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Bhattacharyya KK, Molinari V, Black K, Whitbourne SK. Creating age-friendly nursing homes: The time is now. GERONTOLOGY & GERIATRICS EDUCATION 2023; 44:613-630. [PMID: 35950627 DOI: 10.1080/02701960.2022.2106981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The current global age-friendly movement supports older adults by promoting different policies and services. However, there is a dearth of attention to nursing home (NH) residents as part of age-friendly movements. The pioneering idea of an age-friendly health system, i.e., the "4 Ms" model is significant for NHs and formative for further developments; however, it does not identify unique components of NH care. This article aims to identify specific aspects of person-centered care in the literature to advance the development of a standardized conceptual framework. Along with residents, NH staff and administrators are integral parts of NHs. Incorporating the central role of caregivers, this study proposes a new "8 Ms" framework to describe the age-friendly NH. The traditional 4 Ms model notes that everything related to care matters to residents, along with care related to medication, mobility, and mentation. The proposed age-friendly framework introduces five additional "M," i.e., meaningful care, motivation, moderation, modification, and monitoring. This framework is proposed to advance education, training, clinical practice, research, and advocacy to promote quality of care in NHs. Application of the 8 Ms framework may yield multiple benefits, assuring good quality of care to residents, caregivers' job satisfaction, and supporting NH management in providing residents optimal care.
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- Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya
- School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
- College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona, Florida, USA
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- School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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Pankhurst M, Yaxley A, Miller M. Identification and Critical Appraisal of Food Service Satisfaction Questionnaires for Use in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review. J Acad Nutr Diet 2021; 121:1793-1812.e1. [PMID: 34219048 DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2021.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Food service provision in nursing homes is a complex, adaptive system through which multiple stakeholders interface. Organizational stakeholders include staff involved in preparing and delivering meals. Consumer stakeholders are the end users including residents and family. Questionnaires can be an economical and efficient method of measuring food service satisfaction in nursing homes and a powerful quality improvement tool. OBJECTIVE (1) To identify questionnaires that measure food service satisfaction of various stakeholders in a nursing homes and (2) to critically appraise the psychometric properties of identified questionnaires. METHODS Five electronic databases were searched (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Medline, ProQuest, Scopus, and Cochrane) in April 2020. Data from the eligible studies were extracted, and the psychometric properties were critically appraised using the Consensus-Based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments. RESULTS This review identified 129 studies that used a questionnaire to measure food service satisfaction in nursing homes. Of those, 107 studies representing 75 unique general nursing home satisfaction questionnaires were excluded for failing to adequately explore aspects related to food service. From the remaining 22 studies, 7 food service satisfaction questionnaires were identified; 5 intended for consumers (residents) and 2 intended for organizational stakeholders (staff). Using the Consensus-Based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments quality criteria, most questionnaires had flaws in content validity and construct validity, primarily due to small sample sizes. No questionnaires explored food service satisfaction from the family perspective. CONCLUSIONS Nursing homes collect satisfaction information for accreditation, marketing, benchmarking, and quality improvement. Although questionnaires are easy to administer, the quality of the data they collect is impacted by the validity and reliability of the questionnaires used. Using unreliable satisfaction data may mean that nursing homes are not accurately able to understand the impact of changes in the system on stakeholder satisfaction.
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Bhattacharyya KK, Molinari V, Hyer K. Self-Reported Satisfaction of Older Adult Residents in Nursing Homes: Development of a Conceptual Framework. THE GERONTOLOGIST 2021; 62:e442-e456. [PMID: 33979428 DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnab061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Resident satisfaction is an integral part of nursing home (NH) quality of care. However, there is no uniform categorization framework to classify self-reported satisfaction of older adult residents in NHs. This scoping review systematically investigated the studies reporting data on older residents' satisfaction to evaluate the quality of NH service and to create a conceptual model for older residents' satisfaction. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used Donabedian's structure-process-outcome model as a theoretical framework. In three electronic databases (PubMed, Scopus, and CINAHL), potential studies were searched using specific inclusion criteria identifying original studies that investigated older adult residents' satisfaction in NHs. RESULTS Fifteen studies, including 264,133 residents and 15,577 NHs, were selected for this review. Although a wide variety of resident satisfaction measures were used in the included studies, all these indicators reflect five primary domains: Psychological, Clinical, Social, Environmental, and Spiritual, with the common focus of improving the quality of life of residents. Though technical competence is a fundamental aspect of healthcare service, we found autonomy, environment, meaningful activities, and interpersonal quality of professionals as the most important predictors for the resident's satisfaction. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS The current review has synthesized a broad range of satisfaction measures, which will help future researchers and policymakers provide guidance for further improvement of NH care services and as a heuristic device to spur research. Future research is needed to apply this conceptual framework for comparisons of self-reported resident satisfaction in other institutional settings across countries.
