| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Factors affecting survival of elderly nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Mark C Dale, Alistair Burns, Lindsay Panter |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 16, no 1, January 2001 |
| Pages | pp 70-76 |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Admission ; Nursing homes ; Longevity ; Death rate [statistics] ; Tameside. |
| Annotation | A large representative sample of 1,557 residents in 59 nursing homes in Manchester confirms the clinical impression that some homes appear to have higher mortality rates than others. However, this is explained by the characteristics of the residents admitted to particular homes, and not by any measurable characteristic of the home environment. Registration and inspection teams should bear this in mind by examining death rates in individual homes. If league table nursing home care were to be introduced, admission characteristics of individual residents should be taken into account when interpreting mortality rates. The identification of particular risk factors such as pressure sores and poor appetite may allow resources to be targeted at these problems in new admissions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010227215 A |
| Classmark | KX: QKH: LHB: BGA: S5: 83G |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|