There is a high rate of functional dependency and “dramatic” one-year functional decline among nursing home residents, a new study finds. A strong nursing workforce and the onsite presence of clinical ...

Higher functional independence scores correlate with a greater likelihood of returning home after inpatient traumatic brain injury care.

Using the SEER-Medicare database linked with Minimum Data Set assessments, we identified patients age 65 years and older with NSCLC who received care in nursing homes from 2011 to 2015. We used Cox ...

October 14, 2009 — In nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), starting dialysis is linked to functional decline, according to the results of an uncontrolled study reported in the ...

Annalisa Na directs the Functional Aging and Mobility Research Laboratory to explore the interactions of multimorbidity diseases on functional outcomes in older adults. Her work attempts to understand ...

Many older patients with advanced lung cancer have functional limitations and require skilled nursing home care. Function, assessed using activities of daily living (ADL) scores, may help ...