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Open research questions in Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

649 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 6,368 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The study identifies challenges in providing long-term care services to older adults, including a lack of healthcare personnel and limited finances. The study highlights the importance of understanding the factors that influence care-related quality of life in older adults.

    Individual and interpersonal factors associated with care-related quality of life in older adults: a comparison of home-based services, nursing homes and sheltered housing · 2026 · DOI

  • Exclusion criteria were receiving end-of-life care and receiving LTC for less than two weeks, - The study did not report on the ASCOT tool used, - Limited to Norway

    Individual and interpersonal factors associated with care-related quality of life in older adults: a comparison of home-based services, nursing homes and sheltered housing · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies low pay, insecure employment, poor working conditions, and exploitation as challenges. It also highlights the lack of workforce capacity and the impact of digital technology on the LTC workforce. The fragmentation of service delivery by independent providers is another challenge identified.

    Editorial: Challenges and opportunities for the long-term care workforce · 2026 · DOI

  • limited time and reliance on individual workers can restrict support - poorly designed or malfunctioning digital systems can create additional pressures for LTC workers

    Editorial: Challenges and opportunities for the long-term care workforce · 2026 · DOI

  • Misaligned functionalities and limited staff engagement undermined adoption. Ethical tensions emerged as residents' autonomy and preferences were overridden by care partners. Barriers to sustained adoption were encountered due to the limited integration of the RTLS into workflows.

    Real-time location system implementation in dementia care: Stakeholder perspectives · 2025 · DOI

  • The study was conducted in one long-term care home, - The sample size was limited, - Residents were ineligible to participate if they were unable to assent to an interview

    Real-time location system implementation in dementia care: Stakeholder perspectives · 2025 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the challenge of ensuring that disqualifying offenses have a meaningful role in direct care. It also highlights the challenge of implementing electronic fingerprinting and RAP Back systems in background checks. The paper notes the challenge of balancing the need to protect older adults with the need to ensure that background-check policies do not unfairly discriminate against potential employees.

    Employee background-check policies in long-term care facilities in the United States · 2025 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the existing literature on the differences in background-check policies between NBCP and non-NBCP states. It also highlights the need to assess the impact of these policies on hiring practices and quality of care.

    Employee background-check policies in long-term care facilities in the United States · 2025 · DOI

  • Identifying successful funding applications to support infrastructure developments and increase program effectiveness, - Examining the impact of emerging technologies on the quality of care delivered to older Australians, - Investigating the effects of workforce shortages on the aged care system

    Comprehensive analysis of Australia’s aged care system to inform policies for a sustainable future · 2025 · DOI

  • The lack of a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing Australia's aged care system. The need for a comprehensive analysis of the literature to inform policy development. The gap in understanding the impact of various funding mechanisms on the aged care system.

    Comprehensive analysis of Australia’s aged care system to inform policies for a sustainable future · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite these shortcomings, little is known about how individuals evaluate crisis management by governments compared to performance by service providers.

    Managing the COVID ‐19 Crisis: Assessing the Responses of Politicians and Service Providers in Long‐Term Care · 2026 · DOI

  • While numerous studies support the notion that management matters for performance, the varying nature of its impact across the public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors remains underexplored in the literature.

    Management Impact on Performance in Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from U.S. Nursing Homes · 2026 · DOI

  • Care models vary widely in these settings, and evidence on provider satisfaction and workforce sustainability is fragmented.

    General practice care models and satisfaction in Australian residential aged care homes: a national survey of GPs, practice nurses, and managers · 2026 · DOI

  • Few studies have explored if rural health disparities are related to geographic mobility, specifically, how long an individual has lived in a particular area.

    The role of residence tenure on rural Medicare beneficiaries’ health outcomes · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research is needed to assess potential benefits of the SOCAV program in other settings and populations.

    SOCAV, a nurse-led program promoting self-direction in nursing homes: a longitudinal mixed-methods pilot study · 2026 · DOI

  • Conclusion These results indicate that the number of long-term care facility outliers identified can vary widely between methods.

    Comparing methodological approaches for outlier detection: a cross-sectional study of older persons in 2,744 Australian long-term care facilities · 2026 · DOI

  • Findings Residents reported a generally positive perception of identity but limited knowledge of, and participation in, their ICPs.

    From life stories to person-centred care planning: residents’ and professionals’ perspectives in Portuguese care homes · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research may investigate long-term outcomes of abrupt disruption in specialist and other community care.

    Family physician and specialist care for persons with dementia living in the community: through thick and thin · 2025 · DOI

  • CONCLUSIONS: Our results build on the existing body of hospital closure literature by highlighting the understudied role of hospitals in rural postacute and long-term care.

    Rural hospital closures and nursing home outcomes · 2025 · DOI

  • Little is known about the effects of facility closures on the local long-term care sector.

    Rural hospital closures and nursing home outcomes · 2025 · DOI

  • However, scoping reviews of the barriers and facilitators to implementing person-centred dementia care in long-term care facilities for Western countries and Asian countries are lacking.

    Barriers and facilitators to implementing person-centred dementia care in long-term care facilities in Western and Asian countries: a scoping review · 2025 · DOI

  • In Germany, defined role profiles for registered nurses with Bachelor's degree in long-term care are lacking and only few of these nurses work in direct resident care.

    A new role profile for nurses with expanded competencies promoting person-centered care in long-term care: a mixed-methods intervention development study · 2025 · DOI

  • personal care) suggests that temporary PHE measures taken were insufficient to offset the demand for those services.

    Changes in service use and unmet needs in home- and community- based services in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic · 2025 · DOI

  • However, there is limited information about how self-directed home care is experienced by older people with cognitive impairment and dementia, and how their thinking informs their care choices and quality of life.

    Understanding how users of home-based aged care services with cognitive impairment rate their social care related quality of life · 2025 · DOI

  • Although this transition is known to occur in three phases, no study has comprehensively examined the experiences of care triad members across all phases, and evidence-based interventions to support informal caregivers and older adults through this highly stressful process are lacking.

    Experiences of members of the care triad on transitioning from home to a nursing home: a qualitative study · 2025 · DOI

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