Community Health & Aging Outcomes Lab

Demographic Trends, PDGM Forcing Home Health Providers to Get Creative About Staffing

April 25, 2019

At-home care organizations across the country are grappling with how to attract and retain staff. Moorestown, New Jersey-based Bayada Home Health Care has tried to solve the industry-wide pain point by exploring creative solutions, including university partnerships. Reasons for at-home care workforce challenges are numerous. On a macro-level, the United States has a rapidly aging

4 Ways to Boost Home Care Around the World

January 17, 2019

The number of people over the age of 60 is expected to at least double by 2050, with the over-80 population projected to grow at an even faster rate in many countries. To keep national health care spending down, countries will need to figure out ways to support and encourage care that is delivered in the home, the lowest-cost and oft-preferred setting for older adults.

Study identifies global priorities for improving home care

January 14, 2019

Home care experts have called upon global leaders to address the growing demand for domiciliary care with a greater investment in leadership development, health care system redesign, and payment and policy issues.

As Elderly Population Booms, Home Care Must Update

January 10, 2019

In light of the rapidly aging population, health care leaders must address the growing global demand for home care, researchers say.

Rutgers Researcher Leads Study Identifying Global Priorities for Improving Home Care

January 09, 2019

HealthNewsDigest.com - In a new study, researchers recommend that healthcare leaders address the growing global demand for home care with a greater investment in delivery, affordability and quality.

International Home Care Nurses Organization study of international priorities for home care education, research, practice, and management

December 11, 2018

Available free from the publisher for 50 days, get a copy of our latest article:

Jarrín OF, Pouladi FA, Madigan EA. International priorities for home care education, research, practice, and management: Qualitative content analysis. Nurse Education Today, 2019, 73:83-87. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2018.11.020.

Hospital Patient Safety Still A Concern Among Nurses, Study Finds

November 12, 2018

The majority of U.S. hospitals have room to improve nurses’ work environments and assure adequate nurse staffing to improve patient safety, according to a recent study in Health Affairs.

Hospital patient safety still a concern among nurses and patients

November 08, 2018

Despite investments by government and private institutions to increase patient safety, progress has been slow and uneven, according to researchers

New Paper: Nurses’ And Patients’ Appraisals Show Patient Safety In Hospitals Remains A Concern

November 06, 2018

The Institute of Medicine concluded in To Err Is Human in 1999 that transformation of nurse work environments was needed to reduce patient harm. We studied 535 hospitals in four large states at two points in time between 2005 and 2016 to determine the extent to which their work environments improved, and whether positive changes were associated with greater progress in patient safety. Survey data from thousands of nurses and patients showed that patient safety remains a serious concern. Only 21 percent of study hospitals showed sizable improvements in work environment scores, while 7 percent had worse scores. For hospitals in which clinical care environments improved, patients and nurses reported improvements in patient safety indicators. These included increases in percentages of patients rating their hospital favorably and stating that they would definitely recommend the hospital and in percentages of nurses reporting excellent quality of care and giving the hospital a favorable grade on patient safety. Where work environments deteriorated, fewer nurses gave a favorable grade on patient safety. Failure to improve hospital work environments may be hampering progress on patient safety.

Rutgers Catalyst: Healthy Aging Symposium

October 18, 2018

The initiative fosters a platform to ignite interdisciplinary and transnational aging research initiatives across Rutgers University. Dr. Jarrín, PhD, RN presented on newest findings regarding the impact of home health care on survival for people living with dementia. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robin Barr, National Institute on Aging, Director, Division of Extramural Activities.

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New grant funding from NIH

October 10, 2018

Olga F. Jarrin, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Rutgers, is a co-investigator (and the Rutgers sub-award principal investigator) of an NIH-NIA Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) administrative supplement to the NIH-NINR R01 grant “Panel Study of Effects of Changes in Nursing on Patient Outcomes” Principle Investigator: Linda H. Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing. Co-investigators are Douglas Sloane, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Nursing at Penn, and Irina B. Grafova, PhD, Assistant Professor at Rutgers, School of Public Health. The purpose of this person-centered approach is to determine the impact of nurse education, staffing, skill mix, and work environment on trajectories of care and care outcomes for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.