Evaluation of Ohio’s MyCare Demonstration
Impact evaluation of Ohio's MyCare Program
Katherine M. Abbott • John R. Bowblis • Robert A. Applebaum • Jennifer Heston-Mullins (Jennifer L. Heston) • Ian Matt Nelson
Katherine M. Abbott: Reports and Publications
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Exploring the Criterion Validity of Pragmatic Person-Centered Care/Culture Change Measures
This study aims to assess the criterion validity of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI) Implementation Indicator with other culture change measures.
John R. Bowblis • Reese Moore • Jane Straker • Caroline Madrigal • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Miranda C. Kunkel • Katherine M. Abbott • Ian Matt Nelson
This study aims to assess the criterion validity of the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI) Implementation Indicator with other culture change measures.
Caroline Madrigal • Katherine M. Abbott • Andrea Hulshult • Abby Spector • Allison R. Heid • Victoria Crumbie • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Alexandra Heppner • Karen Eshraghi
This study examined mean differences in demographic and clinical characteristics of residents for preferences showing the change.
Michael J. Rovine • Caroline Madrigal • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Victoria Crumbie • Allison R. Heid • Karen Eshraghi • Katherine M. Abbott
Understanding Nursing Home Complaints in Ohio
This study provides an initial look at the characteristics of Ohio nursing homes and their associated complaints.
Jane Straker • Katherine M. Abbott • Xiao Qui • Jenny Kwon • Robert A. Applebaum
Preference assessment is integral to person-centered treatment planning for older adults with communication impairments.
Vanessa L. Burshnic-Neal • Eleanor S. McConnell • Rachel H. Topper • Katherine M. Abbott • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Kelly Knollman-Porter
A Process Evaluation of Developing Older Adult Research Advisory Boards in Long Term Care Settings
Older adults residing in long-term care settings can contribute their lived experience to informing the development and implementation of programs, interventions, practices, and policies that affec...
Rachel Lessem • Darby J. Morhardt • Amy R. Eisenstein • Hailee M. Yoshizaki-Gibbons • Katherine M. Abbott • Erin McGaffigan • Jane Straker • Marc A. Cohen • Rebecca L. H. Berman
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Equitable Nursing Home Policy Through Implementation Science
Nursing home policies built around equity and person-centered care can transform the industry to allow all Americans access to quality care.
Kimberly Van Haitsma • Natalie Douglas • Katherine M. Abbott
Preference importance ratings among African American and white nursing home residents
The Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI-NH) assesses the psychosocial preferences of nursing home (NH) residents. This study explored the association of race with importance ratings of ...
Kimberly Van Haitsma • Allison R. Heid • Kendall Leser • Katherine M. Abbott • Nytasia M. Hicks
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate the implementation of a person-centered communication tool in nursing homes (NH).
Kimberly Van Haitsma • Abby Hermesch • Alexandra Heppner • Nytasia M. Hicks • Katherine M. Abbott
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged the way nursing homes deliver person-centered care (PCC).
Katherine M. Abbott • Miranda C. Kunkel • Alexandra Heppner • Megan Kelley • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Kamryn Kasler
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mandate the provision of person-centered care (PCC), but there is limited evidence on how PCC impacts nursing home (NH) residents’ care experien...
Katherine M. Abbott • Whitney L. Mills • Liza L. Behrens • Karen Eshraghi • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Jacqueline Mogle • Dennis Scanlon • Caroline Madrigal • Donna M. Fick
Culture change (CC) is an innovation to improve nursing home resident quality of life. Inconsistencies in how CC is measured make the interpretation of findings inconclusive.
Anjali B. K. • Jane Straker • J. Scott Brown • Katherine M. Abbott
This article proposes a theoretical model of person-centered care (PCC).
Liza L. Behrens • Allison R. Heid • Lauren R. Bangerter • Annabelle Arbogast • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Caroline Madrigal • Katherine M. Abbott
This study investigated barriers to fulfilling food preferences from nursing home (NH) residents’ perspectives, and the reasons preferences changed (situational dependencies).
