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Formal and Informal Social Care in People With Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: A Cross‐Sectional Multicenter Survey

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living. This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disparate regions of England: Salford (urban) and Norfolk (rural).
Mehreen Somro   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Hospital at Home Model: Bringing Hospital-Level Care to the Patient [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Presbyterian's Hospital at Home program, launched in 2008, is based on a model developed in the mid-1990s by Bruce Leff, M.D., a geriatrician and health services researcher at Johns Hopkins University, who noticed that many of his patients suffered poor ...
Douglas McCarthy   +2 more
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A Case of Cerebral Cortical Encephalitis

open access: yes
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Sixiao Liu, Kunqian Ji, Wei Wu, Wei Li
wiley   +1 more source

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Necesidad de rehabilitación protésica en ancianos institucionalizados Denture requirements for older people in homes for the elderly.

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Estomatología, 2007
A therapeutic intervention study was performed to determine denture requeriments in old people who reside in a home for the elderly located in Palmarito de Cauto, Mella municipality, from May to August, 2006.
Leonardo Núñez Antúnez   +4 more
doaj  

Construction of long⁃term care evaluation index system for community home elderly

open access: yesHuli yanjiu, 2020
ObjectiveTo construct a long⁃term care evaluation index system for the home-based elderly in the community.MethodsThrough the literature review,semi⁃structured interviews,the Delphi method,and the analytic hierarchy process,the long⁃term care evaluation ...
FENG Jingjing, ZHANG Li, SU Xiaojuan
doaj  

Fiscal Incidence When Both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home -care for the Elderly [PDF]

open access: yes
Demographic ageing in Western countries has increased the pressure on children of elderly parents to provide care privately as an alternative to more costly institutionalization, and this pressure is likely to intensify.
Haizhen Mou, Stanley L. Winer
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Obesity Subtypes and Longitudinal Trajectories of Function Over Seven Years of Follow‐Up: Data From the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Obesity, defined by body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2, is a risk factor for functional limitations in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, function varies among such individuals. Our objective was to evaluate the implications of obesity subtypes on longitudinal patterns of physical functioning in people with or at risk for knee OA ...
Kristine Godziuk   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Which European model for elderly care? Equity and cost-effectiveness in home based care in three European countries [PDF]

open access: yes
Long term care for the elderly is growing apace in developed economies. As growth is forcing change in existing production and delivery systems of elderly care services, the question arises as to how different systems compare in terms of cost ...
Francesca Bettio, Giovanni Solinas
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