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      Assisted Living and Nursing Homes: Apples and Oranges?

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          The goals of this study are to describe the current state of residential care/assisted living (RC/AL) care and residents in comparison with nursing home (NH) care and residents, identify different types of RC/AL care and residents, and consider how variation in RC/AL case-mix reflects differences in care provision and/or consumer preference.

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          Designing the national resident assessment instrument for nursing homes.

          In response to the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 mandate for the development of a national resident assessment system for nursing facilities, a consortium of professionals developed the first major component of this system, the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for Resident Assessment and Care Screening. A two-state field trial tested the reliability of individual assessment items, the overall performance of the instrument, and the time involved in its application. The trial demonstrated reasonable reliability for 55% of the items and pinpointed redundancy of items and initial design of scales. On the basis of these analyses and clinical input, 40% of the original items were kept, 20% dropped, and 40% altered. The MDS provides a structure and language in which to understand long-term care, design care plans, evaluate quality, and describe the nursing facility population for planning and policy efforts.
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            The MDS Cognition Scale: a valid instrument for identifying and staging nursing home residents with dementia using the minimum data set.

            We report the development and validation of an MDS-based cognitive index, the MDS Cognition Scale (MDS-COGS), by evaluating it against two popular dementia rating scales, the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). A Cross-sectional study. Two hundred nursing home residents. Each study participant was assessed on the GDS and the MMSE by trained medical students. At the same time, but independent of the medical students, a geriatric nurse completed the Minimum Data Set (MDS) instrument on each participant. The Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS), a categorical measure of cognition that uses MDS items, was compared with the GDS in 133 subjects, using a split-sample technique. The GDS was found to be more appropriate as a 4-stage than a 7-stage scale, with GDS stages 1-4 acting as a single stage. The CPS showed very poor percent agreement with GDS stages 5 and 7 (50% or less) and, therefore, was revised by adding other MDS predictors. The new instrument, designated MDS-COGS, is a 0-10 point scale generated from eight MDS cognitive items. The MDS-COGS was then validated against the 4-stage GDS and MMSE in the remaining 67 nursing home residents. Chance-corrected agreement (kappa) between the MDS-COGS and GDS in the 67 subjects was 0.80 (95% CI = 0.70, 0.88), and percent agreement with GDS stages 5 and 7 was 60% and 85%, respectively. The MDS-COGS was also demonstrated to be a valid measure of cognitive impairment as defined by the MMSE, with sensitivity, specificity, chance-corrected agreement (kappa), and area under the ROC curve, all above 0.80. The MDS Cognition Scale, the MDS-COGS, provides a valid measure of the presence and severity of cognitive impairment in nursing home residents using items from the Minimum Data Set.
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              Quality of Life in Assisted Living Homes: A Multidimensional Analysis

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                Journal
                The Gerontologist
                Oxford University Press (OUP)
                1758-5341
                0016-9013
                April 01 2003
                April 01 2003
                : 43
                : suppl_2
                : 107-117
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                10.1093/geront/43.suppl_2.107
                12711731
                7ca4bf91-5472-44bf-b1d5-bca734f69607
                © 2003
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