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Hourly care received by people with Alzheimer's disease
— results from an urban, community survey | | Author(s) | Steven M Albert, Mary Sano, Karen Bell |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 6, December 1998 |
| Pages | pp 704-714 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Domiciliary services ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Home nursing ; Time duration ; Urban areas ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) living in a defined community in New York city were identified and assessed on two occasions to determine the number of hours of activities of daily living (ADL) care they received. Almost half received all care hours for informal sources. However, a quarter received ADL care hours from formal sources. The mean number of ADL hours in the sample was 9.7, of which 4.2 came from formal sources. This reflects the extensive use of Medicaid-based home care services in New York city. As dementia worsened, substitution of formal for informal care was rare, but formal care assumed a greater proportion of total care hours. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010116206 A |
| Classmark | EA: N: N3: N4: 4N: RK: 3F: 7T |
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