Design of living environments for nursing-home residents: increasing participation in recreation activities.

Restorative Care's Effect on Activities of Daily Living Dependency in Long-stay Nursing Home Residents.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY (a) Identify the prevalence of nursing homes providing Medicare supported restorative care programs and of long stay participants, (b) compare characteristics between restorative care participants and nonparticipants, and (c) assess restorative care's effect on change in activities of daily living (ADL) dependency. DESIGN AND METHODS Longitudinal analysis of Minimum Data ...

Nursing Home Residents

Effectiveness of Horticulture Activities on Distress Tolerance and Digit Memory in Older Adults Living in Nursing Home

Background : Today, as a result of increasing the life expectancy, there is a great interest in improving the distress tolerance in older adults. Given that helping to prevent memory loss and distress tolerance are important issues in older adults, the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of horticultural activities on the distress tolerance and digit memory of the older adult...

Measuring change in activities of daily living in nursing home residents with moderate to severe cognitive impairment

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess the responsiveness of the Minimum Data Set Activities of Daily Living (MDS-ADL) Scale to change over time by examining the change in physical function in adults with moderate to severe dementia with no comorbid illness who had been resident in a nursing home for over 90 days. METHODS Longitudinal data were collected on nursing home resident...

Nursing effort and quality of care for nursing home residents.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between nursing home staffing level, care received by individual residents, and resident quality-related care processes and functional outcomes. DESIGN AND METHODS Nurses recorded resident care time for 5,314 residents on 156 units in 105 facilities in four states (Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, and Mississippi). We linked res...