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Nursing homes in 10 nations
— a comparison between countries and settings | | Author(s) | Miel W Ribbe, Gunnar Ljunggren, Knight Steel |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, Supplement 2, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 3-12 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Evaluation ; Demography ; Cross national surveys ; Comparison ; Denmark ; France ; Iceland ; Italy ; Japan ; Netherlands ; Sweden ; Switzerland ; United Kingdom ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from government documents and statistics, journal articles, or solicited from colleagues are used to illustrate demographic differences and trends in provision of long-term care in the 10 countries participating in the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) studies: Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. All have high life expectancies. Sweden has the oldest, whilst Iceland has the youngest population in this study. Japan shows the highest ageing rates over the next three decades. Between 2% and 5% of older people reside in nursing homes. Iceland has the highest rate of institutionalisation (living in nursing or residential homes), while Sweden has a low rate. Institutionalisation rates among nations studied differ even more, due in part at least to differences in organisation and financing of long-term care services and the responsibility assumed in care of disabled older people by each sector and availability of long-term care beds. In all countries, the support ratio (number of older people per 100 younger adults) is high and increasing rapidly. Facing a rapid ageing of their population, many countries are in process of health and social care reforms. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980122416 A |
| Classmark | LHB: KW: KX: 4C: S8: 3K: 48: 76K: 765: 76R: 76V: 7DT: 76H: 76P: 76C: 8: 7T |
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