Amy Kotterman • Chelsea N. Goldstein • Katherine M. Abbott • Lauren R. Bangerter • Kimberly Van Haitsma
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is prevalent in older adults; however, data are lacking that examine EDS across living environments.
Mary D. Naylor • Karen B. Hirschman • Liming Huang • Katherine M. Abbott • Miranda V. McPhillips • Glenna S. Brewster • Barbara J. Riegel • Alexandra L. Hanlon
This study examined the rate of change in reports of importance of 27 autonomy-related everyday preferences from the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory over 3-months and the demographic and ...
Allison R. Heid • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Michael J. Rovine • Katherine M. Abbott • Morton Kleban
This study sought to understand the consistency of ratings over a 3-day test-retest period for how satisfied long-term care recipients were with the fulfillment of important everyday preferences.
Eleanor Brnich • Karen Eshraghi • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Katherine M. Abbott • Allison R. Heid
Mapping core concepts of person-centered care in long-term services and supports
This study used an empirical concept mapping approach to identify core components of person-centered care (PCC) used in long-term services and supports (LTSS). The aim is to help providers and rese...
Kimberly Van Haitsma • Yin Liu • Ann Marie Kolanowski • Donna M. Fick • Harleah G. Buck • Katherine M. Abbott • Gwen McGhan • Liza L. Behrens • Allison R. Heid • Martina Roes • Abby Spector
The change in nursing home residents' preferences over time
This study examined the change in nursing home residents' (n = 255) preferences for everyday living over a 3-month period. Participants were recruited from 28 NHs in the suburbs of a major met...
Allison R. Heid • Morton Kleban • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Michael J. Rovine • Katherine M. Abbott
Nursing homes (NHs) using the Preferences for Everyday Living Inventory (PELI-NH) to assess important preferences and provide person-centered care find the number of items to be a barrier to using ...
Katherine M. Abbott • Nathan Martindale • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Alexandra Heppner • Gerald C. Gannod
Although assessing individual consumer preferences is an important first step in providing person-centered care, the purpose of this study was to identify the top 10 shared preferences that are imp...
Rachel Klumpp • Katherine M. Abbott • Gerald C. Gannod • Jane Straker • Kimberly Van Haitsma • Kendall Leser
Multiple chronic conditions and hospitalizations among recipients of long-term services and supports
Among older adults receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS), debilitating hospitalizations is a pervasive clinical and research problem. Multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are prevalent in ...
This article examines the natural history of changes in emotional status as measured through emotional well-being and depressive symptoms over a two-year period among older adults new to long-term ...
Nursing homes are embracing person-centered care, an approach that emphasizes “knowing the person” and honoring each individual’s preferences.
Healthcare preferences of nursing home residents: Perceived barriers and situational dependencies
While much research has examined end of life care preferences of nursing home (NH) residents, little work has examined resident preferences for everyday healthcare.
The objective is to advance knowledge about changes in multiple dimensions of health related quality of life (HRQoL) among older adults receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS) over time an...
Knowledge of a nursing home resident's everyday living preferences provides the foundation for ongoing individualized care planning.
The study is based on a prospective, observational, longitudinal cohort design, with 470 older adults from nursing homes, assisted living facilities and community as participants.
Neighborhood Assistants Pilot: A Program Evaluation of Person-Centered Staffing
The purpose of this study was to pilot test and evaluate an innovative staffing approach called the Neighborhood Assistant (NA) at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home.
Carol Burt • Lisa Slator • Katherine M. Abbott • Justine Sefcik
"Make me feel at ease and at home" Differential care preferences of nursing home residents
Assessing and honoring older adults’ preferences is a fundamental step in providing person-centered care in long-term care facilities. Researchers and practitioners have begun to develop meas...
Preferences are the expression of an individual's basic psychosocial needs and are related to care outcomes.
The purpose of this article is to report on the development of the concept and measurement of preference congruence among NH residents (phase 1), its refinement into a set of quality indicators by ...
'It depends': Reasons why nursing home residents change their minds about care preferences
This study aims to understand and describe nursing home residents’ perspectives on why the importance of their preferences may change in daily care.