Tag: Nursing Homes / Elder Care

From late December to early February, new cases among U.S. nursing home residents fell by more than 80 percent

Nursing homes with lowest versus highest proportion of White residents have higher COVID-19 death counts

Median of 77.8 percent of residents and 37.5 percent of staff members per facility received one or more doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Although worker turnover in the nursing home industry has always been high, the pandemic has worsened the problem

Rates of COVID-19 increased during June and July, followed by decline through mid-September, increase by late November

Increased age, male sex, impaired cognitive and physical function associated with increased odds of 30-day mortality

Movements from first to second jobs, often in health care or other essential work, may spread COVID-19

Fever, hypothermia, hypotension, hyperglycemia, delirium should prompt further evaluation for infection in nursing home residents

Higher prevalence of depression, need for assistance with activities of daily living seen for high proportion of residents with dementia

New weekly cases in nursing homes up by 44 percent between mid-September and week of Oct. 18