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Transition to long term care for elders with dementia
Susan Wareing. Not indexed
Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies
A theory-guided non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to evaluateentry and passage variables related to nursing home adjustment for individuals with dementia. Elders with dementia are unable to speak for themselves, therefore proxy responses of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) provided the data for completion of the Nursing Home Adjustment Scale (Lee et al., 2015). Guided by the Meleis’ Theory of Transitions, entry level factors of age, previous residence, gender and choice, and passage variables including length of stay, extent of dementia, functional abilities, and depression were entered into a regression equation as predictors of nursing home adjustment. Information about extent of dementia, functional abilities and depression was derived from the Minimum Data Set maintained for all residents per Medicare and Medicaid guidelines. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 26.0 software. Results indicated an inverse relationship between nursing home adjustment and depression. There was no support for relationships among other variables. CNA proxy responses were found to be reliable and were significantly correlated with nursing responses on the same measure. This study supports the use of CNA proxy responses as a method to evaluate the experience of individuals with dementia.
Key findings
- Results indicated an inverse relationship between nursing home adjustment and depression.
- CNA proxy responses were found to be reliable and were significantly correlated with nursing responses on the same measure.
Why it matters
This study found that better nursing home adjustment was linked to lower depression, but found no support for relationships with age, previous residence, gender, choice, length of stay, extent of dementia, or functional abilities. It also supports using Certified Nursing Assistant proxy responses as a reliable way to evaluate the experience of people with dementia who cannot speak for themselves.
Study details
- Evidence strengthLow
How this study scored 26/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on how recent, journal's citation record, citations per year, impact for its field and year, senior author's track record and institution's track record, so those were left out: it earned 19 of the 73 points we could judge it on, which is 26 out of 100.
| Component | Points | Why |
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| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Not indexed) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | — / 5 | No year recorded — left out of this score |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | 0 / 7 | Cited 0 times (OpenAlex, 2026-10-10) |
| Citations per year | — / 5 | No citation count or no year — left out of this score |
| Impact for its field and year | — / 6 | No field-weighted citation impact (OpenAlex has none yet) — left out of this score |
| Cited by studies here | 0 / 6 | No other study in this library cites it |
| Still being cited | 0 / 4 | Cited 0 times in 2024–2026 (2026 still in progress; OpenAlex) |
| Senior author's track record | — / 4 | Senior author's record not available — left out of this score |
| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Multi-centre collaboration | 0 / 3 | OpenAlex lists 0 institution(s) in 0 countries — scores zero (affiliation lists can be incomplete) |
| Indexed in PubMed | 1 / 2 | Not in PubMed, but has a DOI |
| Free to read | 0 / 2 | Behind a paywall — scores zero |
| Points | 19 / 73 | Scored on 14 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 19 of the 73 points we could judge it on is 26 out of 100. |
| Total | 26 / 100 | — |
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APA 7th
Wareing, S. (n.d.). Transition to long term care for elders with dementia. https://doi.org/10.62791/19799
Vancouver
Wareing S. Transition to long term care for elders with dementia. doi:10.62791/19799.
BibTeX
@article{wareing-30241730,
author = {Wareing, Susan},
title = {{Transition to long term care for elders with dementia}},
doi = {10.62791/19799},
url = {https://doi.org/10.62791/19799}
}