When it comes to home health, location factors heavily into the quality of care patients receive. Agencies in rural areas tend to initiate care more quickly, for example, while their urban counterparts perform better on outcomes measures, a new study suggests. The study was conducted by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Their […]
New York University
Keeping dementia patients at home for as long as possible can go a long way in improving states’ Medicaid budgets. When caregivers take part in a counseling and a support program, patients are more likely to remain at home longer and save tens of millions of Medicaid dollars, a new study published in The Gerontologist found. […]
More than one-third of adults over the age of 65 receiving home health care has some form of cognitive impairment, but the number of caregivers qualified to properly serve this subset of patients doesn’t meet the demand, prompting a researcher at the New York University College of Nursing to develop a program aimed at narrowing […]
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