Religious Activities, Strength from Faith, and Social Functioning Among African American and White Nursing Home Residents

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Branco
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Religious Activities

Autonomy and social functioning of recently admitted nursing home residents

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 910-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristel Paque ◽  
Katrien Goossens ◽  
Monique Elseviers ◽  
Peter Van Bogaert ◽  
Tinne Dilles
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Nursing Home Residents

scholarly journals Disparities in Nursing Home Use and Quality Among African American, Hispanic, and White Medicare Residents With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez ◽  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Gary Epstein-Lubow ◽  
Kali S. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
African American ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Fee For Service ◽  
Medicare Beneficiaries ◽  
Health Care Equity

Objective: This article examines differences in nursing home use and quality among Medicare beneficiaries, in both Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service, newly admitted to nursing homes with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Method: Retrospective, national, population-based study of Medicare residents newly admitted to nursing homes with ADRD by race and ethnic group. Our analytic sample included 1,302,099 nursing home residents—268,181 with a diagnosis of ADRD—in 13,532 nursing homes from 2014. Results: We found that a larger share of Hispanic Medicare residents that are admitted to nursing homes have ADRD compared with African American and White beneficiaries. Both Hispanics and African Americans with ADRD received care in segregated nursing homes with fewer resources and lower quality of care compared with White residents. Discussion: These results have implications for targeted efforts to achieve health care equity and quality improvement efforts among nursing homes that serve minority patients.

scholarly journals Patterns of preference importance ratings among African-American and White nursing home residents

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 836-836
Author(s):  
Nytasia Hicks ◽  
Katherine Abbott ◽  
Allison Heid ◽  
Kendall Leser ◽  
Kimberly Van Haitsma
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Test Group ◽  
Preference Assessment ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Importance Ratings ◽  
Preference Ratings

Abstract Background: The Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI) was developed to assess the psychosocial preferences of older adults receiving home care (PELI-HC) and then revised for nursing home residents (PELI-NH). While the PELI-HC has been tested to identify patterns in preference ratings by race, the PELI-NH has not. We sought to explore whether the PELI-NH tool captures differences in preference ratings of African-American and White NH residents. Methods: Preference assessment interviews were conducted with NH residents (n = 317). Analysis via a Mann-Whitney U test, results show that 46 of 72 (63.88%) a preference importance items were not statistically different between African-American and White NH residents. Additionally, African-Americans reported greater importance than White older adult NH residents in 26 of 72 (36%) preference importance items. Conclusion/Implications: It appears that the PELI-NH can test group differences in preference importance among African-American and White NH residents; implications for practice will be discussed. Part of a symposium sponsored by the Research in Quality of Care Interest Group.

Hoarding Behavior in the Elderly: A Comparison Between Community-Dwelling Persons and Nursing Home Residents

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia S. Marx ◽  
Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Medical Diagnoses ◽  
Hoarding Behavior ◽  
Diagnosis Of Dementia

Objective: To determine correlates of hoarding behavior in frail elderly persons. Methods: Information about nursing home residents (n = 408) and community-dwelling senior day-care participants (n = 177) was gathered through interviews with family and professional caregivers, medical chart review, and physician examinations, and included the following areas of assessment: hoarding behavior, demographic and health information, level of cognitive functioning, activities of daily living (ADL) performance, depressed affect, social functioning, manifestations of agitated behaviors, and previous stressful life experiences. Results: We found that 15% of the nursing home residents and 25% of the community-dwelling senior day-care participants manifested hoarding behavior at a rate of several times a week or higher. For nursing home residents, hoarding behavior was significantly related to a larger appetite, taking fewer medications, higher social functioning, comparatively less ADL impairment, and manifestations of physically nonaggressive agitated behaviors. For senior day-care participants, hoarding behavior was significantly associated with being female, a larger appetite, comparatively less gait impairment, fewer medical diagnoses, more involvement in activities, a positive diagnosis of dementia, hallucinations, the delusion of infidelity, and manifestations of three syndromes of agitated behaviors. Conclusion: While hoarding behavior in our samples presents differently from compulsive hoarding described in the literature, we obtained robust findings that show that despite differences in living conditions, the elderly persons who manifested hoarding behavior were those with relatively fewer health and functional disabilities. In addition, those who exhibited hoarding behavior also manifested agitated behaviors. We suggest that future researchers develop alternative measures of hoarding behavior so as to further clarify the phenomenon of hoarding behavior in the elderly.

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