Connect-Home: Transitional Care of Skilled Nursing Facility Patients and their Caregivers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older adults that transfer from skilled nursing facilities (SNF) to home have significant risk for poor outcomes. Transitional care of SNF patients (i.e., time-limited services to ensure coordination and continuity of care) is poorly understood.

Objective

To determine the feasibility and relevance of the Connect-Home transitional care intervention, and to compare preparedness for discharge between comparison and intervention dyads.

Design

A non-randomized, historically controlled design-enrolling dyads of SNF patients and their family caregivers.

Setting

Three SNFs in the Southeastern United States.

Participants

Intervention dyads received Connect-Home; comparison dyads received usual discharge planning. Of 173 recruited dyads, 145 transferred

SUBMITTER: Toles M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666578 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature