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Beyond the dichotomy
— an empirical typology of Alzheimer's care in nursing homes | | Author(s) | Leslie A Grant |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 569-592 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Psychogeriatric units ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Unit-level data describing dementia care attributes in 390 units in 123 Minnesota nursing home facilities were used in a two-stage analytic procedure to derive a typology of unit clusters; and to describe similarities and differences across unit clusters in terms of dementia care attributes and other unit characteristics not used to derive the typology. Nursing units were classified with combinations of environmental, programmatic and staff attributes into six unit clusters. Most special care units (SCUs) were in a single unit cluster (dementia units) with the most dementia care attributes and serving mostly residents with dementia. Two unit clusters (small custodial clusters and rehabilitation units) were composed exclusively of SCUs, whereas remaining unit clusters (conventional units, large undifferentiated units, and heavy care units) consisted predominantly of non-SCUs with roughly equal proportions of residents with and without dementia. The typology offers a potentially useful way of classifying dementia care in nursing homes. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981029402 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: LDM: 7T |
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