AJMC January 26, 2026
Key Takeaways
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with a high volume of referred patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias may work harder to manage care transitions with less availability of resources that enable high-quality handoffs.
ABSTRACT
Objectives: Older adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) experience hospital-to-skilled-nursing-facility (SNF) transitions at disproportionate rates, yet it is unclear whether investments in information sharing practices are equitably distributed across SNFs that care for more of these patients. The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare hospital-SNF dyads according to the proportion of patients they share who have diagnosed ADRD and to analyze whether specific motivating (ie, historical readmission rates) and/or enabling (ie, health information...
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