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| Validity of the Alberta Assessment and Placement Instrument (AAPI) for use in admitting long-term care clients to home care | | Author(s) | Lili Liu |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 17, no 3, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 296-310 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Services ; Long term ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The Alberta Assessment and Placement Instrument (AAPI) is used to assess clients for continuing care in Alberta, Canada. A retrospective chart review was conducted to determine the validity of the AAPI items for use with long-term clients who are referred to home care, and to examine the status of those clients one year after they were admitted to home care. One group of 60 subjects admitted to long-term home care, and one group of 60 subjects not admitted were compared. The groups did not differ in demographic characteristics, measures of perceived need, number of medications, nutrition, cognitive status, psychosocial status, and use of formal and informal care providers as described in the AAPI. However, those admitted to home care required more assistance with with medication management than those not admitted. When the charts were followed one year after the initial administration of AAPI, only 18% of those admitted to home care remained on home care, whereas 42% of those not admitted to home care were now admitted. Admission to home care was associated with an increased likelihood of being admitted to a long-term care institution or being deceased one year later. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981012403 A |
| Classmark | N: N3: I: 4Q: 7S |
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