A 2017 study by the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston found that comprehensive adoption of person-centered care and the household model can enhance the interactions between nursing home residents and their care partners, improve residents’ dining experience, and reduce residents’ depressive symptoms. There was no improvement in residents’ cognitive functioning. Researchers observed residents and care partners, and reviewed residents’ mental and physical well-being, in three nursing homes. Data from an “experimental” home that had adopted person-centered care comprehensively were compared with findings from two “control group” homes that had partially adopted person-centered care. The Francis E. Parker Memorial Home funded the study.
