McKnight’s Senior Living October 3, 2022
Forty-three recommendations stemming from a new study represent “an initial step” to filling a gap in guidance regarding medical and mental healthcare in assisted living, according to the study’s authors, who said that such guidance “has been long-awaited.”
“The recommendations provide a guide for practice and policy,” said Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty member who led the research effort. “They’re also largely feasible and pragmatic, because data show many are already in practice.”
Zimmerman was among the 19 experts who made the recommendations after rating 183 items of potential importance to medical and mental healthcare in assisted living. Their findings were published Thursday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
The recommendations were grouped...