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Care provision in housing with supportive services — the importance of care type, individual characteristics, and care site
Author(s)	Charles D Phillips, Catherine Hawes
Journal title	Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 24, no 1, February 2005
Pages	pp 55-67
Source	http://www.sagepub.com
Keywords	Care homes ; Sheltered housing ; Management [care] ; Professional workers.
Annotation	Housing with supportive services is an important long-term service, but information about care provision to residents in these settings is largely unavailable. The role of individual characteristics versus facility identity in determining how care is provided is completely unexplored. Data from 60 facilities in one US state were used to investigate the degree to which individual characteristics and facility identity determined how much care was provided to residents. Individual characteristics had the predicted impact on the amount of direct care time received by individuals. Care that was dementia oriented, however, was more strongly affected by the identity of the facility than by individual characteristics. These results have important implications for how consumers should think about seeking, policy makers should think about supporting care for those with impaired cognitive status who use housing and cognitive services. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050211211 A
Classmark	KW: KLA: QA: T7
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