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Cognitive impairment: a challenge for community care
— a comparison of the domiciliary service receipt of cognitively impaired and equally dependent physically impaired elderly women | | Author(s) | Margaret Ely, Carol Brayne, Felicia A Huppert |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, no 4, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp 301-308 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Over 70s ; Cognitive impairment ; Physical disabilities ; Domiciliary services ; Meals on wheels ; Home care services ; Home nursing ; Comparison ; Cambridge. |
| Annotation | This study used information from a population survey conducted in Cambridge in 1986, to ascertain the effect of type of physical or cognitive impairment on receipt of domiciliary services (meals on wheels, home help, and community nursing) by women aged 75 and over. The odds of an older woman getting help from any of the domiciliary services whilst not being significantly affected by cognitive impairment are increased by physical impairment. Similar results were found for the home help service. The differences were exaggerated in the case of the community nursing service, whilst receipt of meals-on-wheels was similar for women with all types of impairment. This study took place before the introduction of the NHS and Community Care Act. The development of specialist services appropriate to the needs of cognitively impaired older people presents a challenge to community care policy, as this group is at high risk of institutionalisation. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970829221 A |
| Classmark | BD: BBK: E4: BN: N: NS: NH: N4: 48: 8CF |
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