ArticleDementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2022
Social Connectedness among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer's and Dementia: Exploring Individual and Facility-Level Variation.
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- Health effects of social connectedness in older adults living in congregate long-term care settings: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence.International journal of older people nursing · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of specialty dementia care units in long-term care settings.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Geographic Variation of Gabapentinoids and Opioids in US Nursing Homes.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2026Article
- Social Connectedness and Successful Nursing Home Discharge After Heart Failure Hospitalization.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2025Article
- Social Connectedness Among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia by Hospice Enrollment.The journal of nursing home research sciences · 2025Article
- Social interaction of people living with dementia in residential long-term care: an ecological momentary assessment study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Differences in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among US nursing home residents with heart failure according to sex and type of heart failure.The clinical respiratory journal · 2023Article
- Functional and Psychosocial Profile of Older People Living in Nursing Homes: Findings from the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionThis study sought to explore individual and facility-level variation in social connectedness among long-stay nursing home residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias (ADRD).
methodsWe identified 721,074 long-stay residents with ADRD using 2016 Minimum Data Set 3.0 data. Social connectedness was defined using the social connectedness index (SCI) (high: SCI = 5, lower: 0 < SCI ≤ 4). Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) provided estimates of the associations between resident-level and facility-level characteristics, and high SCI was derived from logistic models.
resultsThe SCI Cronbach's alpha was 0.69; 78.6% had high SCI scores. Men were less likely than women to have higher SCI scores (aOR = 0.97; 95% CI: 0.97-0.98). Increasing age was associated with higher SCI scores (e.g., aOR [85-94 vs. 40-64 years]: 1.07; 95% CI: 1.06-1.07). Those with moderate cognitive impairment (aOR: 0.87) and severe cognitive impairment (aOR: 0.85) had reduced odds of SCI = 5 relative to those with mild/intact cognitive function. Residents living in homes with special care dementia units and with higher percentage of residents with dementia had decreased odds of high social connectedness. DISCUSSION/
conclusionUnderstanding resident- and nursing home-level variation in social connectedness may be important for targeting interventions that reduce isolation among residents with ADRD.
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