introduction: this study carried out to investigate the causes and motivations of older people residing in nursing home. methods: a qualitative description study was designed by choosing a sample of the elderly residing in a nursing home in tabriz, iran. based on purposive sampling, fifteen residents in the age range of 65-85 participated in the study. data was collected through unstructured in...

OBJECTIVES This report presents information on nursing home residents receiving end-of-life (EOL) care in nursing homes. Residents receiving EOL care are compared with those not receiving EOL care on demographics, functional and cognitive status, reported pain, medications, and diagnoses. Residents receiving EOL care are further categorized by whether they started EOL care on or prior to admiss...

PURPOSE This study determined overall risk and predictors of long-term nursing home admission within the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). DESIGN AND METHODS DataPACE records for 4,646 participants aged 55 years or older who were enrolled in 12 Medicare- and Medicaid-capitated PACE programs during the period from June 1, 1990, to June 30, 1998, were obtained. Participants ...

The introduction of prospective payment system (PPS) based on diagnostic related groups (DRGs) has had a significant impact on hospitals. To determine the impact of PPS on nursing homes, the authors studied the activity of a Veterans Administration teaching nursing home (admissions, acute hospital transfers, and discharges) during 1 year preceding implementation of DRGs and for 3 consecutive ye...

OBJECTIVES Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and caregiver characteristics may influence the decision to provide care at home or in a nursing home, though few studies examine this association near the actual time of nursing home placement. Using a matched case-control design, this study investigates the association between (1) total Neurop...

INTRODUCTION Despite concern that many nursing home residents who become acutely unwell are admitted to hospital for often futile and distressing treatment, no previous studies analysing survival and readmission rates of this cohort were found in the literature. OBJECTIVE To study survival and readmission rates of nursing home patients admitted acutely to general medicine. METHOD Analysis o...

BACKGROUND While risks of disease, hospitalization, and death attributable to lifestyle-related factors such as smoking, inactivity, and obesity have been well studied, their associations with nursing home admission are less well known. These risk factors are usually established by middle age, but nothing is known about how they relate to long-term risk of nursing home admission in this age gro...

BACKGROUND Community-dwelling frail elderly have an increased need for effective medication management to reside in their homes and delay or avoid admission to nursing homes. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the impact of a medication management system on nursing home admission within the community-dwelling frail elderly. METHODS This prospective cohort study compared nu...

BACKGROUND While existing reviews have identified significant predictors of nursing home admission, this meta-analysis attempted to provide more integrated empirical findings to identify predictors. The present study aimed to generate pooled empirical associations for sociodemographic, functional, cognitive, service use, and informal support indicators that predict nursing home admission among ...

OBJECTIVE This study examines whether obese individuals have a greater rate of nursing care facility admission than normal weight individuals. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiological Follow-up Survey were analyzed. Cox proportional hazards models were used to examine the relationship between baseline weight status and subs...