BACKGROUND As the population ages, a greater demand for long-term care services and, in particular, nursing homes is expected. Policy analysts continue to search for alternative, less costly forms of care for the elderly and have attempted to develop programs to delay or prevent nursing-home entry. Health care administrators require information for planning the future demand for nursing-home se...

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 Japan has the highest aging population in the world and promotion of home health services is an urgent policy issue. As home-visit nursing plays a major role in home health services, the Japanese government began promotion of this activity in 1994. However, the scale of home-visit nursing agencies has remained small (the average numbers of nursing staff and other staff were 4.2 and 1...

BACKGROUND Due to demographic ageing and increasing life expectancy, a growing demand for long-term nursing home care can be expected. Stays in nursing homes appear to be more socially determined than hospital stays. We therefore looked at the impact of socio-demographic and health care variables on the length of the last nursing home stay. METHODS Nationwide individual data from nursing home...

OBJECTIVES Nationwide among nursing home residents, receipt of the influenza vaccine is 8 to 9 percentage points lower among blacks than among whites. The objective of this study was to determine if the national inequity in vaccination is because of the characteristics of facilities and/or residents. DESIGN Cross-sectional study with multilevel modeling. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS States in w...

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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 ...

A recent countrywide MRSA spa-type 1081 outbreak in The Netherlands predominantly affected nursing homes, generating questions on how infection spreads within and between nursing homes despite a low national prevalence. Since the transfer of residents between nursing homes is uncommon in The Netherlands, we hypothesized that staff exchange plays an important role in transmission. This explorato...

OBJECTIVE Previous research suggests that a shortage of nursing home beds in Latino communities and segregation within facilities in urban settings may contribute to low utilization patterns that both Latino and African American elders exhibit. In order to explore structural barriers to nursing home care for African American and Latino families, this study examines the supply and ethnoracial co...

BACKGROUND It is currently estimated that the resident population of individuals over the age of 65 living in nursing homes will double by 2020. Nearly one-third of all nursing home residents have difficulty seeing or hearing, 46% have some form of dementia, and 30-84% of those with dementia in nursing homes show some form of agitation. Nursing home residents who do not receive appropriate audi...