Quality improvement in long-term care settings: a scoping review of effective strategies used in care homes

NH Chadborn, R Devi, K Hinsliff-Smith… - European Geriatric …, 2021 - Springer
… Finally, to retrieve articles on care homes we included a search approach established … ],
including terms such as “Nursing Home”, “Long-term Care”, “Care Home”, “Residential Home”, “…

Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among older adults in long-term care homes: a systematic review

D Seitz, N Purandare, D Conn - International psychogeriatrics, 2010 - cambridge.org
… (1993) found a 3% prevalence rate of bipolar disorder in a sample of 80 residents in one
public nursing home. Residents of long-term care homes are particularly vulnerable to the …

COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Ontario and British Columbia

M Liu, CJ Maxwell, P Armstrong, M Schwandt, A Moser… - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Long-term care homes program: a review of the plan to create 15,000 new long-term care
beds in Ontario. Toronto: Financial Accountability Office of Ontario; 2019. Available: www.fao-…

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of risk factors for falls among elderly people living in long-term care homes

P Dhargave, R Sendhilkumar - Journal of clinical gerontology and geriatrics, 2016 - Elsevier
… of reduced care, some of them live in long-term care homes.7, … women residing in long-term
care homes compared with … women living in geriatric care homes and to categorize the …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of COVID-19 on residents of Canada's long-term care homes–ongoing challenges and policy response

AT Hsu, N Lane, SK Sinha, J Dunning… - … Long-Term Care Policy …, 2020 - ltccovid.org
… and a lack of consistent reporting of cases in longterm care settings, we have opted not to …
had the earliest publicly reported outbreak in longterm care homes in Canada on March 5th.…

Spanning the know-do gap: understanding knowledge application and capacity in long-term care homes

W Berta, GF Teare, E Gilbart, LS Ginsburg… - Social science & …, 2010 - Elsevier
… emerges within Ontario long-term care (LTC) homes with the … administrative and care staff
within 7 homes differentiated by … clinical staff representing 15 homes not involved in earlier …

Exploring variation in rates of polypharmacy across long term care homes

SE Bronskill, SS Gill, JM Paterson, CM Bell… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - Elsevier
… Our population-based study found that 15% of long term care home residents were dispensed
nine or more drug therapies concurrently. Although drug therapies used to treat chronic …

Who is looking after mom and dad? Unregulated workers in Canadian long-term care homes

CA Estabrooks, JE Squires, HL Carleton… - Canadian Journal on …, 2015 - cambridge.org
… majority of direct care to the frail elderly in nursing homes. We report … care. Our research
question on the current characteristics of the care aide workforce in long term care (LTC) homes

For-profit long-term care homes and the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks and resident deaths

NM Stall, A Jones, KA Brown, PA Rochon, AP Costa - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Long-term care (LTC) homes have become the epicentre of the coronavirus disease … care
homes accounting for more than 80% of the country’s deaths.1 – 3 Residents of LTC homes

Knowledge and perceived competence among nurses caring for the dying in long-term care homes

K Brazil, S Kaasalainen, C McAiney… - … journal of palliative …, 2012 - magonlinelibrary.com
… ‘Promoting palliative care in long-term care homes requires an understanding of the existing
culture of care. Without this understanding, transfer of the principles … will not succeed.’ …