Long-Term Care

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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 cost-minimization analysis of dexmedetomidine compared with midazolam for long-term sedation in the intensive care unit. 
  • A longitudinal study of functional change and mortality in the United States. 
  • A multidimensional approach to case mix for home health services. 
  • A multivariate analysis of disability and health, and its change over time in the National Channeling Demonstration data. 
  • A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation. 
  • A pilot-feasibility study of measuring emotional expression during oral care. 
  • A quality improvement program to enhance after-hours telephone communication between nurses and physicians in a long-term care facility. 
  • A research agenda for ageing in China in the 21st century (2nd edition): Focusing on basic and translational research, long-term care, policy and social networks. 
  • A response to representatives from the social HMOs regarding program evaluation. 
  • Academic-practice partnerships to promote evidence-based practice in long-term care: oral hygiene care practices as an exemplar. 
  • Accumulation of health disorders as a systemic measure of aging: Findings from the NLTCS data. 
  • Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: a multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed cohorts, 1982-1996. 
  • Addressing Hearing and Vision Impairment in Long-Term Care: An Important and Often-Neglected Care Priority. 
  • Adherence to self-quarantine recommendations during an outbreak of norovirus infection. 
  • Advancing our diagnostic tools and treatment options for delirium. 
  • After-hours calls from long-term care facilities in a geriatric medicine training program. 
  • Age and persistent use of cardiovascular medication after acute coronary syndrome: results from medication applied and sustained over time. 
  • An Evidence-Based Cue-Selection Guide and Logic Model to Improve Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Long-term Care. 
  • An advanced course in long term care for geriatric medicine fellows. 
  • An inverse association between self-reported arthritis and mortality in the elderly: findings from the national long-term care survey. 
  • Analysis of late infections in 89 long-term survivors of bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Analysis of the North Carolina long-term care polypharmacy initiative: a multiple-cohort approach using propensity-score matching for both evaluation and targeting. 
  • Arterial compliance in adolescents and young adults receiving chronic hemodialysis. 
  • Ascertainment, classification, and impact of neoplasm detection during prolonged treatment with dual antiplatelet therapy with prasugrel vs. clopidogrel following acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Assessing the Sustainability of Long-Term Care Insurance Systems Based on a Policy-Population-Economy Complex System: The Case Study of China. 
  • Assessing the comparative value of sedatives in the intensive care unit. 
  • Association between APOE epsilon 2/epsilon 3/epsilon 4 polymorphism and disability severity in a national long-term care survey sample. 
  • Association of Medicaid Expansion Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act With Use of Long-term Care. 
  • Association of Nondisease-Specific Problems with Mortality, Long-Term Care, and Functional Impairment among Older Adults Who Require Skilled Nursing Care after Dialysis Initiation. 
  • 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? 
  • Augmentation of sertraline with prolonged exposure in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Barriers to providing osteoporosis care in skilled nursing facilities: perceptions of medical directors and directors of nursing. 
  • Benefits and drawbacks to hormone replacement therapy among nursing home patients. 
  • Beyond the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: ethical and economic implications of the exclusion of disability, long-term care and life insurance. 
  • COVID-19: The Time for Collaboration Between Long-Term Services and Supports, Health Care Systems, and Public Health Is Now. 
  • Caring for Alzheimer's. Treating behavior as a symptom of illness. 
  • Catastrophic acute and long-term care costs: risks faced by disabled elderly persons. 
  • Catheter access for hemodialysis: an overview. 
  • Changes in health, mortality, and disability and their impact on long-term care needs. 
  • Changes in home care use by disabled elderly persons: 1982-1994. 
  • Changes in the use of personal assistance and special equipment from 1982 to 1989: results from the 1982 and 1989 NLTCS. 
  • Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982-1994. 
  • Clinical Update on Nursing Home Medicine: 2017. 
  • Community-Based Long-Term Care Services: If We Build It, Will They Come? 
  • Comparison Study of Braden Scale and Time-to-Erythema Measures in Long-term Care. 
  • Comparison of two long-term chemotherapy regimens, with or without agents to modify skeletal repair, in multiple myeloma. 
  • Complexity theory: a long-term care specialty practice exemplar for the education of advanced practice nurses. 
