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Dementia and depressive symptoms as predictors of home help utilization among the oldest old
— population-based study in an urban area of Sweden | | Author(s) | Kristina Larsson, Mats Thorslund, Yvonne Forsell |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 16, no 5, November 2004 |
| Pages | pp 641-668 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Home care services ; Urban areas ; Over 70s ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Data used in this study are from the Kungsholmen Study in Stockholm, Sweden: 502 community-dwelling people aged 81-100 were interviewed and assessed with medical examinations. Dementia increased the odds of receiving public home help for those living alone, but only for those who had extra-residential care. Depressive symptoms decreased the odds of receiving home help for those with lower levels of education who lived alone. On the other hand, depressive symptoms among highly educated people who lived alone and among co-residing people of any educational level were not related to receipt of home help. Improving the screening of the public home help needs of older people living in the community might allow better targeting of limited social resources to those in most need. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050202210 A |
| Classmark | EA: ENR: CT: NH: RK: BBK: 3J: 76P |
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