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Medical Foster Homes: Can the Adult Foster Care Model Substitute for Nursing Home Care?
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2016Objective To compare characteristics, healthcare use, and costs of care of veterans in the rapidly expanding Veterans Health Administration ( VHA ) medical foster home ( MFH ) with those of three other
Cari Levy
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Measuring care coordination by social workers in a foster care medical home
Social Work in Health Care, 2021A social worker coordinated medical care for children in foster care in a foster care medical home (FCMH) and tracked care coordination (CC) activities using a modified Care Coordination Measurement Tool© (mCCMT). Of the 60 subjects, most were younger than 5 years, and 60% had a behavioral and/or medical condition.
Laurel Murphy, Hoffmann +4 more
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The Influence of Foster-Home Care on Psychiatric Patients
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1976Adult patients placed into foster families by six administrations in three provinces of Canada were oberved at time of placement and followed up 18 months later. Over this period, they exhibited a substantial decline in symptoms-almost as great as with similar patients retained in the hospital.
H B, Murphy +2 more
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The Substitutability of Adult Foster Care for Nursing Home Care in Oregon
Medical Care, 1997This study investigates the degree of substitutability of adult foster care for nursing home care in Oregon.Using three tests, the authors determined (1) the extent to which an additional adult foster care resident in a county reduces the number of nursing home residents in that county, (2) which characteristics of residents and facilities are ...
J A, Nyman +4 more
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Foster Home Care for Older People
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1954DURING the past decade, the number of people in the United States who are 65 years of age or over has increased by 37 percent, and there are now about 12,300,000 people past their sixty-fifth birthday in this country. It has become extremely important that community workers, including nurses, should become more aware of the problems of this group and ...
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Institutional Care, Foster Home Care or Family Care?
Pediatrics, 1974Three case histories and an account of an epidemic in a home have highlighted a few of the physical, social and mental problems encountered by motherless babies in their different environmental settings. The institutionalized child may have a normal physical development, but becomes mentally retarded because of lack of social stimulation and individual
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Foster Home Care for Mental Patients
Southern Medical Journal, 1945Helen E. Mosher, Hester B. Crutcher
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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1940
WITHIN the all-inclusive field of child welfare, the relatively small area devoted to the placement of children in foster homes becomes increasingly important to professional work, because it is the one area in a wilderness of possibilities and scattered effort where there has been a steady growth in technical skill based on understanding of the ...
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WITHIN the all-inclusive field of child welfare, the relatively small area devoted to the placement of children in foster homes becomes increasingly important to professional work, because it is the one area in a wilderness of possibilities and scattered effort where there has been a steady growth in technical skill based on understanding of the ...
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Effect on Physical Functioning of Care in Adult Foster Homes and Nursing Homes
The Gerontologist, 1995This study tested the effects on physical functioning of substituting adult foster care (AFC) for nursing home care. Secondary data from Oregon's Medicaid agency were used to compare change in ADL functioning of 1,032 nursing home and 279 AFC residents.
A J, Stark +3 more
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Nutritional evaluation of menus for adult foster care homes
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1982An evaluation of the meals served in 41 Adult Foster Care facilities in Michigan showed that 38 did not serve meals which obtained the expected dietary score based on food groupings. Eighty-three percent of the facilities did not provide adequate amounts of milk/dairy products and 54 percent of homes did not provide 5 oz.
S M, Brogan +2 more
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