Changing landscape of nursing homes serving residents with dementia and mental illnesses.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Nursing homes (NHs) are serving an increasing proportion of residents with cognitive issues (e.g., dementia) and mental health conditions. This study aims to: (1) implement unsupervised machine learning to cluster NHs based on residents' dementia and mental health conditions; (2) examine NH staffing related to the clusters; and (3) investigate the association of staffing and NH quality (measured by the number of deficiencies and deficiency scores) in each cluster.

Data sources

2009-2017 Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reporting (CASPER) were merged with LTCFocUS.org data on NHs in the United States.

Study design

Unsupervised machine learning algorithm (K-means) clustered NHs based on percent residents with dementia, depression, and serious mental

SUBMITTER: Xu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9108080 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature