID-19. States developed different policies to mitigate the COVID-19 risks at nursing homes, including limiting nursing home visitation and mandating staff screening. The purpos...
JAMDA
November 19, 2020
The transition from home to a nursing home can be stressful and traumatic for both older persons and informal caregivers and is often associated with negative outcomes. Additionally, transitional care interventions often lack a comprehensive approach, possibly leading to fragmented care. To avoid this frag...
JAMDA
November 27, 2017
Nursing homes (NHs) collaboration with hospices appears to improve end-of-life (EOL) care among dying NH residents. However, the potential benefits of NH-hospice collaboration may vary with the patterns of this collaboration. This study examines the relationship between the attributes of NH-hospice collabo...
JAMDA
July 28, 2020
Nursing homes (NHs) are critical end-of-life (EOL) care settings for 70% of Americans dying with Alzheimer's disease/related dementias (ADRD). Whether EOL care/outcomes vary by NH/market characteristics for this population is unknown but essential information for improving NH EOL care/outcomes. Our ob...
JAMDA
May 26, 2023
This study examines how measures of staffing—turnover and instability—are associated with one another and how they independently contribute to quality of care in nursing homes.
JAMDA
September 30, 2020
Hospitalizations are common among long-stay nursing home (NH) residents, but the role of rurality in hospitalization is understudied. This study examines the relationships between rurality, NH, and market characteristics and NH quarterly risk-adjusted hospitalization rates of long-stay residents over 10 qu...
JAMDA
July 4, 2019
To examine the association between nursing home (NH) quality and new onset of depression and severity of depressive symptoms in a national cohort of long-stay NH residents in the United States.