  • Continuing care retirement communities: prospects for reducing institutional long-term care. 
  • Contrasting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in Veterans Affairs and community nursing homes. 
  • Coping, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, and Burnout in Long-Term Care Nursing Staff: A Preliminary Study. 
  • Daytime observed emotional expressions of people with dementia. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Dementia in relation to family caregiver involvement and burden in long-term care. 
  • Design and evaluation of leukaemia trials. 
  • Developing a person-centered, population based measure of "home time": Perspectives of older patients and unpaid caregivers. 
  • Development and implementation of the TrAC (Tracking After-hours Calls) database: a tool to collect longitudinal data on after-hours telephone calls in long-term care. 
  • Developmental mediation of genetic variation in response to the Fast Track prevention program. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Difficult behaviors in long-term care patients with dementia. 
  • Diffusion of innovations in long-term care measurement battery. 
  • Disability trends in gender and race groups of early retirement ages in the USA. 
  • Do United States-based Medicaid spend-down programmes make public sense for persons with HIV/AIDS? 
  • Do nurse-led skill training interventions affect informal caregivers' out-of-pocket expenditures? 
  • Does Medicaid pay more to a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) than for fee-for-service long-term care? 
  • Drivers of Long-Term Care Considerations by Persons With Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Drug therapy team review in a long-term care facility. 
  • Drug use management in board and care facilities. 
  • ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation: The Task Force for the management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). 
  • Eating Difficulties among Older Adults with Dementia in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review. 
  • Editorial: Nursing Homes and Long Term Care after COVID-19: A New Era? 
  • Effect of Alzheimer disease on the cost of treating other diseases. 
  • Efficacy of sertraline in preventing relapse of posttraumatic stress disorder: results of a 28-week double-blind, placebo-controlled study. 
  • Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies. 
  • Epidemiology of cardiorenal syndrome. 
  • Essential Long-Term Care Workers Commonly Hold Second Jobs and Double- or Triple-Duty Caregiving Roles. 
  • Evaluating long-term care demonstrations in real time with study design and plan performance interactions. 
  • Evaluating persistent pain in long term care residents: what role for pain maps? 
  • Evaluation of the Nursing Culture Assessment Tool for Pressure Injury Prevention: A Mixed-methods Study. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines for weaning and discontinuing ventilatory support: a collective task force facilitated by the American College of Chest Physicians; the American Association for Respiratory Care; and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • Evidence-based ventilator weaning and discontinuation. 
  • Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure social integration among older adults in assisted living. 
  • Factors associated with eating performance in older adults with dementia in long-term care facilities: a cross-sectional study 
  • Factors associated with health discussion network size and composition among elderly recipients of long-term services and supports. 
  • Family-supportive supervisor behaviour positively affects work behaviour and nonwork well-being among men in long-term care. 
  • Feasibility of a Mobile Meal Assistance Program for Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care Facilities in South Korea 
  • Financial counseling for families of children with chronic disabilities. 
  • Fluid intake and hydration: critical indicators of nursing home quality. 
  • Fluoxetine in child and adolescent depression: acute and maintenance treatment. 
  • Fracture Reduction Affects Medicare Economics (FRAME): impact of increased osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment. 
  • Functionally and medically defined subgroups of nursing home populations. 
  • Future trends in chronic disability and institutionalization: implications for long-term care needs. 
  • Gerotechnology for Older Adults With Cardiovascular Diseases: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. 
  • Glucocorticoid treatment for the prevention of scoliosis in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: long-term follow-up. 
  • Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor use and medical costs after initial adjuvant chemotherapy in older patients with early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Health Information Technology in Long-Term Care: Potential for the Future. 
  • Health care for childhood cancer survivors: insights and perspectives from a Delphi panel of young adult survivors of childhood cancer. 
  • Hip Fracture in the Elderly Patients: A Sentinel Event. 
  • Home care expenses for the disabled elderly. 
  • Identifying optimal dosage regimes under safety constraints: An application to long term opioid treatment of chronic pain. 
  • Identifying treatment effects of an informal caregiver education intervention to increase days in the community and decrease caregiver distress: a machine-learning secondary analysis of subgroup effects in the HI-FIVES randomized clinical trial. 
