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ArticleHealth affairs scholar2025

What happens behind closed doors? Investigating care practices in nursing home and assisted living memory care units.

Amy E Elliot, John R Bowblis, Ian Nelson, Heather Menne

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Article in Health affairs scholar, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Amy E ElliotScripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9732-2324
John R BowblisScripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4776-4182
Ian NelsonScripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8615-7704
Heather MenneScripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8342-341X

Funding

Alzheimer's Special Care Units in Nursing Homes: Racial and Ethnic Disparities, Resident Outcomes, and State PoliciesR01AG087296 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Huiwen Xu · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG087296
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the United States, long-term care providers, such as nursing homes and assisted living communities, are meeting consumer demand through housing and care options designed to support the growing population of people living with dementia. One approach to providing dementia care is the development of "memory care units" within existing nursing homes and assisted living communities. Memory care units provide a setting more tailored to the cognitive and functional abilities of these individuals. There is emerging evidence about the optimum strategies for memory care environments; however, little is known about the implementation, prevalence, and quality of practice-and environment-based strategies-in memory care units. This article provides insight into the prevalence of memory care unit practices using data from Ohio. The analysis points to policy and practice opportunities to address the quality of life and care for people living with dementia.

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assisted livingdementialong-term carememory care practicesmemory care unitnursing home

Identifiers

PMID40040650
PMCPMC11878529

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