064 Gender differences in admission to care homes for older people: maybe men really do not care
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Living arrangements, relationship to people in the household and admission to care homes for older people.
OBJECTIVE to assess the separate contributions of marital status, living arrangements and the presence of children to subsequent admission to a care home. DESIGN AND METHODS a longitudinal study derived from the health card registration system and linked to the 2001 Census, comprising 28% of the Northern Ireland population was analysed using Cox regression to assess the likelihood of admissio...
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Healthcare does not follow a linear track of prevention, health gain, health maintenance and palliative care. Instead, aspects of each occur to differing degrees at various stages of life 1 . While the palliative care component increases as we near the end of our life span, we also engage in a range of preventive measures in later life (and in nursing homes) such as influenza vaccination, falls...
متن کاملAssessing quality-of-life in older people in care homes.
BACKGROUND many measures of quality-of-life (QoL) may not be suitable for older people in care homes, and do not cover the most relevant domains for individuals. OBJECTIVE to describe QoL of older people living in care homes using the SEIQoL-DW and the two 10-point rating scales, and to describe how people were using these measures. DESIGN we used quantitative methods to describe QoL, and q...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.120956.64