Homes for the Aged
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Subject Areas on Research
- A nurse-led interdisciplinary leadership approach targeting pressure ulcer prevention in long-term care.
- A prospective study of outcomes of nursing home residents with chronic kidney disease with and without anemia.
- A randomized trial of a consultation service to reduce falls in nursing homes.
- An economic analysis of external hip protector use in ambulatory nursing facility residents.
- Assaultive behavior in Alzheimer's disease: identifying immediate antecedents during bathing.
- Assuring the adequacy of staffing of long-term care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, and making long-term care a career destination of choice: from mission impossible to mission critical?
- Blood pressure measurements in the nursing home: are they accurate?
- CONNECT for quality: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve fall prevention in nursing homes.
- Caregivers' reasons for nursing home placement: clues for improving discussions with families prior to the transition.
- Comparing families and staff in nursing homes and assisted living: implications for social work practice.
- Daytime observed emotional expressions of people with dementia.
- Dementia in relation to family caregiver involvement and burden in long-term care.
- Development and pilot testing of computerized order entry algorithms for geriatric problems in nursing homes.
- Development of a frailty measure for older adults: the frailty index for elders.
- Development of a test of physical performance for the nursing home setting.
- Do nursing diagnoses affect functional status?
- Dynamics and clinical implications of the nursing home-hospital interface.
- Effectiveness of Expanded Implementation of STAR-VA for Managing Dementia-Related Behaviors Among Veterans.
- Effects of diagnosed dementia on Medicare and Medicaid program costs.
- End-stage renal disease in nursing homes: a systematic review.
- Ensuring vitamin D supplementation in nursing home patients--a quality improvement project.
- Five-year survival in a Program of All-inclusive Care for Elderly compared with alternative institutional and home- and community-based care.
- Forecasting the nursing home population.
- Formation of trusts and spend down to Medicaid.
- Giving and getting support at the Wellness Center.
- Growth of the teaching nursing home. The Veterans Administration experience.
- Higher dietary variety is associated with better nutritional status in frail elderly people.
- Hip and other osteoporotic fractures increase the risk of subsequent fractures in nursing home residents.
- Identifying older people with dementia: the effectiveness of a multiservice census.
- Implementation of Individualized Music in Long-Term Care: Application of the PARiHS Framework.
- Implementing Culture Change in Nursing Homes: An Adaptive Leadership Framework.
- Implementing Frontline Worker-Led Quality Improvement in Nursing Homes: Getting to "How".
- Improving eye care in residential aged care facilities using the Residential Ocular Care (ROC) model: study protocol for a multicentered, prospective, customized, and cluster randomized controlled trial in Australia.
- Informal care and health care use of older adults.
- Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services.
- Inpatient geriatric evaluation and management units (GEMs) in the veterans health system: diamonds in the rough?
- Institutional care for elders in rural China.
- Longitudinal incidence of adverse outcomes of age-related macular degeneration.
- Mealtime difficulties in a home for the aged: not just dysphagia.
- Medicaid spenddown in nursing homes.
- Mental illness in nursing homes.
- Minimal trauma fractures: lifting the specter of misconduct by identifying risk factors and planning for prevention.
- Multidimensional geriatric assessment: back to the future.
- Multidimensional team-based intervention using musical cues to reduce odds of facility-acquired pressure ulcers in long-term care: a paired randomized intervention study.
- Normative Values of Hand Grip Strength for Elderly Singaporeans Aged 60 to 89 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Nurses' perceptions of mental confusion in the elderly: influence of resident and setting characteristics.
- Nursing home length of stay and spenddown in Connecticut, 1977-1986.
- Obesity affects nursing-care facility admission among whites but not blacks.
- Organizing an academic nursing home. Impacts on institutionalized elderly.
- Paramyxovirus Outbreak in a Long-Term Care Facility: The Challenges of Implementing Infection Control Practices in a Congregate Setting.
- Person-Centered Incontinence Care in Residential Care Facilities for Older Adults With Cognitive Decline: Feasibility and Preliminary Effects on Quality of Life and Quality of Care.
- Person-Directed Care Planning in Nursing Homes: Resident, Family, and Staff Perspectives.
- Predictors of nursing home admission in a biracial population.
- Prescribing of psychotropics in elderly nursing home patients.
- Projected use of long-term-care services by enrolled Veterans.
- Projecting the number of older singaporeans with activity of daily living limitations requiring human assistance through 2030.
- Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: the role of children.
- RN participation in organizational decision making and improvements in resident outcomes.
- Randomized trial to improve fracture prevention in nursing home residents.
- Recommendations From the International Consortium on Professional Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care Homes.
- Reducing antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes. A controlled trial of provider education.
- Regulation and mindful resident care in nursing homes.
- Religious coping in the nursing home: a biopsychosocial model.
- Resource allocation and resident outcomes in nursing homes: comparisons between the best and worst.
- Respiratory syncytial virus outbreak in a long-term care facility detected using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction: an argument for real-time detection methods.
- Response to "Obstacles to palliation and end-of-life care in a long-term care facility".
- Risk factors for hip fracture in skilled nursing facilities: who should be evaluated?
- Self-reported ageism in social work practitioners and students.
- Studying acute confusion in long-term care: clinical investigation or secondary data analysis using the minimum data set?
- Surgery for hip fracture yields societal benefits that exceed the direct medical costs.
- The Boston FICSIT study: the effects of resistance training and nutritional supplementation on physical frailty in the oldest old.
- The effect of weight change on nursing care facility admission in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Survey.
- The safety of warfarin therapy in the nursing home setting.
- The use of mental health measures in nursing home research.
- The use of the Minimum Data Set to identify depression in the elderly.
- Treating vitamin D deficiency in long-term care: it should be done yesterday, but how?
- Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care?
- [Benzodiazepines consumption and risk of dependence in institutionalized geriatric patients].
- [Development of the role of an Advanced Practice Nurse in the long-term care of elderly people in Switzerland].
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Keywords of People
- Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
- McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing