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Is home care a realistic alternative to residential care among institutionalized elderly people in Finland?
- Authors:
- NORO A., ARO S.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(4), October 1996, pp.249-258.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The high rate of institutionalisation among elderly people in Finland is widely among policy-makers. Studies how realistic the wishes for deinstitutionalisation are among the least sick elderly people in residential care, and what patient characteristics predict whether residential care is appropriate. This issue was assessed by the residential home personnel. Personnel assessment of institutional care as appropriate was mainly explained by patients' needing help with medication, limitations in activities of daily living, absence of own home return to, no living children, incontinence, and poor vision. Discharging elderly people from long-term residential care back to society is limited by factors such as inadequate housing and shortage of domiciliary care and rehabilitative services, as well as by attitudes among the institutionalised elderly people themselves. It seems more realistic to prevent the inappropriate institutionalisation of elderly people that to discharge the small numbers of fairly independent individuals already in residential homes.
Health and mortality among elderly populations
- Editors:
- CASELLI Graziella, LOPEZ Alan D.
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 376p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Pinpoints the most recent trends internationally in the growing population of older people. Includes papers on: what is old age - variation over time and between cultures; prospects for extended survival - a critical review of the biological evidence; a demographic and medical survey about centenarians in France; comparative mortality trends among older people in developed countries; socio-demographic differentials in mortality at older ages in Finland; social support, life satisfaction and survival at older ages; old age mortality in Japan; trends and differentials in disability free life expectancy; disability and functional status among older people - cross national comparisons; health and survival of older people; future longevity; mortality predictions for Japan; new approaches to formal and informal care; and strategies for the provision of health and social care services for older people.
Abuse of the elderly: services provided for victims in a Finnish Nursing home, 1992-1993
- Author:
- PERTTU Sirkka
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 8(2), 1996, pp.23-31.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes the services provided for elder abuse victims in a Finnish nursing home. These services included shelter at the nursing home, a telephone service, and a support group. Results of the study showed the majority of callers and victims were women and the barriers for seeking help in an abuse case were high among the elderly. Recommendations are made for developing the functions of the nursing home and to create services which would prevent domestic violence and help the abused persons free themselves from the abuse and the abusers.
Caring for older Europeans: comparative studies in 29 countries
- Author:
- GIARCHI George Giacinto
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 547p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Provides a reference source for various modes of care (both formal and informal) for older people throughout Europe. Each chapter follows the same format and covers: demography; socio-political and administrative background; social security and pensions; housing; health care; mental health care; residential care; personal social services; voluntary care agencies and support organisations; leisure pursuits and education; and older people in rural areas.