PMID: 2511612Oct 1, 1989Paper

Day care for demented patients in general nursing homes. Effects on admissions to institutions and mental capacity

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
K Engedal

Abstract

A day centre programme for demented patients aged 75 years and over was evaluated in a controlled trial, emphasizing its effect on the use of institutional care and mental capacity. A cost-benefit analysis of the programme was also performed. Thirty-eight patients were offered day care, thirty-nine served as controls. The programme was cost-effective in the sense that it reduced the frequency of the admissions to the acute units of the City hospitals and the cost of care. However, admission to permanent stay in nursing home was not delayed. The mental capacity deteriorated at the same rate in the two groups.

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Feb 26, 2010·Journal of Aging and Physical Activity·Simone NicolaiUlrich Lindemann
Jun 1, 1991·Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care·K Engedal
Jun 1, 1993·Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care·A WimoA Nelvig
Sep 15, 1998·Journal of the American Geriatrics Society·K Pitkälä
Sep 27, 2002·International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry·Brian Cooper
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Jan 18, 2014·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Nicola MaayanHelen Lee
Aug 9, 2019·PloS One·C VossiusA M M Rokstad
Jan 28, 2010·European Journal of Ageing·Claudio BilottaCarlo Vergani

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