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| Bathing disability and the risk of long-term admission to a nursing home | | Author(s) | Thomas M Gill, Heather G Allore, Ling Han |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 61A, no 8, August 2006 |
| Pages | pp 821-825 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Bathing capacity ; Self care capacity ; At risk ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The prevalence of disability in bathing and the likelihood of long-term nursing home admission increase substantially with age. The authors studied 734 community-dwelling people aged 70+ who were non-disabled in four essential activities of daily living (ADLs). Participants were followed with monthly telephone interviews for a median of 75 months, to determine the occurrence of persistent (i.e. present for at least 2 consecutive months) disability in bathing and the time to the first long-term nursing home admission, determined at longer than 3 months. 113 (15%) of participants had a long-term nursing home admission. At least one episode of persistent bathing disability occurred among 59 (32.9%) participants with a long-term nursing home admission, and 210 (32.8%) without long-term admission. Thus, the occurrence of persistent disability in bathing is independently associated with the risk of a long-term nursing home admission, but has no effect on short-term admissions. Interventions directed at the prevention and remediation of bathing disability have the potential to reduce the burden and expense of long-term care services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504240 A |
| Classmark | CAE: CA: CA3: LHB:QKH: 3J: 7T |
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