Rehabilitation Therapy for Nursing Home Residents at the End-of-Life.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ultrahigh therapy use has increased in SNFs without concomitant increases in residents' characteristics. It has been suggested that this trend may also have influenced the provision of high-intensity rehabilitation therapies to residents who are at the end of life (EOL). Motivated by lack of evidence, we examined therapy use and intensity among long-stay EOL residents.

Design

An observational study covering a time period 2012-2016.

Setting and participants

New York State nursing homes (N = 647) and their long-stay decedent residents (N = 55,691).

Methods

Data sources included Minimum Data Set assessments, vital statistics, Nursing Home Compare website, LTCfocus, and Area Health Resource File. Therapy intensity in the last month of life was the outcome

SUBMITTER: Temkin-Greener H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491277 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature