Perceived Effects of COVID-19 on Occupational Engagement Among Skilled Nursing Facility Residents With Mild to Moderate Cognitive Deficits

Hospital readmission of skilled nursing facility residents: a systematic review.

Hospital readmission of patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is common and costly with increasing public attention over the past decade, particularly in light of the new health care environment surrounding the advent of the Affordable Care Act. The purpose of the current systematic review is to critically examine prevalence, predictors, and costs of hospital readmission of S...

Economic burden of herpes zoster among skilled nursing facility residents in the United States.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate health care resource use and direct medical costs attributable to herpes zoster (HZ) among elderly residents of skilled nursing facilities (SNF). METHODS This was a retrospective matched cohort study using data from 300 SNF in the United States. A total of 404 patients with HZ were matched with 1616 patients with no documented HZ or post-herpetic neuralgia using propens...

COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: The Problematic Management of Residents Without Positive COVID-19 RT-PCR

Reminiscence Group Therapy on Depression and Apathy in Nursing Home Residents With Mild-to-moderate Dementia

The elderly population of Taiwan is rapidly increasing, currently accounting for 10.4% of the population,1 and has been predicted to increase to 20% of the population by the year 2025.2 Dementia, a progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disorder, is becoming an increasingly important health issue in countries with Background/Purpose: Individuals with mild-to-moderate dementia often exhi...

The transiency of oropharyngeal colonization with gram-negative bacilli in residents of a skilled nursing facility.

To determine the duration and persistence of gram-negative bacillary (GNB) oropharyngeal colonization over a specified period and the risk of subsequent GNB pneumonia developing in nursing home patients, we prospectively cultured for 31 weeks the oropharynges of patients in a skilled nursing facility. Over a 31-week period, an average of 13.8 percent of the patients showed colonization (weekly ...