Rehabilitation Therapy for Nursing Home Residents at the End-of-Life

Rehabilitation Therapy for Nursing Home Residents at the End-of-Life

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Publication type: 
Journal Article
Year: 
2019
Journal/Series title: 
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Volume number: 
20
Issue: 
4
Pages: 
476-480.e1
ISSN/ISBN: 
1525-8610
Abstract: 

ObjectiveUltrahigh therapy use has increased in SNFs without concomitant increases in residents' characteristics. It has been suggested that this trend may also have influenced the provision of high-intensity rehabilitation therapies to residents who are at the end of life (EOL). Motivated by lack of evidence, we examined therapy use and intensity among long-stay EOL residents.