A European study investigating patterns of transition from home care towards institutional dementia care: the protocol of a RightTimePlaceCare study

Background: Health care policies in many countries aim to enable people with dementia to live in their own homes as long as possible. However, at some point during the disease the needs of a significant number of people with dementia cannot be appropriately met at home and institutional care is requ...

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Autores: Verbeek, Hilde, Meyer, Gabriele, Leino-Kilpi, Helena, Zabalegui, Adelaida, Rahm hallberg, Ingalill, Saks, Kai, Soto, Maria Eugenia, Challis, David, Sauerland, Dirk, Hamers, Jan PH, RightTimePlaceCare Consortium
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:20.500.12367/2541
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12367/2541
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dementia
Long-term care
Professional home care
Nursing homes
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Sumario:Background: Health care policies in many countries aim to enable people with dementia to live in their own homes as long as possible. However, at some point during the disease the needs of a significant number of people with dementia cannot be appropriately met at home and institutional care is required. Evidence as to best practice strategies enabling people with dementia to live at home as long as possible and also identifying the right time to trigger admission to a long-term nursing care facility is therefore urgently required. The current paper presents the rationale and methods of a study generating primary data for best-practice development in the transition from home towards institutional nursing care for people with dementia and their informal caregivers. [...]