What is the difference between the nursing home care and residential care?

Author:
McDONALD Ann
Journal article citation:
Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 4(4), December 1995, pp.53-58.

There is now an increasing overlap in the characteristics and needs of the different populations in long-term hospital care, in nursing home care and in residential care. With the reduction of long stay hospital care there is increasing pressure to discharge patients either into nursing homes or residential care. The article seeks to distinguish between the care provided in nursing homes and in residential homes for older people.

Subject terms:
hospitals, nursing homes, needs, older people, social care provision, care homes;

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