ArticleGeriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
The impact of COVID-19 in an assisted living community.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of specialty dementia care units in long-term care settings.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Public Health and Residential Care Facilities: Geriatricians' Roles in the COVID-19 Response and Beyond.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Wastewater-Based Surveillance Reveals the Effectiveness of the First COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns in Assisted Living Facilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Demographic, Clinical, and Quality of Life Profiles of Older People With Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Residential Environment Assessment by Older Adults in Nursing Homes during COVID-19 Outbreak.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- "You gotta have your cry": Administrator and direct care worker experiences of death in assisted living.Journal of aging studies · 2022Article
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to use routinely collected resident assessment data from a single site to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on cognition, physical function and behavioral symptoms of residents with dementia. Specifically, it was hypothesized that controlling for age and sex, there would be a decline in cognition and function and an increase in behavioral symptoms at 12 months post implementation of COVID-19 restrictions. Twelve residents from a single memory care site with required Resident Assessments completed prior to and 12 month post initiation of the pandemic and associated quarantines were included. No significant change was noted in function or behavioral symptoms but there was a statistically significant decline in cognition over the 12 month period. Although this study did not support our hypothesis, the findings supported some prior research also noting little significant change among the majority of individuals over the course of the pandemic regardless of regulations.
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