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| The effect of long-term care environments on health outcomes | | Author(s) | Rachel A Pruchno, Miriam S Rose |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 4, August 2000 |
| Pages | pp 422-428 |
| Keywords | Death ; Health [elderly] ; House removal ; Nursing homes ; Sheltered housing ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Rates of mortality, relocation to higher levels of care, and trajectories of cognitive status, functional ability, depression and subjective health were compared for residents of assisted living (sheltered housing) and of a nursing home. Data were collected from medical records and face-to-face interviews with 158 residents at baseline and 4, 8 and 12 months later. Type of facility was not a significant predictor of mortality or relocation due to declining health. A repeated measures analysis of variance found that outcomes for people living in the two facilities did not change at different rates. These consistent findings suggest that, although sheltered housing and nursing home environments claim to have different philosophies of care, health outcome patterns for people living in the two environments are similar. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001102213 A |
| Classmark | CW: CC: TNH: LHB: KLA: 7T |
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