Nursing Home

A prevention bundle reduced inflammation, infections and hospitalizations among nursing home residents with peripherally inserted central catheters, according to a study.

There was a “marked decrease” in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among nursing home personnel last season, according to researchers, who attributed the decline to cost and the end of the CMS’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement in mid-2023.

Older adults are most concerned about issues relating to the costs of health care and health insurance heading into the 2024 United States election, a research letter published in JAMA revealed .

The cost-effectiveness of routine COVID-19 testing among nursing home staff depended on the virulence of variants circulating during the time of testing, researchers found.

Smoking, sedentary behavior and physical inactivity were among lifestyle factors linked to increased risk nursing home admissions, a recent study found.

Despite being at greater risk for adverse COVID-19 outcomes, just one in four nursing home residents with COVID-19 received antiviral treatment from May 31, 2021, through the end of 2022, researchers found.

SEATTLE — Antibiotic use in long-term care facilities declined significantly over the course of almost a decade, although there was an uptick in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found.

Aggressive end-of-life care remains common among older individuals with metastatic cancer despite increased efforts over the past several decades to reduce such interventions, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes throughout the last 6 months of 2021 were largely caused by the delta variant, although researchers found that COVID-19 vaccination offered significant protection against infection and death to residents.

Researchers of a study in Kidney Medicine recommend the Dialysis Facility Report use a new nursing home metric that separates short-term from long-term care in order to provide more interpretable results for dialysis stakeholders.