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Returning home from residential care? Patient preferences and their determinants
- Authors:
- NORO Anja, ARO Seppo
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 17(3), May 1997, pp.305-321.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Discusses the results of a study to discover what fairly independent residents living in long-term residential care think about home care as an alternative. A stratified systematic sample was drawn from a one-day census of patients in all residential homes in Finland in 1991 and 1992. Respondents who preferred home care were compared with respondents preferring residential care according to length of stay, health, functional ability and health-related quality of life.
Comparison of health and functional ability between noninstitutionalized and least dependent institutionalized elderly in Finland
- Authors:
- NORO Anja, ARO Seppo
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(3), June 1997, pp.374-383.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Describes how Finland's active deinstitutinalisation policy aims to reduce the number of elderly people in long-term residential care and to keep noninstitutionalised elderly people living at home as long as possible. As a contribution to the issue of the appropriateness of long-term institutional care, this article compares the health and functional ability of elderly people living at home or residential care to assess the theoretical possibility of discharging the least dependent elderly from a residential homes. Findings from two separate data sets collection in 1992 were compared. Elderly people living at home were found to be in better health and with better functional ability than those in residential care. Results indicate that one third of those assessed as able to manage in-home care could possibly be discharged if adequate services and housing were available.
Developing quality in personal social services: concepts, cases and comments
- Editors:
- EVERS Adalbert, et al
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 318p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Looks at the challenge of introducing business originated concepts of quality assurance into personal social services. Includes papers on: quality development as part of a changing culture of care in personal social services; business and professional approaches to quality improvement; quality management in Finland; the developing role of user involvement in the UK; professionals and quality initiatives in health and social services; measuring quality in personal social services; combining user interests with professionalism in the organisation; quality management and assurance in residential and nursing home care in Britain and Germany; user centred performance indicators in community care in Scotland; developing domiciliary care markets in Britain; management in public care services; user involvement influencing quality in Denmark; quality in home care and nursing; national and local quality strategies in Finland; and quality measurements and some unintended consequences.