BACKGROUND The physician-patient interview is the key component of all health care,
particularly of primary medical care. This review sought to evaluate existing primary-care-based …

Background. Almost all nursing homes in the United States are required by the 1987 Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act to assess each resident's functional, medical, psychosocial, …

… PD patients are severely disabled by stage 3 of the disease, which roughly corresponds in
functional status to moderate/severe AD (18); the introduction of levadopa and other agents …

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of two nonpharmacological techniques in reducing
agitation, aggression, and discomfort in nursing home residents with dementia. The techniques …

Purpose: Considering the increasing proportion of residents in long-term care who have
dementia, and the important influence that direct care providers have on resident quality of life, …

Dizziness is prevalent in all adult populations, causing considerable morbidity and utilization
of health services. In the community, the prevalence of dizziness ranges from 1.8% in …

OBJECTIVES: Determine the relationship between a broad array of structure and process
elements of nursing home care and (a) resident infection and (b) hospitalization for infection. …

OBJECTIVE: We report the development and validation of an MDS‐based cognitive index,
the MDS Cognition Scale (MDS‐COGS), by evaluating it against two popular dementia rating …

Purpose: There are few empirical studies relating components of long-term care to quality of
life for residents with dementia. This study relates elements of dementia care in residential …

Purpose: The goals of this study are to describe the current state of residential care/assisted
living (RC/AL) care and residents in comparison with nursing home (NH) care and residents, …