Nursing Home Staff Perspectives of the Benefits and Challenges of Providing Dementia Care.

Objectives: To capture nursing home staff perspectives on the benefits and challenges related to caring for residents living with Alzheimer disease and other related dementias. These perspectives will inform the initial development of strategies to help with staff retention.

Design: A secondary qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews conducted with nursing home staff, which was embedded within a pragmatic clinical trial.

A Cluster Randomized Trial: Mixed Methods Comparison of 2 Approaches to Promote Nonpharmacologic, Resident-Centered Dementia Care in Nursing Homes.

Objectives: Nursing home dementia care initiatives have prioritized nonpharmacologic approaches to manage behavioral symptoms. This study compares the effectiveness of 2 nonpharmacologic approaches on resident outcomes.

Design And Intervention: Cluster randomized controlled trial using a convergent mixed methods design to compare the team-based and problem-based approaches to dementia care.

Comparison of Team-Based and Problem-Based Approaches to Dementia Care in Nursing Homes and Their Effects on Resident Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Objectives: Compare the effectiveness of 2 nonpharmacologic approaches to dementia care in nursing homes on 12- and 18-month resident outcomes, which was after the emergence of COVID-19.

Design And Intervention: A cluster randomized pragmatic trial, which included an embedded convergent mixed-methods design. Nursing homes were randomized to a team-based (TB) or problem-based (PB) intervention arm.

Perspectives of Nursing Home Staff: Application of Dementia Training Approaches.

Non-pharmacological strategies are prioritized to manage dementia-related symptoms in nursing homes (NHs). A multiple-case study design, embedded within a pragmatic trial, examined NH staff perspectives of applying a team-based (TB) or problem-based dementia training program to resident care. A purposive sample of staff was recruited from 23 NHs to participate in one-on-one interviews, which were analyzed using a rapid qualitative approach.

Evaluating non-pharmacological approaches to nursing home dementia care: A protocol.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the daily challenges nursing home (NH) staff face caring for the residents living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (). Non-pharmacological approaches are prioritized over off-label medication to manage the behavioral and psychological symptoms of ADRD. Yet, it is not clear how to best equip NH staff and families with the knowledge and strategies needed to provide non-pharmacological approaches to these residents.

Optimizing Post-Acute Care Patient Safety: A Scoping Review of Multifactorial Fall Prevention Interventions for Older Adults.

Accidental falls are preventable adverse events for older post-acute care (PAC) patients. Yet, due to the functional and medical care needs of this population, there is little guidance to inform multidisciplinary prevention efforts. This scoping review aims to characterize the evidence for multifactorial PAC fall prevention interventions.

Social Networks in an Assisted Living Community: Correlates of Acquaintance and Companionship Ties Among Residents.

Objectives: Social relationships are important for older adults' well-being, including those who live in assisted living (AL) communities. This study explores coresident networks within an AL community and identifies factors associated with residents' social ties.

Methods: Acquaintance and companionship networks within the community are described using cross-sectional survey data (N = 38).

Network Modeling of Assisted Living Facility Residents' Attendance at Programmed Group Activities: Proximity and Social Contextual Correlates of Attendance.

Background And Objectives: Social engagement, including participation in group activities, supports older adults' mental and physical health. However, many residents of assisted living facilities do not participate in their facility's programmed group activities. Explaining residents' attendance at group activities is complex; attendance is associated with a confluence of individual-level and contextual factors.

Stakeholder engagement in research: a scoping review of current evaluation methods.

Evaluating stakeholder engagement can capture what meaningful engagement in research entails, how it develops, and how it is experienced by all collaborators. We conducted a scoping review of recent approaches for evaluating engagement in research and present a descriptive overview of our findings. We searched peer-reviewed journal articles published worldwide in English between January 2013 and June 2018.

Understanding Communication Between Rehabilitation Practitioners and Nurses: Implications for Post-Acute Care Quality.

This study examined post-acute care (PAC) rehabilitation practitioner's perspectives on communication. This is a secondary data analysis of a larger qualitative study, which included PAC rehabilitation provider ( = 99) focus groups that were held in a purposive sample of 13 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Participants emphasized the importance of bidirectional communication between rehabilitation and nursing.

Occupational Therapy Practitioners' Perspectives on Occupation-Based Interventions for Clients With Hip Fracture.

Objective: Occupational engagement is the foundation of occupational therapy. We identified perspectives of 18 occupational therapy practitioners on integrating occupation-based interventions during postacute care (PAC) rehabilitation for persons with hip fracture to identify occupational therapy's distinct contribution.

Method: We conducted six focus groups derived from a purposive national sample of occupational therapy practitioners (N = 18).

Clinicians' Perspectives of Patient Engagement in Post-Acute Care: A Social Ecological Approach.

Aims: To identify rehabilitation providers' perspectives on barriers and facilitators of patient engagement in hip fracture patients in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) within the social ecological model.

Methods: We conducted 13 focus groups in SNFs throughout Los Angeles County comprised of rehabilitation staff (n=99). Focus groups were audio-recorded and transcribed.

Delivering high quality hip fracture rehabilitation: the perspective of occupational and physical therapy practitioners.

Aim: The majority of post-acute hip fracture rehabilitation in the US is delivered in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Currently, there are limited guidelines that equip occupational and physical therapy practitioners with a summary of what constitutes evidence-based high quality rehabilitation. Thus, this study aimed to identify rehabilitation practitioners' perspectives on the practices that constitute high quality hip fracture rehabilitation.

Non-Pharmacological Approaches to Reducing Negative Behavioral Symptoms: A Scoping Review.

The management of negative behavioral symptoms among residents with dementia is a challenge that nursing homes face in delivering quality care. This study examines evidence documenting non-pharmacological interventions that reduce negative behavioral symptoms among nursing home residents with dementia and the role occupational therapy practitioners have in this area. A scoping review was completed for intervention studies published from 1987 to 2014, targeting negative behavioral symptoms among nursing home residents above 60 years of age with dementia.