Homes for the Aged

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Day in the Life during COVID-19: Long-term Care Providers in Durham, North Carolina. 
  • 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 clinical trial of theory-based activities for the behavioral symptoms of dementia in nursing home residents. 
  • 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 test of physical performance for the nursing home setting. 
  • Do nursing diagnoses affect functional status? 
  • Editorial: Nursing Homes and Long Term Care after COVID-19: A New Era? 
  • Effectiveness of Expanded Implementation of STAR-VA for Managing Dementia-Related Behaviors Among Veterans. 
  • Effectiveness of an innovative and comprehensive eye care model for individuals in residential care facilities: results of the residential ocular care (ROC) multicentred randomised controlled trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Forecasting the nursing home population. 
  • Formation of trusts and spend down to Medicaid. 
  • Giving and getting support at the Wellness Center. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Institutional care for elders in rural China. 
  • Living Arrangements of Older Adults and COVID-19 Risk: It Is Not Just Nursing Homes. 
  • Longitudinal incidence of adverse outcomes of age-related macular degeneration. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Nursing home length of stay and spenddown in Connecticut, 1977-1986. 
  • Obesity affects nursing-care facility admission among whites but not blacks. 
  • 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. 
  • Resident Challenges With Pain and Functional Limitations in Chinese Residential Care Facilities. 
  • 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 trial to reduce antimicrobial use in nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • 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? 
  • Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States. 
  • Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 
  • [Benzodiazepines consumption and risk of dependence in institutionalized geriatric patients]. 
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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