The survey aims to capture the voices of frontline staff working in long-term care settings during the pandemic and to understand their experiences, in order to help others on the front lines and inform national discussion of long-term care needs, such as personal protective equipment.
On April 22, 2020, Matthias Hoben, RN Dr. rer. medic., presented "Improving Nursing Home Care Through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data: The INFORM cluster-randomized controlled trial."
Results from a new report suggest that tuned lighting had a positive effect on nursing center residents’ sleep in Q&I's feasibility study of programmable, tunable LED lighting.
The presentation, available on-demand on Vimeo, focused on using the Readiness Assessment for Pragmatic Trials (RAPT) model to assess an intervention's readiness for an embedded pragmatic clinical trial.
Federal grant from the National Institute on Aging will fund a collaborative research incubator to support trials across the nation aimed at improving care for people living with dementia.
Brown and Veterans Affairs research says veterans who were homeless differ in important ways from those who were not homeless before nursing center admission, which may have important implications for staff caring for this population.
Research shows that the incidence of hip fracture among long-stay skilled nursing center residents varies markedly according to race, which may have implications for providers targeting interventions.