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Residential and nursing homes — how can they meet the challenge of an aging population?
Author(s)	Ala Szczepura
Journal title	Aging Health, vol 7, no 6, December 2011
Pages	pp 877-887
Source	http://www.futuremedicine.com/loi/ahe
Keywords	Ageing process ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Quality ; Quality of life ; Evaluation.
Annotation	A rapidly ageing society presents important challenges to care homes. Faced with increasingly older residents and progressively more complex clinical and social care needs, nursing and residential homes will have to address a number of issues. These include: how to maintain residents' quality of life as well as quality of care; how to integrate health and social care provision; how best to manage their interface with hospitals in order to prevent avoidable hospitalisations and facilitate early discharges; and how to utilise new technology in a cost-effective manner. This review examines evidence from across the world on how care home placements can evolve to meet these challenges, with discussion largely adopting a UK perspective. The evidence on innovative ways of working to achieve such aims is growing, although slowly. The potential for new technologies to maintain quality and contain costs is significantly under-developed. More research is now needed. (JL).
Accession Number	CPA-121023009 A
Classmark	BG: KW: LHB: 59: F:59: 4C
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