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Sex and long-term care

Public Health, 1973
Abstract Attention is drawn to the dominant demand made by the elderly female for long-stayhospital and Welfare Home care. The fact that this considerably exceeds her proportional representation in the community at large, reveals a different pattern of response and mortality in chronic illness requiring long-stay care in women in old-age, compared ...
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Rethinking Long‐Term Care

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1990
In the context of several proposals for financing long‐term care (LTC), this article suggests three areas in which reform of the structure of LTC is needed to create more appropriate incentives for better care. The interfaces between short‐ and long‐term care can be addressed by either a number of specific changes or more global approaches, such as one
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Dilemmas of Long-Term Care

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2002
An aging population, the prevalence of chronic disease and functional disabilities, and changes in society have caused a greater demand for long-term care in Taiwan. The development of long-term care has gone through four stages: undeveloped, early beginning, expanding, and establishment.
Mary H. Huch, Asphodel C. Yang
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Insuring Long-Term Care

1988
Paying for long-term care has become a major problem for older people, their families, and society and will be an increasingly serious problem in the future. With increased longevity, many more people face a period of serious disability in old age. Most are cared for informally by relatives and friends, albeit often at great emotional and sometimes ...
A M, Rivlin, J M, Wiener, D A, Spence
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Preceptors in long-term care

Geriatric Nursing, 1991
Abstract A preceptor is an experienced and competent staff member who serves as a clinical role model and resource person to newly employed nursing personnel. Although this concept has been prominent since the late 1970s in acute health care settings, preceptors rarely are used in long-term care facilities.
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Long-Term Care

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1994
The cost of healthcare in an acute care setting has become prohibitive. With the newly proposed reforms to reduce these costs, the long-term care facilities that provide skilled nursing care in a cost-effective manner must be reassessed as a part of the continuum of healthcare delivery.
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Long-Term Care Update

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1996
While the legal cases against health care providers continue to increase, the cases against acute care facilities are declining as the number of cases against long-term care facilities and employees rise. Nurses need to be aware of the differences in legal issues in the extended care delivery system.
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Long Term Care

Nursing Journal of India, 2013
B, Rajalakshmi, S J, Shinu
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Constipation in Long-Term Care

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2007
Constipation is more common in older adults and accounts for increased physician office visits and hospital admissions. There is lack of agreement on the definition of constipation regarding what patients perceive as constipation and what physicians traditionally see as constipation.
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Long-Term Care of Schizophrenia

New England Journal of Medicine, 1972
A W, Loranger, L E, Hollister
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