Pressure injuries (PrIs) represent a persistent challenge in nursing homes, with facility-acquired rates of 8.5%. Subepidermal moisture (SEM) technology offers promise for early detection across all skin tones, yet remains underadopted in nursing home environments.
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.
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...
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...
Recent rampant spread of COVID-19 cases in nursing homes has highlighted the concerns around nursing homes’ ability to contain the spread of infections. The ability of nursing homes to invest in quality improvement initiatives may depend on resource availability. In this study, we sought to examine whether...