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Trial reportAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adult Day Services and the Families They Serve.

Lauren J Parker, Katherine Marx, Joseph E Gaugler, Laura N Gitlin

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Advancing the Evidence Base for Adult Day Services: A New Five-Year Research Agenda for 2026-2031.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026
    Article
  3. How did the Sudden Closures of Adult Day Services During COVID-19 Impact Dementia Care Dyads?Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Long-Term Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned.The Nursing clinics of North America · 2023
    Review
  7. Article
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  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lauren J ParkerDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society, 25802Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3143-2979
Katherine Marx15851Center for Innovative Care in Aging, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Joseph E GauglerSchool of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Laura N Gitlin15775College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Funding

Improving Outcomes for Family Caregivers and Older Adults with Complex Conditions: The Adult Day Service Plus ProgramR01AG049692 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GAUGLER, JOSEPH E., GITLIN, LAURA N. · 2016 to 2020
$4.9M
Impact of Adult Day Services on Psychosocial and Physiological Measures of Stress among African American Dementia Family CaregiversK01AG066812 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PARKER, LAUREN · 2021 to 2025
$645k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG066812NIA NIH HHS R01 AG049692
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic forced adult day services (ADS) to close and abruptly end in-person services to clients. To understand the effect of the pandemic on ADS, a 20-item survey was used to examine services provided, staffing, finances, and plans to reopen. Data came from 22 sites participating in the Adult Day Service Plus a national randomized controlled trial. Of the 22 ADS sites responding to the survey, most (86.4%, n = 19) closed due to COVID-19 with nearly half closing due to a state mandate (52.6%, n = 10). Most sites reported the need to furlough or terminate staff (63.6%, n = 14). Services that sites continued to provide included telephone support (n = 22, 100%), delivery of food (n = 8, 36.4%), medical check-ins (n = 9, 40.1%), and activity

Indexed as

COVID-19PandemicsAdultHumansSARS-CoV-2Surveys and QuestionnairesAlzheimer’s disease and related dementiasCOVID-19home- and community-based servicesinterventionssupports

Identifiers

PMID34647482
PMCPMC8745481

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