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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"SNFs"”.
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Virtual Visitation: Promoting Social Occupations in Dementia Care
… two thirds of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) residents in the United States have some form of cognitive impairment such as dementia (Gaugler, et.al, 2014). Care practices in SNFs highlighting safety and therapeutic exercises may further isolate and decrease social opportunities, which …
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Translated Evidence-Based Mental Health Toolkit for Skilled Nursing Facilities
… Feng, & Mor, 2009). Residents who live in SNFs may experience limited access to meaningful occupations. The SNFs’ institutionalized structure may perpetuate a lack of autonomy and stigma for residents with a SMI (Sullivan & Williams, 2017). Occupational therapy (OT) services provided in a …
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Examining Readiness for Patients and Their Companions to Transfer From Hospitals to Skilled Nursing Facilities in Saudi Arabia
… from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). It aimed to identify factors that influence this readiness and provide suggestions for making transitions easier.</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Maintaining chronic patients' ability to transition from hospitals to SNFs is critical for …
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Holistic Occupational Therapy Dining Interventions Supporting Individuals with Dementia in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… care and often noisy, crowded communal dining in SNFs contribute to challenges associated with facilitating an individualized dining experience (Milte et al., 2017). Despite the ability of OTPs to improve the occupational performance of IwD in important activities of daily living, like dining, …
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Post-acute care transitions for adults with serious mental illness
… data from a nationally representative survey of SNFs and their two top volume hospital partners to examine whether information sharing and retrieval practices differ based on SNF willingness to accept patients with complex mental and behavioral health conditions. I find that SNFs who are more …
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Using Matching Methods From Both Fisher's Experimental Design and Rubin's Causal Model to Compare Between Two Medical Facilities with Extremely Skewed Number of Subjects
… (IRFs) or in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Due to inclusion and exclusion criteria, however, the study had failed to recruit sufficient number of participants between two comparison groups: 319 from IRFs and 27 from SNFs. As a result, the main hypothesis of the study was not tested …
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Training Program for Occupational Therapists Working with Skilled Caregivers in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… often referred to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for around-the-clock care to receive support for their everyday challenges brought on by dementia symptoms. Although certified nursing assistants (CNAs) help IwD with everyday self-care tasks, they frequently lack specialized dementia care …
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Occupation-Based Volunteer Training Program to Increase Social Engagement for Residents with Dementia in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… often admitted into skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) due to greater need for care (Alzheimer’s Association, 2020b). Admittance leads to social isolation as a result of decreased engagement in co-occupations. Co-occupations are occupations, or meaningful activities necessary for wellbeing and …
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Assessment of the Measurement Properties of the NHCAHPS Family Survey: A Rasch Scaling Approach
… of quality that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are required to assess and report. The SNF setting has not yet been mandated to implement CAHPS for Nursing Homes (NHCAHPS). Given the critical implications (e.g., comparisons of SNFs on NHCAHPS scores) and decisions resulting from performance …
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A mixed-methods exploration of death exposure in certified nursing assistants: moderating factors and implications
… care in skilled nursing home facilities (SNFs), and often develop close, family-like relationships with their residents. With SNFs becoming an increasingly common place of death for older adults, CNAs now find themselves engaging in end-of-life caregiving without proper training, or …
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Supporting Dining Occupations for Dementia Residents in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… Dining provides skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a practice guideline and training resources for caregivers. The program is informed by existing research on environmental modifications, both physical and social, to enhance the occupations of feeding, eating, and dining for individuals …
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Creating Focused Occupational Therapy Interventions for Clients with Heart Failure in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… pathway for occupational therapists (OT) within SNFs, in order to address patient barriers and improve the quality of care.</p>
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Formal Dementia Care Training Program: Abilities Care Experts™
… trained and 16 non-ACE™ trained, from two Ensign SNFs.</p> <p>Measurements: Participants completed a survey battery measuring key factors associated with quality of care: 1) knowledge 2) attitudes 3) self-efficacy and 4) job satisfaction.</p> <p>Results: Compared to non-ACE™ trained participants, …
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Examination of discharge settings and readmission rates following hospitalization for total knee arthroplasty
… settings include skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and home- and community-based rehabilitation. We used Medicare data from beneficiaries who received TKA to examine 1) time trends in hospital discharge settings and 30-day readmission rates by discharge setting, 2) predictors of hospital …
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Occupation-Based CNA Program to Build Caregiver Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in Dementia Care
… (IwD) who reside in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). CNAs are also expected to know how to provide person-centered and occupation-based care while managing challenging behaviors of IwD without formal training which become sources of strain and stress for CNAs and often leads to feelings of …