ISSUES IN HOME CARE AND CAREGIVING ARE MEDICAL FOSTER HOMES SERVING VETERANS WHO HAVE SIMILAR FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT AS TYPICAL NURSING HOME RESIDENTS?

Disruptive behaviors in Veterans Affairs nursing home residents: how different are residents with serious mental illness?

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and correlates of behavior problems of residents of Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing homes and to compare residents with serious mental illness (SMI) with other resident groups. DESIGN This study combined cross-sectional resident assessments with administrative data for all residents in VA nursing homes. Multivariate ordinal logistic regression was used to ...

Nutritional Status and Related Factors in Elderly Nursing Home Residents

Introduction: A challenge for health care providers is that there will be a distinct rise globally in the number of elderly people aged 80 years and over. Malnutrition is a well-known problem among elderly people. The aim of this study was to determine nutritional status and its associated risk factors in elderly nursing home residents in Tehran, Iran.  Methods: The cross-sectional st...

Choosing an adult foster home or a nursing home: residents' perceptions about decision making and control.

Representative samples of 260 Oregon foster care residents and 179 cognitively intact nursing home residents were queried retrospectively about the nature and circumstances surrounding their decision to move to a foster care or nursing home, including the alternatives they considered, the circumstances leading to the move, their perception of the decision-making process and who influenced it, t...

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...

Nursing Home Residents