Jeanne A Teresi, Mildred Ramírez, Terry Fulmer, Julie Ellis, Stephanie Silver, Jian Kong, Joseph P Eimicke, Gabriel Boratgis, Rhoda Meador, Mark S Lachs, Karl Pillemer
Resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM) occurs frequently in long-term services and support settings. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effect of a R-REM training program for nursing and other frontline staff on resident falls and injuries in a cluster randomized trial of units within four nursing homes. Interview and observational data from a sample of 1,201 residents (n = 600 and n = 601 in the usual care and intervention groups, respectively) and staff were collected at baseline and 6 and 12 months...
June 1, 2018: Journal of Gerontological Nursing