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Rehabilitation in nursing homes
— a cross-national comparison of recipients | | Author(s) | Katherine Berg, Sylvia Sherwood, Katherine Murphy |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 26, Supplement 2, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 37-42 |
| Keywords | Rehabilitation ; Occupational therapy ; Physiotherapy ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Comparison ; Cross national surveys ; United States of America ; Denmark ; Iceland ; Italy ; Japan. |
| Annotation | A cross-sectional study using Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments of nursing home residents was used to examine the prevalence of therapy use in nursing homes and the characteristics of residents in: six US states; Copenhagen, Denmark; Reykjavik, Iceland; and selected locations in Italy and Japan. Demographic and clinical characteristics of therapy recipients were compared relative to other nursing home residents within each country. Prevalence of receiving therapy was: Iceland 31%; Japan 30%; Denmark 23%; Italy 14%; and US 11%. Substantial proportions of the recipients were over the age of 85, were clinically stable, and had been in the nursing home for longer than 90 days. Across all countries, residents with poorer activities of daily living (ADL) scores but good cognitive scores were more likely to receive therapy than other residents. Rehabilitation nursing, an adjunct to therapy, was concentrated on residents with poor ADL scores. The authors conclude that with large numbers of long-stay residents receiving therapy, future rehabilitation outcome studies should concentrate on those patient populations which have been under-studied. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980122421 A |
| Classmark | LM: LOH: LOA: KX: LHB: 48: 3K: 7T: 76K: 76R: 76V: 7DT |
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