Impact of dementia special care units for short-stay nursing home patients.

Amanda C ChenArnold M EpsteinKaren E Joynt MaddoxDavid C GrabowskiE John OravMichael L Barnett

Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2023)

Self-reported use of dementia care units for short-stay patients was associated with modestly better performance in some, but not all, outcome measures. This provides hypothesis-generating evidence that dementia care units could be a promising mechanism to improve care delivery in nursing homes.

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