Functional Improvement Among Short-Stay Nursing Home Residents in the MDS 3.0

Antipsychotic use among nursing home residents.

in the contemporary era, in a trial of 45 852 patients with acute MI, neither a composite outcome of death, reinfarction, or cardiac arrest nor death was significantly reduced by metoprolol compared with placebo. More recent trials suggest that long-term -blocker use is not a necessity for patients without heart failure. While it is true that many patients were excluded from the propensity scor...

Measuring depression in nursing home residents with the MDS and GDS: an observational psychometric study

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to examine the Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) as measures of depression among nursing home residents. METHODS The data for this study were baseline, pre-intervention assessment data from a research study involving nine nursing homes and 704 residents in Massachusetts. Trained research nurses assessed residents using the M...

Nursing Home Residents

Functional decline in nursing home residents: A prognostic study

AIM To verify the probability of maintaining functional capacity in basic activities of daily living and identify the prognostic factors of functional decline in institutionalized older adults. METHODS A longitudinal study is presented herein, with 5 waves every 6 months, throughout 2 years (2013-2015), conducted with individuals ≥60 years old in 10 nursing homes in the city of Natal-RN (Braz...

Home from home: residents' opinions of nursing homes and long-stay wards.

OBJECTIVE To compare the levels of satisfaction expressed by residents of nursing homes with those of patients in geriatric long-stay wards. DESIGN A structured satisfaction questionnaire containing 37 closed and two open questions was used to elicit responses from residents of nursing homes in the former South West Thames Regional Health Authority area. This was compared with a similar surve...