title: Analyses of nursing home residents with Parkinson's disease using the minimum data set.
abstract: This study profiles over 79,000 nursing home residents with Parkinson's disease (PD) at admission using the 'minimum data set'. Results show that residents with PD averaged 79.7 years of age at admission and 48.4% were male. They tended to be physically dependent, as well as cognitively impaired. More than one in three had fallen in the prior 30 days. There was a high prevalence of dementia and depression. Ninety percent of these residents did not receive active or passive range of motion care and less than 10% had been recently evaluated by a licensed mental health specialist. To enhance the quality of life for nursing home residents with PD, appropriate and adequate rehabilitative, mental health, and cognitive care need to be implemented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Rural Public Health, The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843-1266, USA. buchanan@srph.tamu.edu
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: Suojin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chunfeng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Bala V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Manyam
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003071:Cognition; D003144:Communication Barriers; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003693:Delirium / Q000453:epidemiology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005242:Fecal Incontinence / Q000453:epidemiology; D006304:Health Status; D016852:Housing for the Elderly / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015596:Nutrition Assessment; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000628:therapy; D010351:Patient Discharge; D004856:Postural Balance; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000453:epidemiology