People living with dementia, or cognitive impairment, are capable of communicating their preferences for daily care and end-of-life, but these preferences may not be routinely documented by long-term care providers or understood by family and staff.

Findings from various projects in our diverse COVID-19 portfolio and illustrates how our work has informed nursing center practice and policy in near real-time.

Q&I researchers spoke with staff from one-third of the 27 nursing centers that participated in the first year of our National Institute on Aging-funded trial to test the effectiveness of the Music & Memory personalized music program.

Survey findings afford an early glimpse of dramatic changes in the delivery of rehabilitation care in post-acute and long-term care during the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly in terms of therapy shifting to in-room and bedside care and in terms of the rapid increase in telehealth.

Frontline nursing home staff describe working under complex conditions during the novel coronavirus pandemic, while coping fears for themselves and the residents under their care.

The novel coronavirus pandemic has made working conditions even more challenging for frontline nursing home staff, who face heavy workloads, infection risk, and the emotional burden of caring for residents dealing with significant illness and loneliness.

As late as June 2020, several months into the novel coronavirus pandemic, extended reuse of personal protective equipment (PPE) remains common in nursing homes, with homemade PPE supplementing what is issued.