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- Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya
- School of Aging Studies, Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- School of Aging Studies, Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- School of Aging Studies, Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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The relation between older adults’ trust beliefs in nursing home carers and adjustment to residential care. AGEING & SOCIETY 2021. [DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x21000301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The study examined the relation between older adults’ trust beliefs in nursing home carers (NHCs) and adjustment to residential care. Seventy-six older adults (mean age = 83 years, standard deviation = 7 years from UK nursing homes completed standardised scales of trust beliefs in NHCs and adjustment to residential care (satisfaction with care-giving, social engagement in the nursing home, loneliness and a latent measure). As expected, trust beliefs in NHCs were linearly associated with adjustment to residential care on all measures. There were quadratic relations between trust beliefs in NHCs and on given measures of adjustment to residential care (latent measure, satisfaction with care-giving and loneliness). Adults with very high and those with very low trust beliefs in NHCs showed depressed levels on those measures of adjustment to residential care relative to older adults with the middle range of trust beliefs. The research highlights the importance of older adults’ trust beliefs in NHCs for adjustment to nursing homes. The findings show though, that older adults who hold very high, as well those who hold very low, trust beliefs in NHCs are at risk for lower levels of adjustment.
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Castle NG, Gifford D, Schwartz LB. The CoreQ: Development and Testing of a Nursing Facility Resident Satisfaction Survey. J Appl Gerontol 2020; 40:629-637. [PMID: 32723121 DOI: 10.1177/0733464820940871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The development and testing of a nursing facility resident satisfaction survey (i.e., CoreQ) that could be used for public reporting purposes is presented here. This is important as very little satisfaction with care information is publicly available for nursing facility consumers. Validity testing is reported detailing the development of the CoreQ: Short Stay Discharge questionnaire and a measure that was calculated from the items in the questionnaire. This questionnaire resulted in four items whose combined score gives a measure representing participants' overall satisfaction with the nursing facility. The measure parsimoniously reports this satisfaction as a score (ranging from 0 to 100) and was recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The measure may have significance for report cards and payment metrics, as it incorporates the consumers' opinion.
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- Nicholas G Castle
- West Virginia University School of Public Health (Rm 3824), Morgantown, USA
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- American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, Washington, DC, USA
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- American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, Washington, DC, USA
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Bangerter LR, Abbott K, Heid A, Eshraghi K, Van Haitsma K. Using spontaneous commentary of nursing home residents to develop resident-centered measurement tools: A case study. Geriatr Nurs 2017; 38:548-550. [PMID: 28579080 DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Revised: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nursing home (NH) residents routinely complete surveys that assess their health, well-being, preferences, and care needs. Such surveys reveal important information, however, are largely based on the concerns of providers as opposed to the concerns of residents. Thus, researchers must enhance efforts to ensure that these surveys are guided by the priorities, needs, and concerns of residents. We present a case study to demonstrate how spontaneous commentary of NH residents holds particular efficacy for ensuring that measurement tools are guided by the needs, concerns, and priorities of residents. Spontaneous comments from NH residents (N = 370) collected as part of a study developing the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory for NH residents (PELI-NH) were used to refine the PELI-NH across key phases of measurement development. This work demonstrates how the spontaneous commentary of NH residents may contribute to the refinement of NH measurement tools, and allow researchers to base these tools on the needs and priorities of NH residents.
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- Lauren R Bangerter
- Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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- The Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.
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- The New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA.
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- The Abramson Center for Jewish Life, North Wales, PA 19454, USA.
