ArticleThe journal of nursing home research sciences2025
Social Connectedness Among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia by Hospice Enrollment.
Article in The journal of nursing home research sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundNursing home residents with dementia are at risk for social isolation, particularly in the time period preceding death. Whether hospice enrollment affects social connectedness in this vulnerable population is unclear.
objectiveAmong nursing home residents with dementia, to describe the prevalence of social connectedness up to 3 months prior to death and to characterize the association of hospice enrollment with social connectedness. DESIGN SETTING AND
participantsDecedent cohort study of nursing home residents with dementia in the United States who died in 2018. Data sources include the Minimum Data Set 3.0, the Medicare Master Beneficiary Summary File and Hospice files. MEASUREMENTS: Main outcome measure is the Social Connectedness Index, a validated measure of social connection in the nursing home based on behavioral symptoms, wandering and receipt of care (range 0-5; 5=socially connected). Multivariable logistic regression characterizes the association of hospice enrollment with social connectedness.
resultsOf 212,253 nursing home decedents with dementia in 2018, 80.4% (n=170,566) were socially connected (SCI=5). In adjusted analysis, relative to not being enrolled in hospice, enrollment in hospice with an admitting diagnosis of dementia was associated with increased odds of being socially connected (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.20; 95% confidence interval (95%CI) 1.16-1.23) but being in hospice for a primary diagnosis other than dementia was associated with decreased odds of social connectedness (AOR 0.92; 95% CI 0.89-0.94).
conclusionSocial connectedness differed among nursing home decedents with dementia by hospice enrollment. Hospice enrollment plays an important role in quality of life for nursing home residents.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.