Patients from ethnically minoritized communities often face disparities in health care due to language and cultural barriers. This study aimed to compare health care use and end-of-life outcomes between Chinese-speaking residents living in language-concordant and language-discordant long-term care (LTC) ho...
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...
We examined the frequency and categories of end-of-life care transitions among assisted living community decedents and their associations with state staffing and training regulations.
To examine (1) whether hospice staff visits are associated with end-of-life (EOL) transitions, place of death (POD), and live discharges among assisted living (AL) residents, and (2) whether state AL regulations on staffing and medication administration influence these outcomes. We hypothesized that more f...