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- The College of Nursing, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Shippee TP, Hong H, Henning-Smith C, Kane RL. Longitudinal Changes in Nursing Home Resident-Reported Quality of Life: The Role of Facility Characteristics. Res Aging 2015; 37:555-80. [PMID: 25651583 PMCID: PMC9907636 DOI: 10.1177/0164027514545975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Improving quality of nursing homes (NHs) is a major social priority, yet few studies examine the role of facility characteristics for residents' quality of life (QOL). This study goes beyond cross-sectional analyses by examining the predictors of NH residents' QOL on the facility level over time. We used three data sources, namely resident interviews using a multidimensional measure of QOL collected in all Medicaid-certified NHs in Minnesota (N = 369), resident clinical data from the minimum data set, and facility-level characteristics. We examined change in six QOL domains from 2007 to 2010, using random coefficient models. Eighty-one facilities improved across most domains and 85 facilities declined. Size, staffing levels (especially activities staff), and resident case mix are some of the most salient predictors of QOL over time, but predictors differ by facility performance status. Understanding the predictors of facility QOL over time can help identify facility characteristics most appropriate for targeting with policy and programmatic interventions.
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- Tetyana P. Shippee
- Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Baldacchino DR, Bonello L. Anxiety and depression in care homes in Malta and Australia: part 2. BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING (MARK ALLEN PUBLISHING) 2013; 22:780-785. [PMID: 24261094 DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2013.22.13.780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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This cross-sectional comparative study, conducted in two phases, assessed the levels of and factors contributing to anxiety and depression in older people in residential homes in Malta and Australia. Part 1 presented the methodology of this cross-sectional study and presented the quantitative findings; this constituted phase 1. Part 2 presents the qualitative findings on the contributing factors to anxiety and depression and discusses the overall findings. Maltese residents were recruited from four church homes in Malta and Australia and two state residences in Malta; there was a high response rate in phase 2 of 89.4% (n=42, mean age 71.9 years). The residents were all mobile Roman Catholics who had lived in the homes for a minimum of 6 months. Data was collected using audiotaped focus groups. The qualitative data generated three contributing factors: physical functional abilities, adaptation to institutionalisation, and personal outlook towards the future. Mobility was found to foster an active life, which appeared to help residents to control their anxiety and depression. Rehabilitation programmes and facilitation of strategies were recommended to strengthen relationships with family members, room mates, health professionals and pets to help residents live meaningfully. Further cross-cultural longitudinal research would identify the role of other influencing variables such as culture, spirituality and caring relationships.
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Chang CH, Lu MS, Lin TE, Chen CH. The Effectiveness of Visual Art on Environment in Nursing Home. J Nurs Scholarsh 2013; 45:107-15. [DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Chia-Hsiu Chang
- Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
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Durkin DW, Umayam SP, Sims N, Cleeton P, Simmons SF. Whom Do Veteran Nursing Home Residents Prefer to Talk to About Satisfaction With Care?: Implications for Nursing Staff. J Gerontol Nurs 2012. [DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20121109-01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Chin L, Quine S. Common factors that enhance the quality of life for women living in their own homes or in aged care facilities. J Women Aging 2012; 24:269-79. [PMID: 23098042 DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2012.650605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A qualitative study of older women living in their own homes and older women living in aged care facilities found that the concerns of the women living in their own homes were the realities of life for the residents in the aged care facilities. Twenty-five female residents across two facilities and 11 older women living in their own homes were interviewed. The positive outcomes of aging at home are relevant and desirable for residents of aged care facilities. A smooth transition from community living to residential aged care involves retaining some of these positive aspects of their lives.
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- Lee Chin
- School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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Stodel EJ, Chambers LW. Assessing satisfaction with care in long-term care homes: current and best practices. Healthc Manage Forum 2006; 19:45-52. [PMID: 17128734 DOI: 10.1016/s0840-4704(10)60154-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Given the increased call for accountability and quality of care in long-term care, it is important that government and long-term care provider organizations contemplate resident and family satisfaction with long-term care. This article highlights important considerations and provides practical recommendations for conducting satisfaction surveys in long-term care homes in terms of content, method of implementation and analysis, and use of findings. We conclude by recommending three surveys worthy of consideration by the government and long-term care provider organizations in Canada.
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- Emma J Stodel
- Elisabeth Bruyère Research Institute, SCO Health Service and the University of Ottawa
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