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JAMDA

December 24, 2021

Nursing Home Design and COVID-19: Implications for Guidelines and Regulation

Nursing homes (NHs) are important health care and residential environments for the growing number of frail older adults. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of NHs as they became COVID-19 hotspots. This study examines the associations of NH design with COVID-19 cases, deaths, and transmissi...

Policy Snapshot

January 13, 2023

Nursing Home Disclosure Act Reintroduced in 118th Congress

Last week, as their first legislative introduction for the new Congress, Reps. Mike Levin (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) reintroduced the Nursing Home Disclosure Act (H. R. 177), bipartisan legislation to improve public disclosure of nursing home medical directors.

JAMDA

February 26, 2019

Nursing Home Employee Self-Reflection on Life Stressors and Compassion Fatigue

JAMDA

September 11, 2025

Nursing Home Leadership Turnover and Its Association With Star Ratings and Consumer Satisfaction

Nursing home administrator (NHA) and director of nursing (DON) are the 2 key leadership positions in nursing homes (NHs) and play an important role in delivering high-quality long-term care services. However, the impact of DON turnover has not been well investigated compared with that of NHA. This study ai...

JAMDA

March 14, 2019

Nursing Home Length of Stay in 3 Canadian Health Regions: Temporal Trends, Jurisdictional Differences, and Associated Factors

To assess (1) temporal changes (2008–2015) in nursing home (NH) length of stay (LoS) in 3 Canadian health jurisdictions (Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg), (2) resident admission characteristics associated with LoS, and (3) temporal changes of admission characteristics in each of the 3 jurisdictions.

JAMDA

November 14, 2021

Nursing Home Managers’ High Risk of Burnout

JAMDA

November 18, 2023

Nursing Home Organization Mealtimes and Staff Attitude Toward Nutritional Care: A Multicenter Observational Study

The aims of this study were to investigate the practices of registered nurses and nurse aides at mealtimes in nursing homes (NHs) and to evaluate the attitudes of health care staff toward the nutritional care of older people.

JAMDA

June 10, 2025

Nursing Home Outbreak Detection and Antibiotic Use During Multipathogen Testing

Caring for the Ages

March 2, 2026

Nursing Home Parenteral Therapies: Clinical Guidance and Payment Considerations

The most fundamental principle in geriatric and long-term care medicine: ensure every treatment order aligns with the resident’s values and goals of care—eliciting these is a core skill for long-term care physicians. Many residents have multimorbidity, and a substantial proportion are at the end of life. E...

JAMDA

April 29, 2017

Nursing Home Physicians’ Assessments of Barriers and Strategies for End-of-Life Care in Norway and The Netherlands

Working conditions in nursing homes (NHs) may hamper teamwork in providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care, especially the participation of NH physicians. Dutch NH physicians are specialists or trainees in elderly care medicine with NHs as the main workplace, whereas in Norway, family physicians usually wor...