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| Waiting to go into a Danish nursing home | | Author(s) | Jens E Kofod |
| Journal title | Generations Review, vol 16, no 2, April 2006 |
| Pages | pp 23-27 |
| Source | (Editorial e-mail address) gr@ageing.ox.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Time duration ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | The number of older people moving from their own home into a nursing home is likely to increase. This study examines important aspects in the transition process by applying ethnographic methods. 10 older Danish people and their relatives were interviewed and observed. It was found that their relationship towards their home care assistant became increasingly important as they waited to go into the nursing home. Assessments for home care were constrained by municipal authorities and their regulations, and the overall attitude was that the needs of older people were not being appropriately defined and met. This left them barely able to maintain their homes, and as a consequence of this, their identity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060609221 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: 4N: 76K |
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