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May 6, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Yap and her co-investigators developed a cost-effective, nurse-led intervention that aimed to reduce the prevalence of pressure ulcers in long-term care facilities through a musical prompting system.
January 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
"We've had classical. We've had rock. We've had country. We've had instrumental. You can see the staff and residents bop their head[s] to different ones," Pam Larimore-Skinner, director of nursing at Signature HealthCare of Trimble County in Bedford ...
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A supportive nursing practice environment is associated with fewer pressure ulcers and fewer deficiency citations in this study of New Jersey nursing homes.
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The Impact of Strategic Adaptation on Nursing Home Performance.
July 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Pain is common among nursing home residents and a key 1990 study found that greater than 70 percent of residents reported pain. In the last 10 years, research has addressed various barriers to pain relief. This new study examined the communication o ...
December 1, 2003 | Journal Article
Assessment of this sample at the 18-month marker was used as the baseline or zero-time for the present study.
March 14, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Nursing home workers face health challenges because of competing work and family demands.
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Kay Branch, MA, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
September 14, 2012 | Story
Expansion of a time-tested initiative, led by Health & Society Scholar Jose Pagan, may save millions while protecting the health of older Americans.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study to determine whether patients with serious mental illness (SMI) are admitted to nursing homes with acceptable quality of care as often as other patients found that patients with SMI were more likely to be admitted to nursing homes with more total and health care-related deficiency citations.