Nursing Home Residents

Long-term care residents with a history of falls, cognitive decline and specific demographic characteristics were at greater likelihood for fall-related hospital transfers than those who did not have the...

COVID-19 mRNA vaccination was 31% effective against infection for nursing home residents who were up to date on their shots between November 2022 and January 2023, according to the CDC’s latest data...

Excessive daytime sleepiness predicts both mortality and the presence of age-related comorbidities in the long-stay nursing home population, investigators report.

There are four distinct pain trajectories experienced by nursing facility residents, according to a new study. Investigators urge clinicians to use the findings to help uncover and treat hidden pain among...

Visits drop steeply across multiple specialties after a nursing home admission, investigators say. For those with severe mental illness, visits fell by a whopping 67%.

Nursing home residents who receive a bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccine show signs of substantial immune system response to omicron variants.

Nursing home residents can tolerate moderate-to-high amounts of physical rehabilitation while ill with COVID-19 in order to improve functional outcomes, researchers say.

Nursing home residents who have received the COVID-19 bivalent booster shot are 30% to 50% less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 than their fellow residents who haven’t gotten boosted, the...

The pro wrestling show put on by Woodland Skilled Nursing in Woodland, CA, might very well be the perfect activity for a nursing home facility.

Long-stay nursing home residents were more depressed during the pandemic and also treated more often with drugs that work on the central nervous system, according to a study across Michigan facilities.