BACKGROUND Since many hospitals report high MRSA colonization rates among elderly patients, and because it has been shown that S. aureus colonization increases with advancing age, there are concerns about the introduction of MRSA into nursing homes by MRSA positive patients discharged from hospital. So far, admission screening and subsequent longitudinal screening in residence homes or screenin...

Statistics on nursing homes by original purpose of building, admission policy, certification status, cost per resident day, attending physicians, type of supervising staff, rehabilitation services, waiting lists, training programs, room capacity, and bed capacity. Based on data collected in the 1973-74 National Nursing Home Survey.

PURPOSE This study explored factors that are related to the level of contact (number of visits and calls) between newly admitted nursing home residents and their family and friends. In addition to reexamining factors studied previously, several new factors were explored: contact level prior to nursing home placement, dementia status, and resident race. DESIGN AND METHODS Interviews were condu...

OBJECTIVES To (1) identify social and rehabilitation predictors of nursing home placement, (2) investigate the association between effectiveness and efficiency in rehabilitation and nursing home placement of patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation from 1996 to 2005 by disease in Singapore. DESIGN National data were retrospectively extracted from medical records of community hospital. ...

BACKGROUND Regarding demographic changes in Germany it can be assumed that the number of elderly and the resulting need for long term care is increasing in the near future. It is not only an individual's interest but also of public concern to avoid a nursing home admission. Current evidence indicates that preventive home visits can be an effective way to reduce the admission rate in this way ma...

BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers are a major problem, especially in nursing home patients, although they are regarded as preventable and there are many pressure relieving methods and materials. One such pressure relieving material is the recently developed Australian Medical Sheepskin, which has been shown in two randomized controlled trials 12 to be an effective intervention in the prevention of sac...

BACKGROUND Ambulatory geriatric rehabilitation (AGR) is a community based outpatient intervention which aims to improve physical function, maintain independent living of geriatric patients, avoiding hospitalisation and institutionalisation. It should therefore reduce health care costs. The objective of our study is to evaluate the effectiveness of AGR for frail elderly patients insured by the s...

OBJECTIVES There is evidence of notable improvement in active life expectancy among older Americans. Little is known, however, about the effect of better health on lifetime nursing home use. The purpose of this study was to address this gap in our knowledge. METHODS Discrete-time hazard models of nursing home admission and discharge were developed using data from the 1982, 1984, and 1989 Nati...

OBJECTIVE This report presents the sociodemographic characteristics, functional dependencies in the activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL), dental status, primary admission diagnosis, types of services used, and source of payment of elderly nursing home residents. METHODS The data used for this report are from the National Center for Health Statist...