Nursing Home Employee and Resident Satisfaction and Resident Care Outcomes

Palliative care for the nursing home resident with dementia.

The prevalence of memory impairment, including dementia, increases exponentially with age. Of people with late-onset dementia, about half have Alzheimer’s, 16% have vascular dementia, and 30% have other forms of dementia.1 Alzheimer’s disease, the most frequent cause of dementia in Western societies, affects an estimated 5 million people in the United States and 17 million worldwide.2 The onset...

Nursing Home Levels of Care: Reimbursement of Resident Specific Costs

The companion paper on nursing home levels of care (Bishop, Plough and Willemain, 1980) recommended a "split-rate" approach to nursing home reimbursement that would distinguish between fixed and variable costs. This paper examines three alternative treatments of the variable cost component of the rate: a two-level system similar to the distinction between skilled and intermediate care facilitie...

National Survey of Resident and Family Satisfaction in Nursing Facilities

as a critical aspect of nursing home care. Providers across the country made a commitment to surveying their customers in 2005, which enabled the release of the first national report on resident and family satisfaction. In 2006, My InnerView conducted satisfaction surveys with residents and families from 2,899 nursing facilities in 50 states and the District of Columbia. This represents a 30% i...

Resident contact with family and friends following nursing home admission.

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...

Attachment B: Encoding Nursing Home Resident Mds Observation and Assessment