  • Implementation of Individualized Music in Long-Term Care: Application of the PARiHS Framework. 
  • Implications of long-term care capacity response policies for an aging population: a simulation analysis. 
  • Improving Care for Older Adults in China: Development of Long-Term Care Policy and System. 
  • Improving Oral Hygiene for Veterans With Dementia in Residential Long-term Care. 
  • Improving Prediction of Long-Term Care Utilization Through Patient-Reported Measures: Cross-Sectional Analysis of High-Need U.S. Veterans Affairs Patients. 
  • Improving dementia care through behavioral interventions. 
  • Increasing healthcare resource utilization after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the United States. 
  • Inequities in access to VA'S aid and attendance enhanced pension benefit to help Veterans pay for long-term care. 
  • Informal social status among coworkers and risk of work-related injury among nurse aides in long-term care. 
  • Injuries and assaults in a long-term psychiatric care facility: an epidemiologic study. 
  • Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services. 
  • Institutional care for elders in rural China. 
  • Inter-disciplinary focus groups on telephone medicine: a quality improvement initiative. 
  • International consensus statement on major depressive disorder. 
  • Interorganizational Context When Implementing Multisector Partnered Programs: A Qualitative Analysis of Veteran Directed Care. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and confidence regarding infections and antimicrobial stewardship: a survey of Veterans Affairs providers who care for older adults. 
  • Licensed practical nurse scope of practice and quality of nursing home care. 
  • Long-Term Care Staff Perspectives on the Care of Persons Living With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic in São Paulo State, Brazil. 
  • Long-Term Impact of an Electronic Health Record-Enabled, Team-Based, and Scalable Population Health Strategy Based on the Chronic Care Model. 
  • Long-term cardiovascular effects of mixed amphetamine salts extended release in adults with ADHD. 
  • Long-term care arrangements in rural China: review of recent developments. 
  • Long-term care for people treated for cancer during childhood and adolescence. 
  • Long-term care in North Carolina. 
  • Long-term care service mix in the Veterans Health Administration after home care expansion. 
  • Long-term care, Medicaid, and impoverishment of the elderly. 
  • Long-term outcome of simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplantation: analysis of 61 patients with more than 5 years follow-up. 
  • Long-term oxygen therapy: conference summary. 
  • Long-term recovery profile of patients with severe disability or in vegetative states following severe primary intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Long-term safety and clinical acceptability of venlafaxine and imipramine in outpatients with major depression. 
  • Long-term safety and efficacy of continuous intrathecal baclofen. 
  • Long-term tolerability and efficacy of lamotrigine in infants 1 to 24 months old. 
  • Longitudinal Changes in Nursing Home Resident-Reported Quality of Life: The Role of Facility Characteristics. 
  • Lung transplantation after long-term mechanical ventilation : results and 1-year follow-up. 
  • Management of osteoporosis among home health and long-term care patients with a prior fracture. 
  • Management of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation: report of a NAMDRC consensus conference. 
  • Mathematical models and clinical care of nursing home patients. 
  • Measuring nursing care time and tasks in long-term services and supports: one size does not fit all. 
  • Measuring the quality of dying in long-term care. 
  • Medicaid spenddown in nursing homes. 
  • Medical and economic implications of prolonged mechanical ventilation and expedited post-acute care. 
  • Medicare cost effects of recent U.S. disability trends in the elderly: future implications. 
  • Models of cancer survivorship health care: moving forward. 
  • Morbidity, disability, and long-term care of the elderly: implications for insurance financing. 
  • Multidimensional team-based intervention using musical cues to reduce odds of facility-acquired pressure ulcers in long-term care: a paired randomized intervention study. 
  • Myopathy in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children receiving long-term zidovudine therapy. 
  • National trends in vertebral augmentation procedures for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. 
  • Natural history of change in physical function among long-stay nursing home residents. 
  • Nightly treatment of primary insomnia with eszopiclone for six months: effect on sleep, quality of life, and work limitations. 
  • No Hugs Allowed: Isolation and Inequity in North Carolina Long-term Services and Supports During COVID-19. 
  • Nursing home reform and the mentally ill. 
