| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Approaching cross-national comparisons of nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Brant E Fries, Marianne Schroll, Catherine Hawes |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, Supplement 2, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 13-18 |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Evaluation ; Comparison ; United States of America ; Denmark ; Italy ; Japan ; Sweden ; Iceland ; France. |
| Annotation | Since the 1990 implementation of the US nursing home Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI), researchers in other nations have begun to use the RAI to assess institutionalised older people for payment, research, or planning purposes. The authors report comparative statistics representing institutionalised residents in seven countries (Denmark, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Iceland, France, and the US), describing from several hundred to hundreds of thousands of residents. Significant differences are seen in age and length of stay, and in summary measures of physical and cognitive functioning and case-mix. Countries also differ in their homogeneity across nursing homes. These differences strengthen the position that "nursing home" does not provide a sound basis for cross-national comparisons, and should be replaced with resident-specific descriptors. This also suggests that cross-national comparisons need to adjust at the level of the individual resident for differences in resident populations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980122417 A |
| Classmark | KX: LHB: 4C: 48: 7T: 76K: 76V: 7DT: 76P: 76R: 765 |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|