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Cognitive status and relocation stress — a test of the vulnerability hypothesis
Author(s)	Jerrold Mirotznik, Lenore Los Kamp
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 5, October 2000
Pages	pp 531-539
Keywords	Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Mental health [elderly] ; Mental disorder ; Ill health ; Death ; House removal ; Stress ; United States of America.
Annotation	The study's aim was to determine whether cognitively impaired nursing home residents are at particular risk before and when they relocate to another building. Data on cognitive status, physical health, and mortality were abstracted from the Minimum Data Set Plus (MDS+) and analysed using continuous and discrete survival analyses. None of the Relocation x Cognitive Status interaction effects were significant. Relocation main effects indicated that movers' physical health was more likely to decline than that of non-movers. Evidence also emerged for a positive long-term effect of moving on psychosocial health. These findings suggest that cognitively impaired residents are not at unusual risk of harmful effects as a consequence of mass, interbuilding transfer. Given the significant relocation main effects, though, caution must be taken when moving any residents. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010130203 A
Classmark	KX: LHB: D: E: CH: CW: TNH: QNH: 7T
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