  • Nutrition therapy and critical illness: practical guidance for the ICU, post-ICU, and long-term convalescence phases. 
  • Older Adults Post-Incarceration: Restructuring Long-term Services and Supports in the Time of COVID-19. 
  • Older Black Lesbians' Needs and Expectations in Relation to Long-Term Care Facility Use. 
  • Older Residents' Perspectives of Long-Term Care Facilities in China. 
  • Outcome research on residential treatment: implications and suggested directions. 
  • Oxygen therapy and exercise response in lung disease. 
  • Pain and psychological well-being among people with dementia in long-term care. 
  • Paramyxovirus Outbreak in a Long-Term Care Facility: The Challenges of Implementing Infection Control Practices in a Congregate Setting. 
  • Perceived Empowerment, Social Support, and Quality of Life Among Chinese Older Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities. 
  • Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Complications in Children Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT). 
  • Permanent pacemaker use among patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: Findings from the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) National Registry. 
  • Persistent use of psychotropic drugs in nursing home residents in Norway. 
  • Planning long-term care for heterogeneous older populations. 
  • Pragmatic Trials in Long-Term Care: Research Challenges and Potential Solutions in Relation to Key Areas of Care. 
  • Pragmatic Trials in Long-Term Care: Research Challenges and Potential Solutions in Relation to Key Areas of Care. 
  • Pragmatic trials in long-term care: Research challenges and potential solutions in relation to key areas of care. 
  • Predicting 10-year care requirements for older people with suspected Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Predictors of discharges to a nursing home in a hospital-based cohort. 
  • Preferences versus practice: life-sustaining treatments in last months of life in long-term care. 
  • Primary Care Networks and Starfield's 4Cs: A Case for Enhanced Chronic Disease Management. 
  • Projected use of long-term-care services by enrolled Veterans. 
  • Projecting Long-Term Care Costs for Home and Community-Based Services in China from 2005 to 2050. 
  • Projecting the effects of long-term care policy on the labor market participation of primary informal family caregivers of elderly with disability: insights from a dynamic simulation model. 
  • Projecting the number of older singaporeans with activity of daily living limitations requiring human assistance through 2030. 
  • Projection of young-old and old-old with functional disability: does accounting for the changing educational composition of the elderly population make a difference? 
  • Proxy response patterns among the aged: effects on estimates of health status and medical care utilization from the 1982-1984 long-term care surveys. 
  • Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Recent changes in service use patterns of disabled Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Recommendations From the International Consortium on Professional Nursing Practice in Long-Term Care Homes. 
  • Recommendations for Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long-Term Care Settings Through Collaboration. 
  • Recovery of in vivo cellular immunity after human marrow grafting. Influence of time postgrafting and acute graft-versus-host disease. 
  • Reducing polypharmacy: evidence from a simple quality improvement initiative. 
  • Registered Nurse Migration to the United States and the Impact on Long-Term Care. 
  • Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for Clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and acute care hospitalization and long-term care use by older patients. 
  • Report on milestones for care and support under the U.S. National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Resident Challenges With Pain and Functional Limitations in Chinese Residential Care Facilities. 
  • Resident challenges with daily life in Chinese long-term care facilities: A qualitative pilot study. 
  • Response to "Obstacles to palliation and end-of-life care in a long-term care facility". 
  • Results of a Veterans Affairs employee education program on antimicrobial stewardship for older adults. 
  • Risks and benefits of bladder antimuscarinics among elderly residents of Veterans Affairs Community Living Centers. 
  • Safety and efficacy of escitalopram in the long-term treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. 
  • Setting Priorities to Inform Assessment of Care Homes' Readiness to Participate in Healthcare Innovation: A Systematic Mapping Review and Consensus Process. 
  • Simulating the impact of long-term care policy on family eldercare hours. 
  • Single case study. Complementary effects of phenelzine and psychotherapy in long term treatment of depression. 
  • Social/health maintenance organization and fee-for-service health outcomes over time. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Special care units for people with Alzheimer's disease. Only for the privileged few? 
  • Special care units for persons with dementia. 
  • Special care units: a typology of care settings for memory-impaired older adults. 
  • Strategic Patient Discharge: the Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals. 
  • Strategies and tactics in the management of maintenance treatment for depressed patients. 
  • Studying acute confusion in long-term care: clinical investigation or secondary data analysis using the minimum data set? 
  • Suicide attempt in young people: a signal for long-term health care and social needs. 
  • Supervisory relationships in long-term care facilities: A comparative case study of two facilities using complexity science. 
  • Supporting and promoting personhood in long term care settings: contextual factors. 
  • Surgery for hip fracture yields societal benefits that exceed the direct medical costs. 
  • Surgical implantation of the Jarvik-5 total artificial heart in a calf. 
  • Survivorship care planning and its influence on long-term patient-reported outcomes among colorectal and lung cancer survivors: the CanCORS disease-free survivor follow-up study. 
  • Sustaining complex interventions in long-term care: a qualitative study of direct care staff and managers. 
  • Teaching Chinese health care professionals about community-based long-term care (CBLTC) in China. 
  • The AMDA Foundation Futures Program: inspiring the next generation of postacute and long-term care medical directors. 
  • The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons. 
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Isolation in Long-term Care Homes: Perspectives of Policies and Strategies from Six Countries. 
  • The Impact of Long-Term Care Policy on the Percentage of Older Adults With Disabilities Cared for by Family Members in China: A System Dynamics Simulation. 
  • The Landscape of State Policies Supporting Family Caregivers as Aligned With the National Academy of Medicine Recommendations. 
  • The Long-Term Oxygen Treatment Trial for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Rationale, Design, and Lessons Learned. 
  • The association of oral hydroxyurea therapy with improved cognitive functioning in sickle cell disease 
  • The effect of function-focused care on long-term care workers in South Korea. 
  • The effect of nursing home use on Medicaid eligibility. 
  • The effects of technological advances on outcomes for elderly persons with exudative age-related macular degeneration. 
  • The epidemiology of chronic critical illness in the United States*. 
  • The long-term treatment of panic disorder. 
  • The relative effect of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, disability, and comorbidities on cost of care for elderly persons. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • The role of cardiac morbidity in short- and long-term mortality in injured older patients who survive initial resuscitation. 
  • There is a mismatch between the medicare benefit package and the preferences of patients with cancer and their caregivers. 
  • Ticagrelor Versus Clopidogrel in Patients With STEMI Treated With Fibrinolysis: TREAT Trial. 
  • Tonight's Sleep Predicts Tomorrow's Fatigue: A Daily Diary Study of Long-Term Care Employees With Nonwork Caregiving Roles. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Cognitive Impairment and Institutional Care. 
  • Toward Common Data Elements for International Research in Long-term Care Homes: Advancing Person-Centered Care. 
  • Treating vitamin D deficiency in long-term care: it should be done yesterday, but how? 
  • Trends in survival and recovery from stroke: evidence from the National Long-Term Care Survey/Medicare data. 
  • Uncovering the Devaluation of Nursing Home Staff During COVID-19: Are We Fuelling the Next Health Care Crisis? 
  • Understanding Health and Social Challenges for Aging and Long-Term Care in China. 
  • Understanding the Context for Long-Term Care Planning. 
  • Update on teaching in the long-term care setting. 
  • Urinary diversion in the genitourinary cancer survivor. 
  • Urinary tract infections in long-term care residents. 
  • Use of Medicare services before and after introduction of the prospective payment system. 
  • Use of a handheld computer observational tool to improve communication for care planning and psychosocial well-being. 
  • Use of phenelzine in continuation therapy. 
  • Using the jigsaw cooperative learning method to teach medical students about long-term and postacute care. 
  • Veterans Health Administration Models of Community-Based Long-Term Care: State of the Science. 
  • What COVID-19 Innovations Can Teach Us About Improving Quality of Life in Long-Term Care. 
  • What do medical students learn when they follow patients from hospital to community? A longitudinal qualitative study. 
  • What is the marginal benefit of payment-induced family care? Impact on Medicaid spending and health of care recipients. 
  • Would a nursing home physician specialty resolve the workforce crisis in long-term care? 
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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, School of Nursing
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Van Houtven, Courtney Harold, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Yap, Tracey L., Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society