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In this paper, we examine the association between caregiver staffing levels and mental health outcomes in approximately 17,000 U.S. nursing homes. As outcomes, we focus on deficiency citations available in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Online Survey, Certification, And Recording da...
Nursing homes provide various levels of health care for their residents around the clock. In a nursing home, residents have 24-hour supervision and help with everyday activities such as having meals, using the restroom, bathing, and getting dressed. Nursing home care is for people with many t...
Nursing home patients with serious mental illness (SMI) tend to command a high level of medical and end-of-life services, in addition to their apparent need for psychiatric care. Advance care plans document a person's wishes regarding treatment choices or identify a proxy for healthcare decision...
Recent opinion suggests that the facto mental-health policy in this country is institutionalization, rhetoric to the contrary notwithstanding. The nursing-home industry is the center of that policy. More patients with chronic may reside in, and more mental-health money may go to, nursing homes tha...
The Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987 requires nursing homes to provide basic mental health services for all residents and to give active mental health treatment, a set of specialized mental health services, to those residents who are admitted with a serious mental illness. This article examines the...
The prevalence of mental health disorders among nursing home residents has been noted. The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics among nursing homes serving residents with a mental health history. A retrospective, cross-sectional design was conducted using the 2003 national Online Survey...
Hospital psychiatric staffs can effectively share their expertise with nursing homes. One hospital's psychiatric out-reach program has reduced patient management problems at participating nursing homes, improved patients and staff morale, changed staff attitudes, garnered physician support, and extended serv...
HEALTH self-carePSYCHOLOGYObjective: To investigate the status quo and correlation of resilience and self-care ability of the elderly living in nursing home, and to explore the influence of mental resilience on self-care ability. Methods: A total of 237 ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the mental health and related factors with family caregivers for the elderly in special-care nursing homes for the aged.We conducted a questionnaire survey among family caregivers for elderly living in three special-care nursing homes in Tokyo. The question...