BACKGROUND Hong Kong's rapidly ageing population, characterised by one of the longest life expectancies and the lowest fertility rate in the world, is likely to drive long-term care (LTC) expenditure higher. This study aims to identify key cost drivers and derive quantitative estimates of Hong Kong's LTC expenditure to 2036. METHODS We parameterised a macro actuarial simulation with data from...

This special issue covers several important topics related to long-term care (LTC) systems and policy development in China. It provides a good contextual background on the of LTC system China as well needs preferences from family older adults’ perspectives. In addition, this topic evaluation recently developed nursing insurance an example caregiving for persons with dementia within Chinese cont...

PURPOSE Physician assistant (PA) students need exposure to a wide range of clinical settings including long-term care (LTC); however, finding consistent educational LTC opportunities is difficult. This article describes a unique, replicable, educational opportunity for PA students to get exposure to the LTC setting by working with a consultant pharmacist. METHODS Pairs of students spent 4 hou...

OBJECTIVE To study the influence of state health care system characteristics on time to nursing home admission (NHA) for persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHOD Up to nine years of Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) data on 639 non-Latino White individuals were merged with longitudinal data from the 28 states in which the CERAD participants resided. The s...

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on long term care (LTC) have been published in literature and experienced by residents, their support persons nursing staff. morbidity mortality, as well threats isolation psychosocial distress continue. Both LTC residents staff experience physiological psychological impacts. Nurses can use current produced to advocate for alternate models reduced residents....

OBJECTIVE To assess challenges in providing palliative care in long-term care (LTC) facilities from the perspective of medical directors. DESIGN Cross-sectional mailed survey. A questionnaire was developed, reviewed, pilot-tested, and sent to 450 medical directors representing 531 LTC facilities. Responses were rated on 2 different 5-point scales. Descriptive analyses were conducted on all re...

BACKGROUND In long-term care (LTC) homes in the province of Ontario, implementation of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment and The Braden Scale for predicting pressure ulcer risk were occurring simultaneously. The purpose of this study was, using available data sources, to develop a bedside MDS-based scale to identify individuals under care at various levels of risk for developing pressure ul...

INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE Influenza and pneumonia remain serious health concerns for long-term care (LTC) residents. Vaccination of LTC residents and health care workers are reasonable preventive strategies, although most facilities fall short of Healthy People 2010 goals. Improving immunization rates across multiple LTC facilities remains an elusive challenge. This quality improvement study s...

Informal care is an important source of long-term care (LTC) for persons with dementia and cognitive impairments. Using the Aging Demographic and Memory Study (ADAMS) dataset this study analyzes a sequence of predisposing, enabling and need factors that jointly predict the amount of informal and formal health care received by individuals with dementia in the US. The „altruistic‟ motivation to p...

OBJECTIVE The Psychosocial Resistance to Activities of Daily Living Index (PRADLI) was developed for psychiatric nurses, geropsychologists, and clinical social workers to assess the level of long-term care (LTC) residents' resistance to and cooperation with staff in performing activities of daily living. DESIGN The PRADLI consists of 8 activities of daily living that commonly trigger a psychi...