Disability Support & Long Term Care Services
Disability and long-term care refers to institutional and community-based care that support individuals with activities of daily living and services related to age or disability. Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the changes and challenges affecting the disability support and long-term care market markets—the move to managed care and subsequently value-based care, the shift to home- and community-based care, the increase in the aging population, and new workforce challenges.
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In U.S. long-term care (LTC) facilities, prescriptions for antipsychotics are connected with registered nurse (RN) and licensed professional nurse (LPN) staffing levels. When the facility staff-to-consumer ratio increased by one unit, inappropriate prescriptions for antipsychotics declined by 0.75%. When the units of licensed nursing staff hours increased by one unit, inappropriate prescriptions for antipsychotics dropped… Read
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