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Halfway home
— [short-term intermediate care in nursing homes] | | Author(s) | Ali Zaatar |
| Journal title | Health Service Journal, vol 110, no 5790, 31 January 2002 |
| Pages | pp 26-29 |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Short term ; Coordination ; General practice ; Pilot ; Sefton. |
| Annotation | Despite initial doubts about its suitability, short-term intermediate care in nursing homes can prove popular with patients. Sefton Health Authority and two primary care groups (PCGs) - Bootle and Litherland, and Southport and Formby - completed a pilot scheme involving 30 nursing home places which provided intermediate care to 118 older people during winter 2000/2001. The average length of stay was 21 days, and patients rated the nursing care highly; two-thirds were discharged to their own homes. Raising awareness of care outside hospitals could lead to a change in the public perception that nursing homes provide only long-term and terminal care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020211202 A |
| Classmark | LM: LHB:QKH: 4P: QAJ: L5: 4UC: 84A * |
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