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When people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias stop taking long-term opioid therapy (LTOT), they have a lower chance for short- and long-term worsening pain and depressive symptoms compared to [...]

Nursing homes that screen residents for excess daytime sleepiness (EDS) may be able to predict mortality risk, a new study finds. The condition is also linked with age-related comorbidities in [...]

A new report gives details about how nursing home administrators handled the challenges that came with supporting residents with https://www.mcknights.com/news/clinical-news/study-excess-deaths-fell-among-facility-residents-with-dementia-in-year-2-of-pandemic/ during the COVID-19 pandemic. The https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.18634 was published Thursday in [...]

2023 SEP 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Current study results on antibiotics have been published. According to news originating [...]

A recent study found that using probiotics and antibiotics for Clostridioides difficile is safe and effective. The https://academic.oup.com/jacamr/article/5/5/dlad102/7261100?login=false was published in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance on Sept. 6. People living in nursing [...]

The use of physical therapy following a fall-related injury significantly reduces the rate of serious new injuries, related opioid use and healthcare costs among falls-prone patients, a new study has [...]

COVID-19 cases fell across 81 nursing homes fitted with new air purification technology, highlighting the part air quality interventions can play in supporting infection control measures, a new study has [...]

Nursing home workers should be trained to provide specific care for dementia patients, whose presence in nursing homes is growing, according to new research. The study, published in Health Affairs [...]

Investigators who tracked the use of COVID-19 medications in nursing homes describe prescribing patterns that “fluctuated dramatically” over time, shedding new light on the ups and downs of clinical care [...]

Most nursing home clinicians do not include sodium/glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2Is) in their diabetes treatment toolkit, a new study has found. But use of the glucose-lowering drugs is growing in [...]

A new study in more than 17,000 nursing home residents has found that a booster vaccination plus prior COVID-19 infection increased protection against severe COVID-19 outcomes in this population. This [...]

Shifting nursing home culture from “deny and defend” to “disclosure and apology” when medical mistakes are made can improve job satisfaction and help stem burnout among employees, according to new [...]

2023 FEB 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators publish new report on antimicrobial resistance. According to news reporting out [...]

Cancer patients in nursing homes receive more aggressive end-of-life care than their community-dwelling peers, despite an increased emphasis on reducing treatments that compromise quality of life, a new study has [...]

A positive relationship has been demonstrated between nurse staffing and care quality. However, the extent of this relationship has been sparsely studied in long-term care facilities. This examination found proximal density to nurse education resources positively influences nursing home quality outcomes, except one rating variable, health inspection. Additional analysis confirmed principal findings that the nature of this relationship is sensitive to healthcare facilities in locations of high or low resource densities. This report builds on a previous study to better understand the relationship between nurse education resources and care quality by considering the role of proximal density to nurse education resources., The long-term supply of nurses in the United States has focused on several key determinants of supply, including cost, quality, and availability of nurse education programs (Jones, 2004; Mukamel et [...]

Nursing home residents who receive a bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine show signs of substantial immune system response to SARS-CoV-2, including omicron variants, federal researchers have found. The findings offer evidence [...]

2022 DEC 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- A new study on family medicine is now available. According to news [...]

Nursing home administrators stressed about their industry’s sustainability due to the costs of responding to COVID-19, lost revenue, and the negative portrayal of nursing homes by the media, found a [...]

The oldest nursing home residents derive significant protection against future SARS-CoV-2 infections when they have had a past infection and are vaccinated against COVID-19, a new study finds. These factors [...]

BACKGROUND: Long-term care (LTC) homes have been the epicentre of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada to date. Previous research shows that for-profit LTC homes deliver inferior care across a variety of outcome and process measures, raising the question of whether for-profit homes have had worse COVID-19 outcomes than nonprofit homes. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all LTC homes in Ontario, Canada, from Mar. 29 to May 20, 2020, using a COVID-19 outbreak database maintained by the Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care. We used hierarchical logistic and count-based methods to model the associations between profit status of LTC homes (for-profit, nonprofit or municipal) and COVID-19 outbreaks in LTC homes, the extent of COVID-19 out breaks (number of residents infected), and deaths of residents from COVID-19. RESULTS: The analysis included all 623 Ontario LTC homes, comprising 75 676 residents; 360 LTC homes (57.7%) were for profit, 162 (26.0%) were nonprofit, and 101 (16.2%) were municipal homes. There were 190 (30.5%) outbreaks of COVID-19 in LTC homes, involving 5218 residents and resulting in 1452 deaths, with an overall case fatality rate of 27.8%. The odds of a COVID-19 outbreak were associated with the incidence of COVID-19 in the public health unit region surrounding an LTC home (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.91, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.19-3.05), the number of residents (adjusted OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.18-1.61), and older design standards of the home (adjusted OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.01-2.38), but not profit status. For-profit status was associated with both the extent of an outbreak in an LTC home (adjusted risk ratio [RR] 1.96, 95% CI 1.26-3.05) and the number of resident deaths (adjusted RR 1.78, 95% CI 1.03-3.07), compared with nonprofit homes. These associations were mediated by a higher prevalence of older design standards in for-profit LTC homes and chain ownership. INTERPRETATION: For-profit status is associated with the extent of an outbreak of COVID-19 in LTC homes and the number of resident deaths, but not the likelihood of outbreaks. Differences between for-profit and nonprofit homes are largely explained by older design standards and chain ownership, which should be a focus of infection control efforts and future policy., Long-term care (LTC) homes have become the epicentre of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Canada, with residents of these care homes accounting for more than 80% of the [...]