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Returning home from residential care? — patient preferences and their determinants
Author(s)	Anja Noro, Seppo Aro
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 17, part 3, May 1997
Pages	pp 305-321
Keywords	Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Long term ; Time duration ; Home care services ; Social surveys ; Finland.
Annotation	This postal sample survey study aimed to discover what fairly independent residents living in long-term residential care in Finland think about home life as an alternative. Respondents who preferred home care were compared with those preferring residential care according to length of stay, health, functional ability and health related quality of life. Most respondents preferred institutional care. Preference for home care was explained most strongly by emotional factors, unwillingness for residential care at admission, and still having a home to return to. Those who preferred home care admitted they would need a lot of formal care after discharge. People living in residential homes are rarely ready for discharge, because of limitations in their physical ability, or of their unwillingness to change their site of care.
Accession Number	CPA-970804009 A
Classmark	KX: KW: 4Q: 4N: NH: 3F: 76L
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