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The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey [PDF]
I examine the effect of pharmaceutical innovation on the functional status of nursing home residents using cross-sectional, patient-level data from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey. This was the first public-use survey of nursing homes that contains
Frank R. Lichtenberg
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Vermont's Choices for Care Medicaid Long-Term Services Waiver: Progress and Challenges as the Program Concluded Its Third Year [PDF]
, 2008 Based on case study interviews and state data, evaluates the impact of a waiver introduced in 2005 to improve Medicaid beneficiaries' access to home and community-based services while reducing the use of nursing home care and controlling ...
Jeffrey S. Crowley, Molly O'Malley
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IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2019 Orthostatic hypertension (OHT) is a rarely described clinical entity. OHT is characterized by a significant and rapid increase in blood pressure when a person assumes an upright posture.
M.K. Bansal +3 more
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Implementing Tiny Tusks: Breastfeeding and Infant Support Tent [PDF]
, 2020 Tiny Tusks: Breastfeeding and Infant Support Tent provided the first designated clean, private area to nurse, pump or change an infant’s diaper at University of Arkansas home athletic events. Tiny Tusks offered comfortable rocking chairs, changing tables,
Wiche, Madeline
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Kidney Medicine, 2023 Rationale & Objective: Compared to the original nursing home status (any nursing home stay in the previous calendar year), new nursing home status variables were developed to improve the risk adjustment of Standardized Mortality/Hospitalization Ratio
Shu Chen +6 more
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Perceptions of Humanoid Robots in Caregiving: A Study of Skilled Nursing Home and Long Term Care Administrators [PDF]
arXivAs the aging population increases and the shortage of healthcare workers increases, the need to examine other means for caring for the aging population increases. One such means is the use of humanoid robots to care for social, emotional, and physical wellbeing of the people above 65. Understanding skilled and long term care nursing home administrators'
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An investigation of the discriminant power and dimensionality of items used for assessing health condition of elderly people [PDF]
arXiv, 2010 With reference to the questionnaire adopted within the Italian project "Ulisse" to assess health condition of elderly people, we investigate two important issues: discriminant power and actual number of dimensions measured by the items composing the questionnaire.
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, 2005 Invitation for students to make holiday decorations for senior citizens living in Vernon Hall Nursing Home in ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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Item selection by Latent Class-based methods [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 The evaluation of nursing homes is usually based on the administration of questionnaires made of a large number of polytomous items. In such a context, the Latent Class (LC) model represents a useful tool for clustering subjects in homogenous groups corresponding to different degrees of impairment of the health conditions.
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