ArticleThe Gerontologist2015
Policies to protect persons with dementia in assisted living: déjà vu all over again?
Article in The Gerontologist, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Governance of Assisted Living in Long-Term Care: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- A Description of Staff-resident Interactions in Assisted Living.Clinical nursing research · 2021Trial
- Compiling Data of Workforce Policies: A Data Compendium About Direct Care Workers Caring for People With Dementia.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- Placing public health onto the Alzheimer's disease and related dementias public policy platform.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Discharge disposition for home health care patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia: The role of living arrangements and rural living.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Exploring the Experiences of Times Without Care and Encounters in Persons With Dementia in the Swiss and German Nursing Home and Domiciliary Care Settings: Protocol for an Ethnographic Multimethods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Do end-of-life outcomes differ by assisted living memory-care designation?Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- A National Typology of Health Service Regulation in Assisted Living.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- The Use of Chemical Control Within Coercive Controlling Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse.Violence against women · 2023Article
- State Variation in Antipsychotic Use Among Assisted Living Residents With Dementia.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2023Observational
- Psychotropic medication prescribing in assisted living and nursing home residents with dementia after the National Partnership.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- Promoting Quality of Life and Safety in Assisted Living: A Survey of State Monitoring and Enforcement Agents.Medical care research and review : MCRR · 2022Article
- Variability and Potential Determinants of Assisted Living State Regulatory Stringency.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021Observational
- Connecting policy to licensed assisted living communities, introducing health services regulatory analysis.Health services research · 2021Article
- State Variability in the Prevalence and Healthcare Utilization of Assisted Living Residents with Dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Observational
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Abstract
Continued growth in the number of individuals with dementia residing in assisted living (AL) raises concerns about their safety and protection. In this Forum, we review current AL practices relevant to residents with dementia and present a rationale for examining the government role in protecting these individuals within this context. Since public oversight of AL is currently a state prerogative, we assess states' regulatory activity across 3 domains closely related to safety and protection of persons with dementia: environmental features, staffing, and use of chemical restraints. We then step back to consider the state policymaking environment and assess the feasibility of developing a minimum standard of regulations from one state to the next. This Forum concludes with a historical comparison between the contemporary AL market and the nursing home care market prior to the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987, and we discuss how an increased amount of federal interest could improve existing state efforts to protect persons with dementia residing in AL.
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