Browsing by Subject "Nursing Homes"
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Adapting to CONNECT: modifying a nursing home-based team-building intervention to improve hospital care team interactions, functioning, and implementation readiness.
(BMC health services research, 2022-07)<h4>Background</h4>Clinical interventions often need to be adapted from their original design when they are applied to new settings. There is a growing literature describing frameworks and approaches to deploying and documenting ... -
Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care?
(J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2013-01)BACKGROUND: In rebalancing from nursing homes (NHs), states are increasing access of NH-certified dually eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) patients to community waiver programs and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ... -
Essential Long-Term Care Workers Commonly Hold Second Jobs and Double- or Triple-Duty Caregiving Roles.
(Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2020-08)<h4>Objectives</h4>Long-term care (LTC) facilities are particularly dangerous places for the spread of COVID-19 given that they house vulnerable high-risk populations. Transmission-based precautions to protect residents, ... -
Infections in Older Adults: A Case-Based Discussion Series Emphasizing Antibiotic Stewardship.
(MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources, 2018-09-21)Introduction:Compared with younger populations, adults 65 years and older are more likely to suffer infection-related morbidity and mortality, experience antibiotic-related adverse events, and acquire multidrug-resistant ... -
Living Arrangements of Older Adults and COVID-19 Risk: It Is Not Just Nursing Homes.
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The Metrics Matter: Improving Comparisons of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes.
(Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2021-05)<h4>Objectives</h4>In the United States, nursing facility residents comprise fewer than 1% of the population but more than 40% of deaths due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Mitigating the enormous risk of COVID-19 ...
