When Is It Time for a Nursing Home? 6 Questions to Ask These six questions will help you decide if it’s time for your loved one to move to a nursing home.Read the full article Nursing Home Statistics Learn the number of nursing home residents and facilities in the U.S. broken down...
BackgroundNursing home residents with advanced dementia are at high risk of infections and antimicrobial exposure near the end of life. Detailed studies
The length of stay (LOS) pattern of nursing home admissions has not been directly measured because the long duration of stay of some patients (e.g., 25% of persons admitted reside in homes for longer than 1 year) makes it impractical to follow specific admission cohorts until the members ...
Nursing Home Length of Stay and Spenddown in Connecticut, 1977–19861 A study of lifetime nursing home use was conducted with data from Connecticut for a 9-year period, 1977鈥 1986. By linking stays for individuals, we were ab... K Liu,K Manton - 《Gerontologist》 被引量: 0发表: 1991...
National Center for Health StatisticsZappolo, A. (1977), "Characteristics, Social Contacts, and Activities of Nursing Home Residents, United States, 1973- 1974 National Nursing Home Survey", National Health Survey, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, series 13, nr. 27, Washington: U.S...
Within GRC, improving activities of daily living (ADL) is an important outcome measure. (Partial) independence in ADL largely determines whether a patient can return home. When the improvement of the ADL takes place in a shorter period of time, the patient can go to his/her own familiar ...
of the residents included: sex and age; prevalent diagnosis at admission to NH; level of assistance intensity; level of independence expressed as activities of daily living (ADL); mobility; level of cognitive impairment and presence or absence of behavioural disorders; and length of stay in NH....
This cohort study of more than 2 million nursing home residents examines the association between receipt of care from a physicians, nurse practitioners,
Memphis Funeral Home obituary In lieu of flowers,contributions can be made to the fund for the Margaret Newman Endowed Chair Posted inDiscussionLeave a reply New Nursing Journals Directory Launches on January 1st Peggy L Chinn Reply Last summer, we unveiled the “beta” version of a new nursing...
Table 2.Anthropometric characteristics, Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Barthel Index (BI), nursing home length of stay, and the number of drugs used by nutritional status. For depression, the results were dichotomized into non-depression and mild-and-severe depression groups